Goodwin Family
Origins
Godwin, meaning “god-friend”, was one of the commonest names in England before the Norman Conquest. A notable bearer of the name was Godwin, Earl of Wessex, chief adviser to Canute, and most powerful earl in England. He was briefly exiled under Edward the Confessor, , but almost immediately invaded England and regained his former importance. The Goodwin Sands off the coast of Kent, formerly the scene of many shipwrecks, were supposedly once a fertile island belonging to the earl. Our Goodwin family is unlikely to be linked to this nobleman, but probably descends from one of his innumerable namesakes.
First generation
m. Elizabeth Preene, 1640
m. Elizabeth Bendbow, 1649
m. Joyce
m. Rebecca
Ralph Goodwin
Ralph Goodwin, his wife and young son Thomas settled in the Shropshire village of Bridgnorth some time before 1620. Their origin is unknown at present, but the name Goodwin does not occur in the Bridgnorth parish records before their arrival. After arriving in Bridgnorth, the couple had seven more children, who were all baptised in St Leonard's Church:
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Thomas Goodwin
Margaret Goodwin
William Goodwin
Allyce Goodwin
Richard Goodwin
Matthew Goodwin
Frances Goodwin
Elizabeth Goodwin
(1618-?)
(1620-?)
(1623-?)
(1626-?)
(1627-1706)
(1630-?)
(1630-1683)
(1632-1634)
Ralph's wife is not named in the baptismal records and his forename is often spelled "Raph", reflecting the old pronunciation "Rafe". He was buried at St Leonard's Church, Bridgnorth on 29 January 1635.
Second generation
Thomas Goodwin
Thomas Goodwin, oldest son of Ralph Goodwin, was born in about 1618 and moved to Bridgnorth with his parents as a small child. He married Elizabeth Preene in St Leonard's Church, Bridgnorth on 1 September 1640. Elizabeth was born in Bridgnorth in either 1617 or 1618. The couple had ten children, all baptised at St Leonard's:
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Jane Goodwin
John Goodwin
Elizabeth Goodwin
Thomas Goodwin
Frances Goodwin
Elizabeth Goodwin
Richard Goodwin
Luke Goodwin
Thomas Goodwin
Anne Goodwin
(1641-?)
(1643-?)
(1645-1647)
(1645-1649)
(1647-?)
(1650-?)
(1652-?)
(1654-1729)
(1657-?)
(1659-?)
m. Robert Jones, 1671
m. Anne
m. Diana Hagar, 1677
Third generation
Luke Goodwin
Luke Goodwin, son of Thomas Goodwin and Elizabeth Preene, was baptised in St Leonard's Church, Bridgnorth on 26 October 1654 and married Diana Hagar there on 20 October 1677. Diana was baptised in the nearby market town of Madeley on 13 January 1655, and was the daughter of William Hagar of Bridgnorth and his wife Mary. The Hagar family is recorded at Bridgnorth from the late 1500s. The name Diana was fairly unusual at the time and the records show various spellings, including "Deyanna", "Diyanna", "Hanna" and "Hannah".
Luke and Diana had four children, all baptised in Bridgnorth:
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Thomas Goodwin
Diana Goodwin
Edward Goodwin
Anne Goodwin
(1679-?)
(1682-?)
(1690-?)
(1694-?)
m. Mary Wheelwright, 1703
Luke was buried at St Leonard's Church on 11 February 1729 and Diana later the same year on 27 July.
Fourth generation
Thomas Goodwin
Thomas Goodwin, oldest child of Luke Goodwin and Diana Hagar, was baptised in St Leonard's Church, Bridgnorth on 17 August 1679 and married Mary Wheelwright there on 5 June 1703. Mary was baptised in Bridgnorth on 4 November 1682, and was the daughter of Rowland Wheelwright and his wife Hester Hopper. Thomas and Mary had eleven children, all baptised in Bridgnorth.
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Mary Goodwin
Anne Goodwin
Thomas Goodwin
William Goodwin
Elinor Goodwin
Elizabeth Goodwin
Richard Goodwin
Mary Goodwin
Edward Goodwin
Elizabeth Goodwin
William Goodwin
(1704-?)
(1705-?)
(1707-1707)
(1707-?)
(1708-1709)
(1709-?)
(1710-1789)
(1712-1713)
(1715-?)
(1717-1729)
(1719-1722)
(died young)
(died young)
m. Margaret Sydall, 1739
Fifth generation
Richard Goodwin
Richard Goodwin, son of Thomas Goodwin and Mary Wheelwright, was baptised in St Leonard's Church, Bridgnorth on 2 March 1712, and married Margaret Sydall there on 14 February 1739. Margaret was born in Bridgnorth in either 1716 or 1718. Their eight children were all baptised in Bridgnorth:
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Frances Goodwin
Samuel Goodwin
Betty Goodwin
Sally Goodwin
Susanna Goodwin
Richard Goodwin
Rebecca Goodwin
Thomas Goodwin
(1741-?)
(1742-1742)
(1744-1746)
(1745-?)
(1748-1753)
(1751-1752)
(1753-?)
(1756-1831)
m. Samuel Dalloway, 1791
m. Margaret Bagley, 1786
Margaret was buried at St Leonard's Church on 30 December 1771 and Richard on 24 November 1789.
Sixth generation
Thomas Goodwin
Thomas Goodwin, youngest son of Richard Goodwin and Margaret Sydall, was baptised in St Leonard's Church, Bridgnorth on 12 September 1756. He became a stone mason and married Margaret Bagley in nearby Quatt Malvern on 14 February 1786. Margaret was possibly baptised in Barrow, near Broseley on 1 April 1760, daughter of John and Sarah Bagley.
The couple had five children, all baptised in Bridgnorth:
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John Goodwin
Mary Goodwin
Sarah Goodwin
Edward Goodwin
Anne Goodwin
(1787-?)
(1788-?)
(1791-1791)
(1793-1846)
(1799-?)
m. Elizabeth Lateward, 1806
m. Mary Hancox, 1818
Margaret was buried at St Leonard's Church on 10 March 1802 and Thomas on 10 May 1831.
Seventh generation
Edward Goodwin
Edward Goodwin, son of Thomas Goodwin and Margaret Bagley, was baptised in St Leonard's Church, Bridgnorth on 4 August 1793, and became a carpet weaver. He married Mary Hancox on 26 April 1818 in Ribbesford, Worcestershire and the couple had eight children, all born in Bridgnorth:
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Anna Maria Goodwin
John Ambrose Goodwin
John Ambrose Goodwin
William Goodwin
Edward Goodwin
James Goodwin
Mary Ann Goodwin
Thomas Goodwin
(1819-1879)
(1821-?)
(1822-1881)
(1823-1830)
(1826-1866)
(1829-1865)
(1832-1833)
(1834-1876)
m. Matthew Wharington, 1837
(died young)
m. Maria Johnson, 1844
m. Betsy Thorpe, 1857
m. Eliza Aston, 1850
m. Emma Farlow, 1856
Carpet weaving was first introduced into Bridgnorth around 1800 by the McMichael family from Kidderminster. The trade flourished, and Bridgnorth went on to produce carpets for royalty, including a carpet to celebrate Queen Victoria's Golden Jubilee in 1897. Two generations of our family worked in the industry.
Mary was buried in Bridgnorth on 17 August 1835 and Edward then married Martha Jordan on 25 December 1837. Martha was a widow who had previously been married to Joseph Bishop and she died before the 1841 census.
Edward was living with his married daughter Anna Maria and her husband Matthew Wharington in Spittal Street, Bridgnorth in 1841, and he died there of pulmonary consumption on 23 November 1846.
Edward was the last of our Goodwin family to spend all his life in Bridgnorth.
Eighth generation
m. Sarah Moreton, 1860
m. Alfred Owens, 1865
m. George Rothan, 1870
m. John Tatem Cowderoy, 1876
m. Mary Anne Moran, 1879
m. Mary Ann Moreland, 1879
Anna Maria Goodwin
Anna Maria Goodwin, oldest child of Edward Goodwin and Mary Hancox, was born in Bridgnorth and baptised in Quatt Malvern, Shropshire on 3 March 1819. She married Matthew Wharington, a weaver, in St Leonard's Church, Bridgnorth on 25 January 1837. He was baptised in St Peter's Church, Leeds on 20 August 1813, and was the son of Matthew Wharington and his wife, Elizabeth Taylor. Like most of Anna Maria's siblings, the Wharingtons left Bridgnorth around 1850 when the carpet weaving trade fell into recession and migrated to Wolverhampton, where Matthew became a warehouseman.
