Origins of Gotobed family

Date: 1450 to 1590
Location: Stretham, Cambridgeshire, England
Surname/tag: Gotobed

The information here is from Consistory Court of Ely Probate Records 1449-1858 , PCC wills, available from TNA, and Indexed Common Pleas records.

At present this is raw data, with no attempt to create a coherent genealogy.

• Bartholomew Godbed, Bourn, 1482 (Ely) (Bartholomew Gotobed, of Bourn, husbandman; William Gotobed, of Bourn, husbandman, Common Pleas 1475; Bartholomew Gotobed, of Bourn, husbandman, CP 1468)
• William Godbed, of Cottenham, 1521 (Ely)
• Richard Gottbed, of Ely St Mary, husbandman, 1533 (Ely)
• John Godbed, of Chesterton, senior, husbandman, 1541 (Ely)
• Richard Gottbed, of Chesterton, 1543 (Ely) (Richard Gotobed, of Chesterton, husbandman, Common Pleas, 1530)
• John Gotobede, of Ely St Mary, senior, 1544 (Ely)
• William Godbed, of Chesterton, 1544 (Ely)
• John Gotobede, of Ely, 1546 (Ely)
• Bartholomew Gotobed of Streteham, 1547 (PCC) (Wife Ellen, son John, other children Elizabeth, Thomas, Cecily, William, Ellen)
• John Gotobedd, of Landbeche, yeoman 1557 (PCC) (Son Henry, daughters Agnes, Margaret)
• Thomas Godbed, of Ely, 1566
• Henry Gotobed, of Landbeche, yeoman (Common Pleas 1567 and 1584)
• Richard Godbed, of Whittlesey St Mary, 1569 (Ely)
• John Godbed, of Ely St Mary, husbandman, 1569 (Ely)
• William Godbed, of Ely St Mary, husbandman, 1571 (Ely)
• William Godbed, of Milton, clerk, curate, 1573 (Ely)
• Paul Gottbed, of Ely St Mary, husbandman 1581 (Ely)
• Margaret Gottbed, of Ely, 1585 (Ely)
• John Godbed, of Littleport, 1590 (Ely)

Sources

https://www.britishrecordsociety.org/publications/106

https://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/results/r?_or1=gotobed&_or2=godbed&_or3=gotobedd&_cr=prob&_dss=range&_ro=any&_st=adv&_p=1500

http://aalt.law.uh.edu/Indices/CP40Indices/CP40_Indices.html