Fitzpatrick and Howe ancestors

Extract from Fitzpatrick family tree, Shearman, 1878, p.402.

Little was known about George Goodfellow's Fitzpatrick and Howe ancestors until the discovery of a Fitzpatrick family tree and Jane (Howe) Fitzpatrick's residences in the England Census 1841 - 1901.

This family tree came from a connection with Matthew Fitzpatrick's family in New South Wales.

It contains the correct information that Grace [Fitzpatrick], a daughter of John Fitzpatrick and Jane Howe, married [Henry] Goodfellow.  

Further searching for John E. FitzPatrick 14th Hussars, found its source in a long journal article devoted to the ancient Earls of Ossory in Ireland. This Fitzpatrick family tree is between unrelated pages of text.  

Fitzpatricks of Ballogh link to the Fitzpatricks of Ballyboodan through the father of 2. Joseph Fitzpatrick, who was 1. John Fitzpatrick, son of Thady Fitzpatrick (d.1674).  

Shearman, J. F. “Loca Patriciana: Part XII. The Early Kings of Ossory: The Seven Kings of Cashel Usurpers in Ossory: The Kings of the Silmaelodra-Of the Clan Maelaithgen - Maelduin Mac Cumiscagh-Cearbhall Mac Dungal: The Anglo-Norman Invasion of Ossory, &c., &c. Martin the Elder, a Patrician Missionary in Ossory: His Churches.” The Journal of the Royal Historical and Archaeological Association of Ireland, vol. 4, no. 33/34, 1878, pp. 336–408. JSTOR, Accessed 16 Nov. 2023.

Early Kings of Ossory

Matthew Fitzpatrick, younger brother of John, was a Captain in the 39th Regiment which served in New South Wales between 1825 and 1832.  The Fitzpatricks in Australia since the mid-1800s trace their ancestry to the Fitzpatricks of Ballagh from the mid-1700s and back to the Baron of Upper Ossory.  The Fitzpatrick Society  website has comprehensive research about the family history.

Jane (Howe) Fitzpatrick's birthplace in Clerkenwell London was in the 1851 and 1861 Census.  If Jane was 50 in 1841 and 60 in 1851, she was born in about 1791, rather than 1795.

Mathew Fitzpatrick's connection to Australia

The Fitzpatrick Society website states that the “Fitzpatricks in Australia since the mid-1800s trace their ancestry to the Fitzpatricks of Ballagh from the mid-1700s and back to the Baron of Upper Ossory. “

Mathew Fitzpatrick was a younger brother of John, sons of Charles and Catherine of Ballagh.  Mathew was a Captain in the 39th Regiment, which became the East Middlesex Regiment of Foot, then the Dorsetshire Regiment of Foot after 1807.  This Regiment was also in the same battles in France as the 3rd Buffs, part of the occupation army 1815 to 1818, after which it embarked for Ireland.  

Mathew married Susan Woolls in 1817, when he was a Lieutenant in the 97th Regiment of Foot.  After it was disbanded in 1818, he could have been in the 88th and 37th Regiments.  By 1823, Mathew was in the Royal Irish Constabulary in Cork and Tipperary.   He was a sub-inspector in the Royal Irish Constabulary when he died in Bandon, Cork in 1843 (Irish Parish Register Burials, Ffolliott Collection and Suzanne England, 7 April 2024).

Family Tree Maker chart, 3 January 2024

Family Notices, Evening News, 14 March 1874, p.2
nla.gov.au/nla.news-article107139885, 17 November 2023

On 14 March 1874, there was a notice in the Evening News in Sydney, advising Susan Louisa had died on 16 December 1873, at 8 Lawn Terrace, Blackheath.  This was in Lewisham, County Kent, England.  She was “widow of the late Matthew John Fitzpatrick, Esq, of Queen’s County, Ireland, formerly of H.M.S. 39th Regiment” (National Library of Australia, Trove). 

Mathew did not go to New South Wales with the 39th Regiment, which was guarding convicts and establishing settlements in Van Diemen’s Land and New South Wales, between 1825 and 1832.  He died in Ireland, not in Bandon near Mudgee in New South Wales.  Susan died in England, not in Blackheath in the Blue Mountains west of Sydney.  The Mathew who died aged 30 in 1856 (NSWBMD 474/1856 registration district LA = Roman Catholic, St James’ Sydney) was not related to this family.  Thanks to Suzanne England for these corrections.

It was Mathew and Susan's son Matthew, who migrated to Australia, perhaps in the early 1850s.  He married Sabina Gadd [Sabrina Gade] in 1857 (NSWBMD 2732/1857, registered Wellington).  

