Thomas GOODLAD

1794 - 1876  (82 years)

• Name	Thomas GOODLAD
  Birth	1794	Tingwall, Shetland
  Christening	1794	Tingwall, Shetland
  Gender	Male
  Census	1841	Brough, Burra, Shetland
  	Fisherman & Ag Lab
  	Age: 39
  Census	1851	Brough, Burra, Shetland
  	Fisherman & Crofter Of 4 1/2 Acres
  	Age: 47
  Census	1861	Brough, Burra, Shetland
  	Fisherman & Crofter
  	Age: 55
  Census	1871	Brough, Burra, Shetland
  	Crofter & Fisherman
  	Age: 70
  Death	21 Aug 1876	Cliff Sound, Shetland
  Notes	After peat cutting one day, he took a swipe at an eider duck with her five chicks, killing the mother. An old woman who saw this told him it was cruel and that the same could happen to his children before the end of the year. Mary Davidson died that year leaving their five children motherless. 9th September 1876 Shetland Times: SUDDEN DEATH IN A FISHING BOAT It is sometimes our painful duty to inform the public of deaths by drowning, the cause of which is generally heavy seas breaking over an open boat as she flies from them in a gale, and on such occasions it is only the exception when one or two out of a crew are saved from the keel by a boat or ship chancing to pass at the time. The circumstances attending the case we are about to relate are of quite a different nature. Thomas Goodlet, sen., a native of Burra Isle, and aged about seventy-five years, died suddenly while on duty in a small boat transporting peats, on the 21st August. He was in his usual health, talking to his son and daughter, who were in the boat with him, and it was just as they were hoisting the sail and he handing the sheet to his daughter to hand aft to her brother, who was steering, that in a minute of time life was gone, and he fell down a corpse. It appears they had just got in their cargo of peats, and in Cliff Sound on their way home, when the sudden, but we cannot say unexpected, call came. It appears the old man had been impressed with the fact that he had not long to live, he having a few days previous been in Scalloway with a piece of wood to be so cut as to suit for being his coffin. He had been married three times, and had 19 children with the first and third wives, the second having died shortly after their marriage.
  Person ID	I10472	Gadd
  Last Modified	4 Feb 2009

  
  

  Father	Thomas GOODLAD,   b. 1753   d. 1835, Burra, Shetland (Age 82 years)
  Mother	Barbara LAING,   b. CIR 1762
  Marriage	22 Aug 1786
  Family ID	F4203	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family 1	Mary DAVIDSON,   b. 19 Oct 1782, Tingwall, Shetland d. Bef 1845 (Age < 62 years)
  Marriage	Abt 1820
  Children	+ 1. Barbara GOODLAD,   b. 1820, Brough, Burra, Shetland d. 02 Apr 1898, Westshore, Scalloway, Shetland (Age 78 years)   2. Agnes GOODLAD,   b. 4 Feb 1822, Burra, Shetland d. 21 Jun 1901, Duncansclate, Burra (Age 79 years)   3. William GOODLAD,   b. 19 Dec 1823, Burra, Shetland d. INFANT + 4. James GOODLAD,   b. 15 Apr 1826, Burra, Shetland d. 25 Feb 1904, Southerhouse, Burra, Shetland (Age 77 years) + 5. John GOODLAD,   b. 1828, Burra, Shetland d. UNKNOWN   6. Rachel GOODLAD,   b. 4 Oct 1830, Burra, Shetland d. INFANT, Burra, Shetland + 7. Robert GOODLAD,   b. 1832, Meil, Burra, Shetland d. 13 Jun 1904, Hamnavoe, Burra (Age 72 years)   8. Rachel GOODLAD,   b. 1833, Meil, Burra, Shetland d. UNKNOWN   9. Andrew GOODLAD,   b. 15 Mar 1840, Burra, Shetland
  Family ID	F4228	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family 2	Margaret Rose TAIT,   b. 8 Oct 1827, Tingwall, Shetland
  Marriage	10 Feb 1845	Burra, Shetland
  Family ID	F4270	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family 3	Hannah HUGHSON
  Marriage	1847	Burra, Shetland
  Children	+ 1. William GOODLAD,   b. 24 Apr 1847, Brough, Burra, Shetland d. UNKNOWN + 2. Thomas GOODLAD,   b. 18 Jun 1848, Brough, Burra, Shetland d. 26 Jun 1888, Southerhouse, Burra, Shetland (Age 40 years) + 3. Andrew GOODLAD,   b. 5 Mar 1850, Brough, Burra, Shetland d. UNKNOWN   4. Oliver GOODLAD,   b. 11 Dec 1853, Brough, Burra, Shetland d. 2 Oct 1872, at sea (Age 18 years)   5. Mary GOODLAD,   b. 13 May 1855, Brough, Burra, Shetland d. 22 Jan 1888, Brough, Burra, Shetland (Age 32 years) + 6. Alexander Grant GOODLAD,   b. 3 May 1857, Brough, Burra, Shetland d. 25 Apr 1950 (Age 92 years)   7. Agnes GOODLAD,   b. 15 Dec 1858, Brough, Burra, Shetland d. UNKNOWN
  Family ID	F4229	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart