William "Bill" GOODMAN b. 21 Nov 1865 Bathurst, New South Wales, Australia d. 11 Dec 1954 Ipswich, Queensland, Australia: Colston & Wenck families in Australia

1865 - 1954 (89 years)

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Name	William "Bill" GOODMAN
Nickname	Bill
Birth	21 Nov 1865	Bathurst, New South Wales, Australia [1, 2, 3]
Gender	Male
80th Birthday	21 Nov 1945	Lowood, Queensland, Australia [3]
	80th Birthday MR W. GOODMAN 74 YEARS AT LOWOOD Lowood.-Mr. William Goodman, sen., who celebrated his 80th birthday on Tuesday, was born at Bathurst, New South Wales, on November 21, 1865. He came to Lowood in 1871, when he was six years of age. With his mother and father he settled on the property on which he has lived ever since. It was all standing scrub, and he did much of the clearing of the property. As a young man he took on contracts of scrub felling and for a time worked on the railway in a fencing and repair gang after the 1893 flood. He was cane-cutting at Childers for a short time. Mr. Goodman remembers the 1893 flood, which took every building away with the exception of the Goodman home. All crops and fences went. LOGS ON THE RIVER The pine cut in the district was all rafted down the river from Goodman's lane. It was shot into the river. Many logs went into the water and never came up or stuck with one end up, and could not be moved. Mr. Goodman also tried his hand at carpentering. He helped to build St. James' Church of England at Lowood, and for a time worked on Hancock's saw bench at Lowood. When he came to Lowood it was only dense scrub. There were only surveyors' bridle tracks past his home, and to Fernvale. There were about 300 or 400 blacks about, and they used to meet and have their corroborees at the bora ring, where the Andrews family now live. Little black boys taught him to swim. Mr. Goodman laughed as he told of how he won a ploughing match at Lowood and was beaten by one furrow in the all-comers' match for the championship. He used two horses and a long-handled plough made by Mr. W. Bulow, of Fernvale. Mrs. Goodman, who was Miss Hilda Dennien, died two years ago. There are one son, six daughters, 13 grandchildren, and two great-grandchildren. FRIENDS' GOOD WISHES On Tuesday night between 70 and 80 friends and relatives of the Goodman family gathered, at the invitation of the family, at the home of Mr. W. Goodman, sen., to honour Mr. Goodman on his 80th birthday and offer good wishes. Many old friends met and exchanged reminiscences. Cards and dancing were enjoyed. Music was supplied by Messrs. H. Dennien, N. and V. Wendt (accordion), and Mr. H. Schulz (drums). The barn was used for dancing. It was brightened with evergreens and bougainvillea. At supper a beautifully-iced birthday cake, made by Miss Kate Goodman and iced by Mrs. Russell, was a feature. Vases of gerberas and antigonon beautified the tables. Mr. F. H. Kidd was chairman. After the loyal toast Mr. Kidd said everyone present was pleased to honour such a fine and worthy citizen as Mr. Goodman. They were all pleased to see him so hale and hearty. Mr. Alf. Scott (son-in-law) remarked that on Monday Mr. Goodman had been out on the farm planting maize. Mr. F. J. Gould also spoke. On behalf of the family, Mr. Kidd asked Mr. Goodman to accept a cosy arm chair and, on behalf of friends present, a fine array of gifts, with the hope that he would be long spared to make use of them. The guest of honour expressed his pleasure at being in the presence of so many old friends, and he thanked them for their gifts. The health of the Goodman family was drunk.
Death	11 Dec 1954	Ipswich, Queensland, Australia [1, 4, 5, 6]
	Ipswich General Hospital
Burial	13 Dec 1954	Lowood, Queensland, Australia [6]
	Lowood Roman Catholic Cemetery, St Michael's Fairfield Rd (corner Klibbe Rd), Lowood
