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John GOTHAM
Est 1640 - Abt 1699 (~ 59 years)
Has no ancestors but 19 descendants in this family tree.
Set As Default Person 
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Name John GOTHAM Relationship 
with Teresa Ann GOATHAM Born Est 1640 (probably), Devon, England 
- Based on date of marriage
Gender Male Will 13 Jul 1697 Written Died Abt 1699 - A John Geatham / Geatton wrote a will in 1697, proved 1699 so he must have died between the 2. I think it was this John because of a reference to a Thomas Gaton alias Gatham, his son, a minor, in the probate statement.
Probate 2 May 1699 London, England Person ID I300339 All | All in the Goatham / Gotham One-Name Study , All subjects of the Goatham / Gotham One-Name Study Last Modified 15 Apr 2023
Family 1 Joane BUTLAND, b. Est 1648, (probably), Mevagissey, Cornwall, England , d. Between 1678 and 1682 (Age ~ 30 years) Married 9 Nov 1672 St. Peter’s Church, Mevagissey, Cornwall, England - From FamilySearch website and Cornwall FHS transcripts (latter on FMP, viewed 27 May 2017)
John GOTHAM to Jone BUTLAND
Is this marriage correct?
Marriages in Mevagissey for this period are not covered on the Cornwall OPC databse. Mevagissey is over 80 miles from Topsham, but if John was a mariner (as many in Topsham, once an important port, would have been) then maybe he and Joan moved to Topsham.
John was almost certainly related to the 'Gotha's of St. Ewe, the village being just 3 miles inland from Meavagissey. Strictly speaking it appears that St. Ewe was in Meavgissey parish, although it had its own Parish Registers from the C16th. The Gotha(m)s may have simply decided that one church was more convenient at some point, and may not have lived in either village, but elsewhere in the parish.
The Cornwall OPC database shows the following at St Ewe:
baptism of Temperence GOTHA, dau of William - 1634
baptism of Tristram GOTHA, son of William and Katherine - 1641
baptism of Thomas GOTHA, son of John - 1665
baptism of Thomas RUNDLE als GOTHA, son of John - 1667
Was the John, father of Thomas, this John in an earlier marriage?
On the other hand, John and Joan were both common Christian names; this could be chance - John's surname may be mistranscribed. But looking at the burial records on the Cornwall OPC website, 1685-1750, there were none for any names that could easily be written or mis-transcribed as Gotham.
And in Topsham I have found no entries for names such as Gotham / Gatam / Gatten until Susanna's baptism, though quite a number are found after than, with several in the 1680s. These variants are different to those found for Gothams elsewhere, and I have yet to explore the presence of similar names in Exeter, so it could be that John and Joan were from the nearby city rather than the Cornish coast.
Children4 children Last Modified 15 Apr 2023 Family ID F300095 Family Group Page | Family Chart
Family 2 Mary TOWNEING, b. Est 1658, d. Yes, date unknown Married 9 Feb 1681/82 St. Margaret’s Church, Topsham, Devon, England - From PR entry (image on FMP, viewed 19 Jan 2015)
"The 9th day was married John Gatten to Mary Towneing"
under heading 'February' before a heading 'Aprill 1682'
Children6 children Last Modified 14 Feb 2017 Family ID F300536 Family Group Page | Family Chart