Greg sent me an e-mail listing his family history.  I thought it was very interesting and thought other may enjoy reading it as well.

The man listed below, is William GOODWIN, he came to Australia as a boy-convict, in the dark days that developed Australia from an unknown wilderness to a roaring Gold Rush, similar to California's.

We only came to know of these details a few years ago, so I typed it up for my Aunts. Who are now immensely proud of it.

Hope you get something from it. We live on Bribie Island, in Queensland, south of the Great Barrier Reef, you can find our island if you make a search on Alta Vista, or Yahoo.

Greg Goodwin

This document has been edited by Gregory Keith GOODWIN (in the winter of 1996) and research by Muriel SMITH (a descendant of the Mc Cormack
connection.)

The first entry made in this document is from a book produced to record Convict trial records. The entry is given as published.

(Entry) 2370 - Pages 738-739 Eleventh Session, 1841.

William Goodwin and John Winford were indicted for stealing, on the 24th August, (1842) 3 pairs of shoes, value 7s 6d., the goods of Henry Bradley.

Henry Bradley. I keep a shoe shop in Old-street-road. About one o'clock on the 24th of August Black came to the shop - I heard something, and went to the door, and missed a bundle of three pairs of shoes - I ran across the road, and down a court opposite - I saw the prisoners some distance down - I called out, "Stop thief" - I rand and caught them both - they were running when I first saw them - I asked what they had.....(unclear)...the witnesses picked them up in the kennel, under a counter which was for sale, near a broker's shop.

Cross-examined by Mr. Payne.

Q. Were they hanging outside the door ?
A. No, they were inside the post - a person could get them without coming in.

Joseph Black. I am a pot-boy at the Brunswick Arms public-house. I was in Old-street-road, and saw Goodwin go to the door, take the shoes off the nail, and give them to Winford, who put them in his jacket, and buttoned them up - they crossed the road, and ran down a dark court - I told the prosecutor - we went, saw them running, and called to them to stop - the prosecutor went up to them, and charged them with stealing the shoes - Goodwin was going to run, and Winford said "Don't run, you fool."

Crossed examined.

Q. Were you acquainted with Goodwin?                          A. Yes - I knew them both- I have worked at the same factory as Goodwin - this is the time I ever said Winford said, " Don`t run, you fool."

Robert Trott. I saw Goodwin take the shoes from the nail and give them to Winford, who put them under his jacket, and ran down Bathcourt - I picked them up under a counter in Bath Street.

Cross examined.

Q. Are you quite sure you saw this?                                A. Yes - I could not see them throw away the shoes, because we were running down Bath-Court after them.

Goodwin's Defence. The prosecutor came and asked me if I had stolen the shoes; I said, "No." Trott came up, and said, "Those are the boys." I know nothing of the shoes.

(William Haywood, paper-stainer, of Nichol street, Shoreditch, and Thomas Winfield, gave Winford a good character.)

Winford -- Guilty. Age 14. T { transported for seven years .

Goodwin -- Guilty. Age 14. { Convict Ship (each of them)

A further entry in a ledger of unknown origin is as follows. (Not all entries listed as the photocopy and handwriting are difficult to decipher).

Entry 6051 GOODWIN, William Tried C.C. Court 20th Sep - 1841 - 7years Embarked 30th March (next word unclear,maybe Sailed) 28th July 1842 Protestant - can read

(The following entries are a general description, once again there is a difficulty with the handwriting.)

Trade - shoemaker, perfect Height - 5ft 1in Age - 17 Complexion - Fair Head - Large Hair - Dark brown Whiskers - None ???? - long Forehead - High,broad
Eyebrow - Dark brown eyes - Green Nose - large Mouth - Medium Chin - Long
Nature - (writing unclear)

Remarks - ??dot on left arm, 2 dots between forefinger and thumb left hand, scar between eyes and scar on forehead.

