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Edward Woodman

Male 1628 - 1694  (66 years)

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  • Name Edward Woodman 

    • To New England
    Birth 14 Mar 1628  Christian Malford, Wiltshire, England Find all individuals with events at this location  [5, 9, 11, 12, 16] 
    Christening 1 Apr 1632  St. Bartholomew's Church, Corsham, Wiltshire, England

    St. Bartholomew's Church, 

    Corsham, Wiltshire, England

    Find all individuals with events at this location  [21] 
    Religion 1674 (45 years)  Newbury, Essex County, Massachusetts Bay Colony Find all individuals with events at this location  [12, 14] 
    Oath 1678 (49 years)  [12, 14] 
    Miscellaneous 31 Mar 1679 (51 years)  [5] 
    Legal 29 Sep 1685 (57 years)  Newbury, Essex County, Massachusetts Bay Colony Find all individuals with events at this location  [1] 
    History 17 Oct 1691 (63 years)  Plymouth Colony merged with Massachusetts Bay Colony forming the Province of Massachusetts Bay


    Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Will 16 Dec 1693 (65 years)  Newbury, Essex County, Province of Massachusetts Bay Find all individuals with events at this location  [12, 14, 21] 
    Death 11 Sep 1694  Newbury, Essex County, Province of Massachusetts Bay Find all individuals with events at this location  [6, 9, 13, 20, 21] 
    Burial Aft 11 Sep 1694  Burying Ground of the First Settlers, Newbury, Essex County, Massachusetts, U.S.A.

    Burying Ground of the First Settlers, 

    Newbury, Massachusetts

    Find all individuals with events at this location  [9] 
    Probate/Proved 27 Sep 1694 (66 years)  Essex County, Province of Massachusetts Bay Find all individuals with events at this location  [8, 12, 14, 17] 
    Siblings 3 brothers and 4 sisters 
    Patriarch & Matriarch
    Thomas Woodman,   b. Abt 1545, Corsham, Wiltshire, England Find all individuals with events at this location  (Great Grandfather) 
    Mary Searle,   b. Abt 1585, England Find all individuals with events at this location  (Grandmother) 
    Person ID, Branch I673  Roy Line
    Last Modified 7 Aug 2025 

    Father Lt. Edward Woodman,   c. 27 Dec 1606, St. Bartholomew's Church, Corsham, Wiltshire, England

    St. Bartholomew's Church, 

    Corsham, Wiltshire, England

    Find all individuals with events at this locationd. Aug 1688 to 3 Jul 1692, Newbury, Essex County, Massachusetts Bay Colony Find all individuals with events at this location (Age ~ 81 years) 
    Mother Joanna Salway,   b. Abt 1614, Christian Malford, Wiltshire, England Find all individuals with events at this locationd. Aft Feb 1687/88, Newbury, Essex County, Massachusetts Bay Colony Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 74 years) 
    Family ID F646  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

    Spouse / Partner Mary Goodridge,   c. 21 Aug 1634, Woolverstone, Suffolk, England Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 18 May 1684, Newbury, Essex County, Massachusetts Bay Colony Find all individuals with events at this location (Age ~ 49 years) 
    Marriage 20 Dec 1653  Newbury, Essex County, Massachusetts Bay Colony Find all individuals with events at this location  [1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 7, 10, 12, 13, 15, 18, 19, 20, 21] 
    Age at Marriage He : 25 years and 9 months - She : 19 years and 4 months. 
    Children 3 sons, 8 daughters and 1 person of an unknown gender 
    Family ID F333  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
    Last Modified 7 Aug 2025 

  • Pedigree← Click to display

  • Event Map
    Link to Google MapsBirth - 14 Mar 1628 - Christian Malford, Wiltshire, England Link to Google Earth
    Link to Google MapsChristening - 1 Apr 1632 - St. Bartholomew's Church, Corsham, Wiltshire, England Link to Google Earth
    Link to Google MapsMarriage - 20 Dec 1653 - Newbury, Essex County, Massachusetts Bay Colony Link to Google Earth
    Link to Google MapsReligion - 1674 - Newbury, Essex County, Massachusetts Bay Colony Link to Google Earth
    Link to Google MapsLegal - 29 Sep 1685 - Newbury, Essex County, Massachusetts Bay Colony Link to Google Earth
    Link to Google MapsWill - 16 Dec 1693 - Newbury, Essex County, Province of Massachusetts Bay Link to Google Earth
    Link to Google MapsDeath - 11 Sep 1694 - Newbury, Essex County, Province of Massachusetts Bay Link to Google Earth
    Link to Google MapsBurial - Aft 11 Sep 1694 - Burying Ground of the First Settlers, Newbury, Essex County, Massachusetts, U.S.A. Link to Google Earth
    Link to Google MapsProbate/Proved - 27 Sep 1694 - Essex County, Province of Massachusetts Bay Link to Google Earth
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  • Sources

