William Goodwin (b.1824) arrived in Hobart in 1842 as a convict per the Elphinstone. He married Mary Ann Roach (nee Webb), a free emigrant, in Hobart in 1846. William and Mary Ann had four children in Hobart - Thomas (1847) and three male children (b.1848 b.1849, and b.1851) , one of whom was William. William Snr, Ann, and William Jnr travelled to Victoria in 1852. William Goodwin (1848-1926) married Mary McCormack (b.1856) in Victoria in 1872. Mary and William Goodwin had a son James (1873-1935) in Victoria. James married Ellen 'Theresa' Hartzer (1878-1912) in 1898 at Woodend, Victoria. James and Theresa had five children - Ellen 'Nellie' Dorothea (b.1899), Mary (b.1900), Elizabeth Laura (b.1904), Vera Margaret (1906-1993). Vera Margaret Goodwin married Frank Thistleton Reay Dean (NG1950) in 1928 in Victoria. Frank and Vera lived in Melbourne before moving to Tasmania.