Person:Daniel Goodman (3)

Daniel Goodman was baptised on Christmas Day 1777 at Willen in Buckinghamshire, son of Susannah Goodman, formerly Holmes, and her husband Henry Goodman, a labourer. In 1783, when Daniel was five years old, his mother died. Her burial record describes her as a pauper.

Two years later Daniel's father married Elizabeth Binks, who thus became Daniel's stepmother. Daniel would have several half-siblings from his father's second marriage.

On 10th April 1814, aged 36, Daniel married Mary Martin at Lathbury, about three miles north of Willen. She was originally from Market Harborough in Leicestershire, some thirty miles to the north. On their marriage licence Daniel described himself as a yeoman, whereas on his marriage record he was described as a labourer. The difference probably says something about his standing relative to the person making each record; he was sufficiently comfortably off to be able to present himself as a yeoman to the official who wrote the marriage licence, yet in the eyes of the vicar or parish clerk who wrote out his marriage record, he was better described as a labourer. Daniel and Mary do not appear to have had any children.

Back in Willen, Daniel's father died in 1831.

By 1841 Daniel and Mary were living at Tickford End in the town of Newport Pagnell, in between Willen and Lathbury. Daniel was working as a corn factor, buying and selling grain. They had one servant living with them, as well as a young man called Thomas Martin, who was presumably a relative of Mary's. Daniel appears to have been reasonably comfortably off; as well as employing a servant, his will makes clear that he owned land, which was left to his sister Mary, and he also left specific legacies totalling £3,000 to his wife Mary's siblings.

In 1851 Daniel, Mary and a servant were living at Tickford Street in Newport Pagnell. By this time Daniel was described as a fund holder, suggesting that he was sufficiently well off to have bought an annuity to provide himself a pension.

Mary died on 10th March 1852, aged 63. Daniel wrote his will the very next day. He only survived Mary by four days; he died on 14th March 1852. He was 74 years old.

1. ↑ Church of England. Willen Parish Registers, 1665-1981. (Aylesbury: Centre for Buckinghamshire Studies).

   Baptisms 1777: Daniel Son of Henry & Susannah Goodman bap[tise]d 25 Dec[embe]r 1777

2. ↑ England. 1841 Census Schedules for England and Wales, Isle of Man and the Channel Islands. (
   Kew, Richmond, Greater London TW9 4DU, United Kingdom:
   The National Archives (abbreviated TNA), formerly the UK General Register Office.)
   Class HO107; Piece 58; Book 3; Folio 18; Page 30, 6 Jun 1841.

   Address: Tickford End, Newport Pagnell, Buckinghamshire
   Daniel Goodman, male, 60 [1776-81], Corn Factor, born in county
   Mary Goodman, female, 50 [1786-91], not born in county
   Thomas Martin, male, 20 [1816-21], not born in county
   Elizabeth Lineham, female, 15 [1821-6], F[emale] S[ervant], born in county

3. ↑ England. 1851 Census Returns for England and Wales. (
   Kew, Richmond, Greater London TW9 4DU, United Kingdom:
   The National Archives (abbreviated TNA), formerly the UK General Register Office.)
   Class HO107; Piece 1723; Folio 351; Page 7, 30 Mar 1851.

   Address: Tickford Street, Newport Pagnell, Buckinghamshire
   Daniel Goodman, head, married, male, 72 [1778/9], Fund Holder, b. Willen, Buckinghamshire
   Mary Goodman, wife, married, female, 62 [1788/9], b. M[arket] Harboro[ugh], Leicestershire
   Ann Osborn, servant, unmarried, female, 17 [1833/4], General house Servant, b. Clifton, Buckinghamshire

4. ↑ Deaths index, in General Register Office. England and Wales Civil Registration. (London: General Register Office).

   d. Daniel GOODMAN, March Quarter 1852, Newport Pagnell Registration District, Volume 3a, page 283, aged 74 [1777/8]

5. ↑ Buckinghamshire Family History Society. Buckinghamshire Burials Database.

   bur. 23 Mar 1852, Newport Pagnell, Buckinghamshire: Daniel Goodman of Newport, aged 74 [1777/8]

6. ↑ Transcriptions from Gravestones in the Churchyard of Newport Pagnell Parish Church 1964-1966, Dennis Mynard and Shaun Higgins, 2011.

   Grave 121:
   Sacred to the memory of Daniel Goodman who departed this life 14 March 1852 age 74 years
   also to Mary Goodman relict of the above who departed this life 10 March 1852 age 68 years

7.   Church of England. Prerogative Court of Canterbury, and Ancestry.com (comp.). England & Wales, Prerogative Court of Canterbury Wills, 1384-1858 [database]. (Provo, Utah, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, 2013)
   Class PROB 11; Piece 2151.

   This is the last Will and Testament of me Daniel Goodman of Newport Pagnell in the County of Buckingham Gentleman I give and devise unto my sister Mary Lewis of Aspley Guize in the County of Bedford All my real estate to hold the same unto and to the use of her my said sister her heirs and assigns for ever I give and bequeath unto Henry Martin my late wifes brother the sum of one thousand pounds and unto Sarah Munden and Alice Marr my late wifes sisters the sum of one thousand pounds each I give and bequeath The remainder of my personal estate unto George Faulkner of Cranfield in the said County of Bedford Farmer and the said Alice Marr their executors administrators and assigns Upon trust to discharge my just debts funeral and testamentary expences thereout and to pay and divide the clear residue unto and amongst my own next of kin under the statute of distributions I appoint the said George Faulkner and Alice Marr Executor and Executrix of this my Will In witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand this eleventh day of March one thousand eight hundred and fifty two - The Mark of X Daniel Goodman - Signed published and declared by the said testator Daniel Goodman as and for his last Will and Testament in our presence who have at his request in his presence and in the presence of each other hereunto subscribed our names as witnesses
   George Osborn Rogers Surgeon Newport Pagnel
   James Arrowsmith Solicitor Newport Pagnell
   
   Proved at London the 14th April 1852 before the Judge by the oaths of George Faulkner and Alice Marr Widow the Executors to whom Adm[inistrati]on was granted having been first sworn by Com[missi]on duly to administer