		GOODMAN, William & Hilda Headstone, Lowood St Michaels Catholic Cemetery
		GOODMAN, William Headstone, Lowood St Michaels Catholic Cemetery
Obituary	15 Dec 1954	Ipswich, Queensland, Australia [6]
	Queensland Times
	Mr. W. Goodman Passes Settled at Lowood 83 Years Ago LOWOOD, Dec. 13. - Mr. William Goodman, of Lowood, who passed away in the Ipswich General Hospital after being a patient there for the past three years, came to Lowood before the settlement received that name. He was born at Bathurst, New South Wales, on November 21, 1865, and came to Lowood at the age of six years. When the late Mr. Goodman came to Lowood the area was all part of the Tarampa district. It was not until the railway line came in 1885 that the name Lowood was placed on the local station - the first indication people had that the name had been changed from Tarampa. When the Goodman family came to settle they came up along the Fernvale-Wivenhoe route, and crossed the Brisbane River. They first went up the Lockyer to Mr. James West, sen., and stayed there a few weeks. The Watsons and Patricks were well established there by this time at what is now known as Clarendon, but at that time it was all known as Tarampa. Watsons took up land there in 1863 and, like the Patrick Brothers, were early pioneers of the cattle industry in the district. The Watsons and the Patricks still retain the old homesteads. When the Goodmans came to Lowood they took up a farm within a mile of the area which was later to become the Lowood township. Like other new settlers, they split slabs and shingles for their homes and all had ground floors. When Mr. Goodman was a youngster and reached school age he had to follow the river bank to Fernvale for his education. Several other boys accompanied him there and back each day. They often had to go into Fernvale and purchase groceries and carry them back over the six-miles journey. The Fernvale school was on the same site as it is now. A school was erected at Tarampa and many children walked there. Shortly afterwards a provisional school was built at Lowood. If the settlers wanted their mail they had to walk to Clarendon for it--at the Watson homestead. The mail came from Ipswich over the postman's track to Minden by a mail carrier on his way to Kilcoy. Mr. Jimmy England owned Tarampa Station, a property of 25,000 acres. The late Mr. Goodman had told of the difficulties in establishing a farm on the property they had. Maize and cotton were their first crops. Wallabies and bandicoots ate everything that was not enclosed and dingoes took pigs out of the sty at night. He was 17 years old before he saw a plough. He had seen the district progress from slab huts to modern homes, from bullock waggon transport to fast moving motor transport, and from the hoe to modern methods of tilling the soil. Mr. Goodman lived on the same farm for 80 years. He married Miss Hilda Dineen, of Minden. She died in January, 1943, at the age of 66 years. The late Mr. Goodman leaves a family of five daughters, Mesdames Arthur Neuendorf (East Ipswich), A. R. Scott (Clarendon), W. Vollbrecht (Lowood), and Norman Wendt (Prospect Street, Lowood), and Miss Kate Goodman (Main Street, Lowood); one son, Mr. William Goodman (Lowood); 14 grandchildren, and 14 great-grandchildren. Mrs. Ernest Wenck (Ashgrove, Brisbane) is a sister. The funeral left the Roman Catholic Church, Lowood, for the Tarampa Catholic Cemetery on Sunday afternoon after a service conducted by Rev. Father Costello. who also officiated at the graveside.
Find a Grave link	https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/138892334
Find a Grave	138892334
FamilySearch ID	LLHM-75G
FamilySearch link	https://www.familysearch.org/tree/person/details/LLHM-75G
Person ID	I2456	Colston & Wenck families in Australia
Last Modified	8 Sep 2018

