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EDGOOSE, John
1732 - 1781 (49 years) Has 18 ancestors and more than 100 descendants in this family tree.
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Name EDGOOSE, John Birth 1732 Spalding, Lincolnshire 
Christening 27 Jan 1731/32 Spalding, Lincolnshire Gender Male Baptism 27 Jan 1731/32 Spalding, Lincolnshire Death 1781 Gosberton, Lincolnshire, England Burial 27 May 1781 Gosberton, Lincolnshire, England Person ID I186 Edgoose Last Modified 27 Jan 2026
Father EDGOOSE, John, b. 1705, Pinchbeck, Lincolnshire d. 1751 ?, Bourne, Lincolnshire (Age ~ 46 years) Relationship natural Mother JINKINGS, Mary d. 1745, Spalding, Lincolnshire Relationship natural Marriage 9 Jun 1724 Tydd St. Mary, Lincolnshire, England Family ID F113 Group Sheet | Family Chart
Family 1 ABORN, Mary, b. 1738, Pinchbeck, Lincolnshire d. 1763, Gosberton, Lincolnshire, England (Age 25 years) Marriage 4 May 1757 Pinchbeck, Lincolnshire Children 1. EDGOOSE, Elizabeth, b. 1758, Gosberton, Lincolnshire, England d. 1758, Gosberton, Lincolnshire, England (Age 0 years)2. EDGOOSE, John, b. 1759, Gosberton, Lincolnshire, England d. 1760, Gosberton, Lincolnshire, England (Age 1 year) [Father: natural] [Mother: natural]3. EDGOOSE, James, b. 1760, Gosberton, Lincolnshire, England d. 1760, Gosberton, Lincolnshire, England (Age 0 years)4. EDGOOSE, Elizabeth, b. 1761, Gosberton, Lincolnshire, England d. Yes, date unknown [Father: natural] [Mother: natural]5. EDGOOSE, John, b. 1761, Gosberton, Lincolnshire, England d. 1762, Gosberton, Lincolnshire, England (Age 1 year) [Father: natural] [Mother: natural]6. EDGOOSE, Mary, b. Abt 1762, Gosberton, Lincolnshire, England d. 1762, Gosberton, Lincolnshire, England (Age 0 years) [Father: natural] [Mother: natural]7. EDGOOSE, John, b. Abt 1763, Gosberton, Lincolnshire, England d. 1763, Gosberton, Lincolnshire, England (Age 0 years) [Father: natural] [Mother: natural]Family ID F116 Group Sheet | Family Chart Last Modified 27 Jan 2026
Family 2 DOLTON, Ann, b. Between 1739 and 1740 d. 1786, Gosberton, Lincolnshire, England (Age 47 years) Marriage 21 Sep 1768 Gosberton, Lincolnshire, England Children 1. EDGOOSE, Elizabeth, b. 1768, Gosberton, Lincolnshire, England d. 4 Jul 1823, Gosberton, Lincolnshire, England (Age 55 years)2. EDGOOSE, John, b. 1770, Gosberton, Lincolnshire, England d. 1820, West Walton, Norfolk (Age 50 years)3. EDGOOSE, Mary, b. 1771, Gosberton, Lincolnshire, England d. 1777, Gosberton, Lincolnshire, England (Age 6 years) [Father: natural] [Mother: natural]4. EDGOOSE, James, b. 1776, Gosberton, Lincolnshire, England d. 1777, Gosberton, Lincolnshire, England (Age 1 year) [Father: natural] [Mother: natural]5. EDGOOSE, Mary, b. 1778, Gosberton, Lincolnshire, England d. 1780, Gosberton, Lincolnshire, England (Age 2 years) [Father: natural] [Mother: natural]6. EDGOOSE, James, b. 1780, Gosberton, Lincolnshire, England d. 15 Jun 1832, Gosberton, Lincolnshire, England (Age 52 years)Family ID F117 Group Sheet | Family Chart Last Modified 27 Jan 2026
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Event Map 
Marriage - 4 May 1757 - Pinchbeck, Lincolnshire 
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Biographies 
EDGOOSE, John (1732-1781)
John, son of John and Mary EDGOOS, was baptised at Spalding, Lincolnshire, on 27 January 1731/32.
(Parish Register)
John EDGOOSE had married Mary JINKINGS at Tydd St. Mary on 9 June 1724.
Note: According to the Gosberton, Lincolnshire, burial register and his gravestone John EDGOOSE died on 27 May 1781 aged 52, i.e. born in 1728 or 1729. There is a possible discrepancy here, particularly as John and Mary EDGOOSE had sons named John baptised on 21 March 1728/29 (buried 25 May 1729) and on 21 March 1729/30 (buried 29 March 1730).