(Further entries are difficult to read, and guessing may mislead. Given the age recorded it is thought that this record was entered in Tasmania, as William is listed as 14yrs on conviction and seventeen for this entry.)

Released from 1st stage of Probation 25th Sept 1844
17th March 1846 - Ticket of Leave


Record of Marriage

Entry number 197 - 25th June 1846
William GOODWIN -- Ann ROACH
(further information is difficult to read)

Second Wife: Annie WEBB

***The death register of William Goodwin (son of above William) lists his mother as Annie Goodwin and her maiden name as WEBB. (The surname of WEBB is significant as it is used as a second name by descendants.)


Coronial Inquiry Into the Death of William Goodwin

(It appears that William died at Heathcote in a Mine cave in. The witnesses state there addresses as such. However, the document does not give sufficient accreditation.)

Enquiry held at Heathcote on the 16th day of January 1856. Upon the bodies of William Goodwin and Joseph Sheeran before William Corbert Esquire J.P.

Samuel Baldwinon oath saith:

I am a gold digger at Heathcote. I knew the deceased persons by sight. They were working in the next claim to me yesterday. I saw them working about 4 o'clock in the afternoon. They came into the tunnel where I was working and Goodwin said that Joseph Sheeran had said there was something giving was and they then went back into the tunnel they had been working in. In about half an hour I heard a crash of falling earth. I ran to the shaft and I heard Goodwin exclaim `Oh my God'. I then saw that the earth had fallen in upon them. The ground in the
neighbourhood was all undermined and had fallen in for about 26 feet in each direction. I came up and gave the alarm and other men came and we began to dig for them to try and get them out. Such a quantity of earth had fallen upon that it was about an hour and a half before we came to the first body: that was of William Goodwin. The body of Joseph Sheeran was not found until after 9 o'clock at night.

Samuel Baldwin.


James Hamley on oath saith:

I am a gold digger at Heathcote. I knew the deceased persons. I assisted in digging for them yesterday. When the side had fallen in upon them. I was in hole when the body of Goodwin was discovered and taken out. There was about 5 or 6 feet of earth over his body - where he was found - he was quite dead, his hands were c old. His body was found lying with his face downwards. I did not see any external injuries and I think death was caused by suffocation.

James Hamley

Henry Hanson on oath saith:

I am a gold digger at Heathcote. I knew the deceased persons. I was working about 100 yards from them yesterday. About four in the afternoon I heard the alarm given that their hold had fallen in upon them. I was present when the body of Goodwin was discovered. We first saw his arm lying on the edge of a strut which had been used as a prop. He was quite dead. I was there when the body of Sheeran was found but at night. He was also quite dead. His death was caused by the ground
having been undermined and falling upon struts..............

Henry Hanson

Dr. William Carkeet J.P. states:
In these cases there cannot be any doubt of death having by occasioned by suffocation upwards of twenty tons of earth having on the bodies.
Dr. William Carkeet J.P.
William GOODWIN (II)

William Goodwin (the second) is the son of William Goodwin (the convict) and Annie ROACH.

William Goodwin (the second) married Mary McCormack.

( The following are extracts from records that have been researched into the McCormack McCormick family connection. They give some incite into the life of people of the times.)

McCORMACK

Pending further research we have to begin with Patrick McCormick (the name eventually became McCormack and is a quite common happening). Patrick was born about 1810 in county Lutrim , Ireland. He was catholic and a farm worker. He married Elizabeth (?) About 1830. They had a child and in 1836. Elizabeth left him in 1835 and took the child and went to America. Patrick was tried at Sligo in the summer assizes in 1840 and convicted of stealing a cow. The cow was the property James McGarvey MP. He was sentenced to 10 years and transported to Van Diemans Land (Tasmania). He arrived in Tasmania aboard the `Egyptian' in December 1840.

