cap and shoes on the towpath, and The Goddard Association jumped in to his death. of Europe There was, of course, no question of the verdicts at the NEWSLETTER Coronerʼs court held later: murder by Henry Martin of Eliza Shaw ' and James Brett, followed by %. %3 No. 113 – January 2015 3 ).4%2 '%.4 Martinʼs suicide. But readers of this in the Goddard Newsletter will ATROCIOUS DOUBLE MURDER be principally interested in Mrs Goddard, the neighbour who saw AND DREADFUL SUICIDE the dreadful sight of the two injured So read the headlines in the Berkshire Chronicle of Saturday bodies. There is no indication of 8 December 1866. I do not think that Newbury was any more her age in the newspaper reports, violent in the Victorian period than any other small town – perhaps but she said in her evidence that just better documented, or having more industrious modern-day she was a widow. In 1844 a researchers. Charlotte Lavinia Eyles married Henry Martin was a really Emily Banning asked Charlotte George Goddard of Newbury. A violent man and well known to the Goddard if she had heard the row George Goddard of Newbury died police. At one time a butcher, he in “Mrs” Martinʼs place. Charlotte in 1860 but, infuriatingly, the burial went through a series of short term said that there were always noises, records of Newburyʼs cemetery for jobs, being dismissed from most quarrelling and fighting there and 1860 are missing, and at this period of them. Eliza Shawʼs name was she had taken no notice. However, ages are not given on death notices not a good one, and when she and when the neighbours ventured to in the Births, Marriages and Deaths Martin paired up together it was go and listen at the door to Shawʼs Register. However, there are so difficult to decide which of the two lodging, Charlotte said she heard many Goddards in Newbury that had the worse reputation. When heavy breathing so all must be well. it is difficult to make sure that this Martin was sent to Reading prison During the morning the neighbours is the correct couple. In addition, for assault, Eliza Shaw moved in saw Henry Martin walk down the Charlotte as a name for a girl with another man, James Brett, yard outside. Neither hearing nor was popular in the early 1800s, who was a pot man at the Eagle seeing any sign of Eliza – though being the name of George IIIʼs pub in Newburyʼs Bartholomew she would have expected to have queen and of the tragic Princess Street. On coming out of prison, seen something of her by now Charlotte who died in childbirth Martin went in search of Shaw, – Mrs Goddard was worried in 1817. So many girls were and she apparently told him that enough to go back for another given the name in the Newbury she was now living with Brett. look in her lodging. Here, to her area that it is difficult to pick one Martin, who had relied on Shawʼs horror, she found both Eliza Shaw as the widow of a Goddard. But earnings as a prostitute, was not and James Brett bleeding from perhaps you know better and can amused. The three met together frightful injuries to their heads and identify the lady who was so used at the Eagle and words were bodies. Eliza was dead; but Brett to her noisy neighbours that she exchanged. Brett and Shaw left was still alive, expiring shortly ignored the sounds of a murder and walked back through the town afterwards while being attended occurring nearby – and, perhaps, to Woodspeen, a hamlet on the by a doctor. That was only one saved her own life, for why should edge of Newbury, where Shaw of the excitements of the morning violent Henry Martin have stopped had lodgings in Eyles Buildings. for Newburians, for there came at two killings? Adding one more A short time after, Martin left the reports to the police of a body in victim to his tally would not have Eagle and, it appears, made his the Kennett and Avon canal which increased his punishment of ʻdeath way to Eyles Buildings after Shaw runs through Newbury. The body, by hangingʼ. After this exciting and Brett. There a violent struggle when recovered, was recognised event in her life Charlotte appears appears to have occurred. as that of Henry Martin. He had to have faded from the record Next morning two neighbours apparently tied his ankles together – unless you know otherwise….. gossiped outside Eyles Buildings. so that he could not swim, left his Julie of Newbury 1 BRAZIER AND GODDARD FAMILY CAN YOU HELP? The Brazier family were tailors in Newbury from Colin Goddard, a new member from Western at least the 1780s. Some sources state that they were Australia introduced in the last Newsletter with origins involved in the wager between Mr John Coxeter, a said to lie in the Godalming area