By the early 12th century, the Fitz Stephen family, early ancestors of our Gooding family, was established in Gloucestershire. Thomas Fitz Stephen (?-1120) had at least two sons, one of which, Ralph Fitz Stephen (?-?) lived in Wapley, in the south of the county and may have been a royal chamberlain. He also had atContinue reading “Medieval Matters (1100-1500)”
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The Thames Link: Watermen in the 17th – 19th Centuries
My research into my grandmother’s ancestry has led to the discovery of a number of Thames watermen who plied their trade between the mid-seventeeth and early nineteenth centuries. All of them were ancestors of my grandmother’s great-great grandmother, Eliza Lucy Rudland (1816-1865) who was from a long line of Kentish families. I have been ableContinue reading “The Thames Link: Watermen in the 17th – 19th Centuries”
Butland Gooding Family Tree 