Helen's Family History Page

  In the sections below please find all the surnames of all the various
  families related to our two families

 Goodwin is my family surname and Robinson is my husband's family

 Goodwin Family

   The earliest Goodwin family member I have is my great-great grandfather James Goodwin born in Newmarket
   Suffolk England circa 1790.  He was an agricultural labourer and he married Sarah Amos in about 1824.  They had
   9 children and lived in several Essex villages.  He died in 1852 on the Isle of Foulness off the Essex coastline.  

   His last son was named Faithful Henry Goodwin born in 1846.   Faithful was my great grandfather and called
   himself John Goodwin, he married Maryann Milbourne in 1871 and they had 12 children.  

   My grandfather Frederick Sidney Goodwin was born in Hawkwell Essex in 1877. He married Susan Elizabeth Wyatt
   in Great Wakering Essex in 1901 and they had 9 children.

   Frederick Sidney Goodwin was in the Royal Navy and the family lived in Chatham and later Gillingham Kent until 1921 
   when he retired.  The family then moved to Ruskington in Lincolnshire.

   My father Ernest Leslie Goodwin was their 6th child and he was born at Elizabeth Cottages in Gillingham Kent in
   1912.  In 1938 he married Doris Jeater in London England.   In 1949 they emigrated to Southern Rhodesia, living
   there for 11 years.    In 1960 they left Rhodesia emigrating to South Australia, he died in 1965.  They had 3
   daughters.   

   The Goodwin and Jeater families and related family surnames are mainly from Essex, Surrey, Suffolk, Lincolnshire
   and London in England, and the Jones family is originally from Aberwrysth in Wales and Knapp family from Austria.

   I was born in Salisbury Southern Rhodesia in 1954.  

 Robinson Family

    The earliest Robinson family member is James Robinson who was thought to have lived in Abbey Leix  Ireland in
    about 1815 he was a farmer.  

    His son also named James Robinson was a Merchant and lived in Mountrath near Abbey Leix in Ireland.   He
    married Margaret Elizabeth Milton in 1857 in the Abbey Leix Parish Church they had 3 children:

•     Jane Robinson born 1861in Dublin Ireland.

•     Luke George Mansfield Robinson born 1863 and lived for part of his life in Bromley in Kent England. 

•     William Robinson born 1864 in Abbey Leix Ireland.

    Jane Robinson married William J. Falkiner and emigrated to New York City in 1884.  They had 4 children:

•     Eleanor Falkiner born 1885 married John O'Peterson in 1919 in New York City.

•     William Falkiner born 1886 - died in April 1890.

•     Eric Hayes Falkiner born 1888 died in  April 1890.  

•     Robert Eric Hayes Falkiner born 1890 married Margaret Flynn in 1912 in New York City.  

    Luke George Mansfield Robinson came to Australia in 1890.  In 1897 he married Alice Mary Etheridge they had
    4 children:

•    Margaret Mary Ann Robinson was born in December 1899, she died on the 19th of July 1905
     she was buried in the general cemetery at Port Wallaroo.  

•    Milfred Milton Gertrude Robinson was born in 1903 in Adelaide. 
     She married John William Cottle in Port Augusta 1928. 
     They had twins a son and daughter.

•    Henry Milton Robinson was born in 1905 in Port Wallaroo South Australia.    Henry's 1st job was with the  
     Telegraph's.  Later joined the South Australian Police Dept for abut 10 years service.  He also served in
     WW2.

•     a 2nd son was born and possibly died as a baby.  

•     Henry Milton Robinson married twice - 1st in 1928 to Nancy Crozier in Renmark they had
      2 children - Milton William Robinson ( 1929 - 1980) and Mary Robinson (1931 - 2000)

•     In  1944 Henry Milton Robinson married Louise Emilie Appelt they had 1 son. 

   The majority of surnames connected with the Appelt family are of German - Prussian origin.  The Appelt family
   originally came from the city of Margonin in the Province of Posen, Germany now part of Poland.

   Ernst David Appelt born in 1810 was a trained Lutheran missionary.  His first posting as a missionary was in 1845
   to Madras in India.  Ernst David's fiancée Emilie Freiderike Zibell travelled to Madras and in February 1849 they
   were married there.  They returned to Germany in February 1859 and in 1861 he received a call to come to
   Adelaide in South Australia.  

  Other Pages

For all my main family surnames highlighted in Red please see their individual family pages for more detailed information:

  Appelt Etheridge Falkiner Goodwin Jeater Jones Knapp Milbourne  Milton 

 Robinson  Wyatt  Twycross  

Please see our A to Z Listing
of our Other Associated Family Names

   And some of our family photographs relating to our main main family surnames of - Goodwin & Robinson 

  Also please see my "Origins of Surnames" page for information on various of surnames found in our families..

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