Thank you Ray and Maddie for your replies. Re the Martha present at Catherine's death, it is very difficult to make out the writing therefore I am not sure at all that it is Wilkes. I will try and get some other opinions on what the surname might be. I know what you mean Ray re uncertainties and I also feel that I can not be 100% sure although there is a strong possibility, especially with the deceased father named George. Also bearing in mind that it was fairly unusual to have a R/C Goodman in the area. It is also the second time as George (junior) Goodman was found in the boys R/C school also. When Hubert enlisted in the army he gave his mother as his first next akin and said that he also had an elder brother George in London. I did wonder if the George who worked as a porter in Paddington, in the 1901 census, was George (junior), although it also stated that he was born in Ireland in 1881. It was known in my family that my grand father Hubert tried putting a notice in a newspaper in an attempt to find George later on. I have also never managed to discover which newspaper he put that notice in.
