Person:John Goodman (22)

John Goodman was baptised on 1st April 1799 at Willen in Buckinghamshire, son of Elizabeth Goodman, formerly Binks, and her husband Henry Goodman, a labourer. John had a brother, William, who was baptised on the same day. The parish records do not specify that they were twins and it was nearly five years since his parents' previous child's baptism, so it is possible that one of the boys was a couple of years old.

John was married at Willen on 20th December 1824, aged 25, to Sarah Cross. She was from Cassington in Oxfordshire, nearly forty miles south-west of Willen. The following year they returned to Cassington to have their first child baptised there, although the family's abode was given as Willen on the baptism record, suggesting that they were only visiting.

They returned to Willen and had another two children baptised there in 1827 and 1829. Sarah died in 1830, aged 33, and was buried at Willen. John's father died the following year.

On 2nd June 1834 John married again. His second wife was Elizabeth Harris from Lathbury, about three miles north of Willen. She was eleven years his junior. John and Elizabeth went on to have another twelve children together at Willen between 1834 and 1857. John's mother died in 1843.

Not all of John and Elizabeth's children lived to adulthood; two of the children died in 1850, aged four and two, whilst their eldest daughter died in 1853 aged nineteen, and another daughter died in 1857 aged fourteen.

By the time John and Elizabeth's youngest child was born she was 47 years old and he was 58.

John's eldest son from his first marriage also died as a young man in 1861.

Each census from 1841 to 1871 finds Elizabeth, John and some of their children living in Willen.^[9] John worked as an agricultural labourer.

John died at Willen on 8th September 1880, aged at least 81. Elizabeth survived him by just under eight years.

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

   1799
   Thomas Goodman son of Henry & Eliz[abe]th Goodman baptized April 1
   John Goodman
   Will[ia]m Goodman

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 59; Book 17; Folio 2; Page 12, 6 Jun 1841.

   Address: Willen, Buckinghamshire
   John Goodman, male, 40 [1796-1801], Ag[ricultural] Lab[ourer], born in county
   Eliz[abe]th Goodman, female, 30 [1806-11], born in county
   George Goodman, male, 15 [1821-6], born in county
   Alfred Goodman, male, 14 [1826/7], born in county
   Mary Goodman, female, 12 [1828/9], born in county
   Harriott Goodman, female, 7 [1833/4], born in county
   Emma Goodman, female, 5 [1835/6], born in county
   Josia Goodman, male, 1 [1839/40], born in county
   Franny Goodman, female, 7 weeks [1841], 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 248; Page 21, 30 Mar 1851.

   Address: Willen, Buckinghamshire
   John Goodman, head, married, male, 52 [1798/9], Ag[ricultural] Lab[oure]r, b. Willen, Buckinghamshire
   Elizabeth Goodman, wife, married, female, 41 [1809/10], b. Lathbury, Buckinghamshire
   George Goodman, son, unmarried, male, 24 [1826/7], Ag[ricultural] Lab[oure]r, b. Willen, Buckinghamshire
   Emma Goodman, daughter, female, 14 [1836/7], b. Willen, Buckinghamshire
   Josiah Goodman, son, male, 11 [1839/40], b. Willen, Buckinghamshire
   Fanny Goodman, daughter, female, 9 [1841/2], Scholar, b. Willen, Buckinghamshire
   Eliza Goodman, daughter, female, 8 [1842/3], Scholar, b. Willen, Buckinghamshire
   Sarah Goodman, daughter, female, 6 [1844/5], Scholar, b. Willen, Buckinghamshire
   Maria Goodman, daughter, female, 1 [1849/50], b. Willen, Buckinghamshire

4. ↑ England. 1861 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 RG9; Piece 872; Folio 57; Page 17, 7 Apr 1861.

   Address: Cottage, Willen, Buckinghamshire
   John Goodman, head, married, male, 62 [1798/9], Ag[ricultural] Lab[ourer], b. Willen, Buckinghamshire
   Elizabeth Goodman, wife, married, female, 50 [1810/11], b. Lathbury, Buckinghamshire
   Fanney Goodman, daughter, unmarried, female, 19 [1841/2], Straw Bonnet Sewer, b. Willen, Buckinghamshire
   William Goodman, son, male, 8 [1852/3], Scholar, b. Willen, Buckinghamshire
   Fredrick Goodman, son, male, 6 [1854/5], Scholar, b. Willen, Buckinghamshire
   Louisa Goodman, daughter, female, 3 [1857/8], Scholar, b. Willen, Buckinghamshire

5. ↑ England. England and Wales. 1871 Census Schedules. (
   Kew, Richmond, Greater London TW9 4DU, United Kingdom:
   The National Archives (abbreviated TNA), formerly the UK General Register Office.)
   Class RG10; Piece 1418; Folio 58; Page 17, 2 Apr 1871.

   Address: Willen, Buckinghamshire
   John Goodman, head, married, male, 73 [1797/8], Ag[ricultural] Laborer, b. Willen, Buckinghamshire
   Elizabeth Goodman, wife, married, female, 60 [1810/11], b. Lathbury, Buckinghamshire
   William Goodman, son, unmarried, male, 18 [1852/3], Ag[ricultural] Lab[ourer], b. Willen, Buckinghamshire
   Louisa Goodman, daughter, unmarried, female, 13 [1857/8], Scholar, b. Willen, Buckinghamshire

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

   d. John GOODMAN, September Quarter 1880, Newport Pagnell Registration District, Volume 3a, page 370, aged 83 [1796/7]

7. ↑ England. National Probate Calendar (Index of Wills and Administrations),1858 onwards. (Ancestry.com).

   1880
   GOODMAN John.
   Personal Estate under £800.
   3 November. The Will of John Goodman late of Willen in the County of Buckingham Labourer who died 8 September 1880 at Willen was proved at Oxford by Josiah Goodman of Newport Pagnel in the said County Butcher and Frederick Goodman of Northampton in the County of Northampton Carpenter the Sons the Executors.

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

   bur. 12 Sep 1880, Willen: John Goodman of Willen, aged 84 [1795/6]

9. ↑ The cottage is next to the graveyard according to http://clutch.open.ac.uk/schools/willen99/w_employment/Goodman/Goodman.html