goodwin

[Spidermonkey]

Erm, I hope you weren't thinking of making a visit to the ancestral pile, cos from looking at google street view, it appears to now be a used car lot.  (judging by the architecture concrete monstrosity) it was built in the 1960s.

[jane l]

wont be going there then

[Spidermonkey]

Well, I don't know - you might be able to get a discount on a new car 

Not sure whether you had got Stephen and Hephzibah's wedding cert, but I just had a look on the Medway City Ark website and found it - it gives Stephen's dad so we can look to see if there is a family that fits!

Marriage took place on Nov 2nd 1876 at St peters Rochester

Stephen Thomas Goodwin / 21 / bachelor / labourer / Miles Place, Dilce Road (?) / Stephen Goodwin / Engine Driver
Hephzibah Keturah Beaney / 19 / spinster / Miles Place, Dilce Road / Thomas Beaney / Labourer

Stephen signed, Hephzibah made her mark
Witnesses were John Beaney and Rose Petty

[jane l]

yes  i have got it had to buy it [at cost] to see if i could find out anything about this side of the faimly but cheers anyway.

[Spidermonkey]

Hmmmm, where's Frindsbury?  On the 1861, 1871 and 1881 there is a Stephen (Steven on 1881) with parents Stephen and Sarah and assortment of siblings.  I realise we already have who we suspect is Stephen and Elizabeth/Hephzibah on 1881 but the Steven on the 1881 with his parents is enumerated as being married.....


So are there two Goodwin families or one family who likes to change their name?

[jane l]

 i think its around rochester and yes i'm finding 1 or more familes hard to sort out

[Spidermonkey]

Stephen senior claims to be an Engine Driver on the 1871 census - which would link to Stephen junior's marriage 

[jane l]

yes it would

[Spidermonkey]

1861 census:

Stephen Goodwin  Head  Mar  33  Labourer  bn Deal
Sarah Goodwin   Wife  Mar  30  bn Cobham (in Kent)
John Goodwin  Son  5  bn Frindsbury
Stephen Goodwin  Son  3  bn Frindsbury
RG9; Piece: 476; Folio: 58; Page: 21

1871 census: Borstal Road, Rochester

Stephen Goodwin  Head  MAr  42  Engine Driver  bn Deal
Sarah Goodwin  Wife  Mar  40  bn Deal
John Goodwin  Son  15  Scholar  bn Frindsbury
Stephen Goodwin  13  Scholar  bn Frindsbury
William Goodwin  Son  10  Scholar  bn Rochester
Sarah Goodwin  Dau  4  Scholar  bn Rochester
RG10; Piece: 903; Folio: 10; Page: 14