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Jane Elizabeth CARTER
1865 - 1940 (74 years)
Has 4 ancestors and 4 descendants in this family tree.
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Name Jane Elizabeth CARTER Relationship 
with Teresa Ann GOATHAM Born 6 Jun 1865 Bermondsey, London, England 
- About 1864 from the 1911 census, where shown as aged 46 and her name is given as 'Jane E. Godfrey Vaites', also shown as aged 60 at marriage to Stephen, suggesting born 1864 or 5, though age given when her death was registered suggests a couple of years younger.
Actual date shown that given in the 1939 register, but with year as from birth registration.
GRO ref: Carter, Jane Elizabeth q3 1865 Camberwell RD 1d 567; GRO online index shows mother's maiden name as Harbus
Shown as born Camberwell in the 1881 census
Baptised 12 Jul 1865 St. George’s Church, Camberwell, London, England - From PR entry (image on Ancestry, viewed 29 Sep 2018)
Gender Female Residence 1939 2, Glyndon Road, Plumsted, London, England - From the register (shown as 2 Glyndon Road Woolwich, but the two descriptions - Woolwich or Plumsted - are clearly the same)
(Ref: RG101/0649G/005/29 Letter Code: AZII)
Died 2 Apr 1940 Woolwich Reg Dist, Kent or London, England - GRO ref: Vaites, Jane E q2 1940 aged 74 Woolwich RD 1d 1402; GRO online index shows middle name as Elizabeth
Actual date from burial record
Buried 9 Apr 1940 Greenwich, Kent, England - From index entry on deceasedonline website
Siblings3 brothers and 4 sisters Patriarch & Matriarch 
Thomas James CARTER, b. Abt 1832, Whitechapel, Middlesex, England, d. Between 1901 and 1925 (Age ~ 69 years) (Father) 
Elisabeth Catharina PALING, d. Yes, date unknown (Grandmother)Notes - Middle name from burial record
Person ID I305890 All | All in the Goatham / Gotham One-Name Study , All subjects of the Goatham / Gotham One-Name Study Last Modified 10 May 2024
Father Thomas James CARTER, b. Abt 1832, Whitechapel, Middlesex, England , d. Between 1901 and 1925 (Age ~ 69 years) Mother Elizabeth Wilhelmina HERBUS, b. Abt 1829, Amsterdam, Netherlands , d. Aft 1901 (Age ~ 73 years) Married 19 May 1857 St. James the Great Church, Bethnal Green, Tower Hamlets, London, England - GRO ref: Carter, Thomas to Herbus, Elizabeth Wilhelmine q2 1857 Bethnal Gn RD 1c 528
Details from PR entry (image on Ancestry, viewed 29 Sep 2018)
Family ID F301743 Family Group Page | Family Chart
Family 1 Jesse Charles George GODFREY, b. Jul 1862, Bermondsey Reg Dist, London, England , d. 16 Mar 1925, Constance Road Institution, 48, Constance Road, Dulwich, Surrey, England (Age ~ 62 years) Married 2 Jul 1882 St. John the Evangelist’s Church, Walworth, Southwark, Surrey, England - GRO ref: Carter, Jane Elizabeth to Godfrey, Jesse George C q3 1882 St Saviour RD 1d 224
Details from PR entry (image on Ancestry, viewed 29 Sep 2018)
Separated Between 1891 and 1901 - Sometime between the 1891 and 1901 censuses Jesse and Jane spearated, probably by 1894 (see notes re Jane's relationship with Stephen Vaites als Gotham). In 1901 the 3 older sons were with Jesse, but the youngest with Jane.
Children4 children Last Modified 10 May 2024 Family ID F301742 Family Group Page | Family Chart
Family 2 Stephen Gotham VAITES, b. Abt Jan 1861, Shelton sub-district, Stoke on Trent Reg Dist, Staffordshire, England , d. 20 Sep 1931, Woolwich Reg Dist, Kent or London, England (Age ~ 70 years) Relationship Abt 1894 Started living as man and wife - The 1911 census shows Stephen and Jane as having been married 16 years - although they only really married some years later!
The mention of 16 years suggests they may have been living together from about 1894.
They also appear as husband and wife in 1901, although mis-recorded as Bates. (In Plumstead, and with Stephen shown as born in Hanley and Jane in London, strongly points to this couple despite the 'Bates' surname.)
Married Sep Q 1925 Woolwich Reg Dist, Kent or London, England - GRO ref: VAITES, Stephen G to Godfrey, Jane E q3 1925 Woolwich RD 1d 2727
n.b. twenty-four years after the 1901 census, although Stephen and Jane appear as husband and wife in that and the 1911 census!
Not surprisingly, given Jane's age, there appear to have been no children born to the 'marriage' after 1911, nor according to the 1911 census before it either.
Children - I think Stephen and Jane probably had no children together.
However, with them (in 1901) was 11 year old son 'Godfrey Bates'. Eleven years earlier seems probably before Stephen and Jane got together, since I can't find the birth registration for a Godfrey VAITES, BATES, VATES or GODFREY.
Jane's youngest son was born in 1890, so the age fits him although his name was Henry Albert GODFREY. He was still living, and, unlike his brothers, not with their father. Hence it seems that this was Henry with his name mangled to be a combination of his true and his step-father's surnames.
Weight is added to this by me being able to find not just a birth, but also a death of a Godfrey VAITES, BATES, VATES or GODFREY, or a record for him in the 1911 census or 1939 register, nor find him in the 1891 census, further suggesting he (instead or also) went by a different surname.
Jane's son Henry appears as Henry GODFREY in the 1911 census.
Clearly Henry was a legitimiate son of Jesse, but why was he with Jane in 1901, unlike their other sons? I suspect that he was too young when Jesse and Jane separated for his father to cope. Not knowing the circumstances of the separation maybe Jane escaped from Jesse and felt unable to take all of her sons but her youngest needed her.
But possibly Jane was unfaithful to Jesse before she left him and Henry was the son of Stephen. In that case, though, I would have thought he might have subsequently used the surname Vaites rather than Godfrey, but he could have found it easier to use the name that was on his birth certificate.
Family This couple had no children together Last Modified 14 Feb 2017 Family ID F301025 Family Group Page | Family Chart
- About 1864 from the 1911 census, where shown as aged 46 and her name is given as 'Jane E. Godfrey Vaites', also shown as aged 60 at marriage to Stephen, suggesting born 1864 or 5, though age given when her death was registered suggests a couple of years younger.