The Goodliffe Family of Nottingham

Pickering Goodliffe - Second son of Arnold Goodliffe

Pickering Goodliffe

Arnold and Ann Goodliffe had 7 children. Pickering - their 4th child and 2nd son was baptised at the Stoney Street General Baptist Church in Nottingham on 13/4/1836. 

It has long puzzled me why he was named Pickering, as it is not a common name and does appear anywhere else in the family. The Rev. W Pickering was the Minister at Stoney St Baptist Chapel in Nottingham when Arnold first began there, so this is the likely source of the name. (see the article from the General Baptist Magazine)

Pickering married Margaret Murphy 29th June 1865 at the St Francis Xavier Church, West Derby Lancaster. (View the Marriage Certificate and Margaret's Birth Certificate)

In 1868 Pickering joined his father Arnold and brother Thomas as a partner in the firm of A. Goodliffe & Sons. Arnold retired in 1876 and Pickering retired in 1879, leaving the business to Thomas.

Pickering died in Liverpool on 6 March 1892 at their residence at 36 Percy St (view death certificate).

Margaret continued to live at 36 Percy St, Liverpool running it as a boarding house. Some time after 1901 she moved to Taunton to live with son Arnold, where she died in 1926, aged 84.

Pickering and Margaret had one child - Arnold Daniel Goodliffe. This Arnold graduated with an MA from Cambridge and went on to become the Headmaster of Huish College from 1903 to 1941. There is more information about Arnold later and his family here.

36 Percy St, Liverpool\

Pickering and Margaret lived at 36 Percy St from the early 1880s. Arnold Goodliffe refers to the house in his memoirs: "We left home Sep 2nd 1884 accompanied by our own daughter and grand-daughter Froggatt, went by Liverpool, we spent the afternoon at Pickering’s, and was pleased with his nice well-furnished house, his garden and greenhouse." (page 125)

Percy St, Liverpool	The building at 36 Percy St, today	36 Percy St, Liverpool is the middle door
The door of No 36 & 38. There are six separate door bells to the left of the door, suggesting the original residence was quite large.	An example of nearby architecture.	The church of St Bride's across the road from No 36. (see the Church's website)

1851 Census

In the 1851 census, Pickering, aged 14, was a draper's apprentice in Market Place, Spalding Lincolnshire. The Draper was Malcolm Stubbs.

1861 Census:

In 1861, Pickering (aged 24), a Provisions Merchant's Clerk, was living at 51 Bridlesmith Gate Nottingham with Jesse Foster a Provision Merchant's Assistant (aged 20). Jesse was born in Barrowden, Rutland so is almost certainly a close relative of Pickering's.

1871 census

1881 census

In 1881 the family were still at 36 Park St, Nottingham:

1891 Census

In 1891 the family is at 36 Percy St, Liverpool.

Arnold Daniel Goodliffe was boarding at University School, Cambridge Road in Southport in 1891.

1901 Census

In 1901 Margaret Goodliffe, now a widow, was living at 36 Percy St, Liverpool. She was running a boarding house with 6 lodgers.

Some time after 1901 Margaret moved to Taunton to live with son Arnold Daniel.