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Just found this post involving Margaret Gilbert who married Henry Samuel Goodrick at St. Paul's Port Adelaide in South Australia on 21 October 1855. He described himself as a bachelor but in fact he was a widower with three surviving children still in King's Lynn in a workhouse after his wife Elizabeth died in 1847 of consumption along with three of their other children, and he was sentenced to transportation for stealing coal in 1850, arriving on the Pyrenees in Perth Western Australia as a Ticket of Leave man in 1953, thence to South Australia as an Expiree.  Margaret died two months after the marriage aged 31 and was buried 14th December 1855 at the Alberton Cemetery Port Adelaide.  Cause of death not noted in the burial records, and there is no record of the death in the Registry, although it is noted in The Biographical Index of South Australians 1836 to 1855.  Henry Samuel Goodrick remarried in Victoria in 1858 to Maria Catherine Hald but had changed his surname to Gathergood by then and all his descendants after that were Gathergoods.  The Thesia Goodrick had a mother whose surname was not Gilbert.  The cemetery records have no mention of a child or any other Goodricks.  Hope this gets to you.  Regards, Kathy Schneider, descendant of Henry Samuel Gathergood (Goodrick).

Hi Jan, yes my research has revealed that his mother's surname was Field too, so even if William wasn't his father his surname would still have been Field if Anne was unmarried at the time.  I've found their wedding (Anne Field m. William Field 23/7/1844 Westminster Middlesex), and Anne Field's parents are Joseph Field (and in his marriage record his wife is Priscilla Crumpton (m. 7.9.1809 Westminster Middlesex).  This accords with the 1861 Census record of Priscilla Field (mother) living with Anne Field, Walter, Ellen and Frederick.  I've found Priscilla living elsewhere in Marylebone in 1851 but can't find her anywhere in 1841.  I was hoping she was living in Hampshire and that Annie was with her but no luck.  Perhaps she was sent to the country to have the baby, or had a job there, but can't find her.  Incidentally the birth certificate for Helen I got said William's job was Ostler and the death certificate for William in 1849 in Norwood describes him as a Fly Master who died at an Inn in Norwood.  Is that an overseer of the fly coaches, or is this possibly the wrong William.  Anne's death certificate describes her as widow of William "Inn Keeper", but that sort of embellishment seems common as time goes on! 

Thanks for that.  Kathy.

Thanks for that information.  Where you say that IGI has William Lindsell and Elizabeth Brewster as parents of Daniel, which Daniel were you referring to, the 1750 one or the 1773 one I was looking for, because if it was the 1750 Daniel then his ?brother William Lindsell who married Susanna Chinery at Braintree in 1772 could be likely parents of the Daniel Lindsell of 1773, or have I read it wrongly?  I am beginning to wonder if the absence of Daniel Lindsell in the Church of England records does indicate Non-Conformist (although all the later marriage and children and grandchildren of our 1773 Daniel in Braintree were all Church of England. 

Does anyone have access to the parish records of Bocking (St Mary's) and Braintree (St. Michael the Archangel) before 1800?  I am looking for the birth of Daniel Lindsell (sometimes spelt Linsell, Lyndsel, Lyndsell) who was born in 1773, married Mary Cook in 1798 and died in 1823.  Are there any details of his birth, the names of his parents, and any brothers or sisters?  Thanks, Kathy.