Richd WETHERAL and Jno EDGOOSE were paid £ 1-11-6 for 21 days work.
(Gosberton Dikereeve's Account Book 19 November 1752)
John EDGOOSE was appointed a constable for Gosberton on 4 November 1756.
(Gosberton Workhouse Accounts 1734-1787)
John EDGOOSE of Gosberton married Mary ABIN or ABORN at Pinchbeck, Lincolnshire, by licence on 4 May 1757. John EDGOOSE was a 27 year old labourer (i.e. born in 1729 or 1730) and his bride was a 19 year old Pinchbeck spinster. Witnesses were John ABORN and John TOWNSEND. John ABORN signed the Marriage Bond.
(MB 1757/269 & 270)
(LFHS Marriage Index has ABIN)
(FreeReg)
On 6 May (March?) 1757 John EDGOOSE witnessed the marriage at Gosberton of William WOODLIFF and Jane SMITH, both of Gosberton. John EDGOOSE's signature appears identical to the signature in the marriage register on 21 September 1768.
Elizabeth, daughter of John and Mary EDGOOSE, was baptised at Gosberton on 15 May 1758 and buried there on 16 August 1758.
He was appointed an overseer of the poor on 16 April 1759 and again in 1760, but is not listed in a list of Freeholders liable to serve on the Juries in 1777.
(Gosberton Workhouse Accounts 1734-1787)
John, son of John and Mary EDGOOSE, was baptised at Gosberton on 22 March 1759. He was buried there on 5 July 1760.
James, son of John and Mary EDGOOSE, was baptised at Gosberton on 2 July 1760 and buried there on 9 September 1760.
John and Elizabeth, twins of John and Mary EDGOOSE, were baptised at Gosberton on 26 October 1761. John was buried at Gosberton on 5 February 1762. There is no record of the burial of Elizabeth.
Mary, daughter of John and Mary EDGOOSE, was buried at Gosberton on 22 February 1762. As there is no record of her baptism at Gosberton perhaps this was the burial of Elizabeth.
An Index of the Will of John ABORN (1695-1763), farmer, of Pinchbeck, Lincolnshire. The will was made on 23 April 1763. Probate was granted in 1764.
01*John ABORN, the Testator.
02 William ABORN, son of the Testator.
03 Thomas ABORN, son of the Testator.
04 Mary, wife of John EDGOOSE, daughter of the Testator.
05*John EDGOOSE, who married Mary ABORN.
06 Elizabeth ABORN, daughter of the Testator.
07 Anna ABORN, daughter of the Testator.
08 Mr. ROBART [sic] TUNNARD, guardian of Elizabeth and Anna ABORN.
09 John ABORN, son of the Testator, executor.
10 Robt. TUNNARD, witness.
11 Henry ALLAT, witness.
12 Samll WILKINSON, witness.
(Lincoln Consistory Court Will 1764/1)
John, infant son of John and Mary EDGOOSE, was buried at Gosberton on 28 April 1763. Mary, wife of John EDGOOSE, was buried on the same day at the age of 25.
John EDGOOSE and Tho POLLARD witnessed the marriage by licence at Pinchbeck, Lincolnshire, on 5 March 1764 between William ABORN and Elizabeth ROYSTON.
(William ABORN was the brother of John EDGOOSE's late wife Mary who died in 1763)
(FreeReg)
John EDGOOSE and William WRIGHT witnessed the marriage at Pinchbeck, Lincolnshire, on 24 May 1764 between Thomas ABORN of Pinchbeck and Elizabeth HOLMES of Moulton, Lincolnshire.
(Thomas ABORN was the brother of John EDGOOSE's late wife Mary who died in 1763)
(FreeReg)
John EDGOOSE and Wm WRIGHT witnessed the marriage at Pinchbeck, Lincolnshire, on 24 May 1764 between William NIXON of Pinchbeck and Dorothy BIMROSE of Pinchbeck.
(FreeReg)
John EDGOOSE and James SHOTBOLT witnessed the marriage at Pinchbeck, Lincolnshire, on 13 June 1768 between James SHOTBOLT and Elizabeth ABORN.
(FreeReg)
(NOTES: Elizabeth, wife of James SHOTTBOULT, was buried at Pinchbeck on 22 August 1778 aged 32, i.e. born in 1745 or 1746 and making it unlikely that she was the sister of John EDGOOSE's late wife Mary who died in 1763. James SHOTBOLT was buried at Pinchbeck on 11 March 1820 aged 75.)