Father	Ubald GUTMANN, b. Abt 1842, Säckingen, Baden, Germany d. Yes, date unknown
Mother	Mary McGRATH, b. Abt 1835, Kilkenny, Ireland d. 26 Apr 1924, Lowood, Queensland, Australia (Age 89 years)
Marriage	16 Aug 1864	Queensland, Australia
Family ID	F722	Group Sheet \| Family Chart

Family Hilda Anna Mary DENNIEN, b. Abt 1876, Pomerania, Prussia d. 7 Jan 1943, Lowood, Queensland, Australia (Age 67 years)

Marriage 28 Jul 1896 Queensland, Australia [7, 8]

Children

	1. Joseph James GOODMAN, b. 12 Feb 1897, Queensland, Australia d. 30 Jul 1923, Lowood, Queensland, Australia (Age 26 years)
+	2. Mary Ellen GOODMAN, b. 18 Dec 1899, Lowood, Queensland, Australia d. 25 Jun 1978, Ipswich, Queensland, Australia (Age 78 years)
	3. Blanch Agnes "Tot" GOODMAN, b. 7 Apr 1901, Queensland, Australia d. 17 Jun 1988, Queensland, Australia (Age 87 years)
	4. Hilda Emily Frances GOODMAN, b. 13 Jul 1903, Queensland, Australia d. 1998, Queensland, Australia (Age 94 years)
	5. Cecilia Margaret GOODMAN, b. 7 Dec 1904, Queensland, Australia d. 28 Jun 1985, Queensland, Australia (Age 80 years)
	6. Catherine Eileen "Katie" GOODMAN, b. 28 May 1906, Queensland, Australia d. 11 Oct 1990, Queensland, Australia (Age 84 years)
+	7. William Henry Albert GOODMAN, b. 6 Jun 1907, Queensland, Australia d. 5 Oct 1997, Queensland, Australia (Age 90 years)
	8. Evelyn Josephine GOODMAN, b. 27 Nov 1908, Queensland, Australia d. 10 Jun 1996, Queensland, Australia (Age 87 years)

Family ID F842 Group Sheet | Family Chart

Last Modified 5 Aug 2018

Event Map

	Birth - 21 Nov 1865 - Bathurst, New South Wales, Australia
	Marriage - 28 Jul 1896 - Queensland, Australia
	80th Birthday - 21 Nov 1945 - Lowood, Queensland, Australia
	Death - 11 Dec 1954 - Ipswich, Queensland, Australia
	Burial - 13 Dec 1954 - Lowood, Queensland, Australia
	Obituary - Queensland Times - 15 Dec 1954 - Ipswich, Queensland, Australia

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[S200] Patricia Leonard, "Dennien/Goodman" e-mail message Word attachment to Jennifer Crockett, 4 May 2006, page 2.
[S4] NSW Registry of Births, Deaths & Marriages, (http://www.bdm.nsw.gov.au), 5898/1865.
[S342] National Library of Australia, Australian Newspapers, 1945 '80th Birthday MR. W. GOODMAN 74 YEARS AT LOWOOD.', Queensland Times (Ipswich) (Qld. : 1909 - 1954), 23 November, p. 5 Edition: DAILY, viewed 5 September, 2013, http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article114618691.
[S73] Headstone transcription, Copyright 2005, Kerry Raymond and David Horton. http://www.ChapelHill.homeip.net.
[S2] Queensland: Registry of Births Deaths & Marriages, Death registration: William Goodman, Death date: 11/12/1954, Mother's name: Mary McGrath, Father/parent's name: Herbert, Registration details: 1954/C/5089.
[S342] National Library of Australia, Australian Newspapers, 1954 'Mr. W. Goodman Passes.', Queensland Times (Ipswich) (Qld. : 1909 - 1954), 15 December, p. 6 Edition: Daily, viewed 9 February, 2014, http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article118440213.
[S16] Queensland Federation Index 1890-1914, (Brisbane, The Registrar-General, Registry of Births, Deaths and Marriages, 2004), 1896/000963.
[S2] Queensland: Registry of Births Deaths & Marriages, Marriage registration: William Goodman, Marriage date: 28/07/1896, Spouse's name: Hilda Anne Mary Dennien, Registration details: 1896/C/963.