Edward GOUGH (1874–1919)
Edward Gough was born in North Leigh near Witney in 1874, the son of John Gough (baptised at North Leigh on 11 November 1832) and Anne Hemmings (born in North Leigh in c.1833). His parents were married at North Leigh on 4 November 1858 and had the following children:
- Thomas Gough (born North Leigh in 1860/1, registered first quarter of 1861)
- Jesse Gough (born North Leigh in 1863, registered fourth quarter)
- Sarah Jane Gough (born North Leigh in 1866, registered fourth quarter)
- Alice Gough (born North Leigh in1870, registered third quarter)
- Edward Gough (born North Leigh in 1874, registered second quarter).
At the time of the 1861 census Edward’s father John Gough was an agricultural labourer, living in North Leigh with his wife Anne and their first son Thomas. By 1871 the family’s address in North Leigh was specified as New Yatt Farm.
At the time of the 1881 census, when Edward was six, his father was still an agricultural labourer at North Leigh.
In 1891 the family’s address is given as Mount Pleasant Road, North Leigh, and Edward (16) was an agricultural labourer like his father.
In the third quarter of 1898 Edward’s father John Gough died at the age of 65.
♥ In the fourth quarter of 1898 in the Warwick Registration District, Edward Gough married Annie Louisa Allen (born in Ashow, Warwickshire and baptised there on 23 November 1873, daughter of Alfred & Harriet Allen). They settled in New Marston and had just one child:
- Rita Louisa Gough (born in New Marston in 1899, birth registered fourth quarter).
By 1901 Edward’s mother Anne Gough had come to live at 71 St Clement’s to look after the three children of Edward’s older brother Jesse, who had lost his wife and was running a tobacconist & newspaper shop. She died at the age of 73 in the second quarter of 1907, and Jesse’s unmarried sister-in-law Beatrice Rosa Walker moved in as Jesse’s housekeeper.
The 1901 census shows Edward (26), a plasterer, living with his wife and one-year-old daughter in William Street, New Marston. The family was still there in 1911.
In the First World War Edward Gough served as a Private in the Royal Army Medical Corps (Service No. 446123) on the hospital ship H.M.S. “Assaye”. He died in Egypt on 29 March 1919 at the age of 44.
He is buried in the Alexandria (Hadra) War Memorial Cemetery (C.213), and is remembered on the New Marston War Memorial on the Marston Road, Oxford.
Postscript
Edward’s daughter
- Rita L. Gough married Frederick H. Harvey in the Headington registration district in the June quarter of 1921. They had three children (all registered in the Headington district): Phyllis L. Harvey (first quarter of 1922), Ronald E. Harvey (second quarter of 1925), and Kathleen R. Harvey (third quarter of 1927).
Edward’s brother
- Jesse Gough had three children, all born in Oxford: Thomas John Gough (born 1892), Georgina Alice Gough (born 1895), and Sarah Kathleen Gough (born 1899/1900). He continued to run his tobacconist’s shop at 71 St Clement’s until his death at the age of 71 (registered first quarter of 1935). From 1936 to 1945 the shop was run by his daughter Georgina (Miss G. A. Gough). In 1947 it was called T. Gough (probably Jesse’s son Thomas), but the proprietor was H. R. Wyatt.
See also
- CWGC: Edward Gough
- Wikipedia: Royal Army Medical Corps
- National Maritime Museum (Caird Library, Manuscripts section): Journal of the hospital ship HMS Assaye: P&O/92/3 (NRA 30121)