Irish Harringtons from Whitechapel

[cuffie81]

There is this death
Decembe4 1876 Whitechapel
James Goodman 37 yrs

I don't think this helps much but...

Burial
name: James Goodman
buried: 20 Dec 1876; City of London Cemetery, Little Ilford
age: 37 years
residence: London Hospital
death district: Whitechapel Church?, Middlesex
parish: St Mary
no: 139502

https://col-burialregisters.uk/archive/burial-registers-january-1870-to-december-1879/register-028/1073016

[cuffie81]

Possible death of Elizabeth?

1896 Q3 Death - Betsey Goodman; age 50 (born c1846); Whitechapel; 01C; 229

EDIT: Ignore this, I think this one is likely the wife of Marks Goodman, both born Russia.

[Gervaise94]

Thank you all so much! I am so grateful and overwhelmed at these responses. It’s very exciting so I will go through all records you have shared properly today.

Some background…

I knew about Elizabeth Harrington through recently purchasing Catherine (my G grandmother’s birth certificate) and it had Elizabeth Harrington and James Goodman as parents. I have quite a lot of records on her. She married a German protestant in Birmingham but they baptised their kids in a Catholic Church up there.

The issue is going beyond Elizabeth and James, I am struggling to find records of them and their parentage. I reckon they married in Ireland and came over during the famine and Irish records have been tricky. Plus there are so many with the same names so it’s hard to know who are the right ones.

Jonw65 - Yes, I believe those are the children and I have those records (Catherine, Maryann and James Goodman). I had not seen that infirmary record but that would make sense. I have noticed records for both mother Elizabeth and James living separately stating they are widowed on forms, so perhaps he deserted them and that’s why they both just put widowed. Even the daughter Catherine put on her marriage record that her father James was deceased, but I saw a record recently that seemed like him alive at the time (he was living in the area and a retired dock worker - living in a union workhouse). I saw a comment saying they may not have been married at all which could have been the case!

I hadn’t seen those family search records before so will look at those today. 

[Gervaise94]

There is this death
Decembe4 1876 Whitechapel
James Goodman 37 yrs

I don't think this helps much but...

Burial
name: James Goodman
buried: 20 Dec 1876; City of London Cemetery, Little Ilford
age: 37 years
residence: London Hospital
death district: Whitechapel Church?, Middlesex
parish: St Mary
no: 139502

https://col-burialregisters.uk/archive/burial-registers-january-1870-to-december-1879/register-028/1073016

This is interesting, thanks. Catherine who married in 1899 had put him as deceased on her marriage cert.

I had suspected this might have been him in the 1911 census:

Name   James Goodman
Age in 1911   67
Estimated Birth Year   1844
Relation to Head   Inmate
Gender   Male
Birth Place   Whitechapel
Civil parish   Mile End Old Town
Country   England
Street Address   Whitechapel Union Workhouse, South Grove Bow E
Marital Status   Widowed
Occupation   Formerly Dock Labourer
Registration District Number   21
Sub-registration district   Mile End Old Town North Eastern
ED, institution, or vessel   34-37
Piece   1650

[Gervaise94]

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

This definitely looks like them, thanks! Hadn't seen this before.

[Dundee]

I reckon they married in Ireland and came over during the famine and Irish records have been tricky.

Elizabeth was born in Shoreditch so that seems unlikely.

Did Catherine give an occupation for her father when she married or is it just 'deceased'?  What is James' occupation on Catherine's birth cert?

Debra 

[Gervaise94]

Ah yes true.

Her marriage cert says he was a gas fitter (James Goodman). There is another record for a Catherine in 1891 at 5 Crossland Sq Bethnal Green with James Goodman father, a widowed bell hanger who was born in St Olaves. Apparently bell hangers and gas fitter was a crossover occupation so I thought this could be him, but not sure! It also has sister Mary Ann on it, aged 15 born at St Georges in the East.
 
But on the '81 census it has them living with the mother who has also put widowed. It's very confusing.

[riannisuileabhain]

Seems as if Elizabeth and James weren’t properly married perhaps it would be worth researching if one of them was already married to someone else and they were also separated? maybe you could also check parish minute books to see if James had to pay any fine for having illegitimate children/deserting them.

[jonwarrn]

St Anne, Underwood Road, Spitalfields, 8 April 1868
Joannes Harrington
Born 4 March 1868
Mother Elizabeth Harrington
Godmother Elizabeth Reardon?

St Mary Moorfields, 21 March 1873
Jacobus Goodman
Born 29 December 1872
Father Jacobi Goodman
Mother Elizabetha Goodman olim Harrington
Godmother Eliza Connor?? (needs another look!)

St Anne, Underwood Road, Spitalfields, 23 Sep 1874
Maria Anna Goodman
Born 15 July 1874
Father Jacobi Goodman
Mother Elizabethe Goodman olim Harrington
Godmother Honora Manning

St Anne, Underwood Road, Spitalfields, 6 May 1877
Catharina Goodman
Born 19 March 1877
Father Jacobi Goodman
Mother Elizabeth Goodman olim Harrington
Godmother Kate Bryan