Sir Alfred Edward Gooding aka Sir Alfred Edward Rowden-White {Australian WW1 ANZAC}

Tasmania Birth Record - Alfred Edward GOODING born 5/11/1874 Hobart, mother Susannah Mary GOODING

https://www.adelaide.edu.au/library/special/stories/way/earlylife/
Susannah bore five children to Sir Samuel James Way:

James Samuel Gooding b 1869
Frank Brook Way Gooding b 1872
Alfred Edward Rowden Gooding b 1874
Florence Elizabeth Jane Gooding b 1877
Edward Rowden White b 1881

Way ensured his sons received a good education, including at Geelong Grammar School in the company of the sons of Australia’s rich and famous. Alfred Edward Rowden and Edward Rowden, who both adopted the surname White, studied at the University of Melbourne and became respected Victorian medical practitioners, serving in the medical corps during the two world wars. Alfred Edward was knighted in 1961 in recognition of his distinguished career and his philanthropy. Alfred Edward and Edward Rowden share an entry in the Australian Dictionary of Biography which acknowledges Way as their father, although Samuel Way’s entry makes no mention of his children.

Susannah had already borne two children before they met in 1867, and Way treated these as his own.

John Andrew (b 1865 and educated at Scotch College Melbourne) and
Lydia Maria (b 1867) lived with the family in Tasmania, Carlton and Parkville

and all assumed the surname of White.