Goding Family
Henry Walter Goding was born in Brunswick, in 1875, to John and Ellen (Brown) Goding.
In 1905, Henry arrived on the Peninsula to find employment at Two Bays Orchards, in Moorooduc.
It was here he met Fanny Elizabeth Howell. They married in 1907, and had a large family, which included two sons, Cliff and Harry.
Cliff subsequently married Gladys Hawken, granddaughter of Alexander McLellan, an old pioneer of the district.
In 1952, Cliff and his brother Harry, in partnership with Bob Parnell, began a sawmill on the corner of Three Chain Road - as the Moorooduc Highway was once called – and Bentons Rd, sourcing their timber from Gippsland, and supplying the area.
In 1960, they opened a timber yard in Nepean Highway, Mornington, and in 2012 celebrated sixty years in business.
Moorooduc Timber, 1008 Nepean Hwy, Mornington
Now under the management of Cliff’s son, Brian, a third generation Goding, it has become one of the longest running family businesses in Mornington.
Fanny Goding died in 1936 and her husband, Henry, in 1938. They are both buried in the Mornington Cemetery.
