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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?

John Jeanes and Susanna Bridle in Somerset

 

Is Jane Jeanes the daughter of John Jeanes and Susanna Bridle or James and Priscilla Jeanes?

 John Jeanes was born about 1763. He died in 1842 in Wincanton, Somerset, England. He married Susanna Bridle on 2 September 1799 in Wincanton.  Susanna Bridle was born about 1778 in Evercreech, Somerset.

At their marriage, John was a widower; Susanna was a spinster.  They were married by licence and both lived in the Wincanton Parish.  The witnesses were John Mallair and Nathaniel Farewell.  John Jeanes was a master cordwainer (shoemaker) in Wincanton in 1796.  His apprentice was James Brown. 

John and Susanna had three children: Jane, born in 1801 married John Goodfellow in 1823.  Susanna and Ann were born in about 1804 and 1806, remained single, living with their parents.  

 There is another Jeanes family.  James and Priscilla Jeanes’ daughter Jane, was baptised on 6 February 1799.  Their son, Henry, was baptised on 17 October 1800.  Is this the Jane who married John Goodfellow? 

Dorset Record Office, PF/SN: RE1/4

At the 1841 Census, John and Susan were living at Church Street, Wincanton. John was aged 75, so born about 1766.  He was an auctioneer.  Susan was aged 60, so born about 1781.  Living with them were Susan and Ann Jeanes, both aged 30, so born about 1811. Their neighbour was Benjamin Dove.  In 1773, William Goodfellow married Dolly (Dorothy) Dove; at William and Dolly's marriage the witnesses were Thomas Goodfellow and Wm Mitchell.  The other neighbour was John Long, also an auctioneer. 

At the 1851 Census, Susannah was a widow aged 71, so born about 1780.  John had died in 1842.  On his Monumental Inscription he was “Husband of Susanna”.  One daughter, Susan, was living at Church Street, a school mistress, unmarried.  She was aged 46, so born about 1805 in Wincanton.  There were two girl scholars, sisters from Frome, Somerset.  Their neighbours were Philip Dove, baker, and Henry Vining, blacksmith. 

At the 1861 Census, Susanna and her daughters Susanna and Ann were living at High Street, Wincanton.  Susannah aged 82 (so born about 1779) had no occupation.  Susanna aged 57 and Ann aged 55, so born about 1804 and 1805 were school assistants.  Susanna was born in Wincanton, Ann in Bourton, Dorset.  Elizabeth Goodfellow, a granddaughter aged 11, was a scholar.  Another scholar was Joanna Jeans from Salisbury.  There were three assistant school mistresses; one was Mary Jeans from Wednesbury check Staffordshire, four other girl scholars and a servant, Ann Jukes. 

At the 1871 Census, Susanna was aged 92, so born about 1779.  High Street?  Her daughters were Susanna aged 66 (1805) and Ann aged 64 (1807).  There were five female boarders aged between 6 and 25 and a servant Mary Pond.  Also in High Street was Mary Goodfellow, a school mistress aged 68 (born 1813) and her brothers Charles, grocer and Edward, photographer aged 57 (born 1814).  Henry Goodfellow was an early photographer in Yeovil in the 1860s and from 1880s in Wincanton. 

Susanna died on 16 July 1874 in Wincanton.

Goodfellow Places: Somerset and London, England

In the 1800s, the Goodfellow, Jeanes and Bridle families lived in Somerset County in south west England.  In the 1850s, Henry and Grace (Fitzpatrick) Goodfellow moved to London, where Grace had lived with her mother, Jane (Howe) Fitzpatrick and sisters in 1841.  Jane was born in Clerkenwell, London in 1791 (see Jane's places and the history of London and Clerkenwell below). Their son, George Goodfellow, migrated to Queensland Australia in 1873.

Somerset

The Jeanes and Goodfellow families were long-time residents of Wincanton in the east of Somerset County.  In 1847, Henry Goodfellow and Grace Fitzpatrick were married in Wincanton. Their first child, George was born in Glastonbury in 1848.

Somerset County - Glastonbury and Wincanton

Henry Goodfellow was born in Wincanton in 1825 and his parents John Goodfellow and Jane Jeanes were also born in Wincanton.  Jane's mother, Susanna Bridle was born in Evercreech in about 1778.

