Goldsbury
The Goldsbury family are living in Saxham Cottage from the 1880s to 1901. They may have been quakers.
The 1881 census names a widower Edmund Goldsbury age 61, living with his son also Edmund, age 36, living in Saxham Street, Stowupland.
Our Goldsburys came from Grundisburgh, Edmund snr’s mother was Susanna Forder (1784 – 1856) and father Samuel Goldsbury (1775 – 1824).
Edmund, Snr was born in Dallinghoo, Suffolk whilst his son was born in 1844 in Clerkenwell, Middlesex. Edmund, Snr, had married Mary Ann Brain and brought up their 2 sons and 3 daughters around Islington and Clerkenwell. In 1869 the family were living in Upper Street, Islington trading as milliners.
In 1871 Edmund and Mary Ann (Brain) are living in 103 Upper Street, St Marys Islington with 2 children Edmund (b1844) and Walter (b 1853), both born in Islinton. Walter is working as a Ships Brokers Clerk whilst Edmund jnr has no occupation.
Edmund snr’s occupation is described as an artificial florist milliner.
After his wife’s death in 1872, Edmund moved to Stowupland, Suffolk.
Was this to be nearer his sister Sarah Gostling? In 1825 Edmund’s older sister Sarah had married William Gostling whose family were millers in Earl Stonham and in 1840 were occupiers of Saxham Street’s Drift Way. In 1847 William and Sarah’s 19 year old daughter Hannah died.
Sarah’s husband died in 1864 and her elder sister Susanna died in 1874.
Susanna died during a concert being held in Earl Stonham. She was attended to immediately by the Stowmarket physician Spencer Freeman who was also at the concert. He was unable to revive her and her death was put down to the stress of organising the event.
Sarah would die in 1889 in Needham Market age 83
In 1831 another of Edmund’s sister was married im Ipswich. This seems to confirm a suggestion from other sources that the Goldsburys were Quackers.
In the 1881 Edmund Snr’s profession is given as a retired Draper. Edmund (junior) is described as an annuitant (presumably he had an annuity) as in a later census he described as an imbecile ‘living on his own means..
Two doors away are the Lingwood family at Grange Farm and nearby are the Barrett family. the father is disabled but the 19 year old daughter is described as a dressmaker.
On the 1891 list of eligible electors, an Edward Goldsbury is named as having a dwelling house in Stowupland, but this maybe be an error and the name should be Edmund?
Edmund Snr is not named in the 1891 Stowupland census, he is with his son Ernest Brain Goldsbury’s family at 520 – 522A Kingsland Road, Hackney.
He dies age 81 on 28th March 1901, his death is registered back in Stowupland.
The 1901 census shows Edmund jnr and his younger sister Elizabeth M.(age 45) living in Saxham Cottage. Elizabeth is a draper’s Warehouse Assistant whilst her brother at 57 is living-on-his-own means.
By now the Cobbolds have moved into Grange farm, whilst living in Grange (Farm) Cottage is a retired Police constable Joseph Cook and his wife Susannah with their son and daughter and a granddaughter.
In 1910, an announcement of the silver wedding of Ellen Goldsbury to Thomas Jackson which had taken place in 1885 in Kennington in London. Ellen was reported as the youngest daughter pf Edmund Goldsbury from Stowupland.
Edmund Junior died age 71, on Oct 11th, 1915, and is buried in Combs, Suffolk. he may have moved from Stowupland to Creeting St Mary (Victoria Villas).
