Bustard Head, Queensland, Australia: lighthouse keeper's cottage
George and Margaret Goodfellow lived at Bustard Head from 1886 to 1889; an isolated interlude for town folk whose grandmothers were school teachers, embroidery merchants and wives of a druggist, painter, organist, soldiers and farmers.

George Henry Goodfellow and Margaret Johnston



George Goodfellow was born in Glastonbury in 1848.  His father, Henry Tewksbury, was a druggist (chemist), grocer and dealer in Berlin Wools.   

His mother Grace Fitzpatrick was born in Boulogne-sur-Mer, Picardie, on the north-west coast of France. Grace was a schoolmistress.  The family lived in High Street, Glastonbury near St John's Anglican Church.  

About 1853, Henry was declared an insolvent debtor.  In 1854, they were living in St Marylebone, London, when their daughter Jane was born.  George was still at school in 1861.  In 1871 he was a railway porter, boarding with other railway workers at Haydon Square next to the goods station of the London and Northwestern Railway.

Margaret Rebecca Johnston was born at "Dunstin Lees", Paris, France about 1852.  Her parents were Arthur William Johnson/ Johnston and Annie Pasquie.  There is a baptism of Anne Françoise Pasquier on 1 August 1833 at St François-Xavier-des-Missions-Etrangères in Paris.  The location of Dunstin Lees is not known.  

There is no confirmation that the parents of Annie Pasquie were Jacques Isidore Pasquier and Gabrièle Corbet.  Little is known about Margaret’s father, Arthur William Johnston.  Is it possible that he is the person baptised in Paris, France in 1827?  On the baptism record is a note that Arthur William Johnson's parents were Colonel Jeremiah Johnson and Saiba and he  was born in Java.

George and Margaret were both immigrants on the Ship Winefred, which arrived in Moreton Bay, Brisbane in January 1874.  They were married in Brisbane on 26 January 1874.






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