15 Mar 2005
Husband: Ernest GODDARD died at age: 39
Born: 7 Oct 1845 in Clerkenwell 1,2
Died: 18 May 1885 at 1 Cunnington Street, Acton Green Middx 3,4
Family home: 1881 1 Esher Villas Shadwell Rd 9,10,21
Occupation: 1885 Clerk to Chiswick Local Board 5
Property: 1 Jun 1885 Administration granted to Mary Goddard - estate £175 6
Baptized: 30 Sep 1866 at St Leonard's Shoreditch 7
Father: Leonard Morse GODDARD
Mother: Charlotte DREW
Wife: Marie Tresilian BROWN Also known as Mary 8 died at age: 40
Married: Q4 1866 in Clerkenwell 11
Born: 25 Jan 1846 in Clerkenwell 12,13
Died: Q4 1887 in Paddington 14
Occupation: Singer 15
Baptized: 30 Sep 1866 at St Leonard's Shoreditch 16
Father:
Mother:
M Child 1: Cecil W Drew GODDARD
Born: Q4 1873 in Islington 1,17
Resided: in USA
Occupation: Accountant with Seattle Cedar Lumber Co 18
Occupation: before 1914 Accountant in gold mine in Hungary 19
Not living:
Spouse: Gwendolyn UNKNOWN
Married: in Canada
F Child 2: Mabel Dulcie GODDARD
Born: Q4 1874 in Islington 1,20
Died: in USA
Not living:
F Child 3: Jessie Naylor GODDARD died at age: 41
Born: 1877 in St Pancras 21
Died: 30 Mar 1918 at 10 College Road Harrow 22
Cause of death: Tuberculosis 23
Spouse: Charles RUSS b. 11 Nov 1876 d. 26 Feb 1955
Married: June 1902 in St Luke's Hampstead 24,25
M Child 4: Leonard Morse GODDARD died at age: 71
Born: 1882 in England
Died: 1953 in Grafton Ontario Canada 26
Resided: 1918 in Willesden Green North London 27,28,29
Occupation: 1900 apprentice with Scottish merchant shipping company 30
Occupation: Merchant marine - Canadian Pacific Fleet 31,32
Spouse: Emma Frances ANSON-CARTWRIGHT b. 28 Feb 1886
Married: 1925 in Canada 33,34
Sources:
(1) Census 1881.
(2) Ind, Peter Goddard - correction to 1881 Census data.
(3) Ind, My father-in-law, Captain Leonard Morse Goddard, was one of eight (or
ten) children. The family seemed to come in two sections. The first was born
and growing, when they were all wiped out, probably by diphtheria or some such
childhood disease. Tragically, we don't even know their names. Their parents
were well-respected educated people, and we have large photos of them, dressed
in elegant attire of the day. Then came the last four (or six ) children.
These apparently were all raised, until about the age of eight (for Leonard),
when both his parents passed away at the same time - maybe a railway accident,
or illness. Letter from Jane Goddard.
(4) Ind, Peter Goddard.
(5) Ind, Peter Goddard.
(6) Ind, Peter Goddard.
(7) Ind, on the same day as her husband, presumably as a preliminary to marriage,
Peter Goddard.
(8) Ind, Jane Goddard note.
(9) Census 1881, 1 Esher Villas, Shadwell Rd, Islington
Marie L. GODDARD - wife aged 35 born Clerkenwell Middx, RG11 piece 0256 fol 114
p45.
(10) Ind, Peter Goddard.
(11) Ind, Peter Goddard.
(12) Census 1881, 1 Esher Villas, Shadwell Rd, Islington
Marie L. GODDARD - wife aged 35 born Clerkenwell Middx, RG11 piece 0256 fol 114
p45.
(13) Ind, Peter Goddard.
(14) Ind, Peter Goddard.
(15) Ind, Jane Goddard note: Mary - reputed to be a singer who performed at the
Albert Hall.
(16) Ind, on the same day as her husband, presumably as a preliminary to marriage,
Peter Goddard.
(17) Ind, Birth registered Q4 1873, Peter Goddard.
(18) ABR, 77.
(19) ABR, 79.
(20) Ind, Birth registered Q4 1874, Peter Goddard.
(21) Census 1881, Dwelling: 1 Esher Villas Shadwell Rd
Census Place: Islington, London, Middlesex
Source: HL Film 1341056 PRO Ref RG11 Piece 0256 Folio 114 Page
45
Marr Age Sex Birthplace
Ernest GODDARD M 35 M Clerkenwell, Middlesex
Rel: Head
Occ: Solicitors Clerk
Marie L. GODDARD M 35 F Clerkenwell, Middlesex
Rel: Wife
Cecil W. D. GODDARD 7 M Islington, Middlesex
Rel: Son
Occ: Scholar
Mabel D. GODDARD 6 F Islington, Middlesex
Rel: Daur
Occ: Scholar
Jessie H. GODDARD 3 F St Pancras, Middlesex
Rel: Daur
Henry E. PAGE U 33 M Soho, Middlesex
Rel: Cousin
Occ: Annuitant
Sarah WARR U 74 F Islington, Middlesex
Rel: Servant
Occ: General Domestic Servant,
1881 Census.
(22) DK, 'On the evening of 30 March [1918] with her husband by her side, Jessie,
just forty years old, died of tuberculosis', 25.