On the Shearman Fitzpatrick family tree, Mathew's wife was unknown; their marriage was 1856.  Mathew, of “Ossory” Merindee, Welllingstonshire, NSW, was living in 1878.  This property was Merinda, near Mudgee.  Their children were Joseph, Mathew, Frederick, Sabina, Letitia and Gertrude.

Merinda, Google Air Photo, 3 January 2024.

Reminiscences about "Merrendee" in 1908 described events including the kangaroo hunt led by M. Fitzpatrick of Ossory.

Matthew John Fitzpatrick, parents Matthew J and Sabina, was buried at the Church of England, Randwick on 13 August 1933 (NSWBMD 16345/1933, registered Waverley). 

Henry and Grace Goodfellow in London

 

At the 1851 Census, Grace and Henry were living at High Street, Glastonbury.  Grace was aged 27, born in France (British subject).  Her occupation was schoolmistress.  Their son George was 3, daughter Elizabeth was one year old and son Arthur was a baby.  Henry’s occupation was druggist.  At Constance Elizabeth’s baptism on 12 January 1851, Henry’s occupation was described as “chemist”.  In 1850, Henry – druggist, grocer and dealer in Berlin Wools - had been declared a debtor.

These could have been poor economic times.  Nearby between Glastonbury and Wincanton is the village of Ditcheat.  Here, another Henry Goodfellow, aged 15 was a pauper orphan, grandson of John Hanham Goodfellow age 73 and his wife, also paupers and their daughter.

Henry and Grace and their family moved to London about 1853, as at the 1861 Census, their next two children Horace age 9 and Susan age 4 had been born in Glastonbury, but Gertrude (4) and Grace (2) had been born in St Marylebone.  They were living at Princess Terrace, in Pancras Ward, City of London.  Their daughter Jane born about 1854 in St Marylebone, London, had died in January 1855.  Their daughter Susan was born at St Pancras about 1856 and daughters Gertrude in December 1857 and Grace 1859 at St Marylebone.   The address in the original Census record was 4 Princesses Ter (Warrick House), Ecclesiastic District of St Marks Regents Park, Pancras Parish, ward 4.  I could not find this street until I searched the Booth London Poverty Map and found 4 Princess Road in the Parish of St Marks Regents Park.  Grace’s birthplace was recorded as France.  Henry was a commercial clerk.

In the 1871 Census, they were living at Oxford Ter in the Ecclesiastic District of St Stephen, Parish of Hammersmith (also St Pauls).  The Booth Map has a parish of St Stephen Acton north of Uxbridge Road, mostly rural with Wormwood Scrubs.  St Stephen church is on the south side of Uxbridge Road near Shepherds Bush park.  I could not find Oxford Terrace in this parish, but there is both Oxford and Cambridge Gardens to the east in the parish of St Helen's.  Searching through the preceding pages of Census records, there were farms around Woods Lane including Oak Farm.  Later, in 1882, when Henry died, their address was Oak Villas.  It seems more likely that Henry and Grace lived in this vicinity, further south in Hammersmith where there are adjacent St Stephen and St Paul parishes but no Oxford Terrace.   

In 1871, their son, George Goodfellow was a railway porter, boarding at 20 Hayden Square, Holy Trinity Minories, Whitechapel, Goodmans Fields, London.  He could have been working at the nearby railway yards.

By 1881 Henry, Grace and daughters Susan (25, born St Pancras) and Gertrude (23, born Marylebone) were living at 32 Netherwood Road, Ecclesiastic Parish of St Matthew, Parish of Hammersmith, District of Fulham.  Henry age 56 was a builder’s clerk. Grace and Susan were both governesses. Gertrude was a book keeper.

In 1882, both Henry and their daughter Susan died.  Henry died in Fulham, London on 12 August of peritonitis.  The informant was G.F. Goodfellow, daughter.  This would be Gertrude.  Their address was 2 Oak Villas, General Road, Shepherd’s Bush.  I cannot find this address on Family Tree Maker or Google Maps, but there is an Oak farm to the north of St Stephens church on Uxbridge Road.  Shepherd’s Bush is west of The Regents’ Park, whereas Marylebone and Clerkenwell are to the east of the park.  Grace’s mother, Jane Howe was born in Clerkenwell in 1791.

Only six weeks later, Susan age 26 died of phthisis – tuberculosis.  This time it was her mother, Grace Goodfellow, who was the informant and “present at the death”.  Susan had “no occupation”, but at the 1881 census, she was a governess.  Perhaps she became ill after that.

