Ann MacKenzie

   Other names for Ann were Anne and Ann McKenzie.

  General Notes:

Some researchers claim her parents were Joseph Mackenzie and Ester Leister. They certainly had a daughter Ann baptised 25 Jan 1777 at Christ Church, Newgate Street, London, England. More evidence required. It's notable that none of Richard's children were named Joseph or Ester. But one was named James Mackenzie Gouldthorpe. One of the witnesses for her grand-daughter Jane's marriage was James White MacKenzie. James was the son of Benjamin Mackenzie b. ca. 1785 and Mary White. I have presently assumed that Benjamin is Ann's brother. One of Anns children is named Benjamin McKenzie Gouldthorp. More research required on this link.

There is a record of the burial of an Ann Gouldthorpe at St Alphege (or St Alfege) Church in Greenwich on the 2nd August 1843. She is recorded as having died on the 28th July, aged 70 years. This would put her birth year at 1773. This Ann's abode was Green Lane, Greenwich. St Alphege was the Parish Church for our Gouldthorpes and it is quite likely this was Ann nee McKenzie.

This Ann Gouldthorp was living in Royal Hill, just near Green Lane, at the time of the 1841 Census. her surname is spelled GOLDTHORP. She was 65, placing her birth year at 1776, and "Independent" and born in the County. She was head of the household. Living here were Amelia Gouldthorp, aged 35 (not born in the County), Sarah Gouldthorp aged 3 (born in the County), an Eliza Capon aged 13 (born in the County) and Mary Capon aged 11, not born in the County. Amelia would have been her daughter. Sarah is yet to be identified. Eliza and Mary are her grand-daughters, children of her daughter Eliza Nailor Capon who had died the previous year.

The churchyard at St Alphege has been built over and the remaining headstones are arranged around the walls of the small remaining area. As they are all sandstone most of them have deteriorated and can no longer be read.

Ann married Richard Gouldthorpe, son of John Gouldthorp and Sarah Boothroyd, on 25 Jun 1793 in St Mary Magdalene Parish, Woolwich, Kent, England. (Richard Gouldthorpe was born circa 1771 in Doncaster, Yorkshire, England, died on 26 Sep 1812 in Burgos, , Castilla y León, Spain and was buried in Sep 1812 in probably Burgos,,Castilla y León,Spain.). The cause of his death was Diseased Liver, Jaundice, Dropsy.