James Henry Gouldthorpe

  General Notes:

His baptism record shows his parents as Henry Alders and Sarah, with Henry Alders crossed out, surname for the child is retained as Gouldthorpe, and Sarah is recorded as a "single woman" of East Street, Greenwich. Given that Sarah had a son named James, aged 8, living with her at the time of the 1851 census, and she lived in East Street, and she was widowed at this time I believe that this is her James. I believe that Henry Alders was the father (perhaps also explaining the middle name) but that, for whatever reason, his name was crossed out - perhaps as the child was not going to carry his surname. There is indeed a Henry Alders living in Greenwich in the 1841 census - he is a 40 year old "Pensioner" situated in the Greenwich Royal Hospital for Seamen.