In 1889 Grace was the beneficiary of her son Horace’s estate, valued at £200.  Grace was living at 13 Aldine Street, Uxbridge, Middlesex and was Horace’s next of kin.  Horace died of pneumonia on 29 November 1888 at South Brisbane Hospital.  He had travelled with his brother George on the ship “Winefred” to Brisbane in 1874.  He was living at Catherine Street, Boggo Road, South Brisbane. Grace’s mother, Jane Howe Fitzpatrick also died in 1889.

Aldine Street Hammersmith Booth Map

Booth London Poverty Map Hammersmith

By the 1891 Census, Grace, widowed, age 68 was letting apartments and still living at 13 Aldine Street, Fulham, Hammersmith.  This address was also in the Ecclesiastic Parish of St Stephen, Parish of Hammersmith.  Living with her were daughters Gertrude, now 31 and grand-daughter Florence H. age 9.  The index says Florence was Grace’s daughter, but the original record notes "gr d".  Gertrude’s occupation was a boot saleswoman.

Gertrude (40) and Florence (18) were still living with Grace in 1901, at 43 Caithness Road, South Hammersmith.  The Ecclesiastic Parish was St Matthew with part Christ Church West Kensington Park.  Grace’s birthplace was Boulogne, France, British subject.  On the Family Search index, her birthplace is recorded as Boulogne, Picardie, France.  This confirms the place is Boulogne-sur-Mer in north west France on the coast of the English Channel.  Gertrude was still a boot saleswoman; Florence, Grace’s grand-daughter, was a typewriter.  Also in the household was Hope Cooper, age 41, a single male boarder and a journalist and author.  Could there be a family connection with Henry's younger brother, John Tewksbury Goodfellow who married Mary Cooper?

Searching for Grace’s death record, I found that her daughter Gertrude Fitzpatrick Goodfellow had died before her – on 30 March 1903.  She was aged 44.  Probate was granted on 11 May 1903 to her brother Arthur and Grace’s grand-daughter Florence Henrietta Goodfellow.

Grace died age 81 in March 1905 in Fulham, London. There was no record of probate from a will.  

Fitzpatrick Family of Ballagh, Queen's County Laois

This Fitzpatrick family tree links Daisy Grace Goodfellow with her grandmother Grace Fitzpatrick and the Fitzpatricks of Ballagh.

  

Fitzpatrick Ancestors of Daisy Grace Goodfellow.  Family Maker chart with Fitzpatrick ancestors from Shearman, J. F. “Loca Patriciana: Part XII. The Early Kings of Ossory, 1978, between pp. 402-403.

Mike Fitzpatrick’s article about the Will of Thady Fitzpatrick noted the townland is now called Ballgaharahin (Fitzpatrick 2023, p.9).  A story in the Schools Collection, Errill, Ballybrophy: Local Ruins, confirmed that “Ballagh” in Rathdowney Parish is “Ballogh”.

Shearman, J. F. “Loca Patriciana: Part XII. The Early Kings of Ossory: The Journal of the Royal Historical and Archaeological Association of Ireland, vol. 4, no. 33/34, 1878, pp. 336–408, page 402.  JSTOR, http://www.jstor.org/stable/25506726. Accessed 16 Nov. 2023, 

John Fitzpatrick, according to this Fitzpatrick family tree, was born in 1786 and married Jane Howe in 1820.  Their daughter Grace married [Henry] Goodfellow and daughter Mary married [Thomas] Howe.  John died on 6 March 1838.  These facts confirm his identity from marriage, Census, death and burial sources.  From his marriage certificate, John was a Captain in the 88th Regiment of Foot.  His death date is specifically stated as 6 March 1838, but I could not find any John Fitzpatrick in the 3rd Buffs, which was a Kent Regiment.  His marriage bond stated he was a Captain in the 88th Regiment of Foot. Captain John Fitzpatrick

According to the Shearman family tree, the parents of John Fitzpatrick (1786-1838) were Charles Fitzpatrick of Ballogh and Catherine Purcell of the Loughmoe family.  John’s older brother was Joseph Fitzpatrick of Ballogh d.1852 who married Francis Dowling (living in 1878).  His younger brother Mathew, a Captain in the 39th Regiment, married Susan Wools in 1817.

Ballagh Castle, Google Street View, 18 February 2024

Ballogh was Ballagh, now the townland of Ballagharahin in Rathdowney Parish, county Laois in central Ireland.  There is an old castle, Ballagh.  

This is not the Ballaghmore Castle in Lower Ballaghmore townland, which is further north in Kyle Parish between Roscrea and Borris-in-Ossory.    

Charles’ father, John's great-grandfather, also John, married Dymphna Shanahan.  He was "of Ballogh", a rural townland in County Laois.  This John died in May 1784 and was buried at Errill (Rathdowney Parish), where is a 400 year-old Fitzpatrick Wayside Cross.

