Joseph Bright Gooch

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Baptism

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Joseph Bright Gooch
Baptism 15 Apr 1832
Stepney St Dunstan and All Saints
Father Burton Gooch occ Master Mariner
Mother Susan Gooch
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Joseph Bright Gooch
Birth 1832
Baptism 15 Apr 1832
Address MEOT
Father 1st name Burton
Father occupation Master Mariner
Mother Susan
Parish St Dunstan, Stepney
Church address Stepney High Street
County Middlesex
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Allens Indian Mail June 24th 1847.
tps://newspaperarchive.com/uk/middlesex/london/allens-indian-mail/1847/06-24/page-27
Appointments, marine:
Bengal Establishment:
Mr Joseph Bright Gooch, a volunteer for the pilot service.

He volunteered for the Bengal pilot service in June 1847
and left Gravesend on the Ellenborough on 18 July 1847
per Allens Indian Mail.
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https://goo.gl/AcxPBU

Allens Indian Mail - edition of June 15 1852
events of June 2nd and 9th 1852.
Permitted to return to service in the Bangal Pilot Service.
Must have been away somewhere.
Return to UK?
Listed as Mr. J.B.Gooch
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http://marinersandships.com.au/1862/06/025rai.htm
Mariners and ships in Australian Waters
RAINBOW OF SYDNEY, WILLIAM ORR, MASTER, BURTHEN 75 TONS FROM THE PORT OF WELLINGTON TO SYDNEY, NEW SOUTH WALES, 9th JUNE 1862
Surname Given name Station Age Of what Nation Status ..
GOOCH J B A. B. 30 LONDON CREW

The Rainbow was a ship built approx Dec 1860 (details from a paperspast news article dated March 1862) Was used as a tug and Ferry between Taieri and Dunedin carrying wool etc. Sometimes went north to Coromandel,

The ship was advertised for sale in March 1862. Presume new owners had plans for the ship in Australia.

The Rainbow did a journey up the Taieri river to Lake Waipora. This suggests the ship must have been quite small and shallow in the water.

Correction: There may have been two ships named Rainbow. A foreign ship named Rainbow, a whaler, arrived in Auckland March 12 1862. 475 tons capacity sounds like a large ship, Carrying a quantity of whale oil "from the whaling grounds".

Definitely two ships. The Taieri Rainbow was only 75 tons

But see that the weight of the lighter ship matches the ship to Sydney.

Another obscure and incomplete remark. I couldn't trace this back. This appeared on Google. "...1860, in an occasional messy but legible hand, largely containing weather, wind and progress of passage, naming Joseph Bright Gooch as a gentleman passenger..."

1841 Census
St. Giles Camberwell, Surrey England

• John Gooch 50 √
• Susan Gooch 42 √
• Susan Gooch 21 √
• Eliza Gooch 17 √
• Sherlock Gooch 12 √
• Joseph Gooch 9 √ Source Citation: Class: HO107; Piece: 1050; Book: 6; Civil Parish: St Giles Camberwell; County: Surrey; Enumeration District: 15; Folio: 27; Page: 1; Line: 9; GSU roll: 474651.

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1851 All Saints Poplar, Poplar, Middlesex, England Gooch Edward 1830 Gooch Joseph 1832 Gooch Mary Edevey 1809 Gooch Matilda 1828 Gooch Susan 1799

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1854 Possible

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First name(s) J Last name Gooch Sex Male Age 22 Birth year 1832 Marital status Single Year 1854 Ship name London Departure year - Departure port Sydney Arrival year - Arrival date 15 May 1854 Arrival port Melbourne State Victoria Country Australia Record set Victoria Coastal Passenger Lists 1852-1924 Category Immigration & Travel Subcategory Migration Collections from Australasia

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J B Gooch (not necessarily ours) born 1832 is a seaman on the Rainbow, travelling from Wellington to Sydney, arriving June 9 1862. (New South Wales, Australia, Departing Crew and Passenger Lists, via Ancestry.com)

Passage type Unassisted Record set New South Wales Passenger Lists Sex Unknown First name(s) J B Last name Gooch Year 1862 Vessel Rainbow Departure port Wellington State New South Wales Country Australia Age 30 Birth year 1832 Nationality/where born London Arrival port Sydney, New South Wales Arrival year 1862 Arrival date 09 Jun 1862 Seaman or passenger Seamen Station A B Archive State Records Authority of New South Wales Year range 1862 Category Immigration & Travel Subcategory Passenger Lists Collections from Australasia

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Death, Possible

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First name(s) J B Last name Gooch Year 1915 Death date 28 Mar 1915 Duty date 02 Jun 1915 Locality Sydney State New South Wales Country Australia Reel 3032 Record set New South Wales, Deceased Estate Files 1880-1923 Category Birth, Marriage & Death (Parish Registers) Subcategory Wills & Probate Collections from Australasia, Australia

A Joseph Bright GOOCH appeared in the Otago Police Gazette as a constable. The entries relate to his appointment as a Constable ('before 17 Feb 1862'), page 36, and discharge ('before 31 March 1862'), page 48. So he was here!

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No record of death in UK. Likely died overseas.