The Goddard Association GRATEFUL THANKS As part of the countryʼs of Europe ceremonies in remembrance of those who gave their lives in two NEWSLETTER world wars so that we might be living in the free society of today, ' %. %3 No. 97 – January 2011 the Friends of Newtown Road 3 ).4%2 '%.4 Cemetery put crosses and poppies on the graves of those who died THE SEIGE OF SIDNEY STREET for freedom. Regular readers Centenary Commemoration will remember that it was when I would like to say a huge thank you to Malcolm of Brisbane for helping with the renovation of the downloading every newsletter to the Association web site. I have cemetery and reading the lettering on tombs that I discovered the learned more about the Association from the first few newsletters story of the feuds between Richard than I have in the eleven years since I became a member, and I urge and George Goddard of Newbury every member who has access to the web site to read them. They (see Newsletter 93 page 4). are so interesting and there is so much information there. In 2000 I had helped the War In Newsletter 51, August Graves Commission by attempting 1999, Richard kindly to list the names of those on War published my story of the Memorials around town. Have shooting dead of Sergeant a look at your own town: you Robert Bentley of the City will find memorials in many odd of London Police, on 16 places. For example, Newbury December 1910. Robert has one behind the door of the was the husband of Louisa, main Post Office. née Goddard, the sister of my There was only one Goddard great grandfather, Samuel listed; a rather strange occurrence Goddard. The shooting dead seeing the large number of of Robert and his colleagues, unrelated Goddards there are Sergeant Tucker and PC in Berkshire. He is Gordon Choate, famously led to the Stuart Goddard, (service number siege of Sidney Street, which 1430330), a corporal in the Royal was overseen by Winston Air Force Volunteer Reserve aged Churchill who was the then 20 who died on 6 November Home Secretary. 1943. He is commemorated On my desk as I type is a rather be unveiled to mark the event. in the Calcutta (Bhowanipore) magnificent invitation from Mike Frustratingly I am not well enough Cemetery, Kolkata. His parents Bowron QPM, Commissioner of to travel, but I have nominated my were Jack Archie Goddard and his Police for the City of London, cousin David Care (also a great wife Constance Evelyn Goddard, requesting my presence at a grandson of Samuel) and his wife, née Carpenter, who married in Ceremony to commemorate the Jenny, to represent the family in Newbury in 1922. It is possible deaths of Officers of that Force my absence. David is a retired that they have family in Newbury who lost their lives in the pursuit of Kent Police Sergeant and as a still, but I have not found them. their duty on 16 December 1910, young officer he was a member of However, we should not forget on Thursday 16 December 2010 at Sir Winston Churchillʼs protection young men like Gordon Goddard 11.00am at Cutler Street, London team at his Kent home, Chartwell, who were uprooted from their EC2 and afterwards at Wood Street and once had a conversation with home towns and familiar ways, Headquarters. Churchill about the event and our to serve their country in foreign The officers were shot in Cutler family connection so I thought it places and to die there far from the Street and a memorial plaque will apt that David should be there. comforts of home and family. 1 Joan Dibble Julie of Newbury CAN YOU HELP? NEW ZEALAND EARTHQUAKE Wynford Bellin to discover more about some Following my report in the last Newsletter, Banbury Goddards. He writes: “I have come across Julie of Christchurch told me (29 October) that the Samuel and Ann Goddard of Banbury whose children aftershocks were still continuing and that up to that were baptised in the parish church in 1754 (Samuel), date they had experienced 2,250 of them, some quite 1755 (Mark), 1758 (Anna) and 1761 (Elizabeth). This high on the Richter scale and causing more damage. is to do with the local history of the place where I was “One shock 4.8 last week, for the first time I was in brought up (Caerleon, Monmouthshire, South Wales). the back yard. I looked up at the house and actually ʻMr Samuel Goddard of Banbury Oxfordshireʼ saw it move from front to back, then fall back into appears on a list of subscribers to a barn conversion place. Incredible; I canʼt understand how it isnʼt in 1764 for ʻthe use as a place of religious worship split in many parts.” Fortunately all she has suffered by.