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No. 24 26 October 2008 In his Address at the Family Thanksgiving Service in Winkleigh last month, Bernard Everett referred to the fact that the Bulleids are fortunate to have had family historians for more than a century. I would add that they are spread throughout the family and countries where we have a substantial presence: Australia, New Zealand and Canada, as well as the UK. Alan Richards in Canada has been collecting information for the past thirty five years and is a new contributor to this newsletter and the family website. We are grateful that he is willing to share his knowledge. Many others, both family members and relatives by marriage, have also researched the family and provided material. Genealogy appears to be a favourite family pastime! Wills and Administrations Bulleid Wills and Administrations from the 17th century onwards have been transcribed into a single document, which is available on the family website. If you have any additional documents I would be pleased to receive them. Family Directory Many people have asked how I intend to spend my time now that the Festa has taken place. Well, apart from a return to the golf course, I decided to compile a worldwide directory of living members of the Bulleid family. The information comes from two sources:

- participants with whom I am in contact - information in the public domain

You should already have received the first two editions by email. James Bulleid (1851-1920) James, the son of John Bullied and Anne Webber, was born in Chulmleigh, Devon, one of six known children. He was a labourer when he enlisted at Exeter in the Royal Marines a month before his 19th birthday and completed 21 years service before being discharged in 1891. He served aboard just four ships during that time: Vanguard, Achilles, Hibernia and Temeraire. His son William John followed him into the Marines, where he was a bugler. Their descendant Lynette de Beer has obtained a copy of James’ Service Record, which can be found on the family website together with Lynette’s transcript. His birth certificate shows that he was born on 10 September 1850, but on enlistment he gave the date as 8 September 1851. Frances Lucinda Jackson née Bullied (1864-1969) No, there is no mistake with the dates; Frances did live to be 104! I am indebted to Alan Richards (see Bulleid Web below) for the following press cutting from 1966: -

Ann Bullied

(1829-1889)

The following article won first prize in an essay contest organised by the Ontario Genealogical Society:

The Black Sheep in Our Family By

Alan E. Richards Are you ready for a story of bastardy, bigamy, larceny, and insanity?

It is the story of my grandmother's grandmother, and most of it happenedin the Port Hope-Lindsay area of Ontario, back in the days when Port Hopewas a wild lake port with at least 17 taverns and hundreds of sailors,lumberjacks and immigrants drinking in them. Lindsay was not quite as rough, perhaps, lacking only the sailors. It is the story of Ann Bullied, who came to Canada in the 1840s with herparents, Richard Bullied and Elizabeth Ware, from the parish of Winkleigh inDevonshire, England. Ann was the second youngest in a family of 10 children,some of whom emigrated before the parents, and some of whom stayed inEngland. They were all poor but respectable people. Ann's troubles seem to have begun after she met William Parkin, amysterious figure whose name appears on very few documents, and who seemsto have vanished into thin air in the 1850s. Ann and William were married in1850 in St. John's Anglican Church, Port Hope, on 8 April 1850, but for someunknown reason, Ann's maiden name was recorded as Palmer; Ann's oldersister was the wife of Matthew Palmer of Hope Township. Within a year, their first son, Albert (my ancestor) was born. The 1851census of Port Hope is not extant, so William, Ann and Albert are notrecorded in that year. Ann's parents and the Palmers are living in HopeTownship, just outside the town. In 1852, the first incident involving police and the courts is recorded in a return of convictions in the Port Hope Guide: William Parkin, prosecutor, Samuel Bullied (Ann's younger brother, who would have been about 21 at the time), defendant; the charge, assault. Samuel was convicted, and ordered to pay a fine of two shillings and sixpence or go to jail for 15 days. The question, of course, is why did William and Samuel get into a fight?Did it have something to do with the troubles Ann would find herself in overthe next few years?

Ann had three more children, all girls, over the next 12 years, and familygossip said they had three different fathers. When each girl married, however, she listed William Parkin as her father in the marriage record.

