Benjamin was born in 1784 and was baptised on 17-Jul-1784 in Walthamstow, Essex.1 Benjamin's father was William Goad and his mother was Darling Thomas. His paternal grandparents were Goad and <Unknown>; his maternal grandparents were John Thomas and Elizabeth Ebbery. He was the fifth of eight children. He had four brothers and three sisters, named William, Samuel, John, George, Mary, Emma and Anna. He died, at the age of 50, in 1834.
Benjamin and Anne were married in a religious ceremony on 8-Jul-1826 in Weymouth by reverend Willoughby Brassey.2
Marriage Notes
On Saturday the 8th inst., at Weymouth, by the Rev. Willoughby Brassey, Benjamin Goad, Esq., of Wimpole-street, to Anne Elizabeth, only daughter of the late Robert Hill, Esq., Commissary-General at the Mauritius.
On the 14th inst., in Wimpole-street, the lady of Benjamin Goad, Esq., of a son.
He died, at the age of 27, on 25-Oct-1854 in Balaklava.4
Death Notes
On the 25th of October, killed in the engagement at Balaklave, aged 27, Captain Thomas Howard Goad, 13th Light Dragoons, eldest son of the late B. Goad, Esq., and stepson of the late General Sir Thomas Bradford, G.C.B., G.C.H.