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with Teresa Ann GOATHAM Gender Male Died Yes, date unknown Person ID I306208 All | All in the Goatham / Gotham One-Name Study Last Modified 24 Mar 2023
Family Mary FITZSIMMONS, b. Abt 1833, Stockton-on-Tees, Co. Durham, England 
, d. Mar Q 1912, Stockton Reg Dist, Co. Durham or Yorkshire, England (Age ~ 79 years)
Other Partners: Anthony GOTHAN m. 12 Jul 1853; Thomas HEPTON m. Dec Q 1866Married Between 1860 and 1863 - Mary had two illegitimate daughters, one must have been conceived in 1860, the other in 1862. I am assuming that the first, Mary Jane, was illegitimate despite not knowing when Mary's husband, Anthony, died, as like her sister no father was named on her birth registration. (No mother's maiden name either, this was often omitted on the birth certificates for children of widows, despite the child and their mother's surname being different from their mother's maiden name).
The two daughters although shown here under one 'unknown' father may have had different fathers. She was not living with anyone at the time of the 1861 census, when she must have been pregnant.
Mary is shown in the 1911 census as having had 5 children, not 6, but both birth registrations name the mother as Mary, and I think it is the same one although it is just possible another Mary briefly had her surname recorded as Gothan.
That said, the no. of children given in 1911 should refer to those born to Mary's current marriage. There appears only to have been 2, so I am guessing she (or the workhouse in which she was living) mistakenly gave the total no. of children; this field was probably misunderstood and so contains the wrong info. more than any other. It could be, though, that Mary did have 3 others born to her second marriage, but who died soon after birth and whose births weren't registered, or she may have even counted stillbirths or mis-carriages.
Married? Not married or evidence to suggest they didn't marry Children2 children Last Modified 24 Mar 2023 Family ID F301886 Family Group Page | Family Chart
- Mary had two illegitimate daughters, one must have been conceived in 1860, the other in 1862. I am assuming that the first, Mary Jane, was illegitimate despite not knowing when Mary's husband, Anthony, died, as like her sister no father was named on her birth registration. (No mother's maiden name either, this was often omitted on the birth certificates for children of widows, despite the child and their mother's surname being different from their mother's maiden name).