John (d.1784)’s father, Joseph Fitzpatrick (b.abt 1702) was heir-at-law to his brother Thomas, who died in 1752.  Thomas had purchased Loughteague near Stradbally from John, Earl of Upper Ossory.  They were grandson of Thady Fitzpatrick (d.1674).

This is the link between the Fitzpatricks of Ballyboodan and the Fitzpatricks of Ballogh.

Fitzpatrick family in land and probate records

Ballagharahin and Errill townlands, Rathdowney Parish.
Family Tree maker air photo, 8 February 2024.

In 1827, in the Tithe Applotment Books, there were 427 Fitzpatrick surnames in Queen’s County (before it was Laois) (33 in Rathdowney Parish, including Joseph Fitzpatrick (d.1852), an occupier in Ballagh townland in 1829 and Kenny Fitzpatrick in Errill townland.  In FamilySearch is a record of Probate for Joseph Fitzpatrick 1852, Laois, (Ireland Landed Estate Court Files, 1850-1885, vol 019 doc no. 027). In Griffith’s Valuation in 1858, Fanny Fitzpatrick in Errill town had a house valued at £1/12/-; the Lessor was Maurice Dowling.  Most of the townland has the immediate lessor Right Hon. John W. Fitzpatrick.  John W. Fitzpatrick was the lessor of 428 acres: all the land in Loughteeog townland in County Laois in 1857.  Charles, John and Richard were in Killeany townland in Clonenagh parish. 

There were Fitzpatrick, Dowling and Purcell families in Aughanlee townland, Clonenagh Parish in 1829.  Add Dowling and Purcell townland maps. 

  

Jane Howe in London and Essex 1791 - 1889

Jane Howe was born in Clerkenwell, London about 1791.  Jane consistently stated this birthplace in two census records.  The previous discovery of a baptism on 11 December 1792 in Stretton under Fosse (Monks Kirby), Warwickshire, 1787-1794 seems unlikely, unless this was Jane's family place.

 

Jane's marriage to John Fitzpatrick is in the Shearman Fitzpatrick family tree, which noted that Jane Howe was a niece of General Gardiner.  General Sir Robert Gardiner (1781-1864) was the youngest son of Captain John Gardiner of the 3rd Buffs Regiment and brother of Lieutenant Sir John Gardiner of the 61st Foot Regiment.  Colonel William Gardiner was in the 88th Foot in 1782, before promotion to Lieutenant General.  It is not known which was Jane's uncle.  She was part of a military family.

John and Jane’s children were John, Thomas, Mary, Grace and Jane.  John E. Fitzpatrick was in the 14th Hussars, another military career.  He died in about 1874, according to the family tree.  Thomas died in the Crimea in 1855, on military service.  There is a record of Mary’s baptism on 16 March 1822 at St Martin in the Fields (FamilySearch) and Mary married Thomas Howe on 30 August 1841.  Grace's baptism in London in 1825 recorded her birth in France in 1823.  Grace married Henry Tewksbury Goodfellow in 1847; he died in 1882.  Their youngest daughter, Jane was recorded as deceased on the Shearman Fitzpatrick family tree [dated1878]. 

Jane (Howe) Fitzpatrick, London residence 1791-1871
England and Wales Census, Family Tree Maker map, dates added in PowerPoint

In the 1841 Census, Jane aged 50, of independent means, was living at 5B, Brunswick Place, Finsbury, Islington in London.  Her birthplace was in the same County [presumably Middlesex].  Grace aged 17 (born in France, about 1824) and Jane aged 8 (not born in Islington Parish, about 1833).  Mary was married on 30 August 1841.  The 1841 Census was on 6 June, so Jane was born between June 1790 and June 1791.

Extract from England and Wales Census 1841, Islington Parish
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The 1851, 1861 and 1881 Census records her birthplace as Clerkenwell, Middlesex.

In the 1851 Census, Jane age 60, widow, birthplace Clerkenwell, was a visitor in Hardings Terrace, Newington, Surrey.  This is south of the Thames River, in the Ecclesiastic District of St Mary's, Borough of Lambeth in County Surrey.  The church is on Kennington Park Road, opposite Mansionhouse Street.  I could not find Harding Terrace in  Google maps, but in the Booth maps there is a faint name on the north side of Penton Place which could be Hardings Terrace.  Jane was in the household of Richard and Mary Woolcock. Richard was born in Finsbury, so perhaps Jane knew him from Brunswick Place.

In the 1861 Census, Jane, age 65, widow, birthplace Clerkenwell, Middlesex, was a pensioner and lodger in the household of Peter Jervis at 3 Bark Place, Paddington.  This is in the Ecclesiastic District of St Matthew, Borough of Marylebone. Her birth year was estimated to be 1796.

