Thomas Goode (FMFFF)

[Tom Tom]

Name - "official" name and what they were known as -Thomas Goode

Date and place of birth - 31 January 1852, Brandon, Warwickshire

Names of parents - Thomas Goode and Elizabeth (formerly Ensor)

Date and place of baptism - None found at the moment

Details of each of his or her marriages - Married Sarah Ann Morgan at All Saints, Birmingham, Warwickshire on 7 July 1873

Occupation(s) - Railway Porter and then Railway Police Officer and then Detective Inspector.

Addresses where they lived (including county if in UK) - and please list which censuses you have or haven't found him/her on (if s/he lived in census times!). 1861 census - Aged 9. Son at High Street, Coleshill, Warwickshire. Scholar.

1871 census - Aged 19. Lodger at 19 Northumberland Street, Aston, Warwickshire. Railway Porter.

1881 census - Aged 29. Head of family at 46 White Street, Walsall, Staffordshire. Railway Porter.

1891 census - Aged 39. Head of family at 31 Hawden Street,West Derby, Lancashire (four rooms). Railway Police Officer.

1901 census - Aged 49. Head of family at 45 Toft Street, West Derby, Lancashire (more than five rooms). Railway Police.

1911 census - Aged 50. Head of family at 173 Cambridge Street, Rugby, Warwickshire (six rooms). Detective Inspector.

Date, place and cause of death unknown, after 1913

Date and place of burial unknown, after 1913 but not with his wife in Clifton Road Cemetery, Rugby, Warwickshire

Details of will / administration of their estate - unknown

Memorial inscription - unknown


This is a photograph of Thomas taken in 1913 at Rugby train station with the King. Thomas is the furthest to the right.

http://i172.photobucket.com/albums/w34/colwoodtom/GoodeThomasandtheKing.jpg

I would love to find out what actually happened to him.

[Merry]

I'm probably going to look a right idiot now, but isn't that Edward VII and didn't he die in 1910?

[Margaret in Burton]

I'm probably going to look a right idiot now, but isn't that Edward VII and didn't he die in 1910?

I was going to say the same thing Merry, yes it does look like Edward V11

[Merry]

Tom, when and where did Sarah Ann die?

[Tom Tom]

Sarah Ann died 12 July 1913 in Rugby.

Let me find the original photo as it has writing on the bottom of it.

[Merry]

The Times says he went there on 5th July 1909 and there's another photo which looks like the same style of train here:

http://www.warwickshirerailways.com/lms/lnwrrm884.htm

Edit: Your photo is much nicer!!

[Merry]

Sarah Ann died 12 July 1913 in Rugby.



Thanks.

I guess he lived a (long?) time after that and must have moved. Not helpful! lol Do you know where his children lived?

[Tom Tom]

I thought it said 7th July 1906.

Let me scan it in at a higher resolution and see if it comes up clearer.

[Tom Tom]

It is a mystery as to what happened to a couple of his children.

Family legend has it that his oldest son made milliopns and went to France :rolleyes: <<<<< EDIT - might have found a marriage in 1920 in Edge Hill (near West Derby)

Second son married in Liverpool and lived there the rest of his life where he died in 1946.

Third son spent the rest of his life in the West Midlands in and around Walsall.

Fourth son is a mystery, don't know what happened to him.

[Tom Tom]

Scanned it in at a higher quality and it definately says July and I think it says 1909 but the date is right where the crease is.

It must be the 5th July 1909.

(better write that on the back!)

[Tom Tom]

I think I am going to have to purchase the certificate I presume is for the oldest son (1920) in the hope it may give some more clues.

[Merry]

Good idea (no pun intended!)

I wonder if the other son emigrated. Maybe dad did too?

Have you checked the National Probate Index?

[Tom Tom]

Yes Merry, been through all the Thomas Goode's (and the sons aren't coming up with their middle names at all), and none of them seem likely.

There is a Thomas Goode marriage to Helen Woods in OND 1914 which I thought could possibly be a remarriage which might be worth looking into.

First son was called Thomas Sylvester Goode born 1874.