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The immediate family of Thomas Fletcher Waghorn

[Grateful thanks to Robin Handley and Edward Stock for much information included in this list]

The marriage of Thomas Waghorn, from Chatham, and Ann Goodhugh of Snodland took place at All Saints Church, Snodland, on 28 July 1794. Genealogists have so far failed to find any conclusive record of Thomas’s birth, although a recent suggestion from a family descendant is that he might be the Thomas Field Waghorn, baptised at Teston on 7 October 1770, illegitimate son of Hannah. Ann Goodhugh’s ancestors and relations on the other hand are well accounted for. The witnesses at her wedding were her father, John Goodhugh, and her brother-in-law, William Gorham.

The Goodhughs had lived in Birling for several generations, while, on Ann’s mother’s side, the Fletchers were more attached to Snodland:

Goodhugh line:

(A) Thomas Goodhugh = Margaret Pountain: 9 Jan 1713: Birling

(B) John Goodhugh (son of A) = Elizabeth Seamark: 29 June 1742: Birling

(C) Grandparents: John Goodhugh (son of B) = Elizabeth Fletcher (see below)

Fletcher line:

(A) John Fletcher b. c.1685; bur. 26 Feb 1752, Snodland  = (1) Ann Scultup, bur. 29 Nov 1727, Birling  = (2) Margaret [?], b. c.1697; d. 20 Aug 1748, Snodland

(B) John Fletcher (son of A)  b. 1724; bur. 16 Nov 1803, Snodland = Elizabeth Gilder, bur. 7 Oct 1803, Snodland

Grandparents on mother’s side:

(C) John Goodhugh, (son of B) bap. 21 April 1745, Birling; bur. 4 Jan 1835, Snodland  = Elizabeth Fletcher, dau. of B: 10 July 1771, Birling; she bur. 24 May 1782, Snodland

Parents:

Thomas Waghorn; birth/bap. unknown, but assumed c.1770 if he is the Thomas Waghorn bur. at St Mary’s, Chatham, aged 56, on 6 Sep 1826. = Ann Goodhugh: 28 July 1794, Snodland; b. c.1773; bur. 18 March 1859, Snodland, aged 86 ‘from Rochester’

Their children were:

(1) John, baptised 9 September 1795, St Mary the Virgin, Chatham [died young?].

(2) Elizabeth, buried 14 February 1797, St Mary the Virgin, Chatham [presumably died young].

(3) Ann, baptised 3 March 1798, St Mary the Virgin, Chatham; married Robert Munday at All Saints, Snodland, 28 June 1824, when Thomas Waghorn, senior, was a witness. Robert was then of the parish of St Nicholas, Rochester. He is named as a plumber in 1826, as plumber and glazier in 1828, and innkeeper between 1835 and 1839. Their children were Mary (bap. 18 Jan 1826, married [...] Campbell); Ann (no details); Robert Thomas (born 26 Dec 1828; bap. 28 June 1829 [died young]); Robert (bap. 30 May 1830); Fanny (bap. 19 Feb 1832, married Robert Comyns in Sydney, 6 June 1854, died at North Carlton, Melbourne on 6 Sep 1914); John Goodhugh (bap. 2 Oct 1833 [died young]); Sarah (bap. 25 June 1837, died unmarried at North Carlton, Melbourne in 1924); Hannah (bap. 31 Mar 1839 [died young]). Wright’s 1838 directory of Rochester notes a Robert Munday as licensed victualler at the City Coffee House, High Street. He was in Cairo according to the Snodland poll book of 1847, presumably assisting his brother-in-law Thomas in his activities, but dead by 1853. Ann is listed in Land Tax records at Island Cottage, Holborough, between 1849 and 1852, and as an ‘annuitant’ in the 1851 census. The latter also records her daughter Sarah, born in Rochester, aged 13, as a ‘scholar at home’. The mother and children left Southampton in the Meteor on 17 March 1853 and arrived at Sydney on 3 July 1853: Ann described as aged 55, domestic servant, born at Chatham, father dead, mother living at Rochester; daughter Fanny, aged 20, nursery governess, born at Rochester, father dead; Sarah, aged 16, nursery maid, born at Rochester; another daughter, Mary Campbell, living in Sydney.

(4) Thomas Fletcher, baptised 16 July 1800, St Mary the Virgin, Chatham; According to the biography issued by the firm of his business partner, George Wheatley, he was born on 20 June 1800.

