Hi Peter, Sorry about the mistake, it should read Thomas GOODWIn b. 1821 not 1721. In the 1851 census it shows him being born in Notts. In that census he was living with his wife Elizabeth (nee Farrer) and their one year old son Thomas. Elizabeth was born in St. Pancras in 1823 and apart from the 1851 census I can't find anything about them. Barbara was Elizabeth's mother. I found Barbara in Portslade in the 1871 census and then I have her death certificate for 1871 in Portslade and I also found a Thomas GOODWIN's death in 1874 in Lewes. Thinking outside the square I was wondering if Barbara moved from Islington (in the 1861 census) to Portslade because of her daughter and family moving there and perhaps this GOODWIN is Thomas her son-in-law ???? Commenting on Ancestry. It often happens that I can find something on their site and then months later I can't find it and also they repeat a lot of things. The Old Ancestry was so much better. Why is it that you might put in location Yorkshire and yet you have to trawl through all the other counties. Maureen in Oz.

Maureen, I can't find them in 1861. Unfortunately, I don't have the time to check out all the options. Did one or both parents die? Did the son Thomas die? Did they migrate? Or is it a simple transcription error? Try Tho*, Eliz* or even Betty. Look for all Goodwin males in Middlesex with birth place Nottingham. There's lots of alternatives. The other option is to see if there is a marriage on Ancestry's London Parish Registers. It should at least give his father's name and perhaps parish. The other option is to buy the civil marriage certificate from GRO and see where it leads. As for Ancestry, well.......??? When I search with exact matches for somebody born 1850 in Lancashire and get a match in 1950 in Cleveland, I do start to wonder about programming standards. Peter