Situated on a hillside between Burry Port and Llanelli, overlooking the Burry Estuary, Goodig was originally a four storey house which was probably rebuilt or restored in 1701. A stone discovered in the front wall was inscribed ‘T.P.E. 1701’.

Goodig was a farm until the farmhouse was transformed into a small attractive ‘Plas’ towards the end of the 18th century.

When the owner of Goodig, Thomas David Roger ab Owen died, he left his only daughter Anne the property, and when Anne married Evan Price of Penyfan, Llanelli, they settled at Goodig.

Evan Price who died around 1727, and his wife Anne, had a daughter Anne Price who married John Thomas, Gentleman, of Trecyrn Llanwinio, and they eventually went to live a Goodig.

John died some years before 1754 and he and his wife Anne had two children, John and Elizabeth, who were born at Trecyrn. John Thomas, who was born in 1731, and married Hannah, the younger daughter of the Revd Howells. John Thomas and Hannah did not have any children and when John died in 1791 he was buried at Pembrey. Goodig then passed to his sister Elizabeth who married, a sea Captain John Wedge of St Ives, Cornwall, in 1763.

John Wedge and his wife Elizabeth settled at Goodig for a little while but they must have moved to St Ives at some point because their eldest son John Wedge ‘of Goodig’ wrote about two vessels that had been wrecked on 21 August 1793 on the foreshore opposite New Lodge, Pembrey. The letter from John Wedge of Goodig was addressed to his father at St Ives and though he did not name the vessels he referred to them as ‘Our Sloop’ and 'Ephriam Green’s Brig' and described how the accident happened when the vessels were trying to get into the ‘harbour’. The harbour that John Wedge of Goodig mentioned was probably Barnaby Pill.

John Wedge, eldest son of John and Elizabeth Wedge, married Jane Williams in 1806 and they lived at the family home Goodig until he died in 1853, aged 88 years.

The Wedge family, who were described as ‘pious’, improved the house and gardens in the early part of the 19th century and allowed the Plymouth Brethren to hold their services in the house.

John Wedge junior, left a son and three daughters. His younger brother Joshua Thomas Wedge built Penyfai, near Llanelli where he lived with his daughter Elizabeth, her husband James Buckley and their children.

In 1805 John Wedge of Goodig made a useful chart of the Burry estuary and in 1895 the house was extensively altered.

In the 20th century the house was sold and used as an hotel, which was subsequently destroyed by fire, and never rebuilt.

From the South Wales Press, 31 August 1905

FUNERAL OF MRS MARIA RODERICK OF GOODIG

BORN 4 FEBRUARY 1837

DIED 23 AUGUST 1905

It is with unfeigned regret that we announce the death of Mrs Maria Roderick of Goodig widow of the late Mr William Roderick of Llanelly which took place at 1.15 Wednesday 23 August after a long illness in her 69th year.

Deceased was the eldest daughter of the late Mr James Buckley JP of Penyfai, Llanelly and sister of the late Joshua Wedge Buckley, Mr James Buckley, Dr Henry Child Buckley and Mr William Joseph Buckley and of Lady Morgan Cardiff, Mrs H Gwyn Jeffreys, London and Mrs Timmins of Bath.

She was a Lady of noble character much loved by all who knew her. The late Mr William Roderick died on 26 June 1882. Mrs Roderick leaves eight children, Miss E F Roderick, Lt Col. William Buckley Roderick, Dr Sidney James Roderick, Miss Flora E Roderick, Mrs Nevill (wife of R A Nevill), Miss Muriel Roderick, Dr Henry Buckley Roderick of Cowbridge and Mrs Long Price wife of the Reverend F Long Price.

The funeral which will be private will be held at 3 o’clock on Friday.

Mrs Jo Jefford, Cornwall Family History Society, 5 Victoria Square, Truro TR1 2RS. http://www.cfhs.demon.co.uk/Society/