The couple had twelve children:
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William Wharington
Elizabeth Wharington
Mary Ann Wharington
Harriet Wharington
Jane Wharington
Sarah Wharington
Edward Wharington
Ann Wharington
Matthew Henry Wharington
George Wharington
Emily Wharington
James Wharington
(1837-1901)
(1839-1888)
(1841-1845)
(1843-1855)
(1845-1913)
(1847-1915)
(1849-1930)
(1852-1926)
(1854-1910)
(1857-1887)
(1859-1859)
(1860-1866)
Matthew died in Wolverhampton in 1875, and Anna Maria in 1879.
John Ambrose Goodwin
John Ambrose Goodwin, oldest surviving son of Edward Goodwin and Mary Hancox, was baptised in St Leonard's Church, Bridgnorth on 7 August 1822 and married Maria Johnson at St Mary's Church, Bridgnorth on 1 October 1844. Maria was born in Knighton, Radnorshire in about 1820, but her parents James and Sarah were from Shopshire: James was a tanner, and his wife Sarah was born in Bridgnorth in about 1790.
John and Maria were the last generation of the Goodwin family to live in Bridgnorth: the advent of power weaving and steam-powered mass production sounded the death knell of the old cottage industry practised in their youth by John and his brothers. In late 1850 or early 1851 the family moved to Wolverhampton, where John is variously described as a tarcloth maker, a tarpauler and a sheet and tent maker.
The first four of John and Maria's children were born in Bridgnorth and the others in Wolverhampton:
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Mary Ann Goodwin
James Johnson Goodwin
Thomas William Goodwin
John Ambrose Goodwin
Sarah Jane Goodwin
Jeremiah Ambrose Goodwin
Ann Maria Goodwin
Emily Goodwin
(1843-1918)
(1845-1916)
(1848-1875)
(1850-1901)
(1853-?)
(1858-1903)
(1861-1923)
(1863-1930)
m. Samuel Gregory, 1867
m. Emma Fenn, 1864
m. Margaret Harpin, 1871
m. Sarah Ann Smith, 1870
m. Elizabeth Rebecca Hadley, 1880
m. Charles Carter, 1881
m. William Rudd, 1882
Maria's mother Sarah was living with the Goodwins in 1851 and her brother James also brought his family to Wolverhampton in the late 1850s.
Maria died in Wolverhampton on 6 April 1863 of haemorrage following childbirth and John subsequently married Maria Peplow in St James' Church Wolverhampton on 4 July 1869. Maria was a widow, born in Wellington, Shropshire in about 1811 and was the daughter of a gardener named John Peplow. She died in Wolverhampton, and was buried in Merridale Cemetery on 28 May 1878. John then married Mary Price at St John's Church, Wolverhampton on 7 December 1879. Mary was born in Priorlee, Shropshire in about 1820 and died in Wolverhampton in 1884.
John died of bronchitis in Wolverhampton on 8 December 1882 and was buried in Merridale Cemetery four days later.
Edward Goodwin
Edward Goodwin, son of Edward Goodwin and Mary Hancox, was baptised in Bridgnorth on 15 October 1826 and followed the family trade of weaving as a young man. However, by 1851 he had left Bridgnorth for Leicester, where he worked as a grocer's assistant, and he married Sarah Lee there in 1852. They had one son:
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(1853-1902)
m. Augusta Susannah Thompson, 1878
Sarah died in 1854 aged just 25 and Edward married Betsey Thorpe in 1857. Betsy was born in Leicester in 1833, and was the daughter of Joseph Thorpe and his wife Catherine Shaw. Edward and Betsy had six children, but only one survived past infancy:
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Catherine Emily Goodwin
Thomas Thorpe Goodwin
Mary Kate Goodwin
Ada Mary Goodwin
Edith Kate Goodwin
(1859-1859)
(1860-1860)
(1861-1862)
(1864-?)
(1865-1870)
(1866-1867)
m. Florence Gertrude Lewitt, 1888
Edward died in Leicester on 18 June 1866 and Betsey later remarried to Thomas Elsworth in 1875.
Thomas Goodwin
Thomas Goodwin, son of Edward Goodwin and Mary Hancox, was baptised in Bridgnorth on 21 July 1834 and like his brothers started his working life there as a carpet weaver. However, like them, he moved away in the 1850s to seek work elsewhere, becoming a blacksmith in Sedgley, Staffordshire. He married Emma Nicholls at St John's Church, Wolverhampton on 21 September 1856. Emma was a tailoress, born in Ettingshall in about 1836.
The couple had six children, all born in Sedgley:
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James Edward Goodwin
Mary Jane Goodwin
Alfred Thomas Goodwin
Richard Goodwin
Samuel Albert Goodwin
Ernest Richard Goodwin
(1856-1910)
(1859-1860)
(1861-1883)
(1863-1863)
(1867-1889)
(1870-1951)
m. Mary Ann Watkiss, 1882
m. Sarah Ann Lester, 1892
Thomas died in Sedgley in 1876 and Emma married Richard Hill in Dudley two years later. She died in Sedgley in 1883.
Ninth generation
William Wharington
William Wharington, oldest son of Matthew Wharington and Anna Maria Goodwin, was born in Bridgnorth on 25 September 1837 and learned his father's trade of carpet weaving. He moved to Wolverhampton with his family as a teenager, becoming first a blacksmith and later a press tool setter, following the demise of cottage industries such as the carpet weaving trade. He married Sarah Moreton, daughter of George and Ann Moreton, in Wolverhampton in 1860 and the couple had eight children:
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Alfred Moreton Wharington
George Harry Goodwin Wharington
Grace Emily Wharington
Sarah Ann Wharington
William Ernest Wharington
William Albert Wharington
Frederick Matthew Wharington
Alice Mary Wharington
(1861-1921)
(1863-1919)
(1864-1958)
(1867-1960)
(1871-1872)
(1873-1935)
(1877-1964)
(1880-1957)
m. Margaret Francis, 1899
m. Elizabeth Emily Cooper, 1895
m. Edward Little, 1892
m. Fred Fisher, 1890
m. Annie Davis, 1900
m. Lucy Ann Tatnall, 1901
m. Walter Percy Murphy, 1907
William and Sarah's son George Harry Goodwin Wharington emigrated to Australia in March 1884 on board the Sorata, and William and the rest of the family followed on the Ellora in December 1886, settling in the state of Victoria.
William's younger brother Edward (b. 1849) never married and eventually travelled out to Australia on the Commonwealth in 1911. He died in Victoria in 1930.
William died in Malvern, Victoria on 7 November 1901 and Sarah in Caulfield, Victoria in 1936, at the advanced age of 97.
Elizabeth Wharington
Elizabeth Wharington, oldest daughter of Matthew Wharington and Anna Maria Goodwin, was baptised at St Mary's Church, Bridgnorth on 8 November 1839 and moved with her famly to Wolverhampton as a child. She married Alfred Owens, a carpenter, in Wolverhampton in 1865. Alfred was born in Wolverhampton in 1844 and was the son of Thomas Owens, a timber merchant's clerk, and his wife Eliza.
Alfred and Elizabeth had nine children:
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Jane Owens Wharington
Elizabeth Ellen Owens
Sarah Ann Owens
Clara Eugene Owens
Alfred Charles Owens
William Henry Owens
Albert Edward Owens
Flora Eugene Owens
Lilian Beatrice Owens
(1864-1939)
(1865-1951)
(1866-?)
(1869-1873)
(1870-1947)
(1872-1948)
(1874-1943)
(1876-1876)
(1882-1956)
m. Frank Stych, 1892
m. William Henry Pickering, 1895
m. Henry Lloyd, 1893
m. Mary Smith, 1894
m. Emma Davies, 1900
m. Alice Gaudern, 1903
m. Albert Fones, 1908
Elizabeth died in Wolverhampton in 1888 and Alfred married Maria Gardner the following year, but they already had two children born in 1884 and 1887, so Elizabeth and Albert's marriage may have broken down some time earlier. (Divorce at this time was still both difficult and prohibitively expensive.) On the 1891 census, Elizabeth and Alfred's children are recorded living together separately from Alfred and his second family.
Alfred died in Wolverhampton, and was buried in Merridale Cemetery on 10 June 1909. Maria was buried in the same cemetery on 1 February 1917.
