Hi Rds. When checking out your connection to William Arthur Read, perhaps take the following into consideration:
At the Weselyan Chapel, Pyle Street, Newport, Isle of Wight on 25 Oct 1911, William Arthur Read, 29, Bachelor, Sergeant 2 Battalion, Suffolk Regiment, Resident at time of marriage "Beulah", Clatterford Royal, Carisbrooke; father Edwin Arthur Read, Gardener, married Beatrice Ellen Goodman, 24, Spinster, Resident at time of marriage same address as Read above, father William Goodman, Captain in Army (Retired). [Captain in Indian Army Department].vMother of William Arthur Read was Alice Augusta Read (not found maiden name yet).
William Arthur Read born 01 Aug 1882, Holton St Mary, Suffolk
Beatrice Ellen Goodman, father William Goodman, mother Ellen Jane Godden, born 24 Aug 1887, Dum Dum (now name of airport for Calcutta), West Bengal, died 19 Mar 1964, Ipswich, Suffolk.
On 13 Nov 1913, baptised at St John the Evangelist (Bath) Leonard Alfred, son of Arthur and Beatrice Ellen Read, abode 27 Hungerford Road, Weston, Bath, occupation painter.
William Goodman aged 26 (born about 1859), father John Goodman, married Ellen Jane Godden or Goddess, aged 20 (born about 1865), father George Godden or Goddess, on 3 Feb 1885, at Dum Dum, Bengal, India
Maybe of significance is a William James Goodman born in 1869 with father Henry Augustus Goodman, who married a Mary Margaret READ on 4 Oct 1897 in Bengal, India with father Robert Read. William James was 28 and Mary Margaret was 26 (born about 1871).
Hope this is helpful and not confusing matters further ! It could be that the Goodman family and Read family go back some way in time.
Cheers
francoso
