Caroline Sarah GOODYER [14452]

  General Notes:

Caroline had at least1 child and is then said to be widowed, she is named as a beer house keeper and eventually as a publican of the Royal Arms in Bridge Street Peterborough in 1891. In 1871 her mother Francis was staying with her. After Caroline's death in 1900, her son John is listed as a beer house keeper at the Royal Arms in Bridge Street Peterborough.

At their marriage, Caroline's husband John is listed as a stonemason and in 1861 they are living at different addresses in Peterborough.

Peterborough Advetiser 18 July 1900 page 2 https://www.findmypast.com.au/
TRAGIC DEATH AT PETERBOROUGH
A septuagenarian Inn-keeper's midnight fall
Mrs Caroline Sarah Dimbleby, landlady of the Royal Arms, Broad Street, possibly one of the oldest license holders in the City of Peterborough, and conducting one of the oldest inns - a flourishing business in the old days of the Nene River Traffic, when Simpsons's Packet and other boats with scores of barges regularly ran from Peterborough to Wisbech - died on Sunday from the effects of an accident. The old lady was a septuagenarian - 74 in fact, and had been somewhat feeble for some time; but although she had a son in Birmingham, preferred to preserve her independency and continue in the business she had so long been connected with. On Friday night she was seen by the maid to have retired to rest for the night, but a couple of hours later, a loud crash awakened the household. It was surmised that the mistress had fallen down stairs, and the fact of her being found huddled up at the bottom rather supported this view. It seems, however, that the old lady whilst, as she said, "looking for matches" must have gained the bottom of the stairs and in trying to push open the door the latch caught and in the rebound she fell, and in the fall, broke a rib, which penetrated her left lung. She remained in a critical condition until Sunday when she died; her son happily being at the bedside whilst his mother was yet living. It is a melancholy coincidence that 40 years ago the deceased's husband met his death by drowning.

Caroline married John DIMBLEBY [14453] [MRIN: 5209] on 13 Nov 1845 in Peterborough, Northamptonshire, England.¹⁰⁰⁰⁴ (John DIMBLEBY [14453] was born in 1822, died in 1865 in Peterborough, Northamptonshire, England and was buried on 22 Aug 1865 in Lambridge, Northamptonshire, England.)