Christiana (Dolley) Goding (1821 - 1904)

Born Apr 1821 in Weld, Washington, Maine, United States [uncertain]

Wife of Jonathan Coolidge Goding — married 17 Oct 1843 in Maine, United States

Descendants

Died 1904 at about age 82 in Port Allegany, McKean, Pennsylvania, United States [uncertain]

Biography

Birth

Christiana Dolley was the daughter of Daniel Dolley and Sarah (Foster) Dolley, born probably at Weld, Maine, in April 1821. Daniel and Sarah married at Weld in 1820,^[1] and the 1900 Census shows that Christiana (Dolley) Goding was born in Maine in April 1821.^[2] She was a resident of Livermore, Maine, when she married in 1843,^[3] and in 1840 Daniel Dolley, and presumably his wife Sarah, were living at Livermore, with their household including two females between 10 and 20 years old.^[4] In 1870, Daniel Dolley, blind, age 77, was living in Christiana Goding's household at Jay, Maine.^[5] Daniel and Sarah Dolley are buried in the Port Allegany Cemetery in Port Allegany, Pennsylvania,^[6] and so is Christiana Goding.^[7] Daniel and Sarah had a son with the unusual name of Izates,^[8] and so did Jonathan and Christiana Goding.^[5]

Marriage

On 1 Oct 1843, Jonathan C. Goding of Jay, Maine, and Christiana Dolly of Livermore, Maine, published at Livermore their intention to marry. ^[3] They married on 17 Oct 1843.^[9] They had six children, four daughters and two sons, who are listed in the 1906 Goding genealogy.^[10]

Residences

Christiana Goding's parents and siblings moved to Pennsylvania sometime between 1840 and 1850,^[8] while Christiana remained in Maine with her husband, living at Jay in 1850 with their two oldest daughters.^[11] After the death of her husband in May 1860, Christiana Goding remained at Jay for 25 years, farming the land and raising her children. She is listed as a farmer, living with her six children and two hired hands at Jay in June 1860.^[12] In 1870, she was living there with her three youngest children, whe were all in school, and her 77-year-old blind, widowed father. Her occupation is given as "keeping house."^[5] In 1880, she is again shown with the occupation of farmer, and her two sons, ages 20 and 21, are living with her as farm laborers.^[13]

Christiana Goding and her sons moved to McKean County in northern Pennsylvania in 1885,^[14] joining her daughter Martha who had moved there earlier and was living at Liberty, Pennsylvania, in 1880 with Christiana's brother Conord and his family.^[15] Christiana was living at Port Allegany, Pennsylvania, in 1900 in the household of Martha and her husband, William Ventres.^[2]

Death

The gravestone of Christiana Goding at the Port Allegany Cemetery in Port Allegany, Pennsylvania, is inscribed with the dates 1821-1904.^[7]

Sources

1. ↑ FamilySearch transcription of the marriage record of Daniel Dolley and Sarah Foster, 9 Apr 1820, Weld, Maine, in Maine Marriages, 1771-1907, database, FamilySearch > Daniel Dolley and Sarah Foster, 1820.
2. ↑ ^{2.0 2.1} Christiana Goding, 79, mother-in-law, in the William R. Ventres household, family #24, in United States Census, 1900, database with images, FamilySearch > Pennsylvania > McKean > ED 122 Port Allegany borough > image 3 of 38; citing NARA microfilm publication T623 (Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, n.d.).
3. ↑ ^{3.0 3.1} Marriage intention of Jonathan C. Goding and Christiana Dolly, in Vital Records of Livermore, Maine, FamilySearch > Marriages and Marriage Intentions, 1841 to 1876, Book No. 3 > unpaginated > image 468 of 718; FHL Microfilm 11332
4. ↑ Daniel Dolly household, in 1840 United States Federal Census [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2010 (subscription required) > Census Place: Livermore, Oxford, Maine > Roll: 147 > Page: 161; Images reproduced by FamilySearch. Original data:Sixth Census of the United States, 1840. (NARA microfilm publication M704, 580 rolls). Records of the Bureau of the Census, Record Group 29. National Archives, Washington, D.C.; Family History Library Film: 0009706
5. ↑ ^{5.0 5.1 5.2} Christiana Goding household, family #328, in United States Census, 1870, database with images, FamilySearch > Maine > Franklin > Jay > image 38 of 40; citing NARA microfilm publication M593 (Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, n.d.).
6. ↑ Find A Grave: Memorial #89625544 for Daniel Dolley, with photo of gravestone of Daniel Dolley and "Sarah his wife"
7. ↑ ^{7.0 7.1} Find A Grave: Memorial #89644446 for Christiana (Dolley) Goding, with photo of gravestone of Christiana Goding
8. ↑ ^{8.0 8.1} Izates, Daniel, and Sarah Dolly in the Enoch Dolly household, family #764, in United States Census, 1850, database with images, FamilySearch > Pennsylvania > McKean > Liberty > image 5 of 15; citing NARA microfilm publication M432 (Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, n.d.).
9. ↑ F. W. Goding, Genealogy of the Goding family (Richmond, Ind., 1906), page 83
10. ↑ F. W. Goding, Genealogy of the Goding family (Richmond, Ind., 1906), page 92
11. ↑ Jonathan and Christiana Gorden (sic) hoiusehold, family #7, in United States Census, 1850, database with images, FamilySearch > Maine > Franklin > Jay > image 1 of 42; citing NARA microfilm publication M432 (Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, n.d.).
12. ↑ Christiana Goding household, family #84, in United States Census, 1860, database with images, FamilySearch > Maine > Franklin > Jay > image 11 of 44; citing NARA microfilm publication M653 (Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, n.d.).
13. ↑ Christiana Goding household, family #207, in United States Census, 1880, database with images, FamilySearch > Maine > Franklin > Jay > ED 74 > image 24 of 36; citing NARA microfilm publication T9, (National Archives and Records Administration, Washington, D.C., n.d.)
14. ↑ Ira Thompson Monroe, History of the Town of Livermore, Androscoggin County Maine; From Its Inception in 1735 and Its Grant of Land in 1772 to Its Organization in 1795 Up to the Present Time 1928 (Lewiston, Me., 1928), page 125
15. ↑ Marthy Goding, 23, niece, milliner, in the Conord Dolley household, family #136, in United States Census, 1880, database with images, FamilySearch > Pennsylvania > McKean > Liberty > ED 93 > image 13 of 42; citing NARA microfilm publication T9, (National Archives and Records Administration, Washington, D.C., n.d.)