Ann Wharington
Ann Wharington, daughter of Matthew Wharington and Anna Maria Goodwin, was born in Wolverhampton in 1852, soon after her parents moved there from Bridgnorth. In 1886, she married John Tatem Cowderoy, son of James Cowderoy and Sarah Tatem, in Wolverhampton. John was born in Hammersmith in 1855 and he was an Inspector of Nuisances - the old name for a sanitory inspector. He would have been employed by a parish or council to inspect for breaches of law, such as bad sanitary conditions, obstruction to footpaths and roads etc. (Refuse heaps, smells and insanitary conditions of all kinds were known as "nuisances".)
John and Ann lived in Wolverhampton during the early years of their marriage, before moving to Kidderminster in about 1885. The couple had seven children:
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Annie Cowderoy
Henry James Cowderoy
Sarah Cowderoy
John Edward Cowderoy
Emma Jane Cowderoy
Edith Cowderoy
Ernest George Cowderoy
(1877-1958)
(1880-1947)
(1882-1962)
(1884-1971)
(1886-1965)
(1889-1980)
(1892-1949)
m. William Foggs Baillie, 1903
m. Mary Preece Baylis, 1905
m. Ethel Johnson, 1914
m. Harry Ewart Partridge, 1913
Elizabeth died in Wolverhampton in 1888 and Alfred married Maria Gardner the following year, but they already had two children born in 1884 and 1887, so Elizabeth and Albert's marriage may have broken down some time earlier. (Divorce at this time was still both difficult and prohibitively expensive.) On the 1891 census, Elizabeth and Alfred's children are recorded living together separately from Alfred and his second family.
Alfred died in Wolverhampton, and was buried in Merridale Cemetery on 10 June 1909. Maria was buried in the same cemetery on 1 February 1917.
Matthew Henry Wharington
Matthew Henry Wharington, son of Matthew Wharington and Anna Maria Goodwin, was born in Wolverhampton on 21 January 1854 and moved to Manchester, where he married Mary Anne Moran at Christ Church, Bradford on 9 March 1879. Soon afterwards they moved to London, and later to Bristol, where six of their eleven children were born. Matthew was a coffee mill maker.
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Alice Ann Wharington
Matthew Henry Wharington
John Wharington
Elizabeth Wharington
Edward Wharington
George Wharington
Bartholomew James Wharington
Kate Wharington
William Wharington
Florence Jane Wharington
John Wharington
(1879-1953)
(1881-1932)
(1883-1883)
(1884-1935)
(1886-1928)
(1887-1887)
(1888-1888)
(1891-1891)
(1892-1970)
(1894-1964)
(1896-1898)
m. George Castle, 1904
m. Elizabeth Ann Brace, 1911
m. William Charles Davis, 1903
m. Adelaide L Cole, 1929
m. Abraham Mercer, 1919
Mary Anne died in Bristol in 1900 and Matthew died in Manchester in 1928.
George Wharington
George Wharington, son of Matthew Wharington and Anna Maria Goodwin, was born in Wolverhampton in 1857 and married Mary Anne Moreland there in 1879. Mary Anne was baptised in St Mary's Church, Wolverhampton on 18 January 1857 and was the daughter of Scottish tailor John Moreland and his wife Harriet Wall. The couple had four children, all born in Wolverhampton:
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2.
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George Edward Wharington
John Wharington
Joseph Henry Wharington
Annie Wharington
(1880-1886)
(1880-1880)
(1881-1964)
(1884-1917)
m. Elizabeth Maud Haslett
m. John James Haslett
George died in Wolverhampton in 1887 at the early age of 30, and the 1891 census shows the two surviving children living with their mother, who is described as a tailoress.
James Johnson Goodwin
James Johnson Goodwin, oldest son of John Ambrose Goodwin and Maria Johnson, was born in Bridgnorth and christened in St Mary Magdalene's Church on 8 January 1845. He moved to Wolverhampton with his parents when he was about five years old and as he grew up worked in various labouring jobs, ending up as a fence and hurdle maker. He married Emma Fenn at All Saints Church, Sedgley in 1864 when he was 19 and she was just 17 years old. Emma was born in Wolverhampton in 1847, and was the daughter of John Fenn and his wife, Caroline Holmes.
James and Emma had fourteen children, all born in Wolverhampton:
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John James Goodwin
Enoch Goodwin
James Goodwin
William Goodwin
Emma Goodwin
Elizabeth Goodwin
Maria Goodwin
Harry Goodwin
Edward Goodwin
Sarah Jane Goodwin
James Goodwin
Thomas Goodwin
Samuel Goodwin
Albert Goodwin
(1865-?)
(1866-?)
(1869-1871)
(1871-1913)
(1872-1873)
(1875-1935)
(1878-?)
(1880-1916)
(1882-1883)
(1883-1884)
(1884-1886)
(1886-1886)
(1888-1959)
(1890-1890)
m. Ada John, 1890
m. Sarah Evans, 1891
m. Sarah Hannah Wootton, 1900
m. Mary Elizabeth Baker, 1911
Seven of the children died in infancy, and are buried in Merridale Cemetery.
Harry Goodwin, who is bizarrely recorded under the name "Uriah" on the 1881 census, was a private in the South Staffordshire Regiment during the First World War. He was killed on the Somme on 21 December 1916, and is buried in La Neuville Communal Cemetery, Corbie.
Emma died in Wolverhampton and was buried in Merridale Cemetery on 24 December 1906. James was buried there on 16 January 1916 at the age of 70 under the name James Ambrose Goodwin.
Thomas William Goodwin
Thomas William Goodwin, son of John Ambrose Goodwin and Maria Johnson, was baptised in Bridgnorth on 12 January 1848 but moved to Wolverhampton with his family as a small child. He became a blast furnaceman and married Margaret Harpin at St John's Church, Wednesfield on 3 April 1871.
The couple had two children:
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2.
Charles Goodwin
Mary Ann Goodwin
(1871-?)
(1875-1876)
Thomas died in Heath Town at the early age of 27 and was buried at Holy Trinity Church on 15 December 1875. Margaret then married John Cooper in Wolverhampton in 1880 and had several children with him.
Charles Goodwin is recorded living with his mother and step-father on the 1881 census, although his name is given as George: I lose track of him after this.
m. Josiah Hackett, 1892
m. Margaret Ann Archer, 1897
m. Robert John Denham, 1897
m. Harry Berry, 1916
m. Mary Ann White, 1902
m. Edward Cooper, 1915
John Ambrose Goodwin
John Ambrose Goodwin, son of John Ambrose Goodwin and Maria Johnson, was born in Bridgnorth and baptised at St Mary Magdalene's Church there on 17 November 1850. He moved to Wolverhampton with his parents as a small child and spent all his working life as an iron moulder. He married Sarah Ann Smith in Wolverhampton on 6 June 1870 and had six children.
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Maria Goodwin
John Ambrose Goodwin
Louisa Goodwin
Sarah Ann Goodwin
Thomas Ambrose Goodwin
Emily Goodwin
(1871-1918)
(1872-1927)
(1877-1945)
(1879-1946)
(1880-1934)
(1884-1955)
The family moved from Wolverhampton to Manchester in the mid 1870s - the first of our Goodwins to make the move.
John was buried in Southern Cemetery, Manchester on 21 December 1901 and Sarah on 8 January 1921.
Jeremiah Ambrose Goodwin
Jeremiah Ambrose Goodwin, son of John Ambrose Goodwin and Maria Johnson, was born in Wolverhampton in 1858 and spent all his working life as a galvaniser - someone who applied a protective layer of zinc to steel or iron to prevent it from rusting. He married Elizabeth Rebecca Hadley in Wolverhampton in 1880. Elizabeth was born in Wolverhampton in 1858, and was the daughter of William Hadley, a soldier, and his wife Rebecca Pugh. Elizabeth had a son called William, born before her marriage, who is listed on census returns and his death record with the surname Goodwin: his true relationship to Jeremiah is unknown.
In addition to William, the couple had nine children:
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William Hadley (Goodwin)
John Andrew Goodwin
Mary Elizabeth Goodwin
Alice Goodwin
Theodore Goodwin
Albert Goodwin
George Goodwin
Lily Goodwin
May Goodwin
Alfred George Goodwin
(1878-1894)
(1880-1918)
(1882-1950)
(1884-?)
(1886-1941)
(1890-1952)
(1891-1892)
(1893-?)
