Edward Wood

1598 - 1642  (44 years)

• Name	Edward Wood
  Born	1598	Of Norwich, Norflk, England
  Christened	29 Oct 1598	Norwich, Norfolk, England
  Gender	Male
  _UID	5CB0BB7C110F474EBDDC9D61982406D829BA
  Died	27 Nov 1642	Charlestown, Middlesex, MA
  Buried	27 Nov 1642	Charlestown, Middlesex, Massachusetts
  Person ID	I10167	Crandall Pember Legacy
  Last Modified	7 Jun 2021

  
  

  Family	Ruth Lee
  Married	1630/1631	Charlestown, Suffolk, Mass.
  _UID	FA0BB058762B644C86A8373F9492094778FE
  Children	1. Thomas Wood,   b. 1634, Of Rowley, Essex, MA ,   d. 9 Sep 1687, Rowley, Essex, MA  (Age 53 years)   2. Josiah Wood,   b. INT 1637 (<1637>),   3. Obadiah Wood,   b. Of Norwich, Norfolk, England ,   d. 3 Dec 1694, Ipswich, , Massachusetts   4. Wood,   b. INT 1641 (<1641>),   5. Elizabeth Wood,   b. 1623, Of Norwich, Nrflk, Eng ,   d. 1 Nov 1688, Charlestown, Suffolk Co, MA  (Age 65 years)   6. Edward Wood,   b. Abt 1623, Norwich, Suffolk, Massachusetts   7. Josiah Wood,   b. 1629, Of Norwich, Nrflk, Eng ,   d. 24 Sep 1691, Charlestown, , Massachusetts  (Age 62 years)   8. Ruth Wood,   b. Jul 1636, Of Norwich, Nrflk, Eng ,   d. 18 Jan 1696, Malden, Middlesex, MA  (Age ~ 59 years)   9. Ann Wood,   b. INT 1625 (<1625>), ,   bur. 15 Mar 1625/15 Mar 1626, England   10. Tabitha Wood,   b. 30 May 1640, Charlestown, Midd, MA ,   d. 29 Aug 1642, Charlestown, Middlesex, Massachusetts  (Age 2 years)
  Last Modified	25 Aug 2021 16:45:14
  Family ID	F4375	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

• Notes

  !(Copied from the internet) I bought the issue of the The Genealogist with Janet Delorey's excelle n t article some years ago from APSG, Ltd., 255 N. 2nd West, Salt Lake City, Utah 8 4 103; a bargain then at only ten dollars. (If they have raised the price on re p rints since then I wouldn't blame them.) Even though the article is only 70 pages ra t her than 90 (it STARTS on page 90), it's a treasure for any descendant of this in t eresting family. ________________________________________ Posted By: Barry Wood Email: nathan44@aol.com Subject: Re: Nathaniel WOODS b: 1552 England>MA>CT Post Date: April 24, 2000 at 20:03:16 Message URL: http://www.genforum.com/wood/messages/4790.html Forum: Wood Family Genealogy Forum Forum URL: http://www.genforum.com/wood/ Steve -- you have a lot of data in your posting, and I congratula t e you on your diligence. Unfortunately, substantial parts of it are wrong. No doubt y o u will want to correct the erroneous sections. Now that the incorrect information has been posted on the Interne t , it becomes necessary to advise the people who posted followups, if not everyone who stumbled across the errant data, of the misstatements. I will post a lit t le reference on each of the followups to your post so that those who commented on i t w ill be set straight. Most notably, the Edward Wood who settled in Charlestown, Mass. w a s NOT from Norwich at all. He has no connection whatsoever with that Nathani e l Woods you mentioned. There never was any proof for any identification of the immigrant E d ward Wood with the Woods of Norwich. One author's vainglorious wishful thinki n g about a possible coat of arms through the Norwich Woods got translated i n to fact in the minds of people who have simply accepted what others, who perhaps dreamed of a connection with the armigerous family, have given them. Edward Wood was from Nuneaton, Warwickshire, the son of Lewis and Margaret (Holmes) Wood. Edward married Ruth Lee (or Lea) there 2 Feb 1619 (Julian calendar; 1620 Gregorian). The older children were christened in Nuneaton; la t er ones may have been christened there as well but the pages of the parish regis t er are illegible or missing for the critical period of 1625-1635. (Having gott e n eyestrain trying to decipher the record prior to 1626, I can testify that it's le s s than perfectly clear before that date.) Actually, there was a wealthy Wood family in Nuneaton, as reflect e d by the Heart Tax returns, but there is so far as I know no documentation connec t ing us with that family. Complete, accurate, documented and authoritative information on th i s family (to the fourth generation in America), with no fewer than 948 footnote s , is found in an article by Janet Ireland Delorey in Vol. 9 of the magazine The Genealogist (Spring 1 9 88), starting at page 90. As of 1995, at least, reprints could be ordered from A.P.S.G., Ltd . , 255 N. Second West, Salt Lake City, Utah 84103-4545. Steve, going back to your posting showing Edward Wood as a descenda n t of Nathaniel Woods of Norwich, I should note that I did not attempt to iden t ify all the errors in it. However, here are a few of the major ones that jumped out at me: First, the idea that Edward Wood's oldest daughter married first So l omon Pipps and then Solomon Phipps is obviously erroneous. It was Phipps and only P h ipps. It is to Solomon that the descendants of Thomas Wood owe whatever skil l a t carpentry may have been passed down to them from father to son. Then Solomon "Pipps" is listed as a second WIFE of Thomas' older br o ther Obadiah Wood! Is this the result of some genealogical computer program g o ne berserk? You have Hannah Grant as the first wife of John Wood (son of Thom a s & Ann). In fact, Hannah Grant was his mother in law. Also, with regard to John Wood and his one and only wife Isabel Haz e n, the date of birth of their oldest child, Hannah, is off by a year. Then you have an inaccurate birth date for the oldest son, my ances t or Deacon John Wood [Jr.], who was actually born in Rowley 13 Feb 1683/4. No, I do not have any financial interest in the publication referen c ed above. I do have a desire that our ancestors will be honored by accurate informati o n about their origins. I do appreciate your providing telephone and mail information so th a t you can be contacted if you, like me, do not check Genforum postings absolutel y a ll the time. Please do not take this followup as personally critical. No doubt y o u were given a set of information by someone else and passed it on with the best of i n tentions and without realizing that the Norwich connection is just a myth. I would not have found out Edward Wood's origins myself (which I did independently of Janet's research) had I not thought to look for Obadi a h / "Obedia" in the IGI. Where do you fit on the ample Wood tree? Barry Wood 4510 N. 35th Street Arlington, Virginia 22207 ***************************** THE PIONEERS OF MASSACHUSETTS, Edward, baker, Charlestown, bought half of a house Nov. 1, 1639. [L.] Adm. chh. 30 (1) 1640, frm. May 13, 1640. His wife Ruth adm. chh. 24 (3) 1640, d. 29 (6) 1042; ch. Tabitha bapt. 30 (3) 1641. Edward Wood, "the elder of that name," died 27 (9) 1042. Admin. gr. 4 (10) 1642. [Reg. III, 81.]