2:2 Golding of Suffolk
Roger Golding of Grey’s Cavendish
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Golding of Cavendish, Poslingford and Belchamp
The Poslingford and Essex lines and the link to the Gosnold family (Gauldin)
Roger Golding was born in 1468 in Grays Cavendish, Essex, England and he died in 1534. He married Alyce Upcher. She was born in 1468 in Wormyngford.
No evidence has been found yet to link Captain Roger Goulding of Rhode Island to this family, but the name Roger is only found in this line of the Golding family of Essex. Captain Roger Goulding is well known in the annals of the history of Rhode Island and it is interesting to note that he died in the West Indies, but a missing generation of information is lacking to definitely link him and his supposed brother Captain Peter Goulding with the family of Roger Golding and Alyce Upcher. According to the book The Mayflower and the Pilgrim's New World by Nathaniel Philbrick, Captain Roger Goulding is listed as "the mariner who rescued Church's men at the Pease Field Fight and who was present at the death of King Philip" and Major Samuel Appleton is listed as "the commander of the Massachusetts forces." Perhaps the necessary information will surface at some later date.
Roger GOLDING and Alyce UPCHER had the following children:
2. i. JOHN "OF BELCHAMP" GOLDING was born in 1505 in Belchamp Walter, Essex, England. He died in 1551. He married Joane Gosnold, daughter of Sir Robert "The Elder" Gosnold* and Agnes Hill, about 1522 in England. She was born about 1505 in Netherhall Manor, Otley, Suffolk, England but her exact birthdate is not known. She died after 1591 in Suffolk, England. When she is named in her son's 1591 will she is referred to as "Alice Brimley".
3. ii. THOMAS “OF POSINGFORD” GOLDING was born about 1513 in Poslingforde, Suffolk, England (Thomas Goldinge b abt 1526 Poslingford, Suffolk, England m Katherine Gosnold Children: George, Henry, John, Thomas, Alice, Anne, Joane, Rose, Thomazine. He died on 04 Dec 1575 in Poslingforde, Suffolk, England3. He married Katherine Gosnold, daughter of Sir Robert "The Elder" Gosnold and Agnes Hill, in 1536 in Sussex, England . She was born in 1511 in Otley, Suffolk, England. She died in 1588 in Witnesham, Suffolk, England.
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Roger "of Gray's Cavendish" Golding married Alice Upcher. There were two branches of the Upcher family in Essex and several family fragments that I have as yet been unable to make a connection with to Roger Golding, but through known marriage connections suggest a connection to the Fuller, Honniwood and other families of Essex.
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The Fuller/Golding/Woodward/Upcher line
Agnes Upcher married James Fuller and had a daughter named Rebecca Fuller. Rebecca Fuller married George Golding. This information is gleaned from the 3 July 1589 will of Thomas Woodward, where he names his wife Joane and mentions his sister Joane Upcher as well as her son John Upcher and Agnes Fuller, the wife of James Fuller.
"To Joane Upcher my sister," the will reads, "2 spur ryals and John Upcher her son 10 pounds. To Agnes, wife of Joane Fuller and Rebecca her daughter each 5 pounds. I forgive Robert Tye 30 pounds... 1 make Thomas UPCHER of Fordham clerk [rector] exor., and for his pains £6 13s.4d. I appoint Thomas ... (1371) To John my son my house and land in West Mersea; if he die without heirs, to Anne WALLES. To Alice my wife my ...I forgive ROBERT TYE 30 pounds which he oweth me. To Gilbert Almonde 20 shillings and KATHERINE SMITH my servant 30 shillings. I will that all those my houses, rentaries and stalls in the borough of Colchester be sold by my executor within 3 years after probate, he taking all issues and profits thereout growing. I give him power in the mean space to sell my lands free and copy in Great and Little Clacton which I have in Margate (in Kent) from Margaret, the widow of John Abraham. ..."
In Essex wills, the Bishop of London's commissary court, 1596-1603 p 72 is the following notation: "JAMES FULLER the elder of St, Leonard, Colchester, sailor, [date not given]. (373) To Rebecca my daughter, wife of George GOLDING, my 3 messuages in the New Hythe in St. Leonard in the tenures of George GOLDING my son-in-law, ..."
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The particular George Golding who married Rebecca Fuller must have resided in Colchester in Essex, England because the Essex will states he had property in New Hythe in St. Leonard. In the reign of "Bloody Mary" (1553–1558) Colchester became a center of Protestant "heresy" and in consequence at least 19 local people were burned at the stake at the Castle, at first in front, later within the walls. They are commemorated on a tablet near the altar of St Peter's Church, and in 1648 during the Second English Civil War, a Royalist army led by Lord Goring entered the town. A pursuing Parliamentary army led by Thomas Fairfax and Henry Ireton surrounded the town for eleven and a half weeks, a period known as the Siege of Colchester. The Royalists surrendered in the late summer and Charles Lucas and George Lisle were executed on the grounds of Colchester Castle.
Thomas Woodward, who left the 1589 will on record married Joane. He states in his will that his brother's name is William but not other information is given. The Woodward family of Buckinghamshire, England is well known and they are connected by marriage with the Honniwood family. George Woodward b about 1570 married Elizabeth Honniwood. Their daughters were Bridgett and Martha.
1. Bridgett Woodward born 26 October 1590 in Upton, Buckinghamshire, England married Sir Thomas Lyddall and their son was Colonel George Lyddall, who was born about 1619 in Suffolk, England and died on 19 January 1705 in Putney's Mill, New Kent, Virginia, USA.
2. Martha Woodward was born about 1600 and she married Rev. James "emigrant to Virginia" Bacon, who was born about 1595 in London and died on 9 November 1649 in Burgate, Suffolk, England. The Bacon family and the Golding family of Suffolk, England are closely associated through marriage, as they both are to the Gosnolds of Suffolk, and their connections will be described in detail in a following chapter.
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It needs to be proved that Thomas and William Woodward were of this same family in Essex.
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References
Gauldin, C. L. (n.d.). Gaulding Origins.