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need help researching Stephen Goodchild please. Trying to discover parents and siblings. He was born 1876 in Corfe Castle Dorset Married a Mary Broomfield .about 1900. He died in Africa where he was working but cannot find a date

Thank you for your help Joan

1881 England Census

Name:Stephen H. Goodchild

Age:5

Estimated Birth Year:abt 1876
Relationship to Head:Son

Father:
Stephen Goodchild

Mother:
Eliza Goodchild

Gender:Male

Where born:Corfe Castle, Dorset, England

Civil Parish:Corfe Castle

County/Island:Dorset

Registration district:Wareham

Sub registration district:Corfe Castle

ED, institution, or vessel:1

Piece:2099
Folio:6
Page Number:4

Household Members:


Name

Age


Stephen Goodchild 26
Eliza Goodchild 25
Stephen H. Goodchild 5
Mary Jane Goodchild 4
Margaret E. Goodchild 0

Dorset, England, Births and Baptisms, 1813-1906


Name:Stephen Henry Goodchild

Baptism Date:26 Jun 1875

Baptism Place:
Corfe Castle, Dorset, England

Mother's name:
Eliza Moss

Possibly a double wedding with Mary's sister Louisa marrying William Edward Tuck:

Marriages Sep 1899 (>99%)
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Broomfield Louisa Maud Wareham 5a 589
Broomfield Mary Ann Wareham 5a 589
Goodchild Stephen Henry Wareham 5a 589
Tuck William Edward Wareham 5a 589

1911 England Census about Stephen Henry Goodchild
Name: Stephen Henry Goodchild
Age in 1911: 35
Estimated Birth Year: abt 1876
Relation to Head: Head
Gender: Male
Birth Place: Corfe Castle, Dorset, England
Civil Parish: Portsmouth
County/Island: Hampshire
Country: England
Street address: 79 Binsteed Road, Landport, Portsmouth
Marital Status: Married
Occupation: Bricklayer
Registration district: Portsmouth
Registration District Number: 90
Sub-registration district: North End and Buckland
ED, institution, or vessel: 14
Household schedule number: 362
Piece: 5492
Household Members:
Name Age
Stephen Henry Goodchild 35
Mary Ann Goodchild 35
Harry Vivian Goodchild 4
Gladys Irene Ivy Goodchild 1
Elieen Goodchild 0
Louisa Hausell 71

Married 11 years, 5 children born, 2 had died.

Last named person is not on original.

A tree on Ancestry says that he was the son of Stephen Henry Goodchilld (1854-1930) and Eliza Moss (1856-1931).
Siblings:
Mary Jane, 1877
Ernest Robert, 1879
Margaret Eliza, 1881
Elizabeth Ellen, 1882
Frances Ellen, 1885
Archibald William, 1887
James Arthur, 1891
Herbert, 1897

Same tree says he died 1916, Accra, West Africa.

This found by googling:

http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~lomas/Chandler/ThomasGoodchild.html

Many thanks Joan

Inscription Osu Cemetery, Accra



In loving memory of my dear husband Stephen Henry GOODCHILD, aged 41.

No date. Circa 1914.


from http://search.ancestry.co.uk/cgi-bin/sse.dll?db=iwoservicemedalawardrolls&so=2&pcat=39&MS_AdvCB=1&rank=1&new=1&MSAV=2&msT=1&gss=angs-c&gsfn=ste*n+henry&gsfn_x=XO&gsln=goodchild&gsln_x=XO&cpxt=1&uidh=a72&cp=11

http://www.archimedes.free-online.co.uk/ghana.htm



presumably erected by his wife Mary Ann



Marriages Sep 1899 (>99%)

Broomfield Mary Ann Wareham 5a 589
Goodchild Stephen Henry Wareham 5a 589

many thanks for all your information
joan