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Will soon be available to all those who want a copy (and expressed interest almost two years ago). The picture was lost, refound damaged, has been repaired and will be coming to me as I write.
It was taken in 1907 and is of Richard & Mary Goulding from the Irish village of Behola, in the parish of Westport, County Mayo; together with their children, Thomas, William, Richard, Julia, and Sarah (another son, Joseph was born three years later in 1910).
This branch of the family is likely to have been connected directly with several other of the Irish immigrant families who emigrated to Liverpool and North Lancashire/Cumbria England, either before or after the Irish Potato Famine of the mid-1800's, and who bear the same name (with the same spelling). They may even have followed them here by recommendation. Anyway, they settled at Brown Cow Cottage on the Wrightington Estates, near Standish, Wigan, Lancashire. But Richard didn't work the land, he went down the pit (colliery). It would appear that there were already at least two Goulding families in the area, one at Standish itself and another in the Wigan area. However, it is unlikely that they also, were of Irish origin, hence there is often some confusion.
They are both buried at Mawdesley in the Catholic church there.
Interestingly for many reading this, from the photograph there is a most defining feature that Richard had which I would be very interested to know if any other branch of the family bears. That is, he was "buck-toothed. Not in the "rabbit" sense (and I don't want to poke fun at him obviously) but in the "squirrel" sense. You will know what I mean when you see it and this sort of thing can be a very important clue to the origin of individuals in families.
Reading back through the "origin of the Goulding name" postings I read one by Kevin Goulding who maintained that the Goulding name is Anglo Saxon. I was informed after a heraldic search some years ago that it is Norse in origin, but it would be very understandable to confuse it with Anglo Saxon families, because what did the Vikings do? They inermarried with the Engels and Saxons of course; they were after all, both from the mainland of Europe - one from Germanic tribes and one Norse. I will wait until I have researched the Irish connection further back, but it would be very logical and indeed surprising, if the Vikings hadn't raided along the Western coast of Ireland as well as settling in Kent and the South East (along with and mixing in with, the early Anglo Saxons). But then . . . so did the Norman French a bit later! Ah well, all will be revealed in due course as we go back and back, no doubt. But the Irish connection cannot simply be explained away by the emigration of "Gouldings" from England to Ireland - very, very few went that way, anyway.
Best wishes to all. Jeff Goulding.
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