    🟢 Primary Evidence
    🟡 Secondary Evidence
    🟠 Tertiary Evidence
    🔴 Unreliable Evidence
    1. [S801] Anderson, Robert Charles, The Great Migration: Immigrants to New England 1634-1635, volume VII (T-Y), (Boston: New England Historic Genealogy Society, 2011).

    2. [S463] Bond, Henry. Genealogies of the Families and Descendants of the Early Settlers of Watertown, Massachusetts including Waltham and Weston, (Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1860).

    3. [S800] Case, Lafayette Wallace. Goodrich Family in America, (Chicago: Fergus Printing Company, 1889).

    4. [S799] Clemens, William Montgomery. American Marriages Before 1699, (Pompton Lakes, NJ: Biblio Co., 1926).

    5. [S638] Coffin, Joshua, A Sketch of the History of Newbury, Newburyport and West Newbury, (Boston: Samuel G. Drake, 1845).

    6. [S1827] Coffin, Joshua, List of Some Descendants of Edward Woodman who Settled at Newbury, Mass. A. D. 1635, (Newburyport, Massachusetts: Union Job Office, 1855).

    7. [S641] Essex Institute, Vital Records of Newbury, Massachusetts to the End of the Year 1849 volume II, (Salem, Massachusetts: The Essex Institute, 1911).

    8. [S1852] Essex, Massachusetts Probate Records, 1648-1840, (Provo, Utah: Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 1997).

    9. [S14] Ancestry.com, Find a Grave® Index, 1600s-Current® http://findagrave.com, (Lehi, Utah: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc.), Memorial ID 130942129 Edward Woodman.

    10. [S802] Goodridge, Edwin Alonzo, The Goodridge Genealogy: A History of the Descendants of William Goodridge, (New York: privately printed, 1918).

    11. [S795] Hardy, Randolph. "Family Group Record Archive of Edward Woodman (1628-1694)", (Salt Lake City, Utah: Compiled 1953).

    12. [S621] Hoyt, David W., The Old Families of Salisbury and Amesbury, Massachusetts, with some Related Families of Newbury, Haverhill, Ipswich, and Hampton volume I, (Providence, Rhode Island: Snow & Farnham, 1897).

    13. [S1274] Leonard, Lewis Keeler. Seven Hundred Ancestors , (Privately Published, 1975), Chapter LIII Woodman.

    14. [S796] Little, George Thomas. Genealogical and Family History of the State of Maine, (New York: Lewis Historical Publishing Co., 1909).

    15. [S188] Holbrook Research Institute, Massachusetts, Town and Vital Records, 1620-1988, (Provo, Utah: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2011), Marriage Record of Edward Woodman and Mary Goodridge .

    16. [S794] Moriarty, G. Andrews, "Genealogical Research in England - The Woodman Family", (Boston: The New England Historical and Genealogical Register, volume XCVII, 1943).

    17. [S797] Sanborn, Melinde Lutz. Essex County, Massachusetts Probate Index, 1638-1840, (Salem, Massachusetts: Essex County, no date).

    18. [S91] Torrey, Clarence Almon, New England Marriage Prior to 1700, (Baltimore, Maryland: Genealogical Publishing Co., 1985).

    19. [S798] Woodman, Cyrus, The Woodmans of Buxton, Maine, (Boston: David Clapp & Son, 1874).

    20. [S396] Woodman, J. H., A List of the Descendants of Mr. Joshua Woodman, who settled at Kingston, N.H., about 1736, (Brunswick, Maine: J. Griffin, 1856).

    21. [S398] Woodman, John A., Genealogy and History of the Descendants of Mr. Edward Woodman who settled at Ould Newbury Province of Massachusetts Bay in 1635, (Ocala, Florida: by author, 1995).



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