James Goodchild (1813->1864)
James Goodchild was the son of Beaumont and Sarah Goodchild, born in London in 1813/1814. The Bradford Observer in 1850 records the photographer Mr Humphreys had opened his photographic portrait rooms at Mr Goodchild’s Manor Hall, Kirkgate Bradford, where he produced portraits in Moroccan cases (presumably Daguerreotypes). He constructed a purpose-built studio adjacent to South Cliff Cottage, Ramsdale Road in 1854. He advertises a branch studio in Wakefield during 1854 and 1855 initially with Mr R. J. Howson. In adverts in 1856 he also lists premises in St Nicholas Street. He is living in Bradford in 1864 and mentioned as being late of South Cliffe Cottage, Scarborough. It is likely that he was a seasonal operator in Scarborough.
He married Mary (c.1820-1857) and had one son Henry (b. c.1851). Mary died on 12 February 1857 and is buried in St Mary’s Churchyard. In 1859 he marries Eliza Ann (c.1830-1864) in Bradford. Eliza Ann died on the 5 June 1864 aged 35.
Portrait of an unknown woman and child
Carte de Visite
Photographic Practice
Daguerreotypes and wet collodion
Portraiture
Stereographs
Studios
Manor Hall, Kirkgate, Bradford, 1850-1865
South Cliffe Cottage, Ramsdale Road, Scarborough - 1854-1864
Providence Terrace, Providence Street, Wakefield - January 1855 (with Mr R. J. Howson)
Union Street, (opposite Stratford Arms), Wakefield - June-July 1855
6 St Nicholas Street, Scarborough - 1856
126, Ramshill Cottages, Scarborough, 1861 (residence)
References
Adamson, K.I.P., 1996, p5
Bayliss, A. and P., 1998, p51
EYFHS, St Mary’s Cemetery, Scarborough, No. 623, p80
Heathcote, B and P, 2002, p78, p177, p181, p363-4, p419,
Nonconformist, 15 June 1864, Notice of death of Eliza Ann Goodchild (British Newspaper Archive)
Wakefield and West Riding Herald, 22 December 1854, (British Newspaper Archive)
Wakefield Journal and Examiner, 3 April 1855, (British Newspaper Archive)
York Herald, 21 February 1857, notice of death of Mary Goodchild, (British Newspaper Archive)