(1895-1973)
(1897-1920)
Jeremiah died in Wolverhampton aged 41, and was buried in Merridale Cemetery on 15 March 1903. Elizabeth married Samuel Wills, a carter, in Wolverhampton in 1910 and died there in 1932.
m. Emily Reed, 1915
m. George Robert Watkiss, 1905
m. Mary Sophia Phillips, 1915
m. Amy Elizabeth Hamlet, 1910
m. William Edward Blackwell, 1919
m. May Hodson, 1919
Ann Maria Goodwin
Ann Maria Goodwin, daughter of John Ambrose Goodwin and Maria Johnson, was born in Wolverhampton in 1861 and married Charles Carter, a key maker, at St Mark's Church, Wolverhampton on 6 August 1881. Charles was born in Wolverhampton in 1862 and was the son of Charles Carter and his wife Elizabeth Creswell.
Ann had a son before her marriage who was registered in her maiden name of Goodwin, although he appears on the 1891 census as Carter. (He reverted to the surname Goodwin when he married.) After their marriage, Ann and Charles had eleven children, all born in Wolverhampton:
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Matthew Houghton Goodwin
Mary Ann Carter
Amy Elizabeth Carter
John Carter
Charles Carter
Phyllis Carter
George Henry Carter
May Maria Carter
Rose Esther Carter
Arthur Henry Carter
Ada Eliza Carter
Alfred Carter
(1879-1945)
(1881-?)
(1883-1957)
(1886-1934)
(1888-1925)
(1890-1968)
(1892-1957)
(1894-1980)
(1896-1965)
(1897-1947)
(1899-1955)
(1901-1971)
m. Eliza Davies, 1901
m. Alfred Wilkes, 1901
m. George Edward Finch, 1905
m. Ellen Duffield, 1906
m. Douglas Tolley, 1915
m. Florence M Gibbons, 1913
m. Albert Hayward, 1914
m. Frederick Horace Evans, 1912
m. Lillian F Rothen, 1926
m. Walter Dickens, 1920
m. Miriam Alexandra Brazier, 1934
Ann died in Wolverhampton on 18 August 1923, and Charles on 15 October 1933: both are buried in Merridale Cemetery.
Emily Goodwin
Emily Goodwin, youngest daughter of John Ambrose Goodwin and Maria Johnson, was born in Wolverhampton and christened in St John’s Church on 7 April 1863, the day after her mother died from complications following childbirth. Emily was brought up by her maternal grandmother Sarah Johnson in Bridgnorth, and Sarah’s daughter Mary and son-in-law Samuel Instone also lived in the same household. By 1881, both Sarah and Mary had died, but Emily and her uncle Samuel continued to lodge together with a widow in Bridgnorth.
Emily worked as a spinner in a mill and married William Rudd in Bridgnorth on Christmas Eve 1882. William was christened in Chetton near Bridgnorth on 17 January 1859 and worked as a dyer in a local factory. They had seven children.
1.
2.
3.
4.
5.
6.
7.
William James Rudd
Philip Henry Rudd
Alfred Charles Rudd
Violet Emily Rudd
Albert Ernest Rudd
Harold Sidney Rudd
Leonard Stanley Rudd
(1883-1907)
(1885-1916)
(1888-1906)
(1891-1947)
(1894-1915)
(1897-1950)
(1899-1953)
m. Agnes Annie Lawley, 1913
m. William Davis, 1927
m. Florence E Reason, 1922
m. Martha Gertrude Birch, 1923
Albert Ernest Rudd served in the 4th Battalion (Territorial Force) of the Shropshire Light Infantry. At the outbreak of World War 1 the battalion was sent to Hong Kong, Singapore and Rangoon on imperial garrison duty and Albert died in Rangoon on 7 February 1915.
Emily’s uncle, Samuel Instone, lived with the Rudds until he died in 1918.
William died in Bridgnorth in 1927 and Emily in 1930
William Henry Goodwin
William Henry Goodwin, only child of Edward Goodwin and Sarah Lee, was born in Leicester in 1853 and joined the Royal Navy at an early age: on the 1871 census he was a “Boy 1st Class” on HMS Rattlesnake off the coast of Africa. By 1881 he was a signalman on HMS Minotaur, but he left the Navy soon afterwards and returned to Leicester, becoming a warehouseman.
While he was stationed in Portsmouth, William married Augusta Susannah Thompson in 1878 and had two children.
1.
2.
Edith Faith Louise Goodwin
William Edward Goodwin
(1879-1945)
(1881-?
William Edward Goodwin joined the 2/1st Leicestershire Yeomanry - part of the Territorial Force - and was called up at the outbreak of the First World War for home service under the orders of 2/1st North Midland Mounted Brigade: between 1915 and 1917 the brigade was at different times a mounted unit and a cyclist unit. William left the territorial brigade in November 1916 to join the regular army and take up a temporary commission as a 2nd lieutenant in the Army Service Corps. He went out to India with the corps in January 1917.
William died in Leicester in 1902 and Augusta in 1932.
(1889-1966)
(1897-1933)
(1905-1905)
m. Mary Frances Lindsay, 1913
m. Albert Horace Hooper, 1924
George Albert Goodwin
George Albert Goodwin, only surviving son of Edward Goodwin and Betsey Thorpe, was born in Leicester in 1864 and became a lithographic printer. He married Florence Gertrude Lewitt, daughter of Benjamin and Elizabeth Lewitt, in Leicester in 1888 and the couple had three children:
1.
2.
3.
Arnold Frederick Goodwin
Olive Goodwin
Neville George Goodwin
Between 1901 and 1905 the family moved from Leicester to Enfield, Middlesex before emigrating to New Zealand a few years later. Florence died in Auckland on 20 September 1930 and George on 25 May 1948.
(1903-1991)
m. Howard Smart, 1924
Ernest Richard Goodwin
Ernest Richard Goodwin, youngest son of Thomas Goodwin and Emma Nicholls, was born in Sedgley on 17 December 1870 and worked as a hollow ware tinner. He married Sarah Ann Lester in Dudley in 1902 and had one daughter:
1.
Hilda Goodwin
Ernest died in Sedgley in 1951.
Tenth generation
Alfred Moreton Wharington
Alfred Moreton Wharington, oldest son of William Wharington and Sarah Moreton, was born in Wolverhampton on 4 June 1861 and in 1881 was an assistant school master. He emigrated to Australia with his parents and siblings in 1886 and settled near Melbourne. In 1899, he married Margaret Francis, daughter of William Francis and Annie Goulstone, and the couple had one daughter:
1.
Marjorie Francis Wharington
Alfred died in Bentleigh on 1 November 1921 and Margaret died in Malvern in 1963.
(1901-1984)
George Harry Goodwin Wharington
George Harry Goodwin Wharington, son of William Wharington and Sarah Moreton, was born in Wolverhampton on 13 February 1863 and worked in the japanning trade. (Japanning was a term used to describe the European imitation of Asian lacquerwork, originally used on furniture.) He emigrated to Australia in 1884, followed a couple of years later by his parents and siblings. They all settled in the Melbourne area, where George founded the Wharington Wolverhampton Japanning Works in 1889.
George married Elizabeth Emily Cooper, daughter of Henry Russell Cooper and Lucy Simpson in 1895 and the couple had four sons:
1.
2.
3.
4.
William Russell Wharington
George Alfred Wharington
Russell William Wharington
John Goodwin Wharington
(1896-1896)
(1900-?)
(1902-1979)
(1907-1987)
m. Marie Isabel Jewell, 1933
m. Bertha Dorothy Jean Lewis, 1926
m. Estelle Hunter Ash, 1935
George died in Carlton on 3 March 1919 and Elizabeth died in Caulfield in 1942.
Sarah Ann Wharington
Sarah Ann Wharington, daughter of William Wharington and Sarah Moreton, was born in Wolverhampton on 19 July 1867 and emigrated to Australia with her parents and siblings in 1886. She married Fred Fisher in Victoria in 1890 and had five children:
1.
2.
3.
4.
5.
Frederick Wharington Fisher
Nellie Doris Fisher
Henry Ernest Moreton Fisher
Horace Blakemore Fisher
Wilfred Wharington Fisher
(1891-1896)
(1895-?)
(1898-1962)
(1901-1988)
(1903-1992)
Fred died in Victoria on 22 February 1928 and Sarah on 3 March 1960 at the age of 92 .
