Irish Harringtons from Whitechapel

[Gervaise94]

I am trying to trace some family who migrated from Ireland during the famine and settled in the East End of London but have hit a total brick wall with this line.

My G-G grandmother was Elizabeth Harrington who lived in Whitechapel, London (born approx between 1840-1845) and married to a James Goodman who worked in the docks in the East End. They originally came from the Beara Peninsula in Ireland (Cork/Kerry). We only discovered this through a DNA test on Ancestry recently and through looking at our matches with the surname.

I know it’s a long shot but I was wondering if anyone in this group has links to the East London Harringtons (or Goodmans) or even to Elizabeth Harrington. I have very little information. I did find a record for an Elizabeth Harrington born 1847 living with parents Ellen and John in St Anne Soho but I don't know if it's the right Elizabeth.

Any help or anyone with links to this family would be much appreciated!

[riannisuileabhain]

As they were Irish, im assuming they were Catholic so I'll have a look for baptisms and marriages in Ireland and such. In the meantime,

- On Elizabeth and James marriage certificate, is her father's name listed?
- Do you have Eliza and James on any census? what is her birthplace?
- Have you found any censuses (1851,1861 etc) that could be Eliza before marriage?
- What were the names of their children? If there is any baptisms for them, is there any sponsors?

 

[jonwarrn]

1881
4 Flower + Dean Street, Spitalfields
Elizabeth Goodman Head W 40 Hawker, born Middlesex Shoreditch
James Goodman Son 8 Scholar
Mary Ann Goodman Daur 6 Scholar
Kate Goodman  Daur 3 Scholar
Children born Commercial Road

Births
HARRINGTON, JAMES       
Mother's Maiden Surname: GOODMAN 
GRO Reference: 1872  D Quarter in WHITECHAPEL  Volume 01C  Page 372

GOODMAN, MARY  ANN     
Mother's Maiden Surname: HARRINGTON 
GRO Reference: 1874  S Quarter in WHITECHAPEL  Volume 01C  Page 323

GOODMAN, CATHERINE       
Mother's Maiden Surname: HARRINGTON 
GRO Reference: 1877  J Quarter in WHITECHAPEL  Volume 01C  Page 361

[jonwarrn]

Baptisms at Spitalfields, Underwood Road, St Anne (catholic)
1874
Maria Anna Goodman, born 1874

1877
Catharina Goodman, born 1877

Father "James or Jacob"
Mother Elizabeth/e Harrington

Don't have the full details/images, would be worth looking up.

[heywood]

Is this the family?

1881 435 /79/1
4 Flower and Dean Street, Spitalfields - a lodging house
Elizabeth Goodman, widow, 40 yrs Hawker b Shoreditch, Middlesex
James 8 yrs
Mary Ann 6 yrs
Kate 3 yrs

There are some workhouse records for the children too

[jonwarrn]

Yes, that's the family I posted in Reply #2

[heywood]

Sorry, Jon
I only saw your later reply re the baptisms.


Maybe …

1861 373 /76/15

Betsy Harrington 18yrs Farm Servant b Shoreditch
She is boarding in Wandsworth

[jonwarrn]

The Whitechapel Infirmary records you mentioned
1881 for James and Mary Goodman, says father James Deserted
https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3Q9M-CS1B-D487-M

[jonwarrn]

This might be a good one
28 Dec 1872
Elizabeth Harrington, age 30, 7 Flower + Dean Street, Wife of James, Labourer
John Harrington, age 5
Annie Harrington, 18 months
Deserted + pregnant
https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3Q9M-CS1B-ZSXC-L

29 Dec 1872
James Harrington
Born
Child of Elizabeth
https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3Q9M-CS1B-ZSXM-9?i=1099