….protestant dissenters of the particular Baptist so far is a little “cosmetic damage” in the bathroom, persuasionʼ. The title ʻMrʼ distinguishes others on though I gather the aftershocks are still continuing. the list who are elsewhere referred to as ʻgentlemenʼ from folk like ʻCharles Rogers of Caerleon Forgeʼ AUSTRALIAN FLOODS (no title). I have tracked wills of several bearing the On hearing that the horrendous Australian floods title ʻMrʼ.” If any member recognises this family, in Queensland had reached Brisbane, I immediately Wynford can be contacted by telephone on 01656 send an e-mail to our website co-ordinator, Malcolm, – 649085 or by e-mail at <[email protected]> to wish him and his family well and hope that they were all right. Here is Malcolmʼs response: GODARD SAUCE “Thanks for your kind wishes and yes we are all ok, If you have not come across it already, the culinary a bit damp after 28 days of continuous rain, but we experts amongst you may like to try out the following are much better off than a lot in Brisbane and the recipe. I am grateful to Danny Goddaert of Belgium western suburbs. My sister Julie has water in her in one of his recent e-mails for drawing my attention house, but will be ok. Ten people have drowned so to the fact that there exists a ʻGodard Sauceʼ. It is far and 78 are missing (grave fears) in Brisbane and described as “a rich wine sauce made as follows: nearby, and 20 others in the state. The area under Put 1lb. of raw ham (cut up in smallish pieces) into flood in Queensland is as big as France and Germany a saucepan with a carrot and an onion, both sliced, combined, and 200,000 people have currently been and 0.5lb. of butter; fry the ham in the butter for flooded throughout the state. The flood peak in five minutes or so and then add half a bottle of dry Brisbane tomorrow is expected to reach 6500 homes Champagne and simmer for half an hour. Then strain in the city, but we are 30m up a hill in the eastern the liquor into a stew pan and add to it a quart of Sauce suburbs so should be ok. My University is flooded Espagnole and plenty of mushrooms previously and they have closed down the entire city campus, my cooked and chopped up. Boil gently the whole 14 storey building alone has 1.5-2.0m of water on the until it acquires a fairly thick, creamy consistency, ground floor. Dark days ahead but we shall be ok. then strain into a bainmarie pan or double-boiler and Lucy [his eldest daughter] will remember her 18th keep hot until wanted.” As Danny says: “Bonne birthday today as will everyone affected.” And a few appetite!” hours later: “Still fine here at our home, my brother Fredʼs house still above water, but not sure tonight at NEW MEMBERS high tide (4am)”. A warm welcome to the one new member who has joined the Association since the last Newsletter: GRAVESTONES Mr David V. Goddard, 4 Parklands Avenue, Nocton, Lincolnshire, LN4 2BF. Those members who are researching their family tree might like to try the following website, which NEW MEMBERS FAMILIES was new to me: <www.gravestonephotos.com> The information below is given to enable existing The Gravestone Photographic Resource is trying to members to get in touch with new members who photograph the inscriptions on gravestones world appear to belong to the same branch: wide, before they are destroyed by wind, rain, or David Goddard is a descendant of a Welsh branch human hand. I scrolled down to see what Goddards from the Swansea area. His grandfather William was they had recorded and there are several pages of them, born in Penllegaer in 1890, and Williamʼs son Ewart but mainly in Suffolk. Have a look for yourself. M. Goddard married Kathleen Meredith in 1910. Julie of Newbury 2 THEODORE GODDARD For the last Newsletter I thought it was high time Public Vaccinator for Clerkenwell, and Surgeon to the that I produced an article on the well-known solicitor New River Company.” Theodore Goddard. It appears to have caused a good In turn, John Theodoreʼs grandfather, as mentioned deal of interest, and I am grateful to several members above, was Dr Leonard Morse Goddard born in for taking up the challenge and sending me further London in 1811 and married to Charlotte. He was a information on his family. Theodore himself was member of the College of Surgeons (England) in 1843 born at Highbury in London in the second quarter of and died on 6 October 1872, probate two weeks later 1878, the youngest son of Dr Eugene Goddard and giving his address as 99 St Johns Road, Clerkenwell.