Goody Family Tree - Archer, Argent, Hemmings, Lock, Root, Siggins, Suckling, Ward, Stepney, London, Halstead, Essex, UK

In The Proceedings of the Old Bailey we found the following case:

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WILLIAM GOODY was indicted for stealing, on the 19th of September,1822 eight pair of stockings, value 10 s. , the goods of Ann Harrison.

ANN HARRISON . I am a laundress, and live in Wool-park-yard. On the 18th of September I had ten pair of stockings in the tub; I missed them all; the prisoner's mother lodged at my house, and he came on Sunday to see her; I lost them on Thursday.

ANN HODSON . I live with my mother. I saw the prisoner go out with something under his arm, on Thursday morning, it looked like linen.

THOMAS WEBSTER . I am a watchman. The prosecutrix desired me to take the prisoner, and I found him concealed in a pig sty, about four yards from the prosecutrix house, about eleven or half-past eleven o'clock, fast asleep; I found eight pair of stockings in the sty.

(Property produced and sworn to.)

Prisoner's Defence. I lodged with her, she turned me out, because I owed her eighteen-pence, and went to lie in the sty.

GUILTY . Aged 15.

Whipped and Discharged.

Found in Maldon Church burial records.

Edward Bright, a Tallow Chandler and Merchant of this town was buried in the Parish Church of All Saints in the family vault near the Bellfry door, March 28th 1790 in the 45 year of his age. He was supposed to be about half the weight of his late father. His coffin was two feet nine inches over the shoulder, six feet four inches and half long and one foot eleven inches deep. He was brought to Church on the Bier by 10 men, and interred by the help of a triangle and pulleys. Has left a wife and nine children viz two sons and seven daughters. He was a man very much respected by a numerous acquaintance and a valuable friend to Society.

Origin: Scottish Coat of Arms: A silver shield with a green chevron between two green trefoils in chief and a red tortoise in base.Motto: Honestas.Motto Translated: Honesty.
The ancient Scottish name Goody was first used by the Strathclyde-Briton people of the Scottish/English Borderlands. The original bearer of the name lived in Lanarkshire, where the family was found since the early Middle Ages. Few areas of Britain have produced as many notable families in world history as the Border region of England and Scotland; names such as Armstrong, Nixon, Graham Bell, Carson, Hume, Irving, Lock, Rutherford, and of course the family name Goody.
Researchers have confirmed the first documented history of this name in lowland Scotland and northern England, tracing it through many ancient manuscripts, including private collections of historical and genealogical records, the Inquistio, the Exchequer Rolls of Scotland, the Ragman Rolls, The Hearth Rolls, The Doomsday Book, parish cartularies, baptismal, and tax rolls. The first record of the name Goody was found in Lanarkshire where they were seated from very ancient times.
Different spellings of the name were found in archives researched typically linking each alternate to the root source of the surname. The surname Goody, occurred in many references, from time to time the surname was spelt Goudey, Gowdie, Goudie, Goudy, Gadie, Goodie, Gady, Goldie, and these changes of spelling frequently occurred, even between father and son. Scribes and church officials recorded the name from its sound.