1851 Berkshire census lookup for Goodwin - servant

[Cannie lad]

Thanks for the checkups.
I don't have the set of CD's for the NBI and if anyone has and could do a check, I'd be more than grateful.

Jack

[dee-jay]

Jack,

When you were in contact with Eton College, was any mention made of the location of College Chapel registers, in particular Marriages and Burials?

In the recesses of my brain I seem to recall that certain privileges were extended to servants of some of the ancient colleges.  In the case of Eton, it could be advantageous to ascertain if there are registers other than those of the Parish Church which are deposited at Aylesbury.  The College Chapel appears to have 'doubled' as the Parish Church for a slice of the 19th Century but the registers listed on the Bucks FHS site do not include any mention of those of the College Chapel.

See also the 'St John the Evangelist Eton' thread on the  Buckinghamshire forum of this website: http://www.rootschat.com/forum/index.php?topic=289841.0

An enquiry there might produce an early result for an NBI search. 

[Cannie lad]

dee-jay

The reply I had from the Eton College archivist was as follows:
"We have no information on the servants who worked in the boarding houses or in the masters private residences.  The names of the very few staff who looked after the King's Scholars (a minority in the school) can be found in the accounts but we would have no information beyond the years they were paid i.e. nothing on dates or residence".

Thanks for the various links you've given me and I'll add a comment to the thread on St. John The Evangelist, Eton. 

Jack

[Orpheus]

Cannie Lad

Just by way of a change from the elusive GOODWINs I have the marriage of Rebecca PLUMRIDGE's parents:

17 Jan 1791   Charles PLUMRIDGE and Jane STEVENS at Lewknor, Oxfordshire

Orpheus

[Cannie lad]

Orpheus

Many thanks for that and it helps extend the Plumridge connection a little further.  I see that Lewknor is very close to where Rebecca Plumridge was born in Stokenchurch.

But the Goodwin mystery continues!

Jack

[Cannie lad]

I've just checked in the Pallot's Marriage Index 1780-1837 on Ancestry (UK) and found the following entry:

Rebecca Brown & George Goodwin.  Christchurch, Newgate, London. 1829.  The original image gives no further information other than the two names.

Could Rebecca Plumridge have been previously married to a Mr. Brown before marrying John George Goodwin in 1829?  The date is very close to the baptism of Charles George Goodwin in Eton on 21 April 1830.

Jack