Somerset: Glastonbury, top left; Evercreech, top centre; Wincanton, on lower right.
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Somerset: Glastonbury, top left; Evercreech, top centre; Wincanton, on lower right.
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London and Clerkenwell

Cecil R. Humphery-Smith, The Phillimore Atlas and index of Parish Registers, 3rd ed. 1963.
Middlesex County, p.22. 

In London in the 1800s, the Fitzpatrick, Howe and Goodfellow families lived west of the City in the Parishes of Clerkenwell, Islington, St Pancras, St Marylebone, Paddington, Kensington, Hammersmith and Fulham.

When Jane Howe was born in Clerkenwell in 1791, the area was on the urban fringe of London, around the Foundling Hospital.  A 1574 map shows rural land north and west of Smithfield.  Plans for re-building after the Great Fire of 1666 still show Hatton Garden and Clerkenwell outside the urban area (White, p 17).  The fire destroyed 13,000 houses and 87 churches.  The illustrated London: the story of a great city (Jerry White, 2014) describes London as a “City of Suburbs”. It was only from 1750 that Westminster Bridge connected London to south of the Thames River and Lambeth.  By 1800, London had a population of one million, increasing to over six million by 1900.  In West London, Bedford Park Chiswick on Bath Road was one of the first garden suburbs in the late 19^th century.

During the reign of Queen Elizabeth I, 1558-1603, East London developed as a trades area with poorer housing.  The hills to the north were of middling quality.  The west end had better quality houses.  Elegant squares were developed after the Great Fire from 1670 to the end of the 18^th century.  There were silk weavers, porcelain and potteries at Chelsea, jewellery, silk weavers at Spitalfields and ceramics in Lambeth.  Covent Garden was an early example of town planning. 

In Clerkenwell, streets for the middle classes north and south of Pentonville Road and elegant housing around the great squares – Brunswick, Mecklenburgh, Myddelton, Holford -  were established during the 1820s.  By the 1870s there was poorer housing with the many trades and businesses.  Notable were the craft metal and wood workers – jewellers and watchmakers - cabinet makers, inlaid furniture, drapers, artificial florists.  William Coombs Howe & Co were teachers of cutting.  (Alan Godfrey, Old Ordnance Survey Maps; Clerkenwell, Kings Cross & The Angel, 1871, Dunston, Gateshead, 1990.) 

Jane’s uncle was General Robert Gardiner, a British army soldier in the 3^rd Buffs, who served in the Peninsular and Napoleonic Wars.  In 1815 his troop helped restore order during the Corn Law Riots in London.  He was aide-decamp to monarchs George IV, William IV and Queen Victoria and was Governor of Gibraltar from 1848 to 1855 and Honorary Master Gunner, St James’ Park 1840-1864.  He married Caroline Mary McLeod, eldest daughter of Lieutenant-General John Macleod.  He died in Esher, Surrey on 26 June 1864.  (Wikipedia, 7 March 2024)

Sir Robert’s father was Captain John Gardiner of the 3^rd Buffs.  His brother was Lieutenant-General John Gardiner, Colonel-in-Chief of the 61^st Regiment of Foot.  Caroline’s parents were Lieutenant-General John Macleod and Lady Wilhelmina Kerr, daughter of William Kerr, 4^th Marquess of Lothian.  (Wikipedia 8 March 2024.) There may have been a military connection with John Fitzpatrick, who was also in the 3^rd Buffs (according to Shearman).  Jane Howe married John Fitzpatrick on 28 October 1820 at St Martin’s in the Fields. This old church is south west of Clerkenwell, closer to the Thames River and near Westminster.

Large land uses were the Middlesex House of Correction and House of Detention, builders’ yard and cartridge manufacture between Farringdon Road and Gray’s Inn Road.  North of Old Street were engineering works, foundries, dye works, drug mills and gasometers.

John Fitzpatrick died in 1838 at Hatton Garden, between Gray’s Inn and Farringdon Roads.  This is now between the British Museum, Museum of London and Covent Garden.  In 1898, the housing was middle class, well-to-do and fairly comfortable.  Nearby were St Bartholomew Hospital and the Smithfield markets: fruit and vegetable, poultry and meat. 

