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Margaret Diana Mary Goyder
(1834/5 - 1871)
Margaret Diana Mary Goyder, third and youngest daughter of the Rev. Dr. David George Goyder was born probably in
Newcastle-upon-Tyne between 3rd May 1834 and 22nd April 1835. Margaret was almost
certainly baptised in the New (or Swedenborgian) Church. While the record of her sister
Anne Josephine's baptism exists in the register of Newcastle's Percy Street church,
Margaret's does not. This may indicate that she was baptised in other New Church church.
She married Wivenhoe shipbuilder and yacht designer John Harvey at the New Christian Church, Argyle
Square, London on 22nd April 1857. Argyle Square was one of the New Church's most
fashionable London churches and the ceremony was performed by the Rev. Jonathan Bayley.
Margaret gave her address as 6 Sidmouth Street, the home of her aunt Mary (Bennett)
Goyder, widow of the Rev. Thomas Goyder.
Margaret and John had seven children, the second son being John Martin Harvey (born
1863) who later became a well-known actor who took the name John Martin-Harvey on receiving his knighthood in
1921.
Margaret suffered from tuberculosis and she travelled widely in search of a cure. She
died aged 36 on 2nd May 1871 at Rose Cottage in Wivenhoe.
John Martin-Harvey gave two accounts of her death. The earlier in Edgar's biography
reads:
My last recollection of my early childhood was the end. My father had
taken a house on Wyvenhoe Heath, a much brighter place, standing high above the river. I
think we were all happier there.... There came an evening when we children were staying
with relatives in Wyvenhoe, and the house was full of other young people, too... Before
the gathering was over, and much to our dismay, we were summoned home. I recall my mother
as I saw her then for the last time on my arrival home - the stillness of the room, the
icy coldness of her lips. She was dead.
© Chris Goddard, 27 November, 2004
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