He was not a model prisoner as his records show. He is described as five feet one and a quarter inches tall, ruddy complexion, small long head, eyes and eyebrows brown, mouth medium chin large and had a small mole on left breast. He was imprisoned at Perth, Jericho and Longford. He was a rebellious prisoner and charges included:

15th August 1842 Misconduct cutting a drain pipe on footpath of private citizen - case dismissed. 23 November 1843 Insubordination, refusing to work - 30 days hard labour and treadmill. 8th October 1848 Misconduct assaulting a constable and resisting arrest.

24th April 1848 Misconduct.

He was granted a ticket of leave (parole) on the 5th January 1847.

He married Mary ERWIN (1834 - 1902) in St Johns Church Richmond Tasmania on the 12th of May 1855. Mary's father was William, her mother Margaret Kinchellor (or similar). She sailed from Liverpool as a
general servant aboard the `Caroline Middleton', arriving in Tasmania on the 29th September 1854. She was a free settler, and roman catholic. She could read but not write. Their child Mary was born at Prossers
Plains in 1856. She was baptised in St Johns church at Richmond. They moved to Oatlands Tasmania where Patrick,Margaret, James, Ellen and Sarah were born and baptised in St Johns church.

Towards the end of 1865 they moved to Heathcote, Victoria and found work on Majors line station (see reference below for further). In 1866, Sarah 23 months old became lost in the bush and perished. Mary had two brothers Patrick and James at Heathcote, so this probably had a bearing on them moving to Heathcote. Later they moved to Warrata in the Rushworth area. In the two districts just mentioned the following children were born, Thomas, John, William, Annie and Elizabeth. I believe the family moved to Balranald about 1878 and that Patrick may have worked on Cannally station. It was there that James HAMILTON met and married Annie. Most of the family followed rural occupations in the western areas of New South Wales around Hillston, Balranald, Oxley, and Ivanhoe. Thomas was the only one to own land, halving purchased land at Monia Gap.

Mary is believed to have had two brothers living at Heathcote. James, of whom little is known and Patrick, who was born in County Wicklow. He came to Victoria in about 1859, was a farmer and married Bridget Purcell. He is believed to have died in Heathcote about 1877. The researcher quotes Aunty Min (?) as describing her as very Irish, and as occasionally smoked a clay pipe in private..

Patrick McCormack (1810-1901) died at Balranald NSW on the 18th of July 1901. Prison records stated he was born in 1810, the death certificate (senility) lists 1807, and headstone 1803. He is buried in a common
grave with his wife in the catholic section of the Balranald cemetery. Mary Mc Cormack nee Erwin (1834-1902) died in a fire which destroyed her home in Market Street Balranald, New South Wales. A motel now stands on the site. Their grave is marked by a headstone.

The following are extracts from the McIvor Times

(The McIvor Times is taken from the local shire name, references in the paper refer to the meeting of the McIvor Shire Council meeting on Tuesday September 4.)

Heathcote, Friday, August 24, 1866.

"LOCAL AND GENERAL NEWS

A Shocking Case of Losing a Child:-- On Saturday last, a woman named McCormick, the wife of a shepherd on
the Major's Line Station left the hut for the purpose of going some distance to procure beer or spirits, to which repute says she is rather too partial. It appears that a child, 2 ½ years of age, followed her some distance into the bush, but was sent back. The child, however, did
not find its way back, nor has since been heard of. The bitter cold nights which have intervened since the child was lost renders it almost impossible for it to have survived, in fact, the little wanderer would here this have succumbed to the enemy through starvation, even had the nights been less rigorous."

A later edition of the paper dated reported.

