LIVING IN ESSEX
“ROYAL” FARM LABOURER. At the little village of Borden, Essex, lives a farm worker who, if he wished, could look with disdain upon people whose ancestors “came over I with the Conqueror.” He is Mr [Thomas William Goodwin, and his anIcestry has been traced back to Earl [Goodwin, father of King Harold, who w-as killed in the Battle of Hastings, in 1066. Deprived of their wealth and possessions when King Harold died, his relatives were obliged to take to the land and become farm labourers, keeping, however, the name of the Saxon king. To-day, Harold’s descendants still plough the fields for a living. ’ Mr Goodwin is a typical Saxon, with fair hair ami blue eyes, and is quite content so long as he can do his work well, cultivate his patch of garden and bring up his family of two daughters and one son, who is known in the village as “Little King Harold.” It was not until last Christmas that Mr Goodwin knew anything about his kingly descent.
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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume LXXXIII, Issue 19846, 21 May 1927, Page 14 (Supplement)
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172LIVING IN ESSEX Wanganui Chronicle, Volume LXXXIII, Issue 19846, 21 May 1927, Page 14 (Supplement)
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