Jane Fitzpatrick could not be found in the 1871 Census index in Family Search.  I presumed she had died, but could not find any death record between 1861 and 1871.  Later, I found her in the FindMyPast index - at 48 Judd Street, St Pancras.  The Ecclesiastic Parish was St Pancras, but previously St Jude.

When I could not find Jane in 1871, I searched for her daughter Mary Howe in 1881; there was Jane, age 86, a widow and annuitant.  Her birthplace was still recorded as Clerkenwell, Middlesex and birth year estimate as 1795.  She was living at Brentwood Essex with her daughter and son-in-law, Mary J and Thos A Howe.  Mary and Thomas’ marriage was on 30 August 1841 at Saint Mary, Islington.  This was three years after Jane’s husband John died.  In 1871, Mary, age 60, born 1821 was a teacher of music.  Thomas, age 70, born 1811 at Cheshunt Hampshire, was a professor of languages.

Jane (Howe) Fitzpatrick, London and Essex residence 1791-1889
England and Wales Census, Family Tree Maker map, dates added in PowerPoint.

Finally, by the 1881 Census, Jane had moved to Back Street, 3 Stamford House, Brentwood, County of Essex.  This place was called a "hamlet", but is now a town and this address could not be found in 2024 Google Maps.

Searching now for Jane in the 1891 Census, there was her death age 95 in 1889.  Jane died at the home of her daughter Mary and son-in-law Thomas Howe in Billericay, Essex.  The Probate record stated her death on 5 March 1889 at Essex, with probate granted on 26 March to beneficiaries Mary Howe and Thomas Aspinall Howe.  If Jane was aged 50 in 1841 and 60 in 1851, her birthdate was between June 1790 and June 1791, rather than 1794-95.  In FamilySearch Genealogies there is an incorrect record for Jane Howe, 1793-1853, parents Susannah and George Howe, died Somerset.  This includes the Brentwood Essex residence.

Jane had lived more than fifty years after the death of her husband John.  Her annuity was probably a military widow’s pension.  She consistently stated her birthplace Clerkenwell in London – between Marylebone and Islington - and lived all this time just north of the Thames River and the City of London, east and south of Regent’s Park.

George Goodfellow in London 1871

At the 1871 Census, George Goodfellow was a railway porter, boarding at 20 Hayden Square, Holy Trinity Minories, Whitechapel, Goodmans Fields, London.  This was an area south of the railway goods yard, just east of London City and north of the Tower of London .  According to Charles Booth's London Poverty Maps of 1898, the housing on the south east of Haydon Square was poor, with income of 18 shillings to 21 shilling per week for a moderate family.  In the block to the north, the housing was very poor, casual, with chronic want.  Booth London Poverty Maps 

George, as a railway porter, may have worked at the nearby goods yard.  In these circumstances, he may have been attracted to Australia by immigration advertisements for land order passage to Queensland.

In October 1873 he boarded the ship “Winefred” as an assisted passenger with a land order.  The ship landed in Brisbane in January 1874.  Ten days later, George married Margaret Johnston, also a passenger on the “Winefred”. As George and Margaret must have known each other on board ship and probably before leaving England, I searched - unsuccessfully - for Margaret (Rebecca) Johnston in London in the 1871 Census.  I thought she may have lived somewhere near Hayden Square.  So far, I have not found any Margaret Johnson/ Johnston born in France in these records.

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Margaret Rebecca Johnston and George Henry Goodfellow
Photograph from Glenda Edwards, 2014

George Goodfellow and Margaret Johnston were married in Brisbane, Queensland, Australia on 26 January 1874.  Between 1886 and 1889 they lived at Bustard Head lighthouse, between Gladstone and Bundaberg, Queensland.

George was born in Glastonbury, Somerset, England.  Margaret Johnston was born in Paris, France.  George's father, Henry Goodfellow's family lived in Wincanton, Somerset.  His mother, Grace Fitzpatrick was born in France.

The Fitzpatrick family descended from the the Earls of Ossory in Ireland.  John Fitzpatrick and his brothers and Jane Howe's uncle were soldiers in the British Army.  Fitzpatrick puzzles solved

Little is known about the Johnston and Pasquie families.

Can you help?

Margaret Johnston was born at Dunstin Lees according to her death certificate.  Where is this place in Paris?  Is this a phonetic spelling of d'Austerlitz, in the 12th arrondissement in Paris?

Why was her father Arthur Johnston in France?  Is her father the Arthur William Johnson baptised in Paris in 1827, but born 14 years earlier in Java in 1813?