McIvor Times, Friday, September 28, 1866

"MAGISTERIAL INQUIRY

On Thursday, the 20th inst., Mr. Edwin Field, J.P. held an inquiry into the cause of the death of Sarah McCormack, found dead in the bush on the 18st., when the following evidence was taken :- Patrick McCormick sworn, said -- I am a shepherd living at Iron pot Creek, on Mr. Learoyd's station: I lost a child on Saturday, August 18th, it was a female child, aged one year and eleven months: I was at home between three and four o'clock: I saw the child on the day on which it was lost: I then left my hut and went to Heathcote: It was dark when I arrived at Heathcote: I stopped at James Erwin's, at Heathcote: I left for home about eleven o'clock, and arrived there in about two hours; My
wife was not at home when I arrived: I was told one of my children was lost, and that my was looking for it: I then went in search myself, and found my wife and others looking for the child: I searched the bush and
water-holes but could not find; next morning I reported the matter to the police at Tooborac; the child was named Sarah, and was born in Tasmania: I was told the child was found on the 18 inst.,: I have seen the child found and recognise the body as that of my daughter Sarah, by the clothes, the boots, and the hat it wore.

Mary McCormack sworn, said -- I am the wife of Patrick McCormack and live with him at Iron pot Gully: I recollect the 18st of August: I was at home till four o'clock that day, when I left to go to a neighbour,
Mrs. Ashworth's, a distance of two miles: I went for some butter and milk, leaving my children at home: I left my four children in the hut; the oldest is a boy of ten years; the second a girl of eight years: I left Sarah, the child which was lost, in charge of the eldest boy; she
strayed away from them then they went to look for hear but did not find her: I went at once in search but did not succeed in finding her; all I had to drink was a glass of ale: I heard a child had been found on Tuesday last; I went to the spot and description of the doctors evidence
but as it is a photocopy it does not complete the article. The full page does recognised the body of my lost child by clothes, boots, and hat.

Hartley Horsefall Ashworth stated -- I am eight years old: I remember last Tuesday, I was out looking for my father's cattle near the old bridge on the Whappintack creek: I saw Sally McCormack lying dead, and thought it was a black girl; but I knew her by her white hair: I knew Sally McCormack when she was alive: I went home directly and told my mother: I went with Mr. Morris and Constable Mansfield and pointed out the where Sally Mc Cormack was lying: I do not know the nature of an oath; I know what will become of me if I do not tell the truth.

Patrick Mansfield sworn, said --I am a police constable, stationed at Heathcote: I remember the 18th inst.., on that day I received information that the body of the diseased (deceased) Sarah McCormack was found at the Wappintack creek: I proceeded there and brought the last witness to the mother of the deceased: I then went to where the body was found: I showed it to the mother who identified the body by the clothes: I had the body removed to the cap at Heathcote, where it now is.
Charles Robinson sworn, said-- I am a duly qualified Medical Practitioner, residing at Heathcote: I have this day examined the body of a child apparently two years of age; it is in an advanced state of decomposition,...."

The article continues to give a vivid but unpleasant description by todays standards.

Mary Ann (nee McCormack)

Born 3rd January 1856 at Prossers Plains Tasmania. She was baptized at St Johns Roman Catholic Church Richmond (TAS) on the 14th April 1856. Her god parents were Cornelius Leary and Mary McGrath.

She married William GOODWIN, a butcher (later in life a sleeper cutter) of Horseshoe Bend, in the residence of Charles Williams at Heathcote (VIC) on 14th September 1872. She was only sixteen but gave her age as 21. Her husband was born in Hobart Town (TAS) in 1848. (His father was William GOODWIN (the convict) and his mother was Ann ROACH.)

They were married by a Methodist Minister and the ceremony was witnessed by Charles and Sarah Williams.