Married (1) Elizabeth Bartlett: Thomas Fletcher Waghorn of Calcutta, Bachelor, a Volunteer in the Pilot Service of the Honble Company, and Elizabeth Bartlett of the same place, spinster, were married at St John’s Cathedral in Calcutta aforesaid by License this Eleventh Day of June in the year of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and twenty-two by me Danl Corrie, Senior Chaplain at the Presidency of Fort William. In the presence of James Fielder, John Mills, John Higgins. She was the daughter of William and Ann Bartlett, born on 28 March 1805 and baptised in St John’s cathedral on 8 July 1805. She died at Calcutta on 8 March 1834, aged 28 years, 11 months and 7 days according to the register of St John’s cathedral.

Married (2) Harriet Martin, 8 December 1834, Snodland. She was daughter of the miller at Holborough in the parish of Snodland. Next door was Island Cottage, which he had bought in 1827 and where his mother, Ann, now lived. The marriage took place at All Saints church, Snodland, as part of a double ceremony with his sister Sarah and her groom, William Ransom of St Mary, Rotherhithe. His brother Edward and sisters Ann and Mary Jane (and surely his mother too) were all present as witnesses.

Between 1802 and 1837 James Martin is recorded as a tenant occupying the water mill at Holborough, after which it passed to his son, Edward. Harriet, daughter of James and Elizabeth Martin, had been baptised at the neighbouring parish of Birling on 27 September 1801, shortly before the family’s move to Holborough mill. She died on 9 January 1856 and was buried at Snodland on the 23rd of the month from ‘Tunbridge Wells’.  Died childless on 7 January 1850, Islington; bur. at Snodland: 14 January 1850. Memorial on S wall of nave and gravestone outside vestry door.

(5) James Goodhugh, baptised 29 December 1802, St Mary the Virgin, Chatham; buried there, 14 October 1804.

(6) Mary Jane, baptised 27 June 1804, St Mary the Virgin, Chatham; unmarried; died Strood Union after a fall at her home, 18 May 1883; buried at All Saints, Snodland, 25 May 1883. Mary Jane acted as witness at the marriages of her sisters Ann and Sarah, was present at the deaths of her mother and her sister Frances and acted as executrix for her brother Edward. No memorial.

(7) Edward, baptised 14 May 1806, St Mary the Virgin, Chatham. He was a butcher trading in St Margaret’s Street, Rochester, by 1838, but does not appear in Bagshaw’s directory of 1847. He acted as witness at the marriage of his sister Sarah in 1834. Edward emigrated to Australia and died, unmarried, 18 July 1868 at Queen Street, Melbourne, still named as a butcher.

(8) Eliza, baptised 12 July 1809, St Mary the Virgin, Chatham; buried there, 29 August 1809.

(9) Frances, baptised 1 August 1810, St Mary the Virgin, Chatham; died, unmarried, 8 December 1848 at Maidstone Road, St Margaret’s [Rochester]; buried at All Saints, Snodland, 14 December 1848, from ‘Birling’, aged 38. The memorial reads: Sacred / to the memory of / Frances Waghorn / who died December 1848 / aged 38 years / This stone was placed here / by her affectionate brother / Lieut. Waghorn R.N.

(10) Sarah, baptised 9 June 1813, St Mary the Virgin, Chatham; married William Ransom at All Saints, Snodland, 8 December 1834; died of ‘senile decay’, 14 February 1887 at Prahran, Melbourne. They lived in Rotherhithe until at least 1847, and then moved to 11 Cardington Street as noted below. William was a mastmaker and a ‘proprietor of houses’. Their son William, aged ‘5’, was staying with his grandmother Ann Goodhugh at Island, Cottage, Holborough, when the 1841 census was taken. William senior died 1852-55; his address in the 1852 poll-book for Snodland is still given as 11, Cardington-Street, Hampstead-road, Middlesex; his widow and family emigrated to Melbourne, Australia, on the Stebenheath on 17 May 1855; arrived Dec 1855. Children: (1) William (bap. 11 Dec 1835; died 8 Sep 1851 in England); (2) Sarah Elliott (born 25 Sep 1839, bap. 13 Nov 1839; married John Beauchamp 20 Sep 1866; died 1920); Harriet Waghorn (bap. 14 July 1841; married Frederick Charles Lamb; died 1924); Alice (born 10 June 1843, bap. 9 Aug 1843; died 7 Feb 1845 in England); Thomas Waghorn (bap. 30 May 1845; married Caroline Simmonds 1874; died 1919); Emily (bap. 31 Mar 1847, emigrated in 1855, but no further details); James Goodhugh (born c.1848; emigrated 1855, aged 7; married Jane Keen, 1877; died 1918); Mary Jane (born 26 June 1851 at 11 Cardington Street; married Alfred Dickinson, 1882).