After John’s death in 1838, Jane lived with her daughters Mary, Grace and Jane at 5B Brunswick Place, St Mary Islington Parish in 1841.  The Brunswick Place south of The Regent’s Park in Marylebone has elegant townhouses.  But there is another Brunswick Place near the southern boundary of St Mary Parish, near Old Street, just east of Clerkenwell. Here, in 1898 there was a Board School; this might have been established after the Education Act of 1870.  The houses were fairly comfortable, but there were poor streets nearby in St Mark Old Street and St Clement City Road parishes.  The new Poor Law Act of 1834 had led to the establishment of workhouses.  Around the corner were the Haberdashers’ Alms Houses, St Luke’s Hospital for Lunatics and the London Living-In Hospital.

In the 18^th century road tolls were introduced at turnpikes at Marylebone and Finchley Roads.  During the 19^th century, with London expansion from 1813, there were many changes taking place during the time the Fitzpatrick, Howe and Goodfellow families were living in London.  Sedan chairs and Hackney chairs had been replaced by coaches and hansom cabs.  The Thames River flooded before the embankments were built.  The river froze during the winter of 1813-14.  Cheapside was the main shopping area before new shopping streets such as Regent Street from the 1820s.  From 1829 there were omnibuses drawn by two or three horses.  King George IV opened Buckingham Palace in the 1830s; Parliament House was destroyed by fire in 1834. Then there was the Victorian age, when the Queen reigned from 1837 to 1901.  The Great Exhibition at the Crystal Palace was held between May and October 1851.  It was not until 1854 that Dr John Snow proved the polluted public water pump in Broad Street Soho was the source of infections.  The cholera epidemic of 1832 had killed 5275 and in 1848-49 there were 14,789 deaths.  Big Ben clock dates from 1860. There were still shoe-cleaning boys in 1851 and chimney sweeps in 1861.

In 1851, Jane Fitzpatrick was a visitor in the house of Richard Woolcock, south of the Thames River at Hardinge Terrace, St Mary Parish, Newington. The church is on Kennington Road, lined with middle class, well-to-to houses.  Hardinge Terrace appears in faint letters on Penton Place in Booth’s 1898 London Poverty Map: fairly comfortable, with good ordinary earnings.  Jane may have known Richard Woolcock from Finsbury.  By 1861, Jane was at Bark Place, Paddington, in the parish of St Matthew Bayswater, north of Hyde Park and Kensington Gardens.  She was a widowed pensioner, a lodger in the household of Peter and Elizabeth Jervis.  This well-to-do small street must have been densely populated, as the houses behind are fairly comfortable, yet there are upper-middle and upper class wealthy homes along Bayswater Road and Kensington Palace.  Bark Place still has substantial terrace houses with many chimneys.

The underground railway from Paddington through Kensington opened in 1863.  The first department stores opened in Oxford Street in 1864. There were immigrants from Europe: Italians in Holborn and Clerkenwell. Smallpox in 1871 caused 8,000 deaths. 

By 1871, Jane was living at 48 Judd Street, St Pancras Parish.  This is near Regent Square, north of the Foundling Hospital.  Regency era terrace houses in Judd Street were built between 1808 and 1816.  Thanet Street workmen’s cottages between 1812 and 1822.  The 1871 map shows individual houses, set back from the street.  Judd Street had comfortable housing quality in 1898, but there were poor areas in the back streets and This area was redeveloped into large blocks of flats.  Nearby are Regents Square and St George’s Gardens and in 2024 the University College London Language and Speech Science Library.

Jane moved east of London by 1881 to Back Street, 3 Stamford House, Brentwood.  I cannot find this address in this hamlet.  She was living with her daughter Mary and her husband Thomas Howe.  Mary, age 60 (born about 1821) in Hampshire, was a teacher of music.  Thomas age 70 (born about 1811) was a professor of languages.  Jane died in 1889 in Billericay, Essex.  This is a town east of Brentwood.  She was 95 years old, indicating she was born in 1794.  Her previous Census ages in 1841 and 1851 estimated her birth in 1791.  Mary and Thomas were the beneficiaries of her will. Mary and Thomas were married on 30 August 1841 at St Mary Islington.  Jane Fitzpatrick was the spouse’s mother.