Francis Goring 26 Aug 1755

[Sue from Southend]

You need Westminster Parish records! Then you could find out if Abraham was a bachelor at the time of his marriage and check witnesses etc.
We've been hoping that Ancestry will put more Westminster records online for ages maybe it'll happen one day!

Thanks Sue, we can only google and get in touch with Westminster Parish Records

Judy

[ameliagoring]

an interesting blog on Francis Goring
http://stalkingdeadpeople.blogspot.c...1755-1842.html

[Shona]

Found this on the London Lives 1690-1800 website.

St Martin in thevFields Pauper Examinations.

18 March 1778

Unique Project ID 50106

Examination Text

The Examination of Ann Gorringe lodging at No.4 in Lazenby Court in parish of St Martin in the Fields, taken this 18th Day of March in the Year 1778. This Examinant on her Oath saith That her mother Ann Gorringe now ill as aforesaid is the Widow of Abraham Gorringe (who died in August 1776) to whom she was married at May Fair Chapel about the year 1734, That her father was a Book seller and lived and Rented an House in Little Mays Building in the Parish afore said for the space of twenty six years at the yearly rent of twenty pounds besides taxes quitted the same about Christmas 1775, That her father never kept house rented a tenement of ten pounds by the year nor paid any parish taxes afterwards, That her mother hath not kept house rented a tenement of ten pounds by the year nor paid any parish taxes since the death of her said husband, That her Mother hath three children by her said husband to wit Sarah aged eighteen years (who is Blind) Charlotte aged 16 years (who is lame) and Elizabeth aged twelve years now in Hungerford School. Sworn the 18th Day of March 1778, Before Samp. Wright.

[Shona]

More from the London Lives website.

City of Westminster Coroners:
Coroners' Inquests into Suspicious Deaths
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14th February 1760 - 31st December 1760
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Image 60 of 6418th December 1760


Westminster City and Liberty
in the County of Middlesex
to wit
An Inquisition Indented and taken at the Parish of Saint Paul Covent
Garden within the Liberty of the Dean and Chapter of the Collegiate Church of Saint Peter at Westminster the Nineteenth
day of December in the First Year of the Reign of our Sovereign Lord George the Third by the Grace of God of
Great Britain France and Ireland King Defender of the faith and so forth and in the Year of our Lord One Thousand
seven hundred and Sixty . Before John Feary Coroner for our Sovereign Lord the King for the City and Liberty of
Westminster aforesaid. Upon a View of the Body of Captn. Jacob Moody then and there Lying Dead by the Oaths of
Alexander Baptist , Samuel Frankland Richard Oldfield , John Bouttals Edward Tanner , Abraham Gorring , Thomas Haynes
John Haynes , Samuel Wilkinson , William Makepeace , Charles Rapen , Joseph Willmot , Thomas Jones , John Clansell
Edward Clarke , Samuel Clarke , and William Metcalf Good and Lawfull Men of the
said City and Liberty who being Sworn and Charged to Enquire for our Sovereign Lord the King how when where and in what
manner the said Capt, Jacob Moody come to his Death Say upon their Oaths, That on Thursday the eighteenth day
of December Instant about five o'Clock in the Morning the said Captain Jacob Moody being in a Sedan Chair, and being
greatly Intoxicated with Liquor it so happened that the said Captain Jacob Moody in his Passage from the House of
Mr. Robert Derry in Charles Street Covent Garden in the Parish of St. Paul Covent Garden to the Royal Bagnio in
Long Acre in the Parish of St. Martin in the fields in the Liberty and County aforesaid by means of the Liquor
aforesaid was Suffocated, of which said Suffocation the said Captain Jacob Moody instantly Died. And so the said
Jurors aforesaid upon their Oaths aforesaid do say That the said Captain Jacob Moody the day and Year aforesaid
in the Parish Liberty and County aforesaid in manner as aforesaid come to his Death and not otherwise In Witness
whereof as well the said Coroner as the Foreman of the Jurors aforesaid have to this Inquisition put their
hands and Seals the day Year and at the place abovesaid

Jno. Feary Coroner

Alex. Baptist Foreman

Thanks Shona, that was quite interesting, both of them.

[Shona]

Originally Posted by geniebug

Thanks Shona, that was quite interesting, both of them.

There are a lot of mentions of the Gorringe family of the London Lives website - images of documents, too. Abraham's daughters, Ann and Sarah Gorringe, were admitted to the St Martin's workhouse. There is a report of a book being stolen from Abraham's shop, too.

I've only done a quick search. A more thorough search may reveal more about Abraham and Ann's life.

[Shona]

Ann and Abraham's daughter Sarah, mentioned in my first post on this thread as blind, is in and out of the workhouse many times.

[Shona]

This link takes you to the trial of Mary Edwards (see second column) at the Old Bailey in 1719. She is accused of stealing a gold ring and money from Jacob Garring. May be connected to Abraham Gorringe?

http://www.londonlives.org/browse.js...ring#highlight

[Shona]

Originally Posted by Shona

Ann and Abraham's daughter Sarah, mentioned in my first post on this thread as blind, is in and out of the workhouse many times.

And died there in 1817.