The Goodliffe Family of Nottingham
Thomas Arnold Goodliffe
- Eldest son of Thomas William Goodliffe - eldest son of Arnold Goodliffe
Arnold and Ann Goodliffe had 7
children. Their oldest son - Thomas
William - was born in 1831 and he married Anne STAFFORD in 1853. They arrived in Melbourne in
October 1853 where they had three children, the oldest being
Thomas Arnold Goodliffe, born in1854.
The family returned to
Nottingham in 1861.
Thomas
Arnold is recorded in the 1871 census at 39-43 Snig Hill, Sheffield, working as
a pawnbroker's assistant, aged 15.
Thomas Arnold returned to
Australia on the ship Durham, arriving in Melbourne in March 1875,
aged 20. He married Jessie Glen SINCLAIR in Hotham, Victoria in 1877.
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The family of Jessie Glen Sinclair
Jessie was born in Paisley, Glasgow, Scotland in 1852, the youngest of the 7
children of James SINCLAIR and Margaret (nee CRAIG). James & Margaret married
in Paisley on 14 October 1830. They had 7 children:
| Margaret |
1837 |
Glasgow |
| Robert |
1840 |
Glasgow |
| Catharine |
13 Feb 1842 |
Paisley |
| Elizabeth |
11 Feb 1844 |
Paisley |
| James |
15 Mar 1846 |
Paisley |
| John |
1850 |
Paisley |
| Jessie Glen |
1852 |
Paisley |
Margaret
married John CLARK on 18/04/1857.
In
1841, the family were at 18 Broomlands, Paisley. James was a salesman and
baker.
In 1851, the family, now with
7 children, are at 8 Broomlands, Paisley. Jessie was 1 month old.
In 1861, the family
were at 3 Broomlands, Paisley. Margaret is listed as a Laundress, was Head of household, and
married. Her husband James was not present. I cannot find him in Scotland at the time of the
census.
Broomlands is a street in
central Paisley, dominated by terrace apartments. The street backs on to the
cemetery and crematorium. A typical scene shows a multi-storey building of small
apartments.
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A view of Broomlands Street, Paisley
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Emigration to Melbourne
In July 1862 Margaret and
the 5 younger children arrived in Melbourne aboard the ship Mistress of
the Seas. Apparently, John was not on that voyage and there are no
records of a Sinclair of appropriate age arriving in Melbourne. Nor is there a
death record for James Sinclair in either the Scottish or Victoria records. I
cannot find what happened to James.
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The family of Thomas and Jessie
GOODLIFFE
Thomas and Jessie had 4
children:
Thomas died
on 15 April 1921 aged 65, at 53 Donald St, Prahran.
Jessie Glen died on 26 July 1933
aged 78, at 53 Donald St, Prahran.
Norman Oswald died on 3 September
1968 at 24 Percy St, Balwyn, Heidelberg, Victoria
Norman Oswald GOODLIFFE
A summary of Norman's life:
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born 27 February
1890 in Prahran.
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Worked as a clerk for
the AMP Society (insurance company).
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Enlisted in the
Australian Imperial Force on 7 June 1917, aged 27 years and 4 months (see
his enlistment form here), service number 7485.
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Married
Flora MCCALL in East Melbourne on 15 Sept 1917. Both aged 26.
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His
service record shows that on 21 November 1917 he embarked on HMAT
"Nestor" for Suez, embarked HMS "Sarnia" in
Alexandria for Southampton via Taranto, arriving on 9 January 1918.
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Advised that his wife
Flora had died of TB on 20 April
1918.
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Posted to France on 29
August 1918, to join the 8th Battalion.
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Granted leave to return
to England on 10 November 1918 (the day before Armistice) but was soon
admitted to hospital at Harefield, then being attached there until 1
February 1919.
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Posted to Admin HQ,
London.
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Granted leave from 17
July 1919 to 17 October 1919.
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Married Donaldina
Henderson MACLEAN on 9 October 1919 (see
the marriage certificate here or the Army
transcript of it here). Ina (as she was known) was born at
Stornoway on the Isle of Lewis on 10 April 1894. She may well have met Norman at the hospital
at Harewood.
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Norman returned to Australia
on the "Konigin Liuse" on 4 February 1920, and discharged
medically unfit (long sighted and chronic influenza) on 18 April 1920.
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Donaldina travelled
alone to Melbourne on the ship "Bahia Castillo", departing
London on 17 April 1920.
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Son Kenneth Norman was
born in Paisley, Scotland on 1 July 1920.
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Donaldina and Kenneth travelled
to Australia departing 14 December 1922 on the ship Ballarat.
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Norman died on 3
September 1968 at 24 Percy St, Balwyn, Victoria.
Norman and Donaldina had
three children:
| Kenneth Norman |
1 Jul 1920 |
1 Dec 1944 |
Born Paisley
Died Lae, Papua New Guinea |
| Arnold Sinclair |
4 March 1923 |
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Prahran |
| Donald Henderson |
1928 |
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Prahran |
Kenneth Norman enlisted with the Australian Army
and was killed in Lae, PNG in 1944, aged 22. His enlistment
form is here, and his Will is here
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Kenneth
Norman from his Army file
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Jessie
Glen Sinclair GOODLIFFE Jessie
Glen was born 27 Oct 1891 at 53
Donald St, Prahran. She married James ROBERTSON on 8 January 1929
at the Baptist Church, Geelong Rd, Footscray, Melbourne. She was a waitress
aged 33 and he was a plumber aged 35, living at 5 Tiernan St, Footscray. James
Robertson was born in Melrose,
Scotland on 16 December 1892, along with his twin sister Margaret Alice. Their
parents were William and Caroline (nee TAIT) ROBERTSON, married 17 January 1873.
In the census of 1891 the family
was living at Hoebridge Farm, Melrose, Scotland. I
have not been able to find any more information about Jessie and James. Their
deaths are not in the Victoria BDM records up to 1985.
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the family of Thomas and Ann Goodliffe
Last updated: 30/10/2008
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