Hi
Sorry for the delay. Ancestry literally wiped most of this side of my family tree including all the attached documents so I have had to start again! I have found William Goodwin in the 1841 census. He is 46, living at Twenty Row in Burslem and is listed as a Carter, with the rest of his family all potters. In 1851 he is at Norton le Moors and is a labourer at the colliery, but his daughter is still a potter. His son (my GGG Grandfather) Isaac Goodwin is a pot packer in 1861 + 1871, but in Mexborough. Not sure how or why he ends up here, as there is no family connection to the place before this. His children are born in Wales, London, Staffordshire and Mexborough. The there is John Charles Goodwin, who is my GG Grandfather, born 1858 in Burslem, but living in Denaby (near Mexborough) He is in the army for a while, but is a coal miner on all the census entries. He gets around a bit as he is recorded on the census in Ashton under Lyne in 1891, 1901 he is in Denaby, but can't find him yet in 1881. He is in prison a lot though so that might be where he is during that census. I have 7 prison records for him being drunk and disorderly, assault, deserting the Manchester militia and also abandoning his family. He meets my GG Gran in Dublin, (I think she was from Kildare) and they marry in Manchester where she is staying in a hotel and the publican is a witness so maybe they eloped? Their children are born in Ashton under Lyne, Denaby and Castleford.
Many thanks,
Amanda