Thank you to Michelle Thompson for sharing photos of her Golding great-grandparents. Edward and Maria Gee Golding from Cambridgeshire England at some time after immigrating to South Australia. Jacob Golding, son of Edward and Maria Gee Golding with wife Rebecca Ann Taylor and daughter Priscilla Golding. — Photos from collection of Michelle Thompson, great-great-grandaughter of Priscilla Golding
It was once popular to name children after American presidents. That seems to have passed away after the Roosevelt era. Abraham Lincoln Golden, Rev Birth 13 Jul 1860 in Iowa City, Wright, Iowa Death 20 Jun 1917 in Des Moines, Polk, Iowa Married to Jennie Gay Funk (born Aug 27, 1864 in Iowa Center, Story, Iowa; Death … Read more
Are you kin to William Moody Golden / Golding of Newberry, South Carolina? Born about 1795, probably in South Carolina, living in the Newberry area in 1813 when he married Elizabeth Lagrone born at Newberry, Newberry, South Carolina about 1799. He died 1831 in Bibb County, Alabama. Their first children were born 1813 in South Carolina.
Cletus Franklin Golden possibly descends from the line of William Golding (1704-1782), Richard Golding (1744-1788), and Reuben Golding (1783-1850). Cletus supposedly died after stepping on a land mine in France.