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Ex's gt x 2 grandmother Elizabeth Alice McCarthy aka Carter, nee Goodwin always says she was born in Long Acre abt 1830. I haven't been able to find her baptism.

However, I knew she had a brother Charles who appears in 1881 living with her, after his wife died. Tracing Charles back I've found him with his father John Goodwin in 1841. I know that John was a carpenter and Charles a French polisher, although I still don't know why Elizabeth says on her marriage cert that her father was a waiter (not the restaurant kind, but someone involved in Customs & Exize).

Well, I am confident John is Elizabeth's dad because of connection with Charles.

So far, so good.

Anyway while looking for Elizabeth's baptism again on Ancestry I found some other baptisms with parents John Goodwin and his wife Frances, including an older daughter called Harriet.

I've found a marriage for Harriet Goodwin, father John a joiner. Wasn't too sure that it was the right woman, but found her on 1851 census living at the same address, tho' separate household, as Charles Goodwin and to clinch matters Harriet's daughter is called Frances!
BTW the enumerator wasn't very good in 1851. He recorded Harriet's daughter as Francis and Harriet's birthplace as St Jiles in the Fields!