Thomas Gold and Sarah Bedder

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OBJE:_META	<metadataxml><content><line><p style="font: normal normal normal 13px/normal arial; margin: 0px">THOMAS GOLD AND SARAH BEDDER</p> <p style="font: normal normal normal 13px/normal arial; min-height: 15px; margin: 0px">&nbsp;</p> <p style="font: normal normal normal 13px/normal arial; margin: 0px">Thomas Gold was the son of Samuel Gold and Mary Swinnerton. He was born in 1794, Coventry, Warwickshire, England.</p> <p style="font: normal normal normal 13px/normal arial; margin: 0px">At the age of 14 he was apprenticed to become a watch maker. As one follows his life through on different documents that are on record today, one finds that first he learned to be an enameler, then step by step he progressed until he became a Master Watch Maker.</p> <p style="font: normal normal normal 13px/normal arial; margin: 0px">During his years of apprenticeship Thomas lived on Spoone Row. That is, Spoone Row was the shops owned by the various trades people where they plied their trade and sold their goods. The actual homes were in little alley ways that led from Spoon Row, back of the shops to the flats (apartments) where these families lived.</p> <p style="font: normal normal normal 13px/normal arial; margin: 0px">It was customary when a man took a young boy to become an apprentice he left his home and parents and went to live with this man, being completely under his jurisdiction as to the things he could or could not do, and became a member or sometimes just a servant of the family. If there was not sleeping quarters in the family home, the young boy would be given a blanket and slept on the floor of a back room of the shop. Thus we find that Thomas Gold, during his years of apprenticeship in records appears as living on Spoone Row while being taught to be a watch maker.</p> <p style="font: normal normal normal 13px/normal arial; margin: 0px">Thomas, while still an apprentice and a minor, married Sarah Bedder on the 8<span style="font: normal normal normal 10px/normal arial">th</span> of September 1812 in Saint Mary&rsquo;s Parish Church at Warwick, Warwickshire, England.</p> <p style="font: normal normal normal 13px/normal arial; margin: 0px">Sarah Bedder was christened the 11<span style="font: normal normal normal 10px/normal arial">th</span> of January 1789 at Bedworth, Warwickshire, England. Her father was Joseph Bedder, her mother Frances Dewis. To this couple were born 9 children, the first one being names Thomas after the father: the second one Henry who died at the age of twenty. The next one was John and the next one Amey who died at the age of five. The next is Sarah who died at the age of three. Then our Joseph Gold and then two more daughters, again named Sarah and Amy who grew up. There also appears on the record as Cyrus Henry Gold gave it, a son William. However, among the records that have been searched, no record of William&rsquo;s christening has been found. However, he appears on this record as in 1927 Cyrus Henry Gold had the Temple work done for this man, declaring that he was his Uncle and being given permission to have his work done.</p> <p style="font: normal normal normal 13px/normal arial; margin: 0px">After Thomas Gold finished his apprenticeship, still living on Spoone Row and recognized as a Master Watch Maker, he moved to Fleet Street where he obtained employment and pursued his trade. Both Fleet Street and Spoone Row are just inside of Spoone Gate of the old city of Coventry. Coventry had a wall built around it for its protection with various gates to get in. Fleet Street and Spoone Row joined together in front of St. John the Baptist Parish Church, and thus Thomas did not move very far from where he had formerly lived, probably into a little better home and established a home of his own.</p> <p style="font: normal normal normal 13px/normal arial; margin: 0px">Thomas appears on the Freeman Rolls of the city of Coventry. Thomas&rsquo; name was entered the 3<span style="font: normal normal normal 10px/normal arial">rd</span> of February 1818. It is a little different in England when one speaks of a Freeman, because this type of freedom had to be purchased and gave a man many more privileges and opportunities and recognition than ordinary citizenship did.</p> <p style="font: normal normal normal 13px/normal arial; margin: 0px">There was one other way that a man could become a Freeman. That was if the reigning monarch of the day assigned him to be a Freeman through some service he had rendered to the Crown or some act made him outstanding and thus he was honored in this manner. So it would seem that Thomas was recognized beyond the ordinary station of the people of his day. The majority of Thomas and Mary&rsquo;s children were christened at St. John&rsquo;s Parish Church.</p> <p style="font: normal normal normal 13px/normal arial; margin: 0px">As Thomas progressed in his trade and be came more affluent from the proceeds of his work, Thomas moved several times to different parts of Coventry. Though he always worked in Fleet Street, some of Thomas&rsquo; children were christened in both Holy Trinity and St. Michael&rsquo;s Parish Churches, both in the heart of Coventry. This would mean that he lived within these two parishes.</p> <p style="font: normal normal normal 13px/normal arial; margin: 0px">Thomas Gold died sometime between 1829 and 1833. As with his father, Samuel, no record has been found for the date of his death and where it took place. We know that he died between these years because his wife, Sarah Bedder, as a widow married Thomas West on 29 April 1833. It is to be explained here that it was because of this marriage and lack of other information that the error was made on the Gold pedigree that Thomas West was claimed, along with others of the West family, as ancestors. This was also believed because there are letters family m embers have with inquiries in them asking how Grandfather West was. It was not realized that he was Sarah&rsquo;s second husband and was called Grandfather our of respect for the man, not because he was the father of Sarah&rsquo;s children, because he was not.</p> <p style="font: normal normal normal 13px/normal arial; margin: 0px">--Written by Deseret Gedge Johnson</p> <p style="font: normal normal normal 13px/normal arial; margin: 0px">2<span style="font: normal normal normal 10px/normal arial">nd</span> great granddaughter from records found in England, and Historical information</p></line></content></metadataxml>
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Alive Dead Death>100 Death<=100 Birth>100 Birth<=100 Roots Leaves
Given names	Surname	Sosa	Birth		Place		Death		Age	Place	Last change
Thomas Gould Thomas Fould Thomas Gold Thomas Gold Thomas Gould Thomas Gold Thomas Gold Father: Samuel Gould Mother: Mary Swinnerton				1793 1794	231	Coventry, Warwickshire, England Coventry, Warwickshire, England	9	1847	177	54	Fillongley, Warwickshire, England	Never	M	YES	YES

Both alive Widower Widow Both dead Roots Leaves Not married Marriage>100 Marriage<=100 Divorce Multiple marriages
Given names	Surname	Age	Given names	Surname	Age	Marriage		Place		Last change