Irene Goodman

[Yuitsu]

Help with my great grandmother please!

Managed to find her real name - she was fostered at 18months or younger (1911 census shows her in foster care. still with Goodman as her surname. Her surname later became Townsend, her foster family name. They were in Tonbridge.) and she was born in Northfleet in 1909. No idea of date beyond that, she chose her birthday to be the day after her husbands and the day before my aunts when someone said she should choose one. Birth was registered in Bromley. Had a look through the Northfleet records on Cityark but haven't spotted her. Had no middle name, was just Irene.

[CaroleW]

Is she the index entry shown as 18mths old and living in Tonbridge?

What birthplace is shown for her

[CaroleW]

Births September qtr 1909 
Irene Goodman     Bromley  2a 607

[Yuitsu]

That's her. Wondering if anyone can find anything I haven't, like a baptism. I don't think she was baptised as she became a Jehovahs' Witness later in life.

Think the best bet to finding out anything else is ordering a birth certificate?

[CaroleW]

Hi

I think that is the only way.  I have since found her birthplace on the GRU 1911 index and it's shown as Northfleet.

However - Northfleet did not come under Bromley but as nothing is known of her mother etc - she could have been born somewhere else in Kent

http://www.ukbmd.org.uk/genuki/reg/districts/bromley.html