Was her mother Annie Pasquie, the Anne Pasquier recorded in baptisms in 1833 at Église Saint-François-Xavier-des-Missions-étrangères (Church of St Francis Xavier of the Foreign Missions) in the 7th arrondissement in Paris?

In the April 1871 Census in London, George Goodfellow was at Holy Trinity Minories.  Nearby in Spitalfields was a Margaret Johnson age 13, born in Liverpool, a boarder and scholar in the Christ Church refuge.  By October 1873, she would have been sixteen.  Could this be the  Margaret Johnson on board the Ship Winefred?

George Goodfellow was also on board the Ship Winefred, which arrived in Brisbane in January 1874, one week before George and Margaret married.

George Goodfellow and his brother Horace had immigration land orders,  What was George's occupation in Brisbane between his marriage in 1874 and George's job as assistant light keeper at Bustard Head 1886-1889?

Was Mary Goodfellow,  born in 1785, related to this family? She had a school in High Street Wincanton. Her son Edward, born in 1824, was a photographer in Wincanton.

Was the well-known Yeoval photographer Henry Goodfellow an inspiration for Edward?  Son of Thomas and Esther, Henry was born in 1810.

What were George and Margaret's occupations, activities and interests after they moved to Sydney in the 1890s?

John Fitzpatrick 1786-1838 and Jane Howe 1791-1889

Grace Fitzpatrick's parents were John Fitzpatrick and Jane Howe.  John Fitzpatrick was born in 1786, married in 1820 and died on 6 March 1838. 

Jane Howe was a niece of General Gardiner (1781-1864), according to the Shearman Fitzpatrick family tree.

General Sir Robert Gardiner was the youngest son of Captain John Gardiner of the 3rd Buffs Regiment and brother of Lieutenant Sir John Gardiner of the 61st Foot Regiment.  The 61st Foot was in Portugal and France from 1809 to 1814 and in England between 1822 and 1828.

Source: Wikipedia

There was a William Gardiner who was Lieutenant General after being made Colonel in the 88th Foot, formed during the American Revolution.

Source: Eugene Ryan Fitzpatrick, Fitzpatrick List, 3 July 2024.

It is not confirmed which, or both of these army officers were the uncle of Jane Howe.

John was not the Chelsea Pensioner whose military record states he was born in Urney, County Cavan.  Records for Urney Parish church only begin in 1812.  This John was a Sergeant in the 88th Regiment of Foot, born  in 1810, attested in 1828 and discharged in 1850 - after Captain John Fitzpatrick's death in 1838.  John Fitzpatrick, being married, would not have been a Chelsea Pensioner.  Officers were only admitted after retirement if they were enlisted; John joined the army as an Ensign, so not enlisted.  Thanks to Andrew Wallace, Fitzpatrick List, 13 July 2024.

The marriage of John Fitzpatrick and Jane Howe at St Martin in the Fields of Jane Howe and John Fitzpatrick on 6 November was preceded by the marriage licence on 27 October 1820.  John was a resident of St Martin in the Fields; Jane a resident of Marylebone.  

A family history source listed their children: Mary, Thomas Mapleson and John Edward Fitzpatrick.  I thought the licence and marriage dates were for different people until Andrew Wallace pointed out that there was a marriage licence and a bond before the church ceremony on 6 November 1820. It was the Crimean war record death of Thomas Mapleson, sent by Steve Zalewski on the Fitzpatrick List on 2 July 2024, which confirmed the children of John and Jane.

The bond for John and Jane’s marriage  states that John was a Captain in the 88th Regiment of Foot.  This Regiment, raised in 1760, was disbanded in 1763, re-formed in 1779 for service in the American Revolutionary War, disbanded in 1783 and re-formed on 25 September 1793 in Ireland (1st Battalion).  It was only known as the Connaught Rangers after amalgamation with the 94th Regiment of Foot in 1881. 

Source: Andrew Wallace, Fitzpatrick List, 13 July 2024

 

The 88th Regiment was sent to the Netherlands in 1794, in Egypt 1800 to 1803, then South America until 1807.  Active in the French Revolutionary Wars and Napoleonic Wars; part of the Peninsula War in Portugal, the Regiment was pursuing French armies in various battles in 1813 and 1814, as was the 3rd Buffs.  The 1st Battalion arrived home in 1817; the 2nd Battalion was deployed to Ireland in 1811 and disbanded in 1816.   Between 1825 and 1836, the Regiment was in the Ionian Islands, by which time John had retired. 

