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Anne DIGGES
1700 - 1770 (~ 70 years)
Has 9 ancestors and 29 descendants in this family tree.
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Name Anne DIGGES Relationship 
with Teresa Ann GOATHAM Born - About 1703 based on age given in burial register, but at the time of marriage in Feb 1723/4 Anne was said to be "above 23 years" so the date of baptism agrees with that.
Baptised 14 Apr 1700 St. John the Baptist Church, Margate, Kent, England 
- From PR entry (image on FMP, viewed 9 Nov 2015)
"Digges Aprill the 14th Baptized Ann Daughter of Dudley & Sarah Digges"
Gender Female Died Oct 1770 Margate, Kent, England - aged 67 in burial register
(Living when her grandfather Francis Digges wrote his will in 1707)
Buried 22 Oct 1770 St. John the Baptist Church, Margate, Kent, England - From PR entry (image on FMP, viewed 14 Oct 2017)
"Goatham Anne Widow of John _ 67 _ _ _ 22. [October]" - under heading 'Burials 1770 & 1'
Siblings3 brothers and 3 sisters Patriarch & Matriarch 
Fabritio DIGGES, b. Abt 1584, bur. 21 Jan 1639/40, St. John the Baptist Church, Margate, Kent, England (Age ~ 56 years) (Great Grandfather) 
Mary CURLING, d. Yes, date unknown (Grandmother)Person ID I1650 All | England: Kent Group (in Go(a)tham One-Name Study), England: Kent Group - subjects of Go(a)tham One-Name Study, All in the Goatham / Gotham One-Name Study , All subjects of the Goatham / Gotham One-Name Study Last Modified 14 Oct 2017
Father Dudley DIGGES, b. 18 Mar 1654/55, Margate, Kent, England , d. Between 1714 and 1736 (Age 58 years) Mother Sarah DANCASTER, b. Abt 1666, bur. 7 May 1736, St. John the Baptist Church, Margate, Kent, England (Age ~ 70 years) Marriage License 16 Nov 1687 Canterbury, Kent, England - "Digges, Dudley, of S. John in Thanet, bac. 30, and Sarah Dancaster of S. Peter in Thanet, v., 21 and upwards, whose father consents. At S. Peter afsd. Nov. 16, 1687"
(from Cowper, 4th series)
Married 24 Nov 1687 St. Peter’s Church, St. Peters, Broadstairs, Kent, England - From East Kent marriage index (on FMP)
Shows Dudley Diggs and Sara Dankester
Family ID F7643 Family Group Page | Family Chart
Family John GOATHAM, bap. 16 Apr 1693, St. Laurence’s Church, St. Lawrence in Thanet, Kent, England , d. Bef 1770 (Age ~ 76 years) Married 25 Feb 1723/24 St. Benet’s Church, Paul's Wharf, City of London, London, England - Register entry "John Goatham of Ramsgate Kent B and Ann Digges of Margate Kent S by LC" - no indication of why the marriage was taking place in London.
With John being of Ramsgate, and Ann of Margate, it is not clear why they married in London. According to the website of St. Benet's "Until 1867 St Benet was the parish church of Doctors Commons, a legal institution which, among its other activities, could provide facilities for hasty marriages. There is a record, for instance, of some 1300 weddings taking place in one year alone in the Eighteenth Century." But it is not clear why they would have wanted a hasty marriage. Was Anne underage or one (or both) marrying against their father's will? Or was it just a romantic thing to do, to travel (presumably around the coast and up the Thames) to London?
Marriage License 25 Feb 1723/24 Faculty Office, London, England - Licence is in the Faculty Office Marriage Licence Allegations 1701-1850 collection of SOG
"25th. Febry. 1723o ??
On Which day Appeared P[er]sonally John
Goatham of Ramsgate in the County of Kent
aged Twenty nine years and a Batchelor and
alledged that he intendeth to marry with Anne
Digges of Margate in the sd County aged above
Twenty three years and a Spinster at her own
dispussal
Not knowing or beleiving any lawfull Lett or Impedimt by
reason of any p[re](?)contract Consanguinity Affinity or any
other lawfull means wtsoever to hinder the sd intended.
Marriage of the truth of the p[r]emisses he made Oath &
prayed Licence to Soleming & the sd Marriage in
the Parish Church of St. Bennet near Pauls Wharf London
John Goatham"
Children6 children Last Modified 30 Mar 2016 Family ID F1279 Family Group Page | Family Chart
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Baptised - 14 Apr 1700 - St. John the Baptist Church, Margate, Kent, England 
Married - 25 Feb 1723/24 - St. Benet’s Church, Paul's Wharf, City of London, London, England Child - Edward GOATHAM - 6 Jan 1724/25 - St. John the Baptist Church, Margate, Kent, England Child - Sarah GOATHAM - 9 Apr 1727 - St. John the Baptist Church, Margate, Kent, England Child - Mary GOATHAM - 1 Dec 1728 - St. John the Baptist Church, Margate, Kent, England Child - John GOATHAM - 14 Aug 1730 - St. John the Baptist Church, Margate, Kent, England Child - Judith GOATHAM - 26 Aug 1733 - St. John the Baptist Church, Margate, Kent, England 
Died - Oct 1770 - Margate, Kent, England Buried - 22 Oct 1770 - St. John the Baptist Church, Margate, Kent, England = Link to Google Earth (if installed; see link below to install) Pin Legend 