of Surrey, England. well-known cloth manufacturer of Greenham Mills, He now writes: “My research so far shows my branch and Sir John Throckmorton that a sheep could be of the family settled in Surrey since the eighteenth shorn in a morning, the fleece made into cloth, and the century. A confirmed ancestor is John Goddard who cloth into a coat, all in one day. The wager was tested was born in 1776 and married Elizabeth Cooper in on 25 June 1811 and, by having everything arranged Compton in 1795. Of their four children son George to facilitate speed of work, the coat was presented to born in 1808 is my x3 grandfather. I obviously have Sir John well within the time. Some sources state verification of the family up to the present but, as I that the Brazier family had at least one representative have neither seen nor read of a Surrey branch, I am working on the tailoring and sewing of the garment. If anxious to see if any Association members share the this was true then it would have been Thomas Brazier same branch. I have had the DNA test and my closest senior, who had a son named Thomas in 1812. This matches, a 1 and a 2, are both in America” Thomas was married to Caroline Elizabeth Horton Curtis in the December quarter of 1839. The couple GODDARD SPACE FLIGHT CENTRE had numerous children, including the Thomas born in NASAʼs Goddard Space Flight Centre, named after 1860 who was buried in Newtown Road Cemetery in the American rocketry pioneer Dr Robert H. Goddard, 1940 aged 81. was established on 1 May 1959 as its first space flight A daughter, Caroline Louisa born in 1845, wished complex. In the 1960s, when this picture was taken, to marry William Lidderdale Goddard, one of the numerous children of Richard Goddard, land owner in Kintbury, and his wife Janet Lidderdale, daughter of the Hungerford doctor. Because of family opposition they eloped to London and married there in 1871. They then emigrated to America where William qualified as a doctor. Unhappily, of their three sons two died as babies followed by Caroline. The surviving son was fostered until William married for a second time. Miss Mary Livingstone Goddard of Colorado, aged 84 (2014) is a descendant and remembers her grandfather with affection. She has tried unsuccessfully for years to interest her cousins in the family history. William Lidderdale Goddardʼs father Richard was related to the Goddards Goddard focused on the development of tracking and of Chieveley, and kin to the late Lord Chief Justice communication facilities and capabilities for both Goddard. The maiden aunts of the Lord Chief the scientific satellites and the manned space flight Justice were one of the first inhabitants of the houses programme. Goddard became the hub of the massive in Donington Square. Miss Goddard thought she had international tracking and communications network some papers relating to the sale of the house after the that involved aircraft, supertankers converted into last surviving sisterʼs death, but has been unable to mobile communications units, and a wide diversity of find them now. Further information is available from ground stations. A duplicate mission control centre the Goddard Association of Europe and the Goddard was also built at Goddard in case the computers at Association of America. Julie of Newbury the main control room at the Johnson Space Centre in Houston, Texas, failed for any reason. I am grateful CAMPERVAN ENTHUSIAST to Association member David of Shrewsbury for this Volkswagen campervans are often seen around information. the Malvern Hills, as enthusiasts from far and wide hold an annual jamboree on the Three Counties NEW MEMBERS Showground. Jennifer Walker recently spotted in A warm welcome to the new members who have the magazine Camping & Caravanning that one such joined the Association since the last Newsletter: Mr Roger F. Goddard, 59 Springwell Grove, Beighton, Sheffield, S20 1XE. enthusiast is Geoff Goddard from Nuneaton. Ms Bredagh Moran, 14 Marlay House, Taylorʼs Hill, College Road, Rathfarnham, Dublin 2 16. HONEY BEE GODDARD We appear to have trained our children well! and his wife have bee hives, but they had a “veritable They both spotted an article reproduced in Newbury paradise of a home garden with a whole menagerie Past and Present about a Goddard and e-mailed it of animals of every sort…..one cannot help coming to us. This article is from The British Bee Journal to the conclusion that both Mr and Mrs Goddard are for 24 November 1898 and is entitled ʻHomes of the real lovers of Nature”. Besides the above interests Honey Bee: the apiaries of our readersʼ and features “Mr Goddard is also an active member of the lodge Mr W.E.