Hello
I have a possible breakthrough or possibly not, so be interested to see what you guys think.
I took my girlfriend up to Whitstable for a couple of days for valentine's break and whilst there we decided to pop in the Canterbury cathedral for a couple of hours (have other rellies who came from Whitstable, who we wanted to look up a couple of details on). Anyway whilst there I thought I would look at the Great Mongeham parish records, to see if there were anything else in them, that may help.
Well interestingly I came across the other family that you referred to previously Bill as being from Great Mongeham (sorry don't know how to do quotes).
This was Thomas Goodban (Goodburn) & his wife Susanne Newing, they had 10 children, of which one of those was Edward born 1803 (again can't quote, but Bill you mentioned him being on the 1851 census, born in Great Mongeham). I noted from the parish records that Thomas & Stephen both used to go and claim their poor relief together and I did wonder if there was a connection between the two of them somehow even though Thomas is twenty years older then Stephen. Sadly not other additonal information to be found regarding Stephen, except that he refused to do a job as he wanted to do another one LOL.
Upon our return I checked the census records for Thomas & his wife (as he did not die till 1860) and from there I found that he was originally from Minster, Kent. I contacted someone with the Minster, Thanet parish records and she came back with the following:
Thomas Goodburn born 12/04/1783, baptised 27/04/1783 son of Thomas & Ann Goodburn (this ties in with his marriage, death and census records that his year of birth would be circa 1783).
Stephen Goodbourn born 02/02/1803, baptised 06/03/1803 son of John & Jane Goodbourn.
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]I asked her to check for a possible baptism record for Stephen as my thought was if that Thomas came from Minster, so too did possibly Stephen.
Do you think this could be my elusive Stephen?? Sadly she said there was no record of a marriage for him in Minster, so still at a mystery as to where he married Mary Ann. Is there any way I can confirm this is my Stephen?
So Thomas moved from Minster to Great Mongeham, married his wife who came from Ripple there and died there. This Stephen if he is mine, moved from Minster to Great Mongeham to Deal, to eventually be buried back at Great Mongeham.
Sadly were only at Whitstable for two days, so only had time to drive through Deal and not any time to stop and look around, so that will have to be another visit one day.
Hope it all makes sense. Regards Gary[/color]