William Albert Wharington
William Albert Wharington, son of William Wharington and Sarah Moreton, was born in Wolverhampton on 28 October 1873 and emigrated to Australia with his parents and siblings in 1886. He made at least one trip back to England before marrying Annie Davies, daughter of John Davies and Maria Helen Smith in Victoria in 1900. The couple had four children:
1.
2.
3.
4.
William Harold Wharington
Clarice Dorothy Wharington
Constance Mary Wharington
Frank Norman Wharington
(1901-1977)
(1902-1989)
(1903-?)
(1910-1939)
William died in Werribee on 7 October 1935 and Annie died in Caulfield in 1940.
m. Adelheid Elvira Luise Rauchfuss, 1937
m. Edmund Leslie James Merigan, 1927
m. Beryl Goss Miller, 1937
Frederick Matthew Wharington
Frederick Matthew Wharington, son of William Wharington and Sarah Moreton, was born in Wolverhampton on 28 December 1876 and emigrated to Australia with his parents and siblings in 1886. He married Lucy Ann Tatnall, daughter of Henry Tatnall and Jane Ann Orton in Victoria in 1901 and the couple had one son:
1.
Philip Tatnall Wharington
(1906-?)
Lucy died in Malvern in 1935 and Frederick married Edith Marian Creaton in 1941. Frederick died in Heidelberg in 1964 at the age of 87.
m. Vera Xaphira Thomas, 1934
Alice Mary Wharington
Alice Mary Wharington, daughter of William Wharington and Sarah Moreton, was born in Wolverhampton on 18 April 1880 and emigrated to Australia with her parents and siblings as a child in 1886. She married Walter Percy Murphy in Victoria in 1907 and the couple had one daughter:
1.
Dorothy Grace Murphy
(1909-?)
Walter died in New South Wales on 15 September 1954 and Alice on 6 June 1957.
Jane Owens Wharington
Jane Owens Wharington, daughter of Elizabeth Wharington and Alfred Owens, was born in Wolverhampton in 1864, a year before her parents married, and her birth was registered in her mother's maiden name. After the marriage, however, she was usually known as Jane Wharington Owens, and it was in this name that she married Frank Stych in Wolverhampton in 1892. Frank was born in Wednesfield on 3 September 1866 and was the son of Samuel Stych, a stone miner, and Ann Davis.
Almost imediately after their marriage, Frank and Jane emigrated to the US, settling initially in Illlinois before moving permanently to Pennsylvania. They had three children:
1.
2.
3.
Victoria Lilian Stych
Frank Stych
William Samuel Stych
(1893-1955)
(1895-1945)
(1899-1901)
m. William Louis Fleming Bradshaw
m. Rachel Bryson, 1923
Lucy died in Malvern in 1935 and Frederick married Edith Marian Creaton in 1941. Frederick died in Heidelberg in 1964 at the age of 87.
Elizabeth Ellen Owens
Elizabeth Ellen Owens, daughter of Alfred Owens and Elizabeth Wharington, was born in Wolverhampton on 8 September 1865 and married iron moulder William Henry Pickering there in 1895. William was born in Wolverhampton on 22 September 1861 and was the son of another iron moulder, Benjamin Pickering, and his wife Mary Jane Instone.
Alfred and Elizabeth had just one child:
1.
May Pickering
(1896-1949)
m. Edward Joseph Watson, 1924
William died in Wolverhampton in 1950 and Elizabeth in 1951.
Sarah Ann Owens
Sarah Ann Owens, daughter of Alfred Owens and Elizabeth Wharington, was born in Wolverhampton on 12 November 1866 and married Henry Lloyd there in 1893. Henry was a railway signal fitter, born in Heath Town in 1869. The couple had four children:
1.
2.
3.
4.
Sarah Owens Lloyd
William Lloyd
George Lloyd
Sidney Lloyd
(1893-1956)
(1895-?)
(1896-1897)
(1902-1971)
m. Edward Joseph Watson, 1924
William died in Wolverhampton in 1950 and Elizabeth in 1951.
Alfred Charles Owens
Alfred Charles Owens, son of Alfred Owens and Elizabeth Wharington, was born in Wolverhampton on 28 October 1870 and worked at various jobs in the local brass and engineering industries. He married Mary Smith in Wolverhampton in 1894 and the couple had two children:
1.
2.
Amy Lilian Owens
Alfred William Owens
(1896-1975)
(1898-1928)
m. Fellows Cuthbert Holland, 1929
On the eve of the Second World War, Alfred was a night watchman in a general store. He died in Wolverhampton in 1947.
William Henry Owens
William Henry Owens, son of Alfred Owens and Elizabeth Wharington, was born in Wolverhampton on 2 September 1872. He worked in different labouring jobs and married Emma Davies in Walsall in 1900. The couple had one child:
1.
Ethel Grace Owens
1908-1994)
m. Leslie Tallis, 1937
William died in Wolverhampton on 25 September 1948 and Emma on 16 February 1957.
Albert Edward Owens
Albert Edward Owens, son of Alfred Owens and Elizabeth Wharington, was born in Wolverhampton on 25 April 1874 and mainly worked as a fitter. He married Alice Gaudern at All Saints' Church, Sedgley on 15 November 1903. Alice was born in Wolverhampton on 20 May 1878 and was the daughter of George Edward Gaudern, a cabinet maker, and his wife Mary Ann Bond.
Albert and Alice had six children, all born in Wolverhampton:
1.
2.
3.
4.
5. 6.
Ida May Owens
Alice Owens
George Edward Owens
Lilian Owens
Ethel Owens
Minnie Owens
(1904-1978)
(1905-1989)
(1907-1961)
(1909-1991)
(1912-1995)
(1912-2002)
m. Arthur William Goodman, 1928
m. George Boswell, 1934
m. Miriam Reece, 1931
m. Edward James Perry, 1938
m. Joshua George Lees, 1946
m. Frederick George Spruce, 1940
Albert died in Wolverhampton in 1943 and Alice in 1954.
Lilian Beatrice Owens
Lilian Beatrice Owens, daughter of Alfred Owens and Elizabeth Wharington, was born in Wolverhampton on 26 June 1882 and married Albert Fones there in 1908. Albert, a motor painter, was born in Wolverhampton on 7 March 1881, and was the son of brass founder John Fones and his wife Emma Forrester. Albert and Lilian had two children, both born in Wolverhampton, although the family later moved to Nottingham:
1.
2.
Lilian Fones
Albert Fones
(1912-1993)
(1914-1943)
m. Frank Marsland, 1939
Albert Jr. served with the Royal Armoured Corps during World War II and died in India on 9 November 1943. He is buried in Kirkee War Cemetery on the outskirts of Poona.
Albert Sr. died in Nottingham on 21 June 1950 and Alice on 8 January 1956.
Annie Cowderoy
Annie Cowderoy, oldest daughter of John Tatem Cowderoy and Ann Wharington, was born in Wolverhampton on 29 July 1877 and married William Foggs Baillie, a librarian in Kidderminster in 1903. William was born on 7 October 1874 in Edinburgh and was the son of William Finley Baillie, an ironmonger, and his wife Margaret.
William and Annie had two daughters, both born in Kidderminster:
1.
2.
Violet Annie Baillie
Mary Baillie
(1906-2003)
(1914-1999)
m. Albert L Reynolds, 1930
William died in Kidderminster in 1954 and Annie died in Whitchurch, Shropshire in 1958.
Henry James Cowderoy
Henry James Cowderoy, son of John Tatem Cowderoy and Ann Wharington, was born in Wolverhampton on 16 May 1880 and worked as a commercial traveller. He married Mary Preece Baylis in Martley in 1903. Mary was born in Stourport on 13 August 1877 and was the daughter of John Baylis, a licensed victualler, and his wife Mary Preece.
Henry and Mary had one son:
1.
John Baylis Cowderoy
(1907-1984)
m. Daphne Joyce Ducat, 1943
Henry died in Kidderminster in 1957 and Mary subsequently moved to Surrey, where her son was living. She died there in 1968 at the age of 90.
John Edward Cowderoy
John Edward Cowderoy, son of John Tatem Cowderoy and Ann Wharington, was born in Wolverhampton on 19 February 1884 and became an electrical engineer. He married Ethel Johnson in Worcester in 1914 and the couple had one child:
1.
Roma Ellen Cowderoy
1915-1992)
m. Cyril Austen Roberts, 1936
Roma was born in Worcester, but by the time she married the family had moved to Bournemouth.
