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Name (FAMILY NAME, Other Names)

GOOD,  Joseph Ernest (believed he may have sometimes used Ernest)

Date of Birth

6 December 1867

Place of Birth

North Adelaide

Date of Death

6 December 1935  -  on his 68th birthday

Place of Death

At home, 24 Prospect Road, Prospect

Place of Burial

Cremated - North Road Cemetery 

Arrived in South Australia (date/ship etc.)

 

Addresses/Dates in Prospect Council Area

Prospect Road c1898 (between Martin and Clifton Sts.)

Clifton Street Prospect  

Consulting rooms corner Prospect Road and Ballville Street (pulled down to become St Cuthbert’s Church

24 Prospect Road, Prospect, a 2 story home he built and also used for consulting rooms.

(after his death in 1936 the home became Aston Private Hospital – photo in PLHG Historic Homes  book)

Addresses/Dates outside Prospect Council Area

North Adelaide  (at birth and c1880s)

 

Names of houses (if any)

 

Parents - names; DOBs etc (if known)

Thomas GOOD  b 8.4.1822 (Worcestershire?) Eng  d 21 Jan 1889 bur West Terrace Cem.

Mary Ann GOODE  b 15 3 1822 Herefordshire Eng  d 21 July 1895

Spouse(s) - including maiden name; DOBs etc. (if known)

Agnes Minnie WILLIAMS  b c1873 UK  d 23 Dec 1954  Cremated North Road Cem.

Date(s) of Marriage(s)

(pre 1898)

Place(s) of Marriage(s)

England

Children - names and dates of birth/death if known

1.  Gwynneth Fay GOOD b 6 Feb 1899 Prospect (TWIN), d 21 May 1991 (later better known as Lady Fay Angas)

Married in St Cuthbert’s Church, Prospect on 30 Apr 1934 to John Keith ANGAS (b 30 Jan 1900 – d 13 Apr 1977).  

Both buried in North Road Cemetery

John Keith ANGAS was knighted in 1952 Queens Birthday Honours List

He was the great grandson of George Fife ANGAS and he inherited Lindsay Park Stud after the death of his father selling it to Colin Hayes in 1965.

 

2.  Phyllis Gypsy GOOD b 6 Feb 1899  Prospect (TWIN) d 1947 – bur. NR Cemetery.

Married 31 October 1923 to Cavendish Lister “Pat” COLLEY  b 17 Mar 1898 – d 1982

He was the grandson of Richard Bowen COLLEY, first mayor of Glenelg, after whom the Colley Reserve at Glenelg is named and there is also a stained glass window in St. Peter’s Cathedral dedicated to R B Colley.

Education

Prince Alfred College until 1883

University of Adelaide 1887 (began medical course)

Graduated as doctor Edinburgh UK in 1894 

Registered as Medical Practitioner in SA by Medical Board Feb 1898

 

Trove bio  Advertiser Sat 7th Dec 1935

He began his medical course at the Adelaide University, but after passing his first examination returned to England and entered the University of Edinburgh, where he graduated M.B. and C.M. in 1894.

He was appointed resident medical superintendent of the smallpox hospital in Edinburgh, and later was for three years attached to the City of London Hospital for diseases of the chest. Afterwards he joined the staff of the Hospital for Children, and then that of the Royal Free Hospital, both in London.

After his marriage in England to Miss Agnes Minnie Williams, he returned to South Australia, entering into practice at Prospect, where he remained until his death.

 

Occupation(s)

Medical Practitioner

Interests/Activities

Served in Australian Army Medical Corp Reserve c1909

Religion/Churches

 

Notes (points of interest etc.)

Joseph Ernest GOOD was one of the earliest doctors in Prospect. It is said he would visit his patients in a smart carriage driven by a groom in livery. If a call was urgent and his coachman was off duty he would visit on a bicycle or on horseback.

 

Agnes became a leader in the Red Cross and other fundraising activities

 

State Library has photos in their collection  of Thomas GOOD, wife Mary Ann and children Charles Thomas, Joseph Ernest (SLSA B 56238) and Emily PROUD

 

Trove - The Express and Telegraph 23 Feb 1883 lists the family – Mr and Mrs T Good and Lydia, Annie, Elizabeth, Charles and Joseph leaving for England on the ship Cuzco

 

NB – A number of Good family members married into a Goode family.

 

Cross-references eg to siblings, parents, children

Children of Thomas GOOD and Mary Ann GOODE:-

Emily  b 9 July 1851 d 1933   marr  Cornelius PROUD on 8 March 1882

Lydia b 1854   d 25 Aug 1933

Samuel  b 27 July 1856  marr Helen Milvain GARRETT

Mary  b 14 March 1858  d 15 Nov 1860 (2yrs 8 months)

Annie  b 15 Dec 1859   marr David WILLIAMS  on 26 March 1884

Elizabeth “Bessie”  b 19 Oct 1861  marr John Francis HUMMEL on 20 Nov 1884

Charles Thomas b 17 July 1863-)  marr Helena Russell GOODE

Joseph  Ernest b 1867 (this record) 

 

Local Government experience (if any)

Prospect Councillor 1898 (newspaper refers to him as councillor not listed in Lamshed)

Sources of information

Bio Index, SA BMD’s, PLHG publications (Shops, Hospitals, Historic Homes, Lamshed) Aust Dictionary of Biography, TROVE, SLSA

Principal Researcher(s)

Lesley Attema

 

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