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Somerset County Herald and Taunton Courier. Saturday 15 Apr 1950
Page 4 Column 5
Died Aged 102
Mrs. E. F. E. GOOLDEN, Of Curry Rivel
Widow of Knight of Windsor
Mrs. Elizabeth Frances Edith GOOLDEN, Parsonage Farm, Curry Rivel, who was 102 last November, died on Saturday. She had been ill since a recent fall in her bedroom, but until then had been to church regularly, wrote letters, knitted without the aid of spectacles, did a little darning and helped in the house.
Born at Poona, in 1847, ten years before the Indian Mutiny, she was a daughter of Major W. YOUNG, Paymaster of the 22nd Regiment, and came to England by sailing ship when she was five. She could then speak only a few words of English, but spoke Hindustani fluently She lived in Ireland and Jersey before her marriage in 1884 to Commander G. B. GOOLDEN, R.N., who had a distinguished career in the Crimean War.
Both her father and her husband were Knights of Windsor and, when Queen Victoria was on the Throne, Mrs. GOOLDEN lived for some time at Windsor Castle. Commander GOOLDEN was 94 when he died at Plymouth in 1924.
In recent years Mrs. GOOLDEN had lived with her son-in-law and daughter, Capt. and Mrs. DANIEL, at Curry Rivel. She leaves two other daughters – Mrs F. M. HAYES, wife of Surgeon-Captain HAYES, R.N., of Parkstone, Dorset, and Mrs. D. E. W. BATCHELOR, wife of Admiral BATCHELOR, of Barrington Court Farm, Barrington.
THE FUNERAL
Mrs. GOOLDEN had expressed a wish that her body should be borne to its last resting-place on the shoulders of bearers from Parsonage Farm. This was carried out at the funeral on Wednesday, when many villagers attended the service conducted by the Rev. H. MAUDE-ROXBY. The coffin was borne across the Green to the ancient St. Andrew's Church, family mourners following on foot. The cortege was met at the church door by the Vicar, and burial followed in the churchyard.
Family mourners present were: Capt. and Mrs. DANIEL, and Admiral and Mrs. D. E. W. BATCHELOR (sons-in-law and daughters), and Messrs. W. and G. DANIEL (grandsons).