Genealogy: Goddard descendant chart

Goddard

Generation No. 1

John Goddard of Upham was born perhaps 1510 in England, son of Walter Godard de Cherhill, unknown wife, himself the son of John Godard de Cherhill, no specifics, himself the son of John Godard de Cherill, no specifics. Died on Saturday, 10 March, 1545. Married Elizabeth Berenger, daughter of William Berenger.

John Godard
Thomas Goddard, died 1598, married Anne Gifford

Generation No. 2

Thomas Goddard was born at Aldbourne, Wiltshire, the son of John Goddard of Upham and Elizabeth Berenger, and married, before December 4, 1557 Anne Gifford, daughter of John Gifford and Joan Bruges. Will dated June 2, 1594 at Aldbourne. Died in 1598 at Aldbourne. Will proved May 12, 1598.

Generation No. 3

Richard Goddard Esquire, born 15xx, married Elizabeth Walrond, daughter of Thomas Walrond of Albourne and Alice Prater. Will dated November 13, 1614 at Upham, Aldbourne, Wiltshire, proved May 8, 1615 at Wiltshire.

Thomas Goddard
Edward Goddard, christened October 11, 1590

Generation No. 4

Edward Goddard I, born 1584, Inglisham Berksland Lanbourne, christened October 11, 1590, died 1647-1648, Lower Upham Wiltshire, buried Aldbourne, Wiltshire. Married Priscilla D'oyly on August 11, 1612 in Chislehampton, Oxfordshire. She was born on 11 August, 1594 in Chislehampton, christened August 11, 1594 in Chislehampton, died June 15, 1681 in Box, Wiltshire.

Elizabeth Goddard, born 1613
John Goddard, born 1614
Priscilla Goddard, born 1614
James Goddard, born 1615 and died 1678
Francis Goddard, born 1616 Inglesham, Wiltshire, died October 16, 1634
Martha Goddard, born 1619
Thomas Goddard, born 1620 and died February 7, 1691
Edward Goddard, born 1622 and died 1667, buried Aldbourne, Wiltshire
Richard Goddard, born June 1625 and died 1666
William Goddard, born February 28, 1627/28, died October 6, 1691
Josiah Goddard, born March 30, 1630, christened June 30, 1630
Benjamin Goddard, born March 20, 1631, christened same day
Vincent Goddard, born 1633, christened May 26, 1639 in Albourne

Generation No. 5

William Goddard, born February 28, 1627, Inglesham, Wiltshire, christened February 28, 1627 in Inglesham, died October 26, 1691, Watertown, Middlesex, Massachusetts, buried 1691. Married Elizabeth Miles, daughter of Benjamin Miles and Elizabeth Miles, in 1652 in London. She was born in 1627 in Ware, Hertfordshire, christened in London and died February 1, 1697 in Watertown MA.

Robert Goddard, died November 1716
William Goddard, born 1653, died February 6, 1708
Joseph Goddard, born 1655, died July 25, 1728
Thomas Goddard, born June 8, 1667, died July 9, 1667
Benjamin Goddard, born August 17, 1668 and died October 24, 1748
Elizabeth Goddard, born January 22, 1670/71
Josiah Goddard, born c 1672, died November 14, 1720
Edward Goddard Esq, born March 24, 1674/75 and died February 9, 1754

[Sources: Paul C. Reed and Dorothy E. Hopkins, "The Identity of Anne Gifford, Wife of Thomas Goddard: Correcting the Royal Ancestry of the Immigrant William Goddard", The New England Historical and Genealogical Register volume 156 (April 2002). Paige, Lucius R.. History of Cambridge, Massachusetts 1630-1877 with a Genealogical Register. 1877. Reprint Bowie, Maryland: Heritage Books, 1986. Woodward, Ashbel. "Brief Memoirs and Notices of Prince's Subscribers", The New England Historical and Genealogical Register volume XIII (1859). Flagg, Charles Allcott. The Decendants of Eleazer Flagg and his wife, Huldah Chandler of Grafton, Mass. Boston: The Press of D. Clapp & Son, 1903. Gozzaldi, Mary Isabella. History of Cambridge, Massachusetts 1630-1877 with a Genealogical Register - Supplement and Index. 1930. Reprint Bowie, Maryland: Heritage Books, 1986. Hyde, Myrtle Stevens and Paul L. Child. "Child-Foote-Goddard Connections", The American Genealogist volume LXIII (1988).]

Generation No. 6

Edward Goddard II, born March 21, 1675, Watertown MA, buried Church Hill Cemetery. Schoolmaster. Married Susannah Stone, daughter of Deacon Samuel Stone and Sarah Stearns, June 1, 1697 in Watertown. She was born March 24, 1675 in Watertown, died February 4, 1754 in Framingham and was buried February 4, 1754 in Church Hill Cemetery, Framingham MA.

Edward Goddard Esq died on Saturday, February 9, 1754 at Framingham, Massachusetts, at age 78 years, 10 months and 16 days of a fever epidemic. According to the Boston papers recording his death, he was "a person of very good natural powers, inquisitive and curious genius, industrious spirit, and considerable improvements in both divine and political knowledge, esteemed for sobriety, integrity, judiciousness and piety from his youth......being of so good a character and a very accurate writer and draughter in almost all sorts of instruments, he was in his younger time encouraged to keep a school for writing and arithmetic in Boston, where he behaved himself to great acceptance, contracted and intimate friendship with the Rev. Mr. Bridge... and other serious and solid men...... in whose society he continued and grew in esteem and affection, and with mutual pleasure, till purchasing a farm in Framingham, he thought it best, for the sake of his children, to live upon and improve it. He was many yeas in commission for the peace, nine years chosen and served as Representative for the town in the General Court, and also chose and served three years more in his Majesty's Council for the Provence.... He was one of the greatest and most steady patriots, both of civil and religious liberties, in their largest extent, that ever appeard in the General Assembly in his day."

