Just found this post involving Margaret Gilbert who married Henry Samuel Goodrick at St. Paul's Port Adelaide in South Australia on 21 October 1855. He described himself as a bachelor but in fact he was a widower with three surviving children still in King's Lynn in a workhouse after his wife Elizabeth died in 1847 of consumption along with three of their other children, and he was sentenced to transportation for stealing coal in 1850, arriving on the Pyrenees in Perth Western Australia as a Ticket of Leave man in 1953, thence to South Australia as an Expiree. Margaret died two months after the marriage aged 31 and was buried 14th December 1855 at the Alberton Cemetery Port Adelaide. Cause of death not noted in the burial records, and there is no record of the death in the Registry, although it is noted in The Biographical Index of South Australians 1836 to 1855. Henry Samuel Goodrick remarried in Victoria in 1858 to Maria Catherine Hald but had changed his surname to Gathergood by then and all his descendants after that were Gathergoods. The Thesia Goodrick had a mother whose surname was not Gilbert. The cemetery records have no mention of a child or any other Goodricks. Hope this gets to you. Regards, Kathy Schneider, descendant of Henry Samuel Gathergood (Goodrick).
