William James Goacher (1825 - abt. 1895)

Born 31 Jul 1825 in Coombes, Sussex, England

Husband of Sarah Jane (Goulton) Goatcher — married about 1879 (to Dec 1895) in Worthing, Sussex, England

Descendants

Died about Dec 1895 at about age 70 in Worthing, Sussex, England

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Biography

David Cole writes: William Goacher was born on 31 JUL 1825 in Coombes, , Sussex, Eng.

On Aug 22, 1847, he married his first wife, Jane Martha Mercer. They had 5 children

He met his second wife, Sarah Jane Goulton, when he was 56 years old. They married about 1879 and she bore him 7 children.

In 1992, Jessie Goatcher, his daughter, in her autobiography, wrote:

However, when she [Sarah Jane Goulton] was twenty-six she met, through her job I suppose, my father, who was a widower of fifty-six with a grown-up family. He was a master baker and at the time of their marriage was fairly prosperous, with a shop in Worthing [West Sussex] and one in Eastbourne [East Sussex, both near Brighton], but at the time I was born he was ill and the shops had been sold and my mother used to go and cook special dinners or luncheons. ... He died [, in 1895,] when I was 3 years and 9 months old, and my mother was in bed with a new baby brother. He was just 2 days old when my father died. ...

One of his residences was at No. 3 Railway Terr. in Eastbourne, , Sussex, Eng. I suppose that he was buried near Brighton or Coombes in Sussex.

Murray Hibbard writes: Changed his surname from Goacher to Goatcher, I believe due to financial troubles

Sources

• Memoirs of an Ancient Lady by Jessica Godwin (nee Jessie Goatcher) published in 1992 by Antony Rowe Ltd, Chippenham, England ISBN:1 872795 64