Mary's husband William (born in 1848) is buried at Shepparton

William and Mary Goodwin's children

James Born 1873 (ref no. 17144)
William Laurence Born 1875 (Died in infancy)
Annie Born 1876 (ref no. 23602)
Thomas Born 4th October 1878 at Heathcote
Godfried Thompson Born 1880 (died in infancy)
Herbert James Born 1881 (ref no. 24003, died in infancy)
Elsie May Born 1883 (ref no. 17177)
Henry John Born 1885 (ref no. 1885 ?)
Albert Webb Born 1888 (died in infancy)
Elizabeth Laurice Born 1889 (ref no. 22502)
Percy Mack Born 1893
Ella Evelyn Born 1894 (ref no. 21382)
Hilary Born 1895
Hilda Maud Born 1896 (ref no. 29981)
Robert Bowen Born 1897 (ref no. 3780)

THOMAS WEBB GOODWIN

(born 4th October 1878 at Heathcote Victoria)
(Drover)

The following is a extract from the marriages registered on August 4th 1900

Marriages solemnized in the District of Bourke in the Colony of Victoria

Ref no. 2068 - at 422 Queen Street Melbourne August 4th 1900 Thomas Webb GOODWIN Bachelor Heathcote Labourer 21yrs of 72 Wicklow Street South Yarra Son of William Goodwin, labourer and Mary McCormick.

Priscilla Mary MCLEAN Spinster Brunswick Nil employment 21yrs of 72 Wicklow Street South Yarra daughter of Thomas Mc Lean, labourer and Mary Sire.

Entry reads:

"I, Albert James Abbott being duly authorised do hereby certify that I have, this, at 422 Queen Street Melbourne duly celebrated marriage between Thomas Webb Goodwin labourer, South Yarra and Priscilla Mary McLean, no occupation, South Yarra after notice and declaration duly made and published, as by law required dated this Fourth day of August 1900....Albert J Abbott.

Marriage after declaration was solemnized between us according to the (.....?) Christian church rites. Signed Thomas W Goodwin and Priscilla Mary McLean.
Witnesses Margaret Willis and William Fitzgerald".

Registry Entry number 6082 of year 1900.

PRISCILLA MARY GOODWIN (nee MC LEAN)

Schedule A

Births in the Borough of Brunswick in the County Bourke for 1879

Entry number 4382 12.45pm June 1st 1879 Borough of Brunswick County Bourke Priscilla Mary- female-

Father Thomas McLean, labourer, 35yrs, Ballantray, Scotland.

Mother Margaret (nee) Sire, 28yrs, Richmond (?), Victoria.

Witnesses Mrs Sire, registered June 12 1879 Brunswick.

Margaret Sire (Priscilla Mary McLean's mother) died 26 February 1935, died at Brunswick (Vic), aged 75 yrs, the record of her gives he parents as Francis Sire (labourer) and Mary Jane Sire nee La Messic (or La
Merric, the handwriting is not clear). It states her cause of death as `morbus cordis'.

At the time of death she was known as Margaret WILLIS, as she had remarried to a John Willis at Fitzroy and it records that the issue of the second marriage were John (deceased) and Margaret (also deceased).

The certificate also lists the issue of the first marriage and their ages at the time of her death.

They are Mary Ann 55yrs, Caroline 53yrs, Francis deceased, Charlotte deceased, Jane 45 yrs, Priscilla 43yrs, Thomas 40yrs.

(The name of the last ,Thomas, is not clear, if it were not a male child, it may explain why there are no persons named Sire listed in any Australian Telephone records as of 1996).

Priscilla Mary's parents marriage records are as follows:

Entry NO. 257
Schedule of marriage in the District of Smythesdale (writing not clear) in the Colony of Victoria. Married at St Marys Church of England, Smythesdale on 26 March 1869. Thomas McLean, 26yrs, widower with two children, born Scotland.

Margaret Sire, 19yrs, spinster, born Melbourne. The marriage was witnessed by Vincent Denham and Miss Osborne (Christian name unclear). The marriage certificate also lists the couple's parents.

They are as follows, Groom's Father - Andrew MCLEAN (labourer): Groom's Mother - (Christian name appears to be) Janet MC LEAN nee COWEN.

The bride's parents are, Father - Francis SIRE (a splitter) and mother: Mary Ann Jane SIRE nee LEONARA.