John Fitzpatrick joined the 8th Regiment of Foot (ROF) - not the 88th - in July 1806 as an Ensign, a junior officer, then promoted to Lieutenant in the 88th ROF.  In July 1813 he was slightly wounded in the Peninsular war against Napoleon.  In May 1815, John was promoted to Captain.  During peace after the Napoleonic Wars, officers could voluntarily receive half pay, and could avoid overseas service, subject to being required to serve if required.  Before 3 December 1830, he was on the half pay list when he became Captain of the 1st West India Regiment.  To receive a full pension, it would be advantageous to return to the full pay list.  On 17 December 1830, Captain Fitzpatrick retired. 

Source: London Gazette and Edinburgh Gazette, Andrew Wallace's research, Fitzpatrick List, 13 July 2024 

According to the Shearman Fitzpatrick family tree, John was a Captain in the “3rd Buffs”.  This was the 3rd Regiment of Foot of the Royal East Kent Regiment. The Regiment served in the Peninsula War in Portugal from 1808, fought the French Army in 1813 and 1814 and was part of the Army of Occupation in 1816.  The Regiment returned home in autumn 1818.  Between 1821 and 1827 the Regiment served in New South Wales.  

John and Jane’s children were John, Thomas, Mary, Grace and Jane.  John E. Fitzpatrick was in the 14^th Hussars, another military career.  He died in about 1874, according to the Shearman Fitzpatrick family tree.  Thomas died in the Crimea in 1855, on military service. This record confirms his father's name and that Captain Fitzpatrick had died before 1855.

Ensign Thomas Mapleson  Fitzpatrick - 30th Foot - died of disease at Sebastopol - 26 June 1855. Aged 24. Son of the late Capt. Fitzpatrick, 88th Foot.

Source: Steve Fitzpatrick, Fitzpatrick List, 2 July 2024 from Crimea Deaths https://gloster.tripol.com/crimdeaths1.htm

Mary married Thomas Howe.  There is a record of Mary’s baptism on 16 March 1822 at St Martin in the Fields (FamilySearch).  Jane was recorded as deceased [1878] on the Shearman Fitzpatrick family tree.

John Fitzpatrick was not in Jane Fitzpatrick’s household at the 1841 Census.  He had died by the time of daughter Grace's marriage to "Jenry" (Henry) Goodfellow on 5 April 1847

John died on 6 March 1838 according to the Shearman Fitzpatrick family tree and confirmed by the death at Holborn registered in the first quarter of 1838 and burial of Captain John Fitzpatrick on 18 March 1838 at Saint Andrew, Holborn.  He was aged 53, birthdate estimated as 1785.  His residence place was Hatton Gardens.

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Henry Goodfellow and Dinah Tewksbury in Wincanton

 

Henry Goodfellow was born about 1755. 

Dinah Tewksbury was born about 1754.  Did her family have a connection with the medieval market town of Tewkesbury in Gloucestershire?

St Peter and St Paul Anglican Church, Wincanton
Photograph by Diana Heins 19 September 2019

Henry married Dinah Tewksbury on 28 Apr 1779 or 1780 in Wincanton, Somerset, England.  Both lived in Wincanton Parish.  The witnesses were Silas Blandford and Hy Mogg (Wm Mogg). 

Dinah and Henry had four children: John, who married Jane Jeanes, Henry, Grace and Dinah.   

Henry aged 63 died on Wincanton on 27 August 1818.   Dinah died aged 79 on 22 October 1833 in Wincanton.

John Jeanes and Susanna Bridle in Somerset

 

Is Jane Jeanes the daughter of John Jeanes and Susanna Bridle or James and Priscilla Jeanes?

 John Jeanes was born about 1763. He died in 1842 in Wincanton, Somerset, England. He married Susanna Bridle on 2 September 1799 in Wincanton.  Susanna Bridle was born about 1778 in Evercreech, Somerset.

At their marriage, John was a widower; Susanna was a spinster.  They were married by licence and both lived in the Wincanton Parish.  The witnesses were John Mallair and Nathaniel Farewell.  John Jeanes was a master cordwainer (shoemaker) in Wincanton in 1796.  His apprentice was James Brown. 

John and Susanna had three children: Jane, born in 1801 married John Goodfellow in 1823.  Susanna and Ann were born in about 1804 and 1806, remained single, living with their parents.  

 There is another Jeanes family.  James and Priscilla Jeanes’ daughter Jane, was baptised on 6 February 1799.  Their son, Henry, was baptised on 17 October 1800.  Is this the Jane who married John Goodfellow? 

Dorset Record Office, PF/SN: RE1/4

At the 1841 Census, John and Susan were living at Church Street, Wincanton. John was aged 75, so born about 1766.  He was an auctioneer.  Susan was aged 60, so born about 1781.  Living with them were Susan and Ann Jeanes, both aged 30, so born about 1811. Their neighbour was Benjamin Dove.  In 1773, William Goodfellow married Dolly (Dorothy) Dove; at William and Dolly's marriage the witnesses were Thomas Goodfellow and Wm Mitchell.  The other neighbour was John Long, also an auctioneer. 

