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![John GOTHAM, [? Forename Uncertain]](img/male.jpg)
John GOTHAM, [? Forename Uncertain]
Est 1520 - Bef 1572 (~ 51 years)
Has no ancestors but 30 descendants in this family tree.
Set As Default Person 
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Name John GOTHAM Suffix [ONS gp] [? Forename Uncertain] Relationship 
with Teresa Ann GOATHAM Born Est 1520 Devon, England 
- Very rough estimate, based on my estimate for the dob of his probable son.
Gender Male Died Bef 1572 - Before his widow remarried on 27 July 1572. Between 1569 and 1572 if I am right in thinking he was probably the John mentioned in the Staverton muster roll of 1569.
Person ID I302492 All | All in the Goatham / Gotham One-Name Study , All subjects of the Goatham / Gotham One-Name Study Last Modified 25 Jan 2021
Family Sidwell, b. Est 1527, (probably), Wolborough, Devon, England , d. Aft 1577 (Age ~ 51 years)
Other Partners: Robert HAYMAN m. 27 Jul 1572Married Bef 1570 - Must have married before 1570 as they'd had time to have 2 children before the widowed Sidwell remarried. If I am close with my estimate for the birth of their son John (which means I need to be right about which John he was, and I am not certain), then must have married by about 1556.
I'm not sure who Sidwella's 'Gotham' husband and the father of Johan and John was. The only 'Gotham' burial I can find in Wolborough that could be Sidwella's husband is Thomas, but he was buried less than two months before her marriage to Thomas Hayman; would she have remarried this quickly?
Had she moved to Wolborough after being widowed, i.e. might her husband have been buried elsewhere? (Or, given the large number of Gothams involved with the sea, might he have died there?)
The fact that it appears that (Thomas?) and Sidwella's son John had a son and heir named Thomas increases slightly the likelihood of Thomas being the right person, but not by much, given how common the name Thomas was amongst the Gothams.
The Thomas who died in 1572 was 'of Rydon' and appears to have been followed there by a John Gotham. Since Sidwella's second husband shows she had a son John Gotham that could be evidence that Thomas was her husband. On the other hand, Sidwella's second husband left property to her son John in Staverton and so her son John may well have been the one who settled there, not the one at Rydon. The dates don't fit well for the two Johns being the same. If anything, it would appear more likely that Sidwella was married to John of Rydon, and Thomas from an older generation.
I think more likely Sidwella's Gotham husband was John who appears in the Staverton muster of 1569, not as an able bodied man but as one of a group required to provide an almain rivet, similar to a corslet but of just a breast plate and apron
Children2 children Last Modified 14 Feb 2017 Family ID F300296 Family Group Page | Family Chart