John and Ethel both died in Bournemouth in 1971.
Edith Cowderoy
Edith Cowderoy, daughter of John Tatem Cowderoy and Ann Wharington, was born in Kidderminster on 20 February 1889 and married Harry Ewart Partridge there in 1913. Harry was born in Kidderminster on 2 April 1886 and was the son of Samuel Southall Partridge, a joiner, and his wife Phoebe Ann Bell. In 1911 Harry was a draughtsman, and he later became a mechanical engineer: in 1939 he was a consultant engineer for power and steam plants.
Harry and Edith had two children:
1.
2.
Robert Southall Partridge
Harry Cowderoy Partridge
(1920-2005)
(1925-1990
Harry died in East Retford on 31 January 1973 and Edith died in Northampton in 1980.
Alice Ann Wharington
Alice Ann Wharington, oldest child of Matthew Henry Wharington and Mary Anne Moran, was born in Manchester on 29 August 1879. As a child, she moved with her family first to London, and then to Bristol. She married George Castle, a seaman, in Portsmouth in 1904 and had one daughter:
1.
Dorothy Castle
(1905-1974)
m. Hilary Lionel Primmer, 1930
George died in Portsmouth on 8 January 1953 and Alice died there eleven months later on 3 December.
Matthew Henry Wharington
Matthew Henry Wharington, second child and oldest son of Matthew Henry Wharington and Mary Anne Moran, was born in Clerkenwell in 1881 and moved to Bristol with his family as a child. He was usually known as Henry or Harry, possibly to distinguish him from his father, and worked as a coal miner, moving to Wales as a young man. He married Elizabeth Ann Brace in Pontypridd on 11 April 1911 and had one daughter:
1.
Mary Lena Wharington
(1919-2001)
m. Elwyn Glyn Phillips, 1938
Henry enlisted in the Welsh Horse Yeomanry, a Territorial regiment, soon after the outbreak of the First World War. The regiment was dismounted and sent to participate in the Gallipoli campaign in September 1915 before being evacuated to Egypt, and it merged with the Montgomeryshire Yeomanry in 1917 to form the 25th Battalion, Royal Welsh Fusiliers. However, Henry went to Gallipoli several months before the bulk of the regiment, on 8 February 1915, and must therefore have been among those who volunteered immediately for overseas service, which was not initially compulsory in Territorian units.
Henry died in Pontypridd on 15 September 1932 and Elizabeth on 26 February 1967.
Elizabeth Wharington
Elizabeth Wharington, daughter of Matthew Henry Wharington and Mary Anne Moran, was born in Amwell, Middlesex on 26 June 1884 and moved with her family to Bristol as a small child. She married William Charles Davis there on 13 April 1903. William was born in Bishopsford, Bristol on 3 September 1882 and was the son of William Davis and Sarah Elizabeth Oldfield.
William and Elizabeth had eight children, all born in Bristol:
1.
2.
3.
4.
5.
6.
7.
8.
William Henry Davis
Edward George Davis
Ellen Florence Davis
Florence Jane Davis
Hilda May Davis
Lily Davis
Doris Irene Davis
Francis James Davis
(1903-1969)
(1905-1907)
(1906-1957)
(1908-1991)
(1913-1991)
(1915-1915)
(1918-1989)
(1923-2002)
m. Maud Lilian Jones, 1926
m. Austin Matthew Merchant, 1948
m. Leonard Charles Woodland, 1928
m. Bernard Joseph Newport, 1935
m. Thomas James O'Shea, 1940
m. Betty Johns, 1945
William attested for military service on 8 December 1915 and was mobilised to serve in the Gloucestershire Regiment on 8 June 1916. After training, he was drafted to France on 6 October 1916, but shortly afterwards was charged with "negligently wounding himself in the right hand", although the wound was not serious. His service record states that the accident occurred while he was cleaning his rifle, and he was "considered to blame, but no evidence to prove this". The record is incomplete, but William apparently suffered more serious wounds in action a few months later, and returned to England on 18 April 1917, before being discharged from the Army as no longer physically fit on 13 September 1917.
Elizabeth died in Bristol on 10 December 1935 and William on 12 February 1951.
Florence Jane Wharington
Florence Jane Wharington, youngest daughter of Matthew Henry Wharington and Mary Anne Moran, was born in Bristol on 23 February 1894 and married Abraham Mercer in Portsmouth in 1919. Abraham was born in Mountcharles, Donegal on 2 May 1882 and served in the Navy from 1900-1922.
The couple had four children:
1.
2.
3.
4.
Cornelius Abraham George Mercer
Sidney Mercer
Joan Mercer
Raymond Mercer
(1920-1942)
(1921-2009)
(1922-2005)
(1924-1999)
m. Noreen Margaret Andrews, 1956
m. Gordon James Musson, 1942
Cornelius was a submarine telegraphist in World War II, and was killed in action on 25 February 1942. He is commemorated on the Plymouth Naval Memorial, which is one of three memorials for members of the Royal Navy who gave their lives at sea and were either lost or buried at sea.
Abraham died in Penarth, Glamorgan on 19 August 1942 and his widow emigrated to Australia in 1957, along with her daughter Joan, who was travelling with her own daughter to join her husband in Queensland. Florence died in Neutral Bay, New South Wales on 3 July 1964.
Joseph Henry Wharington
Joseph Henry Wharington, only surviving son of George Wharington and Mary Anne Moreland, was born in Wolverhampton in 1881 and worked as a sawyer before joining the Army on 6 February 1901. He served with the South Staffordshire Regiment in South Africa during the Boer War, and was discharged on 31 May 1902.
The following year Joseph emigrated to Canada, where he married Elizabeth Maud Haslett and had three children, all born in Saskatchewan:
1.
2.
3.
Harry Wharington
Joseph Victor Wharington
Vera Ann Wharington
(1908-1999)
(1912-1983)
(1916-2006)
m. Leona Lundquist
m. Norbert Jerome McKenzie
Joseph's younger sister Annie joined him in Canada in 1905 and married Elizabeth's brother, John James Haslett. They had no children and Annie died in Saskatchewan on 14 April 1917 aged 32.
Joseph died in Saskatchewan on 2 September 1964 and Elizabeth on 27 November 1981.
John James Goodwin
John James Goodwin, oldest child of James Johnson Goodwin and Emma Fenn, was born in Wolverhampton in 1865 and worked as a labourer before enlisting in the Worcestershire Regiment on 9 August 1886. He married Ada John in Pembroke in 1890, and she must have followed him on some of his army postings, as their older daughter was born in Curragh Camp, Kildare. The Worcestershires left Curragh Camp in 1894 and John was in South Africa from 1900 until 1902, when he was discharged as "time served". He re-einlisted in the Army Reserve between 1903 and 1907, but by 1911 was working as a greengrocer back home in Wolverhampton.
John and Ada had two daughters:
1.
2.
Isabel Mary Goodwin
Margaret Ann Goodwin
(1892-1985)
(1894-1973)
m. James Parrish, 1927
m. Frederick Stokes, 1916
Ada died in Wolverhampton in 1939.
Enoch Goodwin
Enoch Goodwin, second child of James Johnson Goodwin and Emma Fenn, was born in Wolverhampton on 12 November 1866 and married Sarah Evans there in 1891. Sarah was born in Wolverhampton in 1871 and was the daughter of Samuel and Ann Evans.
The couple had eight children, all born in Wolverhampton:
1.
2.
3.
4.
5.
6.
7.
8.
9.
Gertrude Goodwin
Evelyn Goodwin
Enoch James Goodwin
John Thomas Goodwin
William Goodwin
Ernest Goodwin
Frederick Goodwin
Emma Goodwin
James Goodwin
(1891-1893)
(1892-1961)
(1894-1930)
(1895-1949)
(1897-1992)
(1898-1898)
(1899-1900)
(1900-1901)
(1900-1901)
m. George Challinor, 1921
m. Ethel Rose Hayward, 1927
m. Violet Sparrow, 1916
m. Gertrude Plant, 1921
The five children who died in infancy are buried in Merridale Cemetery.
William Goodwin
William Goodwin, son of James Johnson Goodwin and Emma Fenn, was born in Wolverhampton in 1871 and married Sarah Hannah Wootton there on 19 May 1900. Sarah was born in Wolverhampton in 1874 and was the daughter of Moses Wootton and his wife, Sarah Warren.
William and Sarah had six children, all born in Wolverhampton:
1.
