1851 Berkshire census lookup for Goodwin - servant

[Cannie lad]

I've just ordered the certificates for

John George Goodwin - death 1844

Henry Williamson & Rebecca Goodwin - marriage 1845

Rebecca Williamson - death 1880.

They will be despatched 20 July.  Will await with bated breath.

Jack

[Cannie lad]

I received two of the three certificates I ordered, in today's post.

Jill, here is confirmation of Rebecca and Henry Williamson's marriage:

No. 486 - Aug. 31st. 1845 Hillingden, Middlesex.
Henry Williamson  Full age  Widower  Gardener  Res. at time of marriage Hillingden Father's name - Edward Williamson - Labourer.

Rebecca Goodwin  Full age  Widow Res. at time of marriage - Hillingden.  Father's name - Charles Plumridge (dead) - Gentleman's servant.         

Married in the Parish Church after banns  signed William ?? curator.

Signed Henry Williamson X his mark
            Rebecca Goodwin X her mark  In the presence of Francis Weeden;  Daniel ??

GRO ref:  1845 Sep. Quarter Vol. 03  Page 358.

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The other certificate related to Rebecca's death:

Year 1880 March quarter Vol 10b p.14 - 31 January 1880

4 Douglass Terrace, Newcastle-on-Tyne Rebecca Williamson Female 80 years  Widow of Henry Williamson Gardener  Bronchitis - senile 2 months  Certified by A.W. Newton Surgeon  Charles Goodwin - son present at death  Reg. Second February 1880 Wm S. Findley Registrar.

I'll post details of the third certificate as soon as it arrives.

Jack

[jillruss]

That's great. Don't you just love it when a plan comes together? Interesting that Rebecca's father was also a gentleman's servant - it poses the question, did her father work with John George's father and that's perhaps how they met?

Hopefully the death cert for John George Goodwin will make it a hat trick!

It still leaves his baptism to find as well as his marriage to Rebecca though.  And, of course, will also mean that he should be on the 1841 census - somewhere!

Jill

[Necromancer]

most impressive !   

[Cannie lad]

Jill
Regarding your point about Rebecca's father being a gentleman's servant and the possibilty that she and John George met through that connection.  I can't remember if I mentioned it on this thread but I have John George & Rebecca's son, Charles, on the 1911 census in Newcastle and under Birthplace it states he was born at "Eton Colledge" (sic)  Buckinghamshire.  Now this was written by the enumerator who might have thought anything described as "Eton" meant Eton College.  BUT, I suppose it could be that John George was indeed a servant at the college and that Charles was born there.  I have mentioned that I wrote to the archivist at Eton College but they have no records which he could check with any certainty.
I wondered if anyone has the 1841 census for Buckinghamshire which might show those people living in Eton College on the night the census was taken?

Jack

[jillruss]

Eton College appears to be Schedule 1557 on Find My Past, but I've no credits left.

Can anyone with an Ancestry sub find it please?

Jill

[dee-jay]

I searched but couldn't find them at Eton College or nearby cottages.  I fear that as Charles appears to have been an only child, his father may have died pre-1837.

[Cannie lad]

Let's hang on a little until I receive the death certificate for the John George Goodwin I've sent for.  It could arrive in the post tomorrow (Monday) and assuming it's for the correct man, it will give his birth date.

Jack

[dee-jay]

If you mentioned John George specifically, it could hold up the process as the 1844 reference is in the name of John GOODWIN [no mention of George].