As the title says, I've been researching my family history for some time now and have had no success at all with my paternal side.
I'm posting on here in the hope that someone is a member of the family I'm researching.
My grandmother Ethel Goodison was born in 1884, she married Walter Wildgoose and they had children:
Lily born 1908
Albert (Bert) 1911
Minnie born 1915
Sadly, Walter was a WW1 casualty and, when Ethel died in 1923 the above children were taken in by family members.
Are there any Goodison or Wildgoose descendants who are forummers please?
If anyone has any information I'd be really grateful, pm me if you prefer as it is purely for my own private family history research.
Duffems

There is a burial in the Heeley Parish Church records of -
Ephraim Goodison, April 1893 age 11 years. Also a birth in the same year-

Sydney son of Sydney & Ethel Ann Goodison. Baptised October 1893.

Possible parents & brothers of your Ethel Goodison.

Thanks for that Cynthia, it's very kind of you.
Fortunately, I know my grandmother Ethel Goodison's parents, in fact, I have managed to get back a bit further than them into my Atkin line. The problem I have is with more recent family i.e. the descendants of Ethel Wildgoose (nee Goodison).
I would like to make contact with anyone who is descended from Ethel's children:
Lily, Albert & Minnie.

Regards,
Duffems.

I take it you've seen this (http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~willgooseweb/) - it might be a good place to enquire further. According to that, Lily married someone called Grocutt and has living children, but there doesn't seem to be any info about the other two.

Thanks metalman, I think that information is some which I supplied some time ago to the person doing the Wildgoose research. She wasn't aware of this Sheffield branch of the of the Wildgooses (or is it Wildgeese!) until I gave her the information.
It's the living relatives of the Grocutt line or any other relatives descended from Walter & Ethel I'd like to make contact with.

Duffems.

As the title says, I've been researching my family history for some time now and have had no success at all with my paternal side.
I'm posting on here in the hope that someone is a member of the family I'm researching.
My grandmother Ethel Goodison was born in 1884, she married Walter Wildgoose and they had children:
Lily born 1908
Albert (Bert) 1911
Minnie born 1915
Sadly, Walter was a WW1 casualty and, when Ethel died in 1923 the above children were taken in by family members.
Are there any Goodison or Wildgoose descendants who are forummers please?
If anyone has any information I'd be really grateful, pm me if you prefer as it is purely for my own private family history research.
Duffems


was there not also a son called Walter... according to Ancestry there was a Walter Wildgoose born in the 1st quarter of 1913...mothers maiden name...Goodison.

Thanks for finding that one Devlin, I had looked and couldn't find him. My mother, who knows a little about my father's background said that there was another child who died in a house fire but, we don't know when so this must be that child.
Some more bits of information are:
Lily Wildgoose married ? Grocutt, 2 children
Albert Wildgoose married Elizabeth ? 1 child
Minnie Wildgoose married ?? 1 child

This is the only information I have on this family so I'd be really grateful to find any living relatives of these please.

Duffems

Duffems,

Lily Wildgoose married Cyril C Grocutt in 1928, they had Doreen Grocutt in 1930 and Darrell W Grocutt in 1943 both born in Chesterfield.

Albert Wildgoose married Elizabeth Memmott in 1935 I have searched right up to 1960 but cannot find any Wildgoose children with a mother's maiden as Memmott.

Minnie Wildgoose married William Shaw in 1935. What a mammoth task!! for each quarter of births there are hundreds of entrie!! I have got to 1937 and have found Graham Shaw born 1937 mother Wildgoose, but will coninue this when I have more time.

It is likely that some of these or at least another generation are round and about. Can you follow some of these up ?? give me a shout if you need anymore help

There's also a Thomas G Wildgoose born 1923 Sheffield (Ecclesall Bierlow) mothers maiden name is Goodinson (note the N) this could be that parents were illiterate or simply it has been mistranscribed??
My view when researching is dont discard anyone until you have actual proof they are not your's
Martin

There's also a Thomas G Wildgoose born 1923 Sheffield (Ecclesall Bierlow) mothers maiden name is Goodinson (note the N) this could be that parents were illiterate or simply it has been mistranscribed??
My view when researching is dont discard anyone until you have actual proof they are not your's
Martin

Thanks Gingerbarf, that's my father whose birth was registered after his mother's death, she died just 5 weeks after his birth. You're right in as much as the "n" in Goodison threw me too so I obtained the birth certificate which gave the address which matched his mother's death certificate.
The problem I have is finding any living relatives of his siblings, Lily, Albert & Minnie.
With the information kindly provided on here I may be able to take a step forward to find out more about my father's natural family.
Any Goodison/Wildgoose people on here related to these people please?
Regards,
Duffems.

