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![Sarah Solly GODDEN, [Father?]](img/female.jpg)
Sarah Solly GODDEN, [Father?]
Abt 1833 - 1886 (~ 53 years)
Has 33 ancestors but no descendants in this family tree.
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Name Sarah Solly GODDEN Suffix [ONS gp] [Father?] Relationship 
with Teresa Ann GOATHAM Born Abt 1833 Garlinge, Margate, Kent, England 
- From the 1841 and 1851 censuses where shown as aged 7 and 17, and age at marriage given as 20.
Her mother was a widow when Sarah was born, and the date of her first husband, Stephen Godden's, death means it is unclear (without an actual date of birth) whether Sarah could have been his child. If she had had her 20th birthday by the time she married she could have been, the marriage being just under 20 years and almost 9 months from the death. However, the lack of a father's name in the baptism register suggests she was not Stephen's daughter.
At marriage Edward Cherison is named as her father. Sometimes the name of a father for a person born illegitimate seems to be a person created for respectability, but in this case the fact Sarah was recorded in the PR as a GODDEN and a spinster while her father's surname was given as CHERISON indicates this was not the reason. Do does it mean Edward was her biological father? I'm not sure. It was a couple of years after Sarah's birth that he married her mother. I think the longer the gap the more likely a child was not the biological child of their mother's husband, though I have a longer gap (c. 3 years, where both were free to marry) where the man claimed the child his wife had before marriage as his natural child by her. Children / step-children often took their father (or step-father's) surname after their mother married him or the two started living as a couple. But in this case Sarah did not, which suggests to me it is less likely Edward was her father, although this appears to have been her parents choice (it was not just at marriage that Sarah was recorded as a Godden in the 1841 census, when Edward was living, and with his wife and her children, and in 1851, after Edward had died). The person with the 3 year gap between her birth and parent's marriage was not consistently referred to by her father's name after her parent's marriage, so I don't think it safe to say the fact Sarah did not become Sarah CHERISON indicates she was not Edward's child. Overall, the fact she named him as her father, without it creating respectability, and given she was only about 12 when he died, so probably played quite a limited part in her life, suggests to me he probably was her father.
Baptised 2 May 1834 St. John the Baptist Church, Margate, Kent, England - From PR entry (image on FMP, viewed 21 Nov 2022)
"1834 May 2nd. No. 2216. Sarah Solly daughter of Mary Godden, abode: Garlinge, father's occupation: [blank], ceremony performed by John Streatfeild Curate'
Gender Female Occupation 1851 Servant - Living with her mother in Garlinge at the time of the census so probably working in Garlinge or nearby
Died Dec Q 1886 Thanet Reg Dist, Kent, England - GRO ref: HORNE, Sarah Solly q4 1886 aged 56 Thanet RD 2a 507
Buried 6 Dec 1886 St. John the Baptist Church, Margate, Kent, England Half-siblings1 half brother and 1 half sister (family of Stephen GODDEN and Mary Peak SOLLY) Patriarch & Matriarch 
Vincent CHARROSIN, d. Bef 1597 (7 x Great Grandfather)
Mary Peak SOLLY, b. 24 Feb 1790, d. Jun Q 1860, Thanet Reg Dist, Kent, England (Age 69 years) (Mother) Person ID I14267 All Last Modified 22 Nov 2022
Father Edward CHARROSIN, bap. 27 Feb 1785, St. Paul’s Church, Canterbury, Kent, England , d. Sep Q 1846, Thanet Reg Dist, Kent, England (Age ~ 60 years) Mother Mary Peak SOLLY, b. 24 Feb 1790, d. Jun Q 1860, Thanet Reg Dist, Kent, England (Age 69 years)
Other Partners: Stephen GODDEN m. 24 Dec 1808Married 18 Jan 1836 St. John the Baptist Church, Margate, Kent, England - From KFHS CD 28
Shows Edward CHERRISON, Bachelor, 'otp' married Mary GODDEN, Widow, 'otp', by Banns. Witnesses were George Dixon and Wm Bayley
Family ID F6062 Family Group Page | Family Chart
Family George HORN, b. Abt 1827, d. Yes, date unknown Married 13 Oct 1853 St. John the Baptist Church, Margate, Kent, England - From PR entry (image on FMP, viewed 21 Nov 2022)
Shows George Horn, 26, Bachelor, Labourer of St Nicholas, son of Jabez Horn, Labourer, married Sarah Solly Godden, Spinster, of Garlinge, father Edward Cherison, Labourer.
GRO ref: Godden, Sarah Solly to Horn, George q4 1853 Thanet RD 2a 1070
Last Modified 21 Nov 2022 Family ID F3344 Family Group Page | Family Chart
- From the 1841 and 1851 censuses where shown as aged 7 and 17, and age at marriage given as 20.