Only circumstantial evidence has been found to show that it was this same John EDGOOSE who married Ann DOLTON, spinster, at Gosberton on 21 September 1768. John EDGOOSE was described as a grazier. John FREESTON and W. STEVENSON were witnesses. However, John EDGOOSE's signature appears identical to that in the marriage register on 6 May 1757.
Elizabeth, daughter of John and Ann EDGOOSE, was baptised at Gosberton on 15 May 1769. It is not known whether the Elizabeth EDGOOSE baptised at Gosberton on 26 October 1761 was still alive.
John, son of John and Ann EDGOOSE, was baptised at Gosberton on 24 October 1770.
Mary, daughter of John and Ann EDGOOSE, was baptised at Gosberton on 7 November 1771 and buried there on 12 April 1777 at the age of 5.
James, son of John and Ann EDGOOSE of Gosberton Cheal, was baptised at Gosberton on 19 June 1776 and buried there on 3 February 1777.
Mary, daughter of John and Ann EDGOOSE, was baptised at Gosberton on 8 June 1778 and buried there on 1 February 1780 at the age of 1.
James, son of John and Ann EDGOOSE, was baptised at Gosberton on 26 April 1780.
John EDGOOSE was buried at Gosberton on 27 May 1781 aged 52.
(PR)
Letters of Administration were granted to his widow Ann born DOLTON (C.1740-1786). His effects amounted to less than £ 300. "The 18 Day of September 1781 - Ann EDGOOSE, the within bounden Widow and Relict of the within named John EDGOOSE, Intestate, Deceased was sworn well and faithfully, to administer the Goods of the said Deceased ..... and also made Oath, that the Deceased Did not Die Possessed of Effects to the value of Three Hundred Pounds Before Me J. DINHAM Surro(gate)"
Edward HARE, farmer, and Robert TYLER, yeoman, both of Gosberton, are named in the Bond with Ann EDGOOSE.
(Lincoln Consistory Court Administration 1781/30)
An Index to the Administration Bond of John EDGOOSE (1732-1781), grazier, of Gosberton, Lincolnshire.
01*John EDGOOSE, the Intestate.
02 Ann EDGOOSE, widow of the Intestate.
03 J. DINHAM, Surro(gate).
04 Edward HARE, farmer, of Gosberton.
05 Robert TYLER, yeoman, of Gosberton.
(Lincoln Consistory Court Administration 1781/30)
Monumental Inscription: Gosberton Churchyard (no longer legible in 1998):
In
Memory of
John EDGOOSE
Who died May (?) 1781
Aged 52
Gosberton Workhouse Accounts 1734-1787
Parish Officers
New Overseers of the Poor 1756
Thomas Roberts
Francis Mastin
Thomas Syson
William Vessy
Churchwardens
Richard Calthrop
John Turver
Dikereeve
John Dickinson
Constables Chosen Novr 4th. 1756
William Bilton
John EDGOOSE
Alexander Codlin)
John Breeton ) exus'd
Constables Chosen Octor 31st. 1757
John Torry
John Robinson
Gosberton Workhouse Accounts 1734-1787
Easter Monday April 16th. 1759
Church Wardens Chosen
Richard Calthrop
John Turver
Overseers of the poor
Richard Taylor
Thomas Lamb
William Vessey
John EDGOOSE
Dikereeve
Robert Allen
Rider of the Sewers -
John Dickinson
Constables chosen at Michaelmas 1759
John Thimbleby
Jonathan Cheavin
Gosberton Workhouse Accounts 1734-1787
Apr. 7th. Easter Monday 1760
Easter Monday 1760
Church Wardens -
Richard Calthrop
John Turver
Overseers of the poor
William Bilton
John EDGOOSE
Michael Myers
Luke Cash
Dikereeves
John Gennills
Rider of the Sewers
Robert Allen
Oct 6. New Constables chose
Luke Cash
Thomas Ayscough
Gosberton Workhouse Accounts 1734-1787
June 2d
At a Vestry then Assembled it was agreed that Mr. John Flinders be Apothecary and Surgeon for the Poor of the Parish of Gosberton for three years commencing from Easter 1760 as far as in our pow'r lies, and to have the sum of five Pounds & five shillings a year as Witness our Hands
Richd Calthrop Ch: Warden (sic)
William Bilton over sears
John EDGOOSE 1
Thos Calthrop
Richd Taylor
Nm Thimbleby
Wm Cranforth
June 2d: 1760 I agree to the above Order Witness my Hand.
Jno. Flinders.
(revised 09.02.2026)