Hello DUFFEM

Do you already have this marriage from St Pauls Norton Lees.

25/12/1907 WILDGOOSE Walter 24 bachelor Father George
GOODISON Ethel 23 sp Father. John dec.

Tuppie

Hi again Duffems,

I do not think that the Walter Wildgoose born 1913 was the child killed in a fire (could there have been other children?) and cannot find a Walter in deaths in the right time frame. Therefore, I think that this Walter went on to Marry Florence M Wescott in Sheffield in 1930. They then had Roy 1930, Maureen 1935 and Norma 1943.

Anyway, the Doreen Grocutt born in 1930 went on to marry Keith Hibbert in Chesterfield in 1952 and they had Christine A. 1954 and Michael A. 1957. Incidentally there is still a Michael A Hibbert in the Chesterfield area but will PM you details as I dont want to post on here. Darrell Grocutt married Sandra A White in 1965 but I have not had time to search for any births. However. 192.com suggests he is on the 2008 electoral register but I don't know where. It is not Sheff or Chesterfield but if you type in Darrell W Grocutt and leave the area blank he appears with Sandra A and Ian. You could buy 192 credits to access his address?

I used to live next door to a Lilly Wildgoose in 1975 she was in her 70s That was in Blackburn Rotherham.

Hello DUFFEM

Do you already have this marriage from St Pauls Norton Lees.

25/12/1907 WILDGOOSE Walter 24 bachelor Father George
GOODISON Ethel 23 sp Father. John dec.

Tuppie

Thanks Tuppie. I have that certificate, that's how I know that it's my grandmother and her husband Walter, they are the parents of Lily, Albert & Minnie but, Walter isn't my grandfather.

Regards,
Duffems.

Hi again Duffems,

I do not think that the Walter Wildgoose born 1913 was the child killed in a fire (could there have been other children?) and cannot find a Walter in deaths in the right time frame. Therefore, I think that this Walter went on to Marry Florence M Wescott in Sheffield in 1930. They then had Roy 1930, Maureen 1935 and Norma 1943.

Anyway, the Doreen Grocutt born in 1930 went on to marry Keith Hibbert in Chesterfield in 1952 and they had Christine A. 1954 and Michael A. 1957. Incidentally there is still a Michael A Hibbert in the Chesterfield area but will PM you details as I dont want to post on here. Darrell Grocutt married Sandra A White in 1965 but I have not had time to search for any births. However. 192.com suggests he is on the 2008 electoral register but I don't know where. It is not Sheff or Chesterfield but if you type in Darrell W Grocutt and leave the area blank he appears with Sandra A and Ian. You could buy 192 credits to access his address?
Apparently, there weren't other children just one who died in a house fire which I assumed was this Walter, he died as a child.

Thank you all for your input. If I don't reply immediately it's because I'm having Internet problems which is providing me only with intermittent access to read replies.
Hopefully, you have received my replies and I'll be back on-line shortly Talktalk permitting!!

Regards,
Duffems

Hi Duffems,

Don't know if you've been on the Commonwealth War Graves Commission webpage, there is a record for Walter Wildgoose on there

http://www.cwgc.org/search/casualty_details.aspx?casualty=821561

Lucy

Thanks Lucy, yes I have that, I also have his Attestation Papers. Although Walter is not my grandfather he was my grandmother's husband so I obtained his details to determine that he was her husband.
My grandmother was Ethel Goodison born 1884, she married Walter Wildgoose 25.12.1907, I have the certificate.
I'm ultimately trying to find any descendants of Walter & Ethel to find any living relatives for my family history research.
With information kindly supplied by Devlin I have some names to perhaps contact now.
Regards,
Duffems

hi im not sure if your still researching the grocutt family but im ian groctt son of darrell if i can help in anyway dont hesitate to contact me thanks

How wonderful to hear from you. I'm hoping that you're the missing link (no offence) that can fill in some information for me please. Can I e-mail you?

Regards,
Duffems

Hi bizzy1073,
I hope that you received my e-mail.

Please mail me back bizzy1073.

Regards,
Duffems

If you've been trying to mail me bizzy1073 I've had internet connection problems but, it's fine now so please mail me with your e-mail address so that I can pm you.
I realise that, as you're new to the Forum you'll be unable to pm me.

Regards,
Duffems