2.
3.
4.
5.
6.
William James Goodwin
Ethel Violet Goodwin
Herbert Goodwin
Ivy Goodwin
John Enoch William Goodwin
Ida May Goodwin
(1900-1901)
(1902-1968)
(1904-1986)
(1906-?)
(1909-1976)
(1911-1996)
m. Albert F W Lockhart, 1949
William died in Wolverhampton in 1913.
Samuel Goodwin
Samuel Goodwin, the youngest child of James Johnson Goodwin and Emma Fenn to survive infancy, was born in Wolverhampton on 5 October 1888 and worked as a turner in the cycle trade. He married Mary Elizabeth Baker there in St John's Church on Christmas Day 1911, but they were already living as man and wife with their first child when the census was taken earlier in the year.
Samuel and Mary had nine children, all born in Wolverhampton:
1.
2.
3.
4.
5.
6.
7.
8.
9.
Thomas Frederick Goodwin
Joseph Goodwin
Elsie May Goodwin
Algernon Goodwin
Samuel Goodwin
Henry Goodwin
Jessie Goodwin
Hilda Evelyn Goodwin
Marjorie Goodwin
(1909-1984)
(1913-?)
(1915-2003)
(1918-1918)
(1919-1999)
(1921-1998)
(1924-2002)
(1926-1999)
(1929-?)
m. Elsie A Burgess, 1942
m. George W Jackson, 1940
m. Lilian Richardson, 1959
m. Ida Watkins, 1944
m. Geoffrey B Jones, 1951
m. Horace Charles Batkin, 1946
m. Roland Hicks, 1952
Mary died in Wolverhampton in 1956 and Samuel in 1959.
Maria Goodwin
Maria Goodwin, oldest child of John Ambrose Goodwin and Sarah Ann Smith, was born in Wolverhampton in 1871 and moved to Manchester with her family as a child. She married Josiah Hackett, a warehouseman, in St Catharine's Church, Manchester on 16 July1892. Josiah was born in Manchester in 1864 and was the son of Thomas Hackett and his wife, Maria Turner. He had previously been married to Emily Dawson, but she died after just two years of marriage, and there were no children from their union.
Maria and Josiah had three children, all born in Manchester.
1.
2.
3.
John Hackett
Alfred Hackett
Emily Louisa Hackett
(1894-?)
(1897-1973)
(1902-?)
Josiah died in Manchester in 1908 and Maria in 1918.
John Ambrose Goodwin
John Ambrose Goodwin, oldest son of John Ambrose Goodwin and Sarah Ann Smith, was born in Wolverhampton on 3 December 1872 and moved to Manchester with his family as a young child. He was an iron moulder and married Margaret Ann Archer in St Catherine's Church, Manchester in 1897. Margaret was born in Salford in 1876, and was the daughter of William Archer and his wife, Eliza Jane Down. She was a widow when she married John, and was previously married to James Arthur Willett, who died in 1895, just a year after their marriage.
John and Margaret had twelve children, all born in Manchester:
1.
2.
3.
4.
5.
6.
7.
8.
9.
10.
11.
12.
Sarah Ann Goodwin
Eliza Goodwin
John Ambrose Goodwin
Sarah Ann Goodwin
Albert Edward Goodwin
Emily Goodwin
Samuel Goodwin
William Archer Goodwin
Alfred George Goodwin
Emily Goodwin
Hilda Goodwin
Walter Goodwin
(1897-1899)
(1898-1949)
(1902-1959)
(1903-1960)
(1905-1972)
(1907-1907)
(1908-1966)
(1910-1999)
(1913-1942)
(1915-1919)
(1916-1988)
(1918-1919)
m. Alfred Oldham, 1919
m. Annie Hardy, 1936
m. John Edward Marples, 1922
m. Mary Kavanagh, 1934
m. Ethel Parlane, 1938
m. Elsie Rawding, 1936
John died in Manchester and was buried in Southern Cemetery on 12 March 1927.
Louisa Goodwin
Louisa Goodwin, daughter of John Ambrose Goodwin and Sarah Ann Smith, was the first of their children to be born in Manchester. She was born on 4 February 1877 and married Robert John Denham in St Catharine's Church, Manchester on 6 November 1897. Robert was born in Manchester in 1875 and was the son of Job Denham and his wife, Annette Crawford.
Louisa and Robert had eight children, all born in Manchester:
1.
2.
3.
4.
5.
6.
7.
8.
Job Denham
Thomas Denham
Robert Denham
John Denham
Joseph Colenso Denham
Baron Joseph Denham
Annetta Denham
Arthur Denham
(1898-1898)
(1898-1898)
(1899-1977)
(1900-?)
(1901-1902)
(1903-1903)
(1904-1962)
(1914-1980)
m. Elizabeth Barber, 1921
m. William Norris, 1932
m. Louisa E Kendall, 1939
Robert was buried in Southern Cemetery on 15 January 1925 and Louisa then married Alfred Henry Walmsley in Manchester in 1934. She died in Manchester in 1945 and was buried in Southern Cemetery on 18 August.
Sarah Ann Goodwin
Sarah Ann Goodwin, daughter of John Ambrose Goodwin and Sarah Ann Smith, was born in Manchester on 20 December 1878 and worked as a shirt machinist as a young woman. She married Harry Berry, a widower, in St Mary's Church, Prestwich on 26 December 1916 and had one daughter:
1.
Ellen Berry
(1918-?)
Sarah died in Manchester in 1946.
Thomas Ambrose Goodwin
Thomas Ambrose Goodwin, son of John Ambrose Goodwin and Sarah Ann Smith, was born in Manchester on 11 November 1880 and spent his working life as an iron moulder. He married Mary Ann White in St Matthew's Church, Ardwick on 8 September 1902 and had seven children, all born in Manchester:
1.
2.
3.
4.
5.
6.
7.
Sarah Ann Goodwin
Thomas Ambrose Goodwin
John Ambrose Goodwin
Lottie Goodwin
Frederick Goodwin
Charles Goodwin
James Goodwin
(1902-?)
(1905-1970)
(1906-1907)
(1909-1996)
(1912-1982)
(1914-1983)
(1920-1983)
m. May Thiele, 1931
Thomas died in Manchester and was buried in Southern Cemetery on 17 November 1934. Mary lived to the age of 81 and died in Manchester in 1966.
Emily Goodwin
Emily Goodwin, daughter of John Ambrose Goodwin and Sarah Ann Smith, was born in Manchester on 29 January 1884 and worked as a shop assistant as a young woman. She married Edward Cooper in St Mary's Church, Prestwich on 6 September 1913 and had four children:
1.
2.
3.
4.
Emily Cooper
Alice Cooper
Betty Cooper
Reginald Cooper
(1914-?)
(1916-?)
(1920-?)
(1922-?)
Emily died in Manchester in 1955.
John Andrew Goodwin
John Andrew Goodwin, son of Jeremiah Ambrose Goodwin and Elizabeth Rebecca Hadley, was born in Wolverhampton in 1880 and worked as a tool grinder. He married Emily Reed in Christ Church, Wolverhampton on 4 January 1915, although they had already been living as man and wife for several years by then. Emily's first child was registered in her maiden name, but is recorded with the surname Goodwin on the 1911 census, and a further four children were registered as Goodwin:
1.
2.
3.
4.
5.
Florrie Reed (Goodwin)
Male Goodwin
Alice Goodwin
Philip John Goodwin
Alfred Goodwin
(1904-?)
(1909-1909)
(1911-1911)
(1912-1915)
(1915-1975)
John served in the Lincolnshire Regiment and the Labour Corps during the First World War and died of wounds in Flanders on 3 June 1916. He is buried in Cinq Rues British Cemetery, Hazebrouck. (He is recorded in "Soldiers Died in the Great War" as John Ambrose Goodwin.) Emily then married Charles Henry Martin in Wolverhampton in 1919 and had three more children.
Mary Elizabeth Goodwin
Mary Elizabeth Goodwin, daughter of Jeremiah Ambrose Goodwin and Elizabeth Rebecca Hadley, was born in Wolverhampton on 1 September 1882 and married George Robert Watkiss there in 1905. George was born in Wolverhampton in 1882 and was the son of Edward Watkiss, a coal merchant, and his wife Martha Lloyd. Mary and George had eight children, all born in Wolverhampton:
1.
2.
3.
4.
5.
6.
7.
8.
