George GOODMAN

[bgoodman]

Hi everyone, I am away at present therefore I had to put my Goodman ancestors to bed for a while. Having said that I am visiting the Scandinavian countries supposedly where the Goodman name originated from. Goodman folk followed a Scandinavian man called Oscand Gudmund, excuse spelling as I haven't got my notes. The Goodman people firstly settled in Goodmanham. England. I read about the place and it is interesting in that it has a long history of pagan worship.

[[Ray]]

Hi

Just thought I'd throw this one up
http://www.rootschat.com/forum/index.php?topic=625265.0

James Bowler / Julia Holland
Witnesses at the marriage were William Goodman+wife
James father Charles married Jemima Gristwood

Ray

[1783caz]

lol Ray ....
your looking at Buckinghamshire as well now ! Other day  was looking at my mothers side (waters )  that come from there and noticed loads of Goodmans out that way .... i was reading old baily crime reports last night and saw a james goodman 1716 from aylesbury buckinghamshire as well....i was thinking maybe were all concentrating to much on Rushall... there are a few thomas goodmans in middlesex that fit roughly 1760-65 ...one of them could be our Thomas ? ....One was born in 1760 and baptised in 1783 ...isnt middlesex close to ricky ? i think we have to keep our minds open to the fact he couldve always been close to Ricky and just ended up in Rushall for some little reason like farming trip or something lol .... .... ....i was thinking of perhaps researchign the slopers that lived in Rushall for a few centuries ...they wouldve been there at same time as ours ...one of their ancestors left a message in the guestbook on Rushalls website ...be great to contact him but no one seems to reply to mails on that site

[[Ray]]

Hiya!

I threw it up (so to speak) because of the "Gristwood" link to "Goodman".

Funny thing is that "Bowler" is on my wife's side.
So would a "Bowler" - "Gristwood" mean that we are now "related"

 

Ray

?Me= 'Erts[coz i'm here] Middx[coz I was] Bucks[marital Bowler/Tearle/Fuller]
          West 'Am[paternal] Wilts/Hants[maternal "Rufus"]
          S.Glam(the way I dress]

[bgoodman]

Hi all, back in the UK again. Good work Caz and Ray. I found a list somewhere that had Jemima Goodman down as a Non Conformist. It didn't say which faith though. There were other Goodman names listed also. Oh how I wish I kept better notes and at the very least referenced the source of the info. I often overlook that with the women Goodman could be their married name. Wow that would be very interesting to find a connection with Ray's ancestors.

[1783caz]

ive seen jemima goodman a few times ...not a usual name .

just incase ...it may not mean anything but im sniffing round this one now .....
Avis Butchers husband "rev maurice hillier goodman " was born in 1753 ...he lived in OARE Wiltshire ...just next to Rushall ....he worked at a church in wilton as there wasnt one in Oare and also had something to do with one in london  ...but he married Avis in her local church in Rushall ... ... ...... I dont think they wouldve had thomas as avis was born in 1760 ... .... ....but we have to keep maurices family and hers as suspects lol.

...Notes for Rushall : (A).....Reverend Maurice Hillier Goodman (born 1753 ) married Avis Butcher (born 1760 ) and bred and wed-(1779) in Rushall ...... .... ........Avis Butcher wouldve known our Thomas Goodman if he lived in rushall after his birth ........Maurice Goodman is the only record of a Goodman being in the small hamlet Rushall ... ..... ..... have to consider Thomas being a possible adoption ... .... (adoptions were informative things in 18th century and the child would be given to chosen people either family or friends in the same village/town ) ... .......................................... (B) ....William Sloper born 1775 in Rushall married Suzanna Hale in 1797 ....i reckon these were Thomases friends ...
William being born only a few years more than Thomas ,he couldve been very old friends with William Sloper ... = the name given to thomases son George HALE SLOPER Goodman ...(c) ....plan of action .....Scour the Sloper familys line in Rushall and the Hale familys line ,scour documents ,witnesses at deaths and all marraiges available ,....also Breakdown all the villagers families of Rushall at the time of Thomases birth and scour them as well ,including Avis Butchers family...Check to see if there was a book called "Hundred Rolls of Wiltshire/Rushall " check that for list of everyone in the area at the time ...

[bgoodman]

Hi, good for you Caz, go get them girl. I had a look at my notes from my visit to Wiltshire Archives. The info I have re Maurice Goodman's marriage is as follows. "Goodman Maurice Hiller bach of St Benet Grace Church Street, London.
Butcher Avis, spin, 11th July 1779 Lic
John Butcher, Sarah Goodman."
I presume the Lic means license, which could suggest non conformist.
What is also interesting is that there was a Sloper John bach (the name bach again).
Plank Avis spin 31st May 1834
John Burden Ann Sloper.
I suppose as the name bach was written with a small b it may not have been a surname.
 

[1783caz]

Yes thats the place in London .... can never remember the name of it ..
I think Maurice remarried not long after Avis ?
his wife had some church or something built in his memory in Oare ...or was it Oare House ?  ....what im thinking as well he wouldve travelled quite a bit from Thomases birth place to London quite a bit ...having family down wilts and reverend of a church in wilton and to do with London ...

[[Ray]]

bach=bachelor
as in
spin=spinster