Robert Dunley GOODRIDGE

   Research Notes:

" GOODRIDGE. -On April 26, at the Port Broughton Hospital. Robert Dunley. beloved husband of the late Mary, loved father of Myrtle (Mrs. Harris). Effie (Mrs. Claridge), and Roy (deceased). Aged 83 years."

"GOODRIDGE. -On April 26, Robert Dunley, only son of James and Janet Goodridge, beloved brother of Selina, Lizzie, Jessie, Annie and Meg (deceased), and loving father of Myrtle and Effie. Aged 83."

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"PORT BROUGHTON PIONEER

I HAD a pleasant talk with Mr. R. D. Goodridge, -who has been at Port Broughton for 62 years, ever since he was 18. He came up to celebrate his 80th birthday at the home of his daughter, Mrs. Bert Claridge, at Clifton street, Malvern, and there met, among i many old friends, his four sisters— Mesdames Selina Edwards (Edwardstown) , Lizzie Wall (Enfield). Jessie Edwards (Waikerie), and Annie Burniston (Wayville West).

My father, James Goodridge,' he told me, 'was in the first carpentry business in Riverton, where I was bom. He was at Booleroo Centre when he took up land at Ward's Hill, near Port Broughton, where there was nothing in the town but the pub on one side, kept by David Gray, father of Frank.

'I remember when I went back to Booleroo from a sea of scrub and sandhills the first time, and they asked. 'What's it like there, Bob?' I said, 'If I live to be a hundred I'll be cutting wood.' Today wood is £2 a ton in the town. We were so busy working and batching that I didn't even know who my neighbor was. Water was our trouble. On one trip I went 18 miles to Merriton for 800 gallons, which didn't last long, and the horses didn't like it.

'It was from the Broughton River. Then we got the Beetaloo water within eight miles of us. Sometimes it would be brought on trucks from Mundoora and four or five of us would wait all day, and couldn't get it because the man in charge wouldn't turn it on until the boss came.' Mr. Goodridge is popularly known at Port Broughton as the institute librarian and the bowls greenkeeper. He has been president of the juvenile Oddfellows' Lodge for 27 years. Another daughter is Mrs. C. R. Harris, of Gurr's road. Beulah Park." ⁶

   Marriage Information:

Robert married Louisa Paxton ADAMS, daughter of Thomas ADAMS and Rebecca PAXTON, on 6 Mar 1890 in The Schoolhouse, Tarlee, S.A., Australia ¹. (Louisa Paxton ADAMS was born on 13 May 1869 in Reeves Plains, S.A., Australia ⁷ and died on 4 Nov 1899 near Port Broughton, S.A., Australia.)

   Marriage Notes:

" On the 6th March, at the Schoolhouse, Tarlee, by the Rev. J. G. Martin, Robert Dunley, the eldest and only son of Mr. James Goodridge, of Port Broughton, to Louisa P. Adams, third daughter of Mr. Thomas Adams, school teacher, Tarlee."

   Marriage Information:

Robert also married Mary GREIG, daughter of Thomas GREIG and Mary COWAN, on 15 Aug 1901 in Wallaroo, S.A., Australia ². (Mary GREIG was born on 7 Apr 1867 near Riverton, S.A., Australia ⁸ and died on 3 Jul 1943 in Port Broughton, S.A., Australia ⁹.)

   Marriage Notes:

"On the 15th August, at the residence of the bride's mother, Wallaroo, by the Rev. Richard Jackson, Robert Dunley, son of the late J. Goodridge, Port Broughton, to Mary, eldest daughter of the late Thomas Greig, Point Riley, Wallaroo."