Alice May Watkiss
Harriet Fanny Watkiss
Violet May Watkiss
Albert Watkiss
Alfred William Watkiss
George Robert Watkiss
Louisa Watkiss
Edward Watkiss
(1906-1907)
(1909-1985)
(1912-1996)
(1914-1963)
(1920-1984)
(1923-1924)
(1924-?)
(1927-1996)
m. John Baggott, 1937
m. Reginald Crockett, 1936
m. Alice E M Evans, 1941
m. Violet May Foden, 1948
m. Brenda Brindley, 1953
George died in Wolverhampton in 1935, and Mary in 1950.
Theodore Goodwin
Theodore Goodwin, son of Jeremiah Ambrose Goodwin and Elizabeth Rebecca Hadley, was born in Wolverhampton in 1887 and worked as a labourer. He married Mary Sophia Phillips in Wolverhampton in 1915 and served in the South Staffordshire and Worcestershire Regiments during the First World War.
Mary and Theodore's only child was born three months after the Armistice, but died aged eleven days:
1.
Theodore William Goodwin
(1919-1919)
Mary died in Wolverhampton aged just 33 and was buried in Merridale Cemetery on 28 April 1928.
Albert Goodwin
Albert Goodwin, son of Jeremiah Ambrose Goodwin and Elizabeth Rebecca Hadley, was born in Wolverhampton on 14 February 1890 and worked as a groom. He married Amy Elizabeth Hamlet in Wolverhampton in 1910: she was born in Wolverhampton on 7 July 1890 and was the daughter of James Hamlet and Elizabeth Titley.
Albert and Amy had five children, all born in Wolverhampton:
1.
2.
3.
4.
5.
Irene May Goodwin
Albert Ernest Goodwin
Amy Evelyn Goodwin
Florence Goodwin
Doreen A Goodwin
(1911-1992)
(1912-?)
(1915-?)
(1916-?)
(1932-?)
m. Charles W Gardiner, 1940
m. William Ernest Lendrum Argyle, 1932
Albert died in Wolverhampton on 23 July 1952.
May Goodwin
May Goodwin, daughter of Jeremiah Ambrose Goodwin and Elizabeth Rebecca Hadley, was born in Wolverhampton on 13 June 1895 and married William Edward Blackwell there in 1919. The couple had six children, all born in Wolverhampton:
1.
2.
3.
4.
5.
6.
Horace William Blackwell
George Blackwell
Dorothy May Blackwell
Girl Blackwell
Hilda Mavis Blackwell
Victor Ronald Blackwell
(1920-1986)
(1923-?)
(1925-1987)
(1927-1927)
(1929-1990)
(1933-1995)
m. Irene J Pass, 1947
m. John E Meddings, 1952
m. Harold Buet, 1957
m. Pauline B Cotterill, 1959
May died in Lichfield in 1973.
Alfred George Goodwin
Alfred George Goodwin, youngest son of Jeremiah Ambrose Goodwin and Elizabeth Rebecca Hadley, was born in Wolverhampton on 18 January 1897. At the outbreak of World War I he joined the 3rd Batallion, South Staffordshire Regiment (Special Reserve) on 10 August 1914 aged 17 years and 224 days, but was discharged as no longer physically fit for war service on 16 February 1916 without serving overseas.
He married May Hodson in Cannnock in 1919 and had two children:
1.
2.
Lilian Goodwin
Alfred George Goodwin
(1919-1919)
(1920-1976)
m. Eliza Margaret Cameron, 1942
Prior to being discharged from the army, Alfred was diagnosed with mitral insufficiency (attributed to his military training) and spent two months in hospital. His condition was not expected to improve, and he died in Wolverhampton on 3 December 1920 aged 23: he was buried in an official war grave in Wolverhampton Borough Cemetery.
May subsequently married John Barrs in Cannock in 1925 and had a second son. She died in Wolverhampton in 1993 aged 97.
Matthew Houghton Goodwin
Matthew Houghton Goodwin, oldest child of Ann Maria Goodwin, was born in Wolverhampton on 16 January 1879 and appears to have lived with his aunt Mary Ann Goodwin and her husband Samuel Gregory until his mother married Charles Carter and was able to provide a home for him. He married Eliza Davies in Wolverhampton in 1901 and the couple lived with Eliza's parents, George and Ellen.
They had four children:
1.
2.
3.
4.
Ellen Maria Goodwin
Horace Goodwin
Leah May Goodwin
George Frederick Goodwin
(1902-?)
(1907-1971)
(1912-1997)
(1916-1992)
m. Jack Hayward, 1935
Matthew died in Wolverhampton in 1945.
Mary Ann Carter
Mary Ann Carter, oldest daughter of Charles Carter and Ann Maria Goodwin, was born in Wolverhampton on 11 January 1882 and married Alfred Wilkes there on 8 December 1901. Alfred was born in Wolverhampton on 14 October 1879 and worked as a cycle frame maker. He joined the RAF in June 1918 and saw service overseas in France as an aircraft rigger.
The couple had one son:
1.
Alfred Wilkes
(1902-1971)
m. Helen Belton, 1928
Mary Ann died in Wolverhampton in 1960.
Amy Elizabeth Carter
Amy Elizabeth Carter, second daughter of Charles Carter and Ann Maria Goodwin, was born in Wolverhampton on 25 August 1883 and married George Edward Finch there in 1905. George was born in Wolverhampton on 23 September 1881 and was the son of Felix Finch, a coachman, and his wife Elizabeth Day.
George and Elizabeth had four sons, all born in Wolverhampton:
1.
2.
3.
4.
George Edward Finch
William Charles Finch
Frederick Theodore Finch
Henry Albert Finch
(1906-1964)
(1909-1997)
(1912-1974)
(1917-1974)
m. Doris Barker, 1934
m. Hilda M Jones, 1934
Amy died in Wolverhampton in 1957 and George in 1964.
John Carter
John Carter, son of Charles Carter and Ann Maria Goodwin, was born in Wolverhampton in 1886 and worked as a brass caster. He married Ellen Duffield in Wolverhampton in 1906, and had nine children:
1.
2.
3.
4.
5.
6.
7.
8.
9.
John Carter
Ellen Carter
Thomas Charles Carter
May Elizabeth Carter
William Albert Carter
Joseph Ernest Carter
Arthur Carter
Florence Carter
Alfred George Carter
(1906-1972)
(1909-?)
(1911-1942)
(1914-?)
(1916-1988)
(1919-1991)
(1921-1923)
(1923-?)
(1926-1994)
m. Constance Hughes, 1933
m. Walter Edwin Jones, 1937
m. Amelia Bradburn, 1936
m. George Robert Baker, 1936
John died in Wolverhampton in 1934.
Phyllis Carter
Phyllis Carter, daughter of Charles Carter and Ann Maria Goodwin, was born in Wolverhampton on 11 May 1890 and married Douglas Tolley there in 1915. Douglas was born in Walsall in 1885 and was the son of Samuel Charles Tolley and his wife Mary Anne. As a young man he worked as a tool maker, before enlisting in the Worcester Regiment in 1907, and serving in India and Burma. However, his hearing worsened to the point of near-total deafness and he was given a medical discharge from the army in May 1915.
Douglas and Phyllis had three children, one of whom died in infancy:
1.
2.
3.
Douglas Charles Tolley
Phyllis Tolley
Philip Clarence Tolley
(1916-1982)
(1919-1919)
(1920-1976)
m. Dora Elizabeth Higgins, 1939
m. Dorothy Smith, 1941
Douglas died in Wolverhampton in 1949 and Phyllis in 1968.
Philip Henry Rudd
Philip Henry Rudd, son of William Rudd and Emily Goodwin, was born in Bridgnorth and baptised at St Mary Magdalene's Church there on 7 August 1885. He became a baker and married Agnes Annie Lawless in Bridgnorth in 1913. The couple had one daughter:
1.
Doris Annie Rudd
(1916-?)
Philip died in Bridgnorth in 1916 at the early age of 31.
Violet Emily Rudd
Violet Emily Rudd, daughter of William Rudd and Emily Goodwin, was born in Bridgnorth on 4 August 1891 and married William Davis, a labourer, there in 1927. The couple had four children:
1.
2.
3.
4.
Derek Philip W Davis
Clifford Idris Davis
(possibly living)
James Goodwin Davis
(1927-1997)
(1932-1993)
(1935-2004)
Douglas died in Wolverhampton in 1949 and Phyllis in 1968.