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Gladys CARTER
1920 - 1998 (78 years)
Has 56 ancestors but no descendants in this family tree.
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Name Gladys CARTER Relationship 
with Teresa Ann GOATHAM Born 28 Jun 1920 22, Lower Range Road, Denton, Gravesend, Kent, England 
- GRO ref: Carter, Gladys q3 1920 mother's maiden name: Gootham, Strood RD 2a 1446
Actual date from 1939 register and death registration index. With her mother (and maternal grandparents) in the 1921 census where shown as aged 11 months.
Gladys was born (and conceived) well after her mother's first husband, William Carter, had filed for divorce. Although it took some time for the divorce to go through, I don't think this indicates a change of mind on William's part. Gladys cannot have been conceived before Sept. 1919, but William signed his petition in June 1919. From the divorce papers and from the fact that William was adamant that Gladys' older sister Florence was not his daughter I think there was probably no relationship between Annie and William after he came back from the war.
Gladys was registered at birth as the daughter of William Richard (as was Florence) but this could just indicate that he was her legal daughter: he was married to her mother and he was around (i.e. not in prison or abroad or simiar). I doubt she was the daughter of Annie's second husband, as the re-marriage of Annie might have been expected sooner after the divorce if she were - and she might have taken his surname.
When she married, Gladys named her father as the deceased William Carter, again suggesting she was not the daughter of George Down. Gladys claimed William was a deceased fireman. Though the name is that of her mother's first husband, he was alive at the time of the 1939 register, with no sign of his death between then and Gladys' marriage, and he was a plumber, not a fireman, in documents I have seen. If William was her father she may have pretended he had died to avoid the need for his permission to marry, as she was still a minor.
Birth registration of Gladys CARTER
Daughter of Annie Maria née GOATHAM
(GRO register entry)Gender Female Occupation 1939 Book Binder Died 14 Sep 1998 Gravesend Reg Dist, Kent, England - GRO ref: SHELTON, Gladys reg Sep 1998 dob 28 6 1920 Gravesend
District no. 5621D, Register no. T1D, Entry no. 126
Actual date from probate calendar entry
Probate 17 Mar 1999 Brighton, Sussex, England Calendar entry - From Find A Will website
Siblings1 sister Half-siblings2 half brothers and 3 half sisters (family of William Richard Sisley CARTER and Annie Maria GOATHAM) Half-siblings2 half brothers (family of George DOWN and Annie Maria GOATHAM) Patriarch & Matriarch 
Maria GOLDING, b. Abt 1835, Boughton Monchelsea, Kent, England, d. Jun Q 1915, Thanet Reg Dist, Kent, England (Age ~ 80 years) (Great Grandmother) 
Person ID I22819 All | England: Kent Group (in Go(a)tham One-Name Study), All in the Goatham / Gotham One-Name Study , The descendants (and other halves) of George Goatham and Ann née Winch Last Modified 9 May 2024
Mother Annie Maria GOATHAM, b. 16 Jul 1888, Sittingbourne, Kent, England , d. 28 Aug 1946, 22, Lower Range Road, Gravesend, Kent, England (Age 58 years)
Other Partners: William Richard Sisley CARTER m. 25 Jul 1906; George DOWN m. Sep Q 1924Married - Although I show Gladys and Florence as having the same father I don't know if they did.
Family ID F8987 Family Group Page | Family Chart
Family Albert George SHELTON, b. 1 Jul 1920, Strood (als N Aylesford) Reg Dist, Kent, England , d. 23 Sep 1978, Chelsea Reg Dist, London, England (Age 58 years) Married 28 Sep 1940 St. Mary’s Church, Upper Wrotham Road, Gravesend, Kent, England - GRO ref: Shelton, Albert G to Carter, Gladys q3 1940 Gravesend RD 2a 3511
Details from PR entry (image on City Ark website)
Shows Albert George Shelton, aged 20, Bachelor, 2nd mate R. M. N., resident 167, Wrotham Rd, Gravesend, father James Charles Shelton, Cooper married
Gladys Carter, aged 20, Spinster, Bookbinder, resident 190 Upr. Wrotham Rd Gravesend, father William Carter (deceased), Fireman
Married after Banns, both signed, as did witnesses W J Rattray ad W F Shelton
Last Modified 5 Jun 2020 Family ID F8980 Family Group Page | Family Chart
- GRO ref: Carter, Gladys q3 1920 mother's maiden name: Gootham, Strood RD 2a 1446