It was the family gossip that led me to the Affidavits Of Bastardy,Northumberland and Durham, at the Ontario Archives. Bingo! On one suchdocument, Ann Parkin of Port Hope swore that she had given birth to a femalechild on 27 May, 1859, and the father was Charles George Fox of Hope Township. When I reported my discovery to a distant cousin who had passed on thefamily rumors to me, she checked the birthdate and exclaimed: "Oh dear, myvery own grandmother." She then clammed up about the family history, and did not answer my next letter. But the facts were beginning to emerge, and a check of census recordsindicated some interesting events. In 1861, I found Ann listed as a widow, age27, tailoress, living with her parents in Port Hope. Also in the house were Albert, age 10, and Mary, age 3. Another daughter, Cecilia Victoria, who wasabout 7, was missing.

Ten years later, the 1871 census recorded Ann, age 38, still listed as AnnParkin, living with her parents just outside Port Hope. This time, however, she is listed as married, occupation washerwoman. Also in the house are Albert,now 20, Mary, 12, and Matilda, age 7, all shown (with ditto marks) as Parkin.Right next door are Thomas Goheen, 28, laborer, and his wife, Anne, 30.Here's where the plot thickens: Ann Parkin and Anne Goheen are the sameperson. On 4 September 1866, Thomas Goheen, 22, son of John and Ophia, marriedAnn Perkins (a common misspelling of Parkin), 26, daughter of Richard andElizabeth (no surname given), in a Bible Christian ceremony in Hope Township.The witnesses were Daniel Zufelt and Ann Goheen, Thomas Goheen's halfbrother (probably) and his sister-in-law, Mrs. Nelson Goheen (née Ann Lytle or Little). Thomas also had a sister named Ann, but she would have been only 16 at the time of the wedding. Marrying Thomas Goheen proved to be an even worse move than marryingWilliam Parkin. However, they were still together at the time of the 1881census, living in Cartwright Township near Blackstock with the youngest girl, Alice Matilda, 17, and Elizabeth, 8, all listed under the name Goheen. Elizabethis something of a mystery, but recent research indicates she was a half-sister or foster-sister of Ann's other daughters; she went by the name Lizzie Day,so she was neither a Parkin nor a Goheen.

Thomas Goheen, by the way, was a black sheep in his own right; hisancestors were United Empire Loyalists, and his many cousins and brothers inthe area were unlikely to disgrace the honorable name. Not so, Thomas. In 1885, for instance, he was arrested at Mount Horeb south of Lindsayand taken to jail in Cobourg on a charge of stealing grain. In 1888, he was injail again on a charge of larceny.

But this is Ann's story. In 1882, Ann's name appeared in the Bowmanville Statesman, in the Cartwright news: "CADMUS - Mrs. Goheen, the Cadmus fortune-teller, has removed from Robinson's Hill Cottage to the house lately occupied by Mrs. Bigelow. She says it gives her pleasure to make 'a great removal' but still she made 'money in abundance' while at Cadmus.

“It’s too bad Ann could not have foretold her own fortune.” Family tradition, whispered from generation to generation, came to me as this story: one September, the daughter with whom Ann had been living near Pontypool "dumped her off" at the Lindsay Fair. Ann got drunk and was thrown in jail. She died the next day and was buried in a pauper's grave outside the jail walls. The story has some elements of truth, but not many. For one thing, it does not mention the bigamy trial that seems to havebeen the key to Ann's strange behavior. Here is the story that emerges fromofficial records: On 12 December 1888, a bill of indictment was brought against ThomasGoheen for bigamy. Jail records show that Thomas, age 55, went to jail on 10 December and was released 14 June 1889. On 13 December 1888, Ann Goheen was convicted in the Lindsay courthouseon a charge of vagrancy. She may indeed have been arrested for being drunk,but the Lindsay Fair is not in December, and the arrest of her husband -whether or not she preferred the charge against him - probably had something to do with it. Ann was sentenced to four months at hard labour. Shewas released only to be charged again and sentenced to 10 weeks hard labour the following April. Both Ann and Thomas were released from jail 14 June 1889. However, that same day, Ann was arrested again on a charge of lunacy andreturned to the jail. The bigamy trial came up a month later, on 14 July. Thomas pleaded not guilty. The jury was called and sworn. An officialaccount of the trial states the witnesses for the Crown were Ann's fourchildren, Mrs. R. J. McLaughlin, Mrs. C. Bowins, Mrs. M. Martin and AlbertParkin. Witnesses for Thomas were "Mrs. Goheen" and Rev. James Greener, aretired Methodist minister. No account of the evidence or circumstancesexists, but Thomas was found not guilty. A newspaper account gives thisexplanation:

