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Elizabeth (“Bessy”) SALE
Abt 1833 - 1908 (~ 75 years)
Has 2 ancestors and 35 descendants in this family tree.
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Name Elizabeth (“Bessy”) SALE Relationship 
with Teresa Ann GOATHAM Born Abt 1833 Burslem, Staffordshire, England 
- From the 1861 census where shown as aged 27, although possibly 1832 as the next three censuses show her as aged 38, 48, 58.
Elizabeth's maiden name and parent are a bit of a mystery. Although recorded as 'Steel' at marriage with a father named 'Wm Steel', a potter, her maiden name was recorded as Sale when the birth of each of her three children was registered.
With 3 uses of the name Sale and just one of Steel it may be that the priest or parish clerk filling in the register made a mistake. Elizabeth made her mark so we can't see how she recorded her name.
It could be that she was born Elizabeth Sale, and her mother then married a William Steel, and Elizabeth was using the surname of her father or step-father rather than her birth surname when she married. There was a marriage of a William Steel to a Matilda Sale in Wolstanton in 1835, but William was a tailor and not a potter, and there is no Elizabeth with them in either the 1841 or 1851 censuses.
An Elizabeth Steel was baptised in Burslem in 1834, the daughter of James and Mary. Could William have been a mistake on the marriage certificate? Even if so, not only is there no obvious reason for Elizabeth to be shown as a Sale on 3 occasions, but James was shown as a crate maker (1841) and a labourer (1851), not a potter.
If there was a mistake in her surname, given that it seems more likely it was Sale, there was also a baptism of an Elizabeth Sale in Burslem in 1834, daughter of John and Elizabeth. However, this Elizabeth was still with her widowed mother in 1861, unmarried, so she cannot be the one who married George.
I think that Elizabeth was probably born Elizabeth SALE to a couple William and Ann SALE; William is shown as a potter in the 1841 census, and at the time of the baptism of the two of his daughters whose baptisms I have found.
Although ages were shown as just 36 and 38 in 1841, the oldest child with them was shown as aged 18; because relationships are not shown in the 1841 census he could have been e.g. a younger brother of William, but if a son then it suggests they married young (and of course the ages may not have been accurate). A potter William Sale did marry in Stoke upon Trent in 1820, to an Ann Austin. I suspect these were Elizabeth's parents.
Gender Female Occupation 1881 Laundress Died Jun Q 1908 Wolstanton Reg Dist, Staffordshire, England - After 1901 as in the census of that year (with daughter Martha); unmarried then so very unlikely to have married.
This therefore seems to be her death (the only one of an Elizabeth in the Midlands to be of the right or a close age)
GRO ref: GOTHAM, Elizabeth q2 1908 age 75 Wolstanton RD 6b 60
Siblings2 sisters Patriarch & Matriarch 
Person ID I301370 All | All in the Goatham / Gotham One-Name Study , All subjects of the Goatham / Gotham One-Name Study Last Modified 3 Jan 2015
Father William SALE, d. Yes, date unknown Mother Ann AUSTIN, d. Yes, date unknown Married 3 Jul 1820 St. Peter Ad Vincula Church, Stoke on Trent, Staffordshire, England - From PR entry (image on FMP, viewed 5 Sep 2016)
(Archive reference: D1385/1, p. 79)
Family ID F300839 Family Group Page | Family Chart
Family George GOTHAM, b. 8 Apr 1828, Shelton, Staffordshire, England , d. Mar Q 1876, Wolstanton Reg Dist, Staffordshire, England (Age 47 years) Married 28 Dec 1851 St. Peter Ad Vincula Church, Stoke on Trent, Staffordshire, England - GRO ref: Gotham, George to Steel, Elizabeth q4 1851 Stoke RD 17 251
Details from PR entry (image on FMP, viewed 6 Oct 2015)
Children3 children Last Modified 14 Feb 2017 Family ID F300461 Family Group Page | Family Chart
- From the 1861 census where shown as aged 27, although possibly 1832 as the next three censuses show her as aged 38, 48, 58.
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Born - Abt 1833 - Burslem, Staffordshire, England 
Married - 28 Dec 1851 - St. Peter Ad Vincula Church, Stoke on Trent, Staffordshire, England Child - Mary Ann GOTHAM - Dec Q 1852 - Burslem, Staffordshire, England 
Child - Martha GOTHAM - 14 Mar 1860 - Tunstall, Staffordshire, England Child - Eliza Maria GOTHAM - 9 Jan 1862 - Tunstall, Staffordshire, England = Link to Google Earth (if installed; see link below to install) Pin Legend 
