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These are the Goodworths who originated or lived in Leeds, Yorkshire, England, up to around 1900. There is rather more guesswork than I would like, and still quite a bit of work to to do.

It seems as if one family in Leeds was responsible for a large number of descendants in Australia and quite a few descendants in the U.S.A. There is much more information on the Australian branch at http://users.hunterlink.net.au/~ddkjk/goodworth1.htm so I only propose to list the events that occurred in England on this page.

One family seems to have been responsible for most if not all the Goodworths in Leeds from the late 1700s to the late 1800s. But at least three branches of that family emigrated to Australia and the U.S.A. in the 1840, and the rest were thinning out for the rest of the century.

It looks as if almost all the people called Goodworth in Leeds in 1900 were from elsewhere - one family from Barnsley, and one or two other people. Later, there may have been some people in the area from the West Clayton branch and the Wetherby/Thorp Arch branch of the Hatfield/Thorne family. However, as usual, the female lines are harder to trace and there is more to do. My grandmother Elisabeth Goodworth, from Winterton, married in 1906 and lived in Leeds from then until she died in 1936.

A significant confusion is that quite a lot of the Goodworths in Leeds came from or lived in Wortley, which is now a suburb to the south (and slightly west, I think) of the city centre of Leeds. But the General Register Office registration district "Wortley" is a completely different area covering High Hoyland, Penistone etc. to the north west of the Barnsley area where at least two other groups of Goodworths were located.

Dates and references from the England and Wales Civil Registration indexes  (which I've also looked up in Leeds) are in the format
bmd Mmm year Placename Volume Page,
e.g.
bmd Dec 1888 Leeds 1b 456

Sometimes the references in these indexes are hard to read so please do not rely on them if you use them to order copies of  the original records.