googe married mary darrell, one of the nine children of thomas darrell, esquire, of scotney castle, kent, by his second wife, mary roydon, daughter of thomas roydon, esquire, of roydon hall (or fortune) in east peckham, kent. correspondence survives on the subject of googe's marriage with mary darrell, whose father, thomas darrell, refused googe's suit on the ground that she was bound by a previous contract to sampson lennard (154520 september 1615), son of john lennard of chevening, kent. more to the point, recent research has shown that thomas darrell was a recusant who harboured jesuit priests in his manor house of scotney, near lamberhurst in kent. when googe found his suit discouraged by thomas darrell, he appealed to his powerful contacts, and after intervention by his 'near kinsman', sir william cecil, the marriage duly took place in 1564 or 1565; googe took his wife to live in lamberhurst at the manor house of chingley. they had seven sons, matthew (c.1566-c.1624), thomas (b.c.1568), barnabe, william, henry, robert and francis, and a daughter, mary.