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Gotts Surname Family History
Outline tree 040George 105 & Hannah Sexton
George bp 1781 in East Ruston, m Hannah 113 Sexton in 1816 in G Yarmouth He was a sailor and they raised a family in East Ruston, though in the 1841 & 1851 they are living separately with George at his brother James in Dilham, whilst Hannah and the children are in Gt Yarmouth.
All the family except George appear to have moved to Hull. They are discussed on this page Hull families
John 106
John bp 1783 in East Ruston, m Phyllis Chingles in 1845. Their children include:
- George 134, bp 1810, m Ann 142 Waterson, emigrated to USA
- Thomas 136, bp 1812 m Sarah 335 Wilson
- Elizabeth Frances 135, bp 1814, m William Gray in 1836, emigrated to USA
- Mary Ann 137, bp 1817, m Martin Pratt/Prate in 1851, emigrated to USA
- James 138 bp 1819, m Elizabeth Clayton and had descendants who lived in Sea Palling
- John 139 b 1821
- Hannah 140 b 1825, m John Spooner in 1843, emigrated to USA.
For more detail of these trees see later pages on USA.
More of George 101’s family
James 138 and Elizabeth Clayton
James 138 and Elizabeth Clayton had one son George 1120 b 1854 in East Ruston. He married Ann Hubbard in 1874 and had five children. These include:
- James William 1123 b 1877 at Sea Palling (no further record)
- Elizabeth Ann 1124 b 1880 Sea Palling
- Mary Jane 1126 b 1884 Sea Palling
Elizabeth Ann had a base-born son Thomas James Charles 742 b 1898 at Happisburgh. He married Hannah Ellis in 1919 and their family grew up in the East Ruston area.
East Ruston
East Ruston featured well in this family tree, with some 60 members born, died or lived there. The village featured in Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s, Sherlock Holmes book, ‘The Adventure of the Dancing Man’. as the site of Abe Slaney's hiding place. Ruston comes from the Old English for ‘Brushwood enclosure’.
Much of the life would be farmwork, with the majority of the occupations of Gottses being agricultural labourers. A few were millers, especially at Dilham. The mechanisation of agriculture caused several to move to other parts of the country: Hull, Middlesbrough, Hartlepool, Durham and Tyneside. Others went to America, often via Canada first.
Click here to read the poem about emigration from East Ruston in our “Stories” section: Stories