QUEEN VS. GOHEEN - Bigamy. There were grave doubts from the evidence whether or not the prisoner had ever been married to thewoman alleged to have been his first wife, or if he went through amarriage ceremony with her, whether a man to whom she had previouslybeen married was then living. The jury after a brief consultation gave the prisoner the benefit of the doubt.

It appears Ann's daughter had not "dumped her off" in Lindsay, for shewas with her mother at the bigamy trial. But who was the "Mrs. Goheen" whotestified for Thomas? Was she his new wife? Was Rev. Greener the clergyman who married them? If so, no record of the marriage has been found. However, it seems Thomas had hired a clever lawyer, for the record of themarriage of Ann and Thomas does exist. But whether William Parkin was alive or dead, we may never know.

Thomas, it seems, went free and vanished from the Lindsay area. He doesnot appear in the 1891 census. Ann went back to jail, where the final chapter of her tragic life was

corded in a Lindsay Watchman article on 5 September 1889: re DIED IN JAIL - An inquest was held in the jail on Tuesday morning, byDr. Pool, on the body of the late Ann Goheen who died there thepreceding day. The fact of her death was telegraphed to her friendsnear Pontypool, by the coroner, but they sent a reply that they couldnot come, and so she was buried the same afternoon at the expense ofthe county. The jury besides finding a verdict of "died from naturaldiseases" added a rider, in which they stated that, while believing thejailor does everything possible for those sick under his care a specialnurse should be provided for cases of fatal sickness and death. Theimmediate cause of death, as showed by Dr. Kempt, acting as jailsurgeon, was paralysis, which for some time rendered her completelyhelpless and, as a consequence, a most loathsome object.

P.S. In January 1995 I found this marriage in Ontario vital records. It proves that Thomas was indeed a bigamist, and a liar, since he told the minister he was a 25-year-old bachelor and not a 44-year-old husband -- and notice the age of his new bride:

Ann was buried in Riverside Cemetery in Lindsay, not outside the jail walls. However, the cemetery register records only her name and the plot number - no home address, no next of kin, no funeral home. Just Ann Goheen. Not even her maiden name, Bullied. Not even her age. So history records my great-great-grandmother as an adulteress, a lunatic, and a "most loathsome object.” I still think history can be wrong.

1888 - Thomas GOHEEN, 25, of Mariposa, born Port Hope, bachelor, son of Jonathan and Phile, married M. Ettie DUKE, 16, of Lindsay, born Peterborough, daughter of Charles and Sarah, Witnesses: Thomas Jewell and Minnie Foster of Lindsay At Lindsay, Sept. 5, 1888, both Methodist

Bulleid Web Welcome to Alan Richards who emailed from his home in Ontario, Canada, asking to join the mailing list for this newsletter. Alan is a descendant of Richard Bulleid (1793-1883) and has been researching the family for 35 years. Vic Bulleid writes from home in Dunedin, New Zealand: “Marion and I have been up to Cromwell with Debbie and Neville for a long week end, the first time since the autumn. Spring was showing everywhere and the first two days were like summer with a slight west wind and full ration of sunshine. Lambs were beginning to nibble and the deciduous trees were either in flower or clothed in the loveliest greens or

tans. Each year this city has a festival of arts, and over a 2 week period all sorts of things occur. Last night we had a choice between Cosi fan Tutti by the local Operatic Society and Il Trovatore done by an international company but unfortunately with the Christchurch Symphony Orchestra which is not big enough to give good tone. However we went to the latter and enjoyed it very much, the soloists were top drawer.” With kind regards, Geoff Ledden geoffledden@yahoo.com