(23) ABR, ABR has cancer as cause of death.
(24) DK, 'In 1902, when he had married his sweetheart, Jessie Naylor Goddard, at
St Luke's Church in Hampstead', ABR says: 'whose cousin Rayner Goddard, Baron of
Aldebourne, served as Lord Chief Justice of England in the years following the
war and lived to the ripe old age of ninety-four! Another cousin, Theodore
Goddard, was the solicitor of Mrs. Wallace Simpson during the Abdication
crisis', 19.
(25) FreeBMD, Hampstead 1a 1285 Jun 1902.
(26) Ind, Jane Goddard.
(27) DK, 'One day, while he [Victor Russ] was working outside [276 Willesden
Lane]...he met a man dressed in naval uniform, who was walking about in the next
garden. When Victor told the man his name, the man told him that he had a
sister named Jessie, who had married a Dr. Russ. It turned out that the sailor
next door was their uncle Morse Goddard, Jessie's younger brother, who had gone
to sea as a boy after their parents had died. He was now a worldly first mate
in the Canadian Pacific Fleet, awaiting the completion of the fleet's new
flagship, Empress of Canada.', 27.
(28) ABR, 'our [ABR] next door neighbour turned out to be Leonard Morse Goddard,
mother's younger brother, our Uncle Morse! Uncle Morse had left home early,
presumably on the death of their [sic] parents, and gone to sea as a cabin-boy,
and thence on to a full sea-going career, remaining out of touch with the rest
of the family for many years. We were reunited by sheer coincidence - if one
believes in such a thing - and were quickly introduced to the rest of his
family, Aunt Grace and a new cousin, their daughter Mabel', Aunt Grace was not
his wife - see letter from Jane Goddard, 14.
(29) Ind, Jane Goddard: "this was a mailing address only".
(30) Ind, He was apprenticed with a Scottish merchant line, and was launched upon
the infant beginnings of a wonderful career. He was a strong, resolute lad with
a great sense of duty and adventure, and he stuck it out (bad food and no pay,
etc.) all during his teens, learned the art of seamanship, and by the time he
was a man, he had sailed many times around the world, undaunted by the dangers
of the Horn, and revelling in all the aspects of weather, etc. From sailing
ships, he finally moved to steam, when he joined the Canadian Pacific Steamship
fleet. He was mainly on the Pacific runs of most of the Empress Line, moving up
the gradation of tonnage, as he went. As he grew up, he moved up the ranks to
Staff Captain, and had achieved his Masters Papers in both sail and steam by the
age of 24. Letter from Jane Goddard.
(31) ABR, Uncle Morse would fascinate us [ABR and siblings] with long yarns of
his days at sea.....apprenticeship papers, which showed that, as a young
cabin-boy, he was entitled to one shilling a month and his laundry. He had gone
round Cape Horn in a wind-jammer, and when standing watch at the wheel, had
learned to fill his tall seaboots with seawater to insulate his feet against the
perishing winds of the Southern Ocean. Gradually he worked his way up through
the ranks until he was a Captain, sailing through the pirates of the China Sea.
Now he was Captain of the Canadian Pacific Fleet, waiting to take delivery of
their new flagship "The Empress of Canada", currently being built on Tyneside',
DK has'worldly first mate' rather than Captain, 14.
(32) Ind, Jane Goddard: "Uncle Morse had left home early to go live with his uncle
... He became an apprentice at teh age of 12 ... He gradually worked his way up
until he was a staff Captian. He covered the route from Vancouver to the many
oriental ports several times each year. Being in the China Seas was not done
when on the Empress lines".
(33) DK, 'When he did finally marry, in Canada in 1925, it was to Emma Frances
Anson-Cartwright, the sole heir of the Anson estates, including that of Admiral
George Anson, whose voyage to the Pacific and capture of a treasure-laden
Spanish galleon in 1743 became legendary.', 27.
(34) Ind, Leonard married a Canadian lady, one of two sisters travelling to Japan
to tour the Orient. Her name was Frances Emma Anson-Cartwright. Her sister was
Una Lobb (widowed - W.W.1) and their family home was here in Grafton, where we
now live.
They were people of distinction, with a fabulous naval history background,
having been descended from Admiral Anson and Admiral Vernon [sp?] of great
British fame in the 18th Century. Frances was short and vivacious and
lovely-looking, and Captain Goddard and she "hit it off' from the very start.
Morse was the only child from this marriage, as they both married late in life.
Frances was a patient naval house wife, who seldom had her husband home, but
proved to be an impeccable hostess, and they had a wonderful marriage.
Letter from Jane Goddard.
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