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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?