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JOHN GOOSE Spouse: SARAH WITTRED
Parent/s: Leonard and Frances (Gibson)Goose of Walsoken. Parent/s: William and Mary (Miller) Wittred.
Born: Baptised 25 October 1808, Walsoken. Born: Baptised 29 August 1808, Clenchwarton.
Married: 12 October 1832, Clenchwarton. Married: 12 October 1832, Clenchwarton.
Died: c1880. Died:
Occupation: Farmer. Occupation:
Notes: 1841 to 1871 census, Farming at Walsoken.
 Notes: 1881 census, a widow, living with daughter Margaret and family at Wensum Street, Norwich.
Source: 1841 HO107/770 F 13 P 7,
1851 HO107/1767 F 260 P 8,
1861 RG9/1052 F 46 P 4,
1871 RG10/1619 F 55 P 5,
Parish register.		 Source: 1881 RG11/1942 F 8 P 9, Parish register.

John and Sarah had two sons and six daughters:-
SOURCE: Parish register, census as noted above and below, Contueor.com.

The Sons:-

LEONARD GOOSE  born 1838, Walsoken.               MORE
1861 census RG9/1052 F 135 P 20, Leonard was staying with his future wife Sarah Smithee and family at Hungate Road, Emneth.

JOHN GOOSE  Baptised 18 September 1842, Walsoken.
Occupation: Engine Driver on 1871 census.

The Daughters:-

MARGARET GOOSE  Baptised  5 August 1833, Walsoken.               MORE
Margaret appears on the 1841 census TWICE, at home with her parents and also on HO107/79 F8 P9 with her grandparents William and Mary Wittred at Toll Bar, Lynn Road/Tinkers Drove, Wisbech |St. Peter.
1851 census HO107/1828 F 465 P 35, Margaret was the only member of the family not living at home at Marshland Smeeth.
She was with her grandparents, William and Mary Wittred at Freebridge Lynn.  Occupation; Dressmaker.

MARY GOOSE  Baptised 20 March 1836, Walsoken. Died March qtr 1839, Wisbech 14 117.

SARAH ANN GOOSE  Baptised 11 October 1840, Walsoken.           MORE
1861 census RG9/1048 F66 P 14, Sarah Ann was a house servant to the Flanders family who were Drapers at 6 Bridge Street, Wisbech.

FRANCES GOOSE  Baptised 28 July 1844, buried 10 April 1857, Walsoken.

MARY ANN GOOSE  born 1847, Walsoken.                MORE

DOROTHY GOOSE  Baptised 12 August 1849, Walsoken.
 Married William Neale Sharp 7 November 1869, Walsoken, Banns 17, 24, 31 October.
William baptised 1848, Emneth, Norfolk.
`1871 census RG10/1619 F88 P5, farming 17 acres at Emneth, next door but one to Dorothy's brother Leonard, who was keeping "The Wheatsheaf" in Hungate Road.

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