Children of Thomas Webb Goodwin and Priscilla Mary McLean

Anna Elizabeth Born 8th December 1900 at Richmond Victoria, and died at three months of age. Christian name is not clear on Birth registry, but Elizabeth does appear there. The Death registry lists her name as
Annie Elizabeth May and date of death at 2nd March 1901, cause of death appears to Marasmus. Death certificate lists Mothers name erroneously as Milly and Lilly perhaps a cut down from Priscilla. The child was buried at the Melbourne cemetery on 5 March 1901.

William Laurence Born on the 1st of November 1901 at Creek Flat, Heathcote Victoria, in the McIvor shire. (served Royal Australian Navy)

Elsie Born 14th October 1902 at what appears to be Quinan Parade Shepparton. Recorded as Christian name `Elthie' which may be misspelling. Second schedule ref no. 3397 and 29416.

Priscilla Mary (Known as Possie)
Second schedule births in the District in of Shepparton in the State of Victoria. Born 15 may 1905 at Marungi Street Shepparton, Ref no. 3789 and 13652.

Ivy Second schedule of Births in the district of Shepparton in the State of Victoria records she was born the 1st of August 1907 at Marungi Street Shepparton.Recorded as deceased on Dorothy May's birth certificate on 21st September 1923. She is listed between Priscilla mary 18yrs and Thomas Webb 14yrs

Thomas Webb Henry born 26 January 1909 at High Street Shepparton Refno. 4363 and 6324)

George Edward born 23 January 1911 at Edward Street Shepparton. (Second schedule of births in the District of Shepparton in the State of Victoria. Ref no. 4682 and 6810) (known to all as Paddy, Kokoda Track New Guinea WW2)

Robert Bert born 17 October 1912 Wyndham Street Shepparton. (Second schedule of births in the district of Shepparton in the State of Victoria Ref no. 5119 and 34520) (Japanese POW - Cattle Drover - lived and died on the Western Plains, never said a word about WW2)

Percy (Hoppy) born 22nd March 1914 at 18 Victoria Street Flemington, Hopetoun Ward, City of Melbourne, County of Bourke. (Got his nickname
after losing a leg)

Margaret Beatrice Born 31st March 1917 at 11 Pearson Street Richmond. (Ref no. 3078 and 15222). Birth registered by her Aunt Caroline Gathergood of 132 Barkly Street Brunswick.

John Albert (Jackie) Born 19th May 1919 at 12 Wellington Street Richmond.(Ref No. 5367 and 14461.) (Horse breaker of renown, inveterate
deserter during WW2)

Dorothy May Born 21st September 1923 at 15 O'Farrell Street Yarraville. (Second Schedule Births in the District of Footscray in the State of Victoria. Ref no. 234 and 22118). Registered by Florence O'Toole,
authorised agent of 31 O'Farrell Street Yarraville. *** Oldest sibling recorded as Anna Elizabeth (decd).

Norman Keith born 26th December 1925 at Swan Hill. (Second schedule of births in the district of Swan Hill in the State of Victoria.) Birth registered by T. Smillie Authorised agent, Swan Hill. (My Dad, always known as Keith) joined army WW2 at 15yrs, on War pension)

I am Norman Keith's son - Gregory Keith GOODWIN 7/6/49, served in Royal Australian Navy and now ex-police officer. Served Vietnam 1971 - Five kids


HISTORICAL RECORD OF THE SURNAME GOODWIN

In his book English Surnames, Charles Wareing Bardsley records the following:

"1. Names that preceded and survived the Conquest.

The peculiar feature of the great majority of such names as were in vogue previous to he Norman Conquest, and which to a certain extent maintained a hold, is that (saving in two or three instances) they did
not attach to themselves either filial or pet desinences. If they have come down to us as surnames, they are found in their simple unaltered dress. Thus, taking Afred as an example, we see in our directories `Alfred' or `Alured' or `Allured' to be the only patronymics that have been handed down to us. Latinized as Aluredus it figures in Domesday.