At the 1851 Census, Susannah was a widow aged 71, so born about 1780.  John had died in 1842.  On his Monumental Inscription he was “Husband of Susanna”.  One daughter, Susan, was living at Church Street, a school mistress, unmarried.  She was aged 46, so born about 1805 in Wincanton.  There were two girl scholars, sisters from Frome, Somerset.  Their neighbours were Philip Dove, baker, and Henry Vining, blacksmith. 

At the 1861 Census, Susanna and her daughters Susanna and Ann were living at High Street, Wincanton.  Susannah aged 82 (so born about 1779) had no occupation.  Susanna aged 57 and Ann aged 55, so born about 1804 and 1805 were school assistants.  Susanna was born in Wincanton, Ann in Bourton, Dorset.  Elizabeth Goodfellow, a granddaughter aged 11, was a scholar.  Another scholar was Joanna Jeans from Salisbury.  There were three assistant school mistresses; one was Mary Jeans from Wednesbury check Staffordshire, four other girl scholars and a servant, Ann Jukes. 

At the 1871 Census, Susanna was aged 92, so born about 1779.  High Street?  Her daughters were Susanna aged 66 (1805) and Ann aged 64 (1807).  There were five female boarders aged between 6 and 25 and a servant Mary Pond.  Also in High Street was Mary Goodfellow, a school mistress aged 68 (born 1813) and her brothers Charles, grocer and Edward, photographer aged 57 (born 1814).  Henry Goodfellow was an early photographer in Yeovil in the 1860s and from 1880s in Wincanton. 

Susanna died on 16 July 1874 in Wincanton.

John Goodfellow and Jane Jeanes in Wincanton

 

John Goodfellow, born about 1790 in Wincanton, Somerset, England was the son of Henry Goodfellow and Dinah Tewksbury. 

Jane Jeanes was baptised on 1 July 1801, at the Anglican church in Wincanton. Her parents were John Jeanes and Susanna Bridle.

In 1823, Jane married John Goodfellow, a widower; Jane was a spinster.  The witnesses were John Bartlett and Susan Jeanes. 

John and Jane had three children: Henry Tewkesbury born 1825, John Tewksbury born about 1828 and Edwin born about 1836.

Jane (Jeanes) Goodfellow was a school mistress and ran the Berlin Wool Depot in Wincanton in 1851. 

"Berlin wool work is a style of embroidery similar to today's needlepoint that was particularly popular in Europe and America from 1804 to 1875.   It is typically executed with wool yarn on canvas, worked in a single stitch such as cross stitch or tent stitch, although Beeton's book of Needlework (1870) describes 15 different stitches for use in Berlin work. It was traditionally stitched in many colours and hues, producing intricate three-dimensional looks by careful shading. Silk or beads were frequently used as highlights. The design of such embroidery was made possible by the great progress made in dyeing, initially with new mordants and chemical dyes, followed in 1856, especially by the discovery of aniline dyes, which produced bright colors. 

Berlin work creates very durable and long-lived pieces of embroidery that can be used as furniture covers, cushions, bags, or even clothing."   (Wikipedia)

In the 1841 Census they were living in Church Street, Wincanton.  John, aged 50 was a painter, Jane aged 35 was a school mistress. There was one teacher and 15 girls, who were pupils at the school.  Their son Henry aged 15 was a druggist assistant.  At the next house was Alice Gale, an inn keeper.  The next neighbour, Thomas Phillips was a chemist. 

On his son Henry’s baptism record, his father John's occupation was a painter.  John Goodfellow was an organist on son Henry Goodfellow’s marriage to Grace Fitzpatrick in 1847.  

At the 1851 Census John and Jane were living in Market Place, Wincanton.  John was aged 60, so born 1790 or 1791.  He was a house painter employing three men and one apprentice and was a church organist. Their son Edwin aged 15 was living with them.  Henry had left; he married Grace Fitzpatrick in 1847.  Jane was aged 48, so born about 1803; but her baptism was 1 July 1801.  She was a school mistress and ran the Berlin Wool depot.  Louisa MacKenzie lived with them and was an assistant draper in the Berlin Wool shop. There were four scholars living with them and a house servant, Mary Ann Green. 

John Goodfellow died on 28 Mar 1868 in Wincanton, Somerset, England.  Jane died on 14 July 1853 in Wincanton.  Her Monumental Inscription stated: “Wife of John, Age 57”, so birth date assumed 1796, but her baptism was 1 July 1801.