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.

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.



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