Jane (aka Elizabeth) Goodman (aka Richards) born Jane Spurr

[OttawaJohn]

I have ran out of search options in looking for my great-grandmother's death record.

Born 1853 Jane Spurr (Nottingham)
1861 with Mother Margaret Mary (nee Rowe) in Nottingham
1871 in interesting  circumstances in Lincoln (Anglican reform institution)
1881 Widowed as Jane Goodman in Leicester with two children John (died Hampshire 1953) and Charles (died Hackney 1951)
1882 Married to Henry Richards, my grandmother Eliza-Emma born 1883 Leicester (died Brighton 1959)
1891 she is living as Elizabeth Banfield (no marriage record) in Shoreditch (all her children are recorded under their real names, her details except name & status are correct) and looks to have been widowed in Leicester in 1886
1901 she is now Elizabeth Goodman living north of Bethnal Green (Mr Banfield is just a visitor)
1911 she is with her son's (Charles Goodman) family north of Bethnal Green and she is Jane Goodman and doing the family's housekeeping.
No obvious death record under Goodman or Richards (discounted one in Poplar and a number of others).

Are you a Goodman, do you know where/when and under what name she may had died ?

[solidrock]

Maybe.
Jane Goodman 1922  M Quarter in ISLINGTON  Volume 01B  Page 349  age 68

[OttawaJohn]

Thank you, but I discounted that one and others between 1911 (where I know where she was) and 1953 when she would had been a 100. This lady in Islington is in 1911, as regretfully are the others. I have checked many them (both Richards and Goodman) from the Death register (BMDs) with 1911 census and discounted those in southern England and her origins of Nottingham and Leicestershire. I also did the math, discounted the reported age at death against the year of death to see if it came "close" =+/- 5 years to 1853 (yes I know they spun yarns regarding their ages.)

What i think (and maybe a Goodman descendant may know) is that in my late Father's (he died 1976) boyhood stories she looms large, along with a Grandfather Dick! Which given, shall we say, her full and varied life along with a significant search in Marriages (BMD) was probably common law relationship and she was using another name!  Grandfather Dick, I was told, fought at the Battle of Omdurman.