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Gotts Surname Family History

We have at least three families who like the name Luke

What we have yet to find is whether they are all connected, or whether the name Luke is just popular. To put it in perspective, Fakenham is 6 miles from Brisley and 10 miles from Gt Massingham, which is nothing, so movement around this area will be common.

The families first appear in these parishes in 1680s, though we don’t know where they were earlier. The information has been gathered from bapt, mar, & burial records.

In Great Massingham we know there are two families at the same time:

1st: Luke 4694 married Martha Roberson in 1682, so they would have been born say 1660 or earlier. Their children were:

•  Alice 4969 bp 1682
• Martha 4966 bp1692 mar John Lee 1725 in Colkirk
• Matthew 4971 buried 1692
• Nicholas 4970 bp 1694 (possible marr Fakenham
  1726 to Mary Farmer)
• Ann 4967 bp 1697

Also in Gt Massingham we have:

2nd: Thomas 4960 mar Martha 4961 ( no other information about them) and children:

• William 4968 bp 1682
• Elizabeth 4962 bp 1688
• Thomas 4963 bp 1689

So we only have two very skeleton trees, and nothing else.

C/o photos Wikipedia