Eileen Polshaw

I believe at least two of mine were there and were injured.

They were Thomas Goodwin and James Goodwin who I think were brothers.

MY 4x great grandfather was Thomas Goodwin. Who was born in Gatley area of what was Cheshire at the time, as was James his brother.  Thomas’ son, also James married Mary Fletcher at Manchester Cathedral in 1834, he was a Baker and Flour Dealer. They were both illiterate. They had eight children and James paid for all of them to be taught to read and write and add up, which at that time in the poorer parts of Manchester and especially Hulme area was I think quite rare. By doing this it kept them all out of the cotton mill and the coal mines. James died in 1891. My family stayed in Manchester until my great grandfather also William Edward moved to Salford with his brother to work on the Docks he married and had children living in Oldfield Buildings on Oldfield Road for many years until his death in 1928.. My grandfather William Norman Goodwin sadly lost a leg in a coal  mining accident when he was a very young man, but married had children and worked as a lamp man for The Wheatsheaf Colliery Pendlebury until his retirement. His son my father also Thomas was an engineer at what was Westons Oil Seals in Salford until his death at 39 in 1961. I and my brother lived in the Salford area until I moved after early retirement to Yorkshire but still have family in Salford. My family were quite poor, but according to my father that the main family ethos was that education was the way out of poverty, he left school at 14 but went to night school for quite a few years to obtain qualifications and he impressed that onto me.