Goodheads - For Gary

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This is what Gary's got:

Mary Goodhead was married to Joseph Small in Wednesbury, Staff, in 1871. Joseph had married a Goodhead d/o Alonzo & Mary Ann Garness.
Links to this marriage on BCC, but the Goodheads seem to have come from Nottinghamshire and Shropshire:

http://bcconnections.tribalpages.com/fa ... ead-Family

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1851 Census
Old Gate Fee, St Lawrence, Ludlow
Alonzo Goodhead, Head, Married, 30, Cordwainer, Nottingham
Mary, Wife, Married, 25, Mamble, Worcestershire
Maria, Daughter, 5, Blind, Ludlow, Salop
Edward, son, 3, Ludlow, Salop
Mary, Daughter, 9 months, Ludlow, Salop

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1871
Arkwright Street (Queen's Hotel), St Mary, Nottingham
William Shrewsbury, Head, 47, Nottinghamshire
Margaret Shrewsbury, wife, 48, Nottinghamshire
William Shrewsbury, Son, 16, Nottinghamshire
Arthur, Son, 14, Nottinghamshire
Rebecca Marriot, Visitor, 15, Nottinghamshire
Elizabeth Taylor, Servant, Nottinghamshire
John J Heard, Servant, 12, Leicestershire
John Dale, Visitor, 36, Nottinghamshire
ALONSO GOODHEAD, Visitor, Married, 50, Paper Hanging Dealer, Notts Nottinghamshire
MARY A GOODHEAD, Visitor, 28, Staffordshire Dudley

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Two marriages for Alonzo Goodhead:

Name: GOODHEAD, Alonzo
Registration district: Birmingham
County: Warwickshire
Year of registration: 1865
Quarter of registration: Jul-Aug-Sep
Volume no: 6D
Page no: 134

GARNESS, Mary
HORTON, Sarah Pemberton


Name: GOODHEAD, Alonzo
Registration district: West Bromwich
County: Staffordshire
Year of registration: 1867
Quarter of registration: Apr-May-Jun
Volume no: 6B
Page no: 847

DILIN, Margaret
LEWIS, Emma

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Neither marriage match up with the 1851 Census, but it could be a late marriage or a second marriage

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Found a possible divorce on FMP:

Divorces & matrimonial causes for 1868
GOODHEAD Margaret orwise Mary v GOODHEAD Alonzo
Cause 931, 1870

It looks like Margaret/Mary filed for divorce in 1868, and it was granted in 1870. No third party mentioned.

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Looking on ancestry there is a public tree with a George "Alonzo" Goodhead
Searching for a George Goodhead:


1861 Census
Croft Street, Kings Hill, Wednesbury, Staffs

George Goodhead, head, mar, 40, labourer, Nottingham
Mary Ann Goodhead, 36, Worcs Tenbury(?)
Ann Marie Goodhead, 15, Salop Ludlow
Edward Goodhead, 13, .....(iron and coal?), salop Ludlow
Mary Goodhead, 11, Salop Ludlow
George Goodhead, 8, scholar, Salop Ludlow
Ann Goodhead, 6, Staffs Kings Hill
Thomas Goodhead, 3, Staffs Kings Hill
Sarah Goodhead, 1, Staffs Kings Hill

Seems to match the 1851 census!