The Hundred Rolls, later on, register an Alured Ape, and the surname appears in the Parliamentary Writs in the case of William Alured. It is hard to separate our `Aldreds' from our `Allureds.' The usually entered
forms are `Richard Alred,' `Hugh Aldred,' or `Aldred fil. Roger.' Besides `Aldred' there is `Alderson,' which may be but `Aldredson.' Aylwin is met by such entries as Richard Alwine, or Thomas Ailwyne: `Adelard,' as `Adlard' or `Alard,' and `Agilward' as Aylward,' are of
more frequent occurrence; while Aldrech, once merely a personal name, is now, like many of the above, found only surnominally.

The Teutonic mythology is closely interwoven in several of these names. The primary root `god' or `good,' which stood in all Teuton languages as the title of divinity, was familiarised as the chief component in not a few of our still existing surnames. `Godwin,' the
name which the stout old earl of Danish blood has given to our Goodwin Sands, seems to have been well established when the great Survey was made. The French `Godin' seems scarcely to have crossed the Channel, but Godwin' and `Goodwin' have well filled up the gap. `Hugh fill. Godewin,' or `Godwin de Dove,' represent our registers. ................"
(Pages 20-22)

In his index to the book Bardsley records two men surnamed GOODWIN. He lists William Godewyn and Thomas Godwine. Goodwine comes from the Writs
of parliament and Godewyn from the Hundred Rolls.

The following are notes collected but not included as yet.

The Hundred Rolls were a system of social control in the Feudal System. The rolls listed one hundred men, each responsible for the other in the maintenance of the Kings law. This system crumbled with the advent of the Industrial Revolution. People were drawn to this Cities and the work in factories. The social change brought about an increase in crime and eventually to the establishment of police forces as we know them
today. Transportation was seen as a way of dealing with offenders. William Goodwin came into a world in social turmoil. His simple crime as a child sent him to other side of the earth.

COMMENT:

There is a great deal of research to do in completing a history of the Goodwin family in Australia. Records held in the Museum at the Rocks in Sydney list three Goodwin's in the First Fleet. One of whom ,Andrew,
was a Royal Marine. A further entry in an early census records, of about 1816, two women servants surnamed Goodwin, in the household of Sir Thomas Mitchell. Mitchell was the Colonial Surveyor General and noted explorer.

The research into the antecedents of those Goodwins entering Australia, is the challenge. The challenge remains to fit each piece into a complete English and Australian puzzle.

My Australian phone records for 1995 has 2337 Australians named Goodwin. (Victoria 485, New South Wales 905, Queensland 488, Tasmania 80, South Australia 170, Western Australia 140, Northern Territory 19)

The Goodwin Family was very well represented in list of those persons accepted into Universities for the year 1996 .

Addendum

Members of 6th Battalion first AIF - 1914 -1919 (ANZAC Battalion)

GOODWIN A.G. 202 Pte B Coy (Distringuished Conduct Medal)
GOODWIN H.S.C. 7492 Pte 25th Reserves
GOODWIN R.J. 3538 Pte 11th Reserves

All survived.

Battle Honours

Somme 1916 -1918
Pozieres
Bullecourt
Ypres 1917
Menin 1917
Menin Road
Polygon Wood
Poelcapelle
Lys
Helles
ANZAC
Suvla
Gallipoli
Amiens
Albert 1918
Hindbenburg Line
Epehy
France and Flanders 1917-1918
Broodseinde
Passchendaele
Hazebrouck
Krithia
Landing at Anzac
Sari Bair
Egypt 1915-1916


Book about Andrew Goodwin first fleeter `Exiled, Three times over' by Schaffer and McKaY

Book of Eureka Stockade `Massacre at Eureka' edited by Bob O'Brien, listed in descendants of miners who fought at Eureka are Mrs H. Goodwin (Vic) and Joan Goodwin (Vic) [pp166] published by Australian Scholarly Publishing 1992