Nat Gould

Mary Gould born 1728

Mary Gould was born in 1728, the daughter of William Gould 1704-1757 and his first wife nee Dorothy Beresford.

She married Sampson Salt of Greenlowhead, Butterton in Staffordshire, and they had two sons and four daughters. Sampson Salt was a barrister-at-law.

They had the following children (1):

Thomas Salt. He was a bachelor and lived in Stockport, Cheshire.

Anne Salt. She married Richard Whillock of Ford House in Staffordshire, gentleman (2) He died in 1796 and was buried at Grindon in Staffordshire. Anne Whillock nee Salt was Mrs Whillock, the granddaughter of William Gould 1704-1757, who assisted Thomas Bateman 1760-1847 in the 1820s in compiling his pedigrees of the Gould family.

Mary Salt. She married Richard Etches of Leek.

Dorothy Salt. She married Mr Hardy and lived at Altrincham in Cheshire.

Sampson Salt. He died childless.

Martha Salt. She was unmarried in 1825.


Richard and Anne Whillock had the following five children (2):

Richard Whillock 1776-1810. He died without leaving descendants. He married Catherine Sleigh, the daughter of Samuel Sleigh of Westwood near Leek in Staffordshire who died at Cawdry aged 78 in 1843 and was buried at Grindon. They had a daughter Mary Whillock who died in infancy at Ford House.

Thomas Willock 1778-1833. He was an attorney in London and a bachelor.

Mary Whillock 1780-1847. She was married to Henry Whitfield who lived near Congleton in Cheshire and died in 1822. They had no descendants.

Martha Whillock. She was married to Sinckley Porter (3), an attorney of Leek, Derby and Stafford and died at Chester in 1842. His widow Martha Porter died in 1859, also at Chester.

Anne Whillock. She was the first wife of the Reverend Thomas Troughton, incumbent of a Liverpool church. She had no descendants and died in 1818.

(1) Bateman MS 1. Devonshire Collections at Chatsworth House.

(2) John Sleigh A History of the Ancient Parish of Leek in Staffordhire: including Horton, Cheddleton, and Ipstones (Second Edition) 1883 page 209. Sleigh also notes on that page that manuscripts of Richard Whillock of Grindon (father-in-law of Anne Whillock nee Salt) were then "at Middleton-hall, Derbyshire". Presumably they had been acquired for his genealogical collections by Thomas Bateman 1760-1847.

(3) They had five children:

Ellen Porter, who was married on 3 January 1848 to the Reverend William Peppenell Hutton MA, who died on 1 August 1855.
John Smith Porter.
Henry Sinckler Porter, who died in India in 1858.
Eliza Porter, who died without descsndants in 1869.
Selina Porter.