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.