Edward Goddard, born May 4, 1698, died October 13, 1777
Susanna Goddard, born February 25, 1699/0
Simon Goddard, born February 18, 1701/2, died November 3, 1758
Benjamin Goddard, born August 15, 1704, died January 28, 1754
David Goddard, born September 26, 1706, died January 19, 1754
William Goddard, born March 22 1708/9, died June 6, 1709
Mary Goddard, born June 4, 1711, died August 5, 1711
Ebenezer Goddard, born November 18, 1712, died December 24, 1712
Ebenezer Goddard, born January 17, 1713/14, died November 18, 1762
William Goddard, born December 10, 1720, died December 17, 1720
Hepzibah Goddard, born May 8, 1723

[Sources: Gozzaldi, Mary Isabella. History of Cambridge, Massachusetts 1630-1877 with a Genealogical Registerand died Supplement and Index. 1930. Reprint Bowie, Maryland: Heritage Books, 1986. Paige, Lucius R.. History of Cambridge, Massachusetts 1630-1877 with a Genealogical Register. 1877. Reprint Bowie, Maryland: Heritage Books, 1986. Woodward, Ashbel. "Brief Memoirs and Notices of Prince's Subscribers", The New England Historical and Genealogical Register volume XIII, born 1859. Stone, William F.. "Almanac Memoranda of the Stone Family of Watertown, &c", The New England Historical and Genealogical Register volume X, born 1856. Drake, Samuel G. "Goddard Obituary and died Gleaned from the Boston Gazette of Tuesday, Feb. 26, 1754", The New England Historical and Genealogical Register volume XIII, born 1859.]

Generation No. 7

Edward Goddard III, born May 4, 1698, Watertown MA and died October 13, 1777 in Shrewbury. Married Hephsebah Hapgood, daughter of Thomas Hapgood and Judith Barker, in 1722 in Shrewbury. She was born June 27, 1704 in Marlboro and died July 19, 1763 in Shrewbury.)

Hepzibah Goddard, born February 11, 1723, died October 7, 1781
Nathan Goddard, born January 18, 1725, died February 12, 1806
Elizabeth Goddard, born September 4, 1726
Robert Goddard, born August 13, 1728, died June 1807
David Goddard, born September 26, 1730, died May 16, 1786
Hezekiah Goddard, born August 13, 1732, died 1734
Daniel Goddard, born February 7, 1734, died 1807
Ebenezer Goddard, born November 25, 1735, died December 9, 1735
Ebenezer Goddard, born December 28, 1736, died September 29, 1738
Rhoda Goddard, born February 25, 1740, died December 7, 1820
Miriam Goddard, born April, 30, 1742, died November, 8, 1755
Edward Goddard, born March 12, 1745, died October 13, 1811

Generation No. 8

Daniel Goddard, born February, 17 1734, Shrewbury and died January 13, 1796 in Shrewbury. Married Mary Willard, daughter of Joseph Willard and Martha Clark, on November 17,1756 in Shrewbury. She was born April 3, 1730 in Grafton and died on January 13, 1796 in Shrewbury.)

Miriam Goddard, born September 8, 1757, died 8 December, 1792
Daniel Goddard, born January 15, 1759, died 29 January, 1759
Martha Goddard, born March 4, 1760, died bt 1760-61
Luther Goddard, born February 28, 1762
Hepzibah Goddard, born February 2, 1764, died May 16, 1764
Daniel Goddard, born August 23, 1765
Calvin Goddard, born May 27, 1767, died bt 1767-68
Calvin Goddard, born July 17, 1768
Martha Goddard, born September 1, 1770
Hezekiah Goddard, born August 29, 1771

Generation No. 9

Luther Goddard, born February 26, 1762 in Shrewbury and married 1784. Working before 1800 as a silversmith in Shrewsbury as the only silversmith in that town at the time; master to Parley Goddard about 1800 in Shrewsbury; master to Daniel Goddard about 1809 in Shrewsbury; working before 1817 with Daniel Goddard in Shrewsbury; working after 1817 as a silversmith, watchmaker and jeweler in Worcester opening a shop on Main Street opposite Daniel Waldo's store. Became a Baptist minister after sons Daniel and Parley took over his business of making and repairing watches and jewelry. Married Elizabeth Dakin in 1784. She was born in 1767 in Massachusetts and died on January 19, 1828 in Worcester.

Elizabeth Goddard, died in infancy 1785
Parley Goddard, born January 3, 1787, married September 3, 1815, died 1842
Martha Goddard, married Elijah Rice
Mary Goddard, born February 20, 1792
Elizabeth Goddard, born April 3, 1794, died May, 18, 1805
Daniel Goddard, born February 11, 1796, married 1820, died November 16, 1884
Levinah Goddard, born June 28, 1798
Clarissa Goddard, born May 1, 1800, died April 13, 1826

Generation No. 10

Martha Goddard, born July 1, 1789 in Shrewbury and died about 1830 in Worcester. Married Elijah Rice.

Luther Goddard Rice, born September 18, 1808
Charles Williams Rice, born Mary 21, 1810
Parley Goddard Rice, born April 5, 1812 and died November 1827
Emerson Keyes Rice, born April 29, 1813, and married before September 26, 1845
Elizabeth Goddard Rice, born May 12, 1815
Alvira Woods Rice, born May 20, 1817 and died April 4, 1897, married Williams Barker Brooks

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