John Goltrip was one of the four children of William Goltrip and his wife Ann Langford of Witcham,
Cambridgeshire.
John married Elizabeth of Littleport and the couple had seven known children.
John was arrested in 1816 for his part in the Littleport Riots and was committed to trial in Ely.
He was lucky enough to avoid execution (five men were hung) or deportation and went on to live well
into his 90's in Littleport. A book published in 1893 (but now available once more from The Littleport
Society) contains a thorough account of the Littleport Riots. An extract, naming John reads;
"Lavender was found in the room with two gravy spoons, of which nothing more was seen. The
question was whether they were Mr. Vachell's or not. If they thought that those spoons were the
property of Mr. Vachell, it would be grand larceny, as no value was placed on them above forty
shillings; the offence was clergyable, and not capital. The Jury immediately found Lavender guilty,
and Beamiss and Butcher not guilty. John Gaultrip was then charged with stealing two silver spoons at
the same time and place, and as there was a great contradiction in the evidence, the Jury returned a
verdict of not guilty".
On the 1841 and 1851 census, both John and his wife Elizabeth appear with their daughter's family and on the 1861 census, only John appears living with his daughter and her family in Camel Road, Littleport, Cambridgeshire.
Born:
1772, Witcham, Cambridgeshire.
Baptised:
19th January 1772, Witcham church, Cambridgeshire.
Died:
between the 1861 and 1871 censuses.
Buried:
presumably in either Witcham or Littleport, Cambridgeshire.