Agnes Goodwin

Agnes married Daniel Price in 1885 in Registry Office, Port Melbourne, Australia. (Daniel Price was born about 1862 in Victoria, Australia.)

  Marriage Notes:

From The Argus Sat 25 May 1901 Page 15:
"DIVORCE LAW.
STRICTURES BY THE CHIEF JUSTICE
TWO CHARACTER SKETCHES.
In each of two of the cases which the Chief Justice heard in the Divorce Court yesterday it was
proved that the husband had deserted the wife without lawful excuse, and had left her to support the family as best she could. The evidence in the case of Agnes Price, nee Goodwin, who was married in 1885 to Daniel Price, a boilermaker, at Port Melbourne, before the registrar, showed that for ten years after the marriage the parties lived together in Victoria, New South Wales and South Australia, except for intervals, when, through her husband's drunken habits, she had to go away and earn her own livelihood, and finally he deserted her altogether.

The Chief Justice said that respondent, finding that society placed no restriction upon him after he
had brought children into the world, threw his wife off, with the added burden of two children to
keep. The man was evidently an unprincipled scoundrel. As long as the law remained in its present state, this condition of things would continue. Men were taking advantage of the law to put off their wives after they had satisfied their appetites. Petitioner appeared to have been a patient, industrious wife. He granted the decree nisi. That made an end of respondent's responsibility, and allowed him to go abroad and do the same thing again with another woman. Costs would be against respondent."