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William John Goodwin
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K | Report | 18 Oct 2010 17:55 |
Delighted it fits - I think this is his birth based on the 1911 census |
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Click ADD REPLY button - not this link! | Report | 18 Oct 2010 17:07 |
So you haven't been able to track down his birth cert? |
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Ursula | Report | 18 Oct 2010 14:21 |
Thank you, all of you! You are so very kind to have done this for me and can't tell you how much it is appreciated. KLindainHerriotCountry: this is fascinating, brilliant result! Now I'll have to dig around and see when Granddad became a Derbyshire Police Constable. If that's possible. Astra is quite right. I've dug out the marriage certificate and my parents were married in 1933 at Mickleover, where the male line of my maternal ancesters lived for centuries, which has made it fairly easy to get back to 1790, where I stuck. But that's pretty respectable so I don't complain. |
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Astra | Report | 17 Oct 2010 16:52 |
Received a PM to say that Ursula's father was William John Goodwin. |
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Astra | Report | 17 Oct 2010 07:47 |
Hi Ursula |
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K | Report | 17 Oct 2010 07:02 |
Interesting that Maude appears to have had a sister Violet |
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LindainHerriotCountry | Report | 16 Oct 2010 20:08 |
This is that family in 1911; |
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K | Report | 16 Oct 2010 19:28 |
This is the only marriage that I can see that fits the names |
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RutlandBelle | Report | 16 Oct 2010 19:26 |
is this your father |
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RutlandBelle | Report | 16 Oct 2010 19:24 |
if you want to give your father's name I'm sure someone would look to see if they could find the family on 1911 census |
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Ursula | Report | 16 Oct 2010 19:11 |
My grandfather, William John Goodwin, was in the army and as my father was born in 1909, in Dover (so my mother said) he may have been stationed there at the time. He may have been in the Welsh Guards, or a Derbyshire or surrounding counties regiment at the time. He was married to Maud (maiden name may have been Griffiths or Walker) and she had a relative living in Pen Coed, Wales, whose name was Violet. Despite long searching I can find no trace of them and would be very grateful for any information anyone may have. |