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.