Friday, December 23, 2005

Sarah Jane Holyer

Sarah Jane Holyer's birth certificate arrived yesterday and shows that she was the previously unknown first child of John Holyer and Jane Godden. She wasn't with this couple in the 1861 census. However, that family was living in Woodchurch at Bench Hill, while the Jane Holyer whose identity I am seeking is at the Bench Hill Turnpike House with Martha Hook, who says that Jane is her grandaughter. But in fact, Martha's maiden name was Godden and in the 1851 census she and her husband are living next door to Thomas and Ann Godden, whose daughter Jane was Sarah Jane's mother. I suspect Martha had Thomas in 1794, before her marriage to Stephen Hook in Tenterden in 1803. So this would make Martha the Great Grandmother of Sarah Jane. But it does seem to prove the link.

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