Person:Joan Lynes (2)

All the children, by second wife, Joan (---) [Cobb][Lynes] Goodwin (who married first to Henry Cobb, married second to Thomas Lynes and married third to Francis Goodwin) are named in Joan's will except for Benit Lynes who died an infant. The will of her daughter Susan Goodwin names her siblings thus proving she was the mother of these children:

Elizabeth Cobbe born about 1574 named Elizabeth Sadd in his mother's will along with her daughter Francis Downing.

Robert Lynes bp 27 Jan 1579/80 Ranworth, Norfolk, England

Benit Lynes bp 21 Apr 1583 Ranworth, Norfolk, England 19 Feb 1584 Ranworth, Norfolk, England

Elizabeth Lynes bp 27 Nov 1581 Blakeney, Norfolk, England

Susan Goodwin, bp. at Hemblington, 9 Sept. 1586; d. unm. 1614. She was of Ranworth 21 May 1614 when she made her will, which was proved 22 May 1615. She left "to the four children of my brother-in-law Robert Page of Ormesbye 10s. each ... to sister Page 5s . . . . to Peter Gooding 20s .... to the four children of my brother John Goodwyn of Hemblingcon 5s. each ... to the two children of my sister Sadde 20s. each. To Elizabeth Lynes I Os . . .. to my sister Mary Trywell £5 ... to the eldest daughter of Elias Goodwyn 5s .... to the wife of Robert Lynes 20s. Rest of goods to brother Robert Lynes, executor." (ANW, 1614-5, fo. 302).

Sampson Goodwin, bp. 17 Feb. 1588/ 9; living 1610.

Mary Goodwin, bp. 27 March 1592; m. at Ranworth, 11 Oct. 1613 ROBERT TREVET (Trywell in will of her sister Susan)

Francis Goodwin and his wife Katherine, who married about 1567, lived for several years in the parish of Blofield, Norfolk, where seven children came to them: Thomas (who died young), John, James (who died when a toddler), Margaret, Frances, Peter, and Elias. Francis managed well as a “husbandman,” raising crops and livestock, gaining lands also indoor and outside servants. In probably 1582 or 1583 he moved his family to the nearby parish of Hemblington. Katherine passed away here in September 1584, when their youngest child was only three years old.

Francis remarried the next autumn, 12 October 1585, to the Joan widow of Thomas Lynes, whose maiden name was Fenne. When Joan became the wife of Francis Goodwin she had already been widowed twice, had first married Henry Cobbe in 1573. He lived only until 1576, and in 1577 Thomas Lynes became her second husband. He passed away in 1583. One or both of these husbands had left property to her, the rights of which she brought to this third marriage. She also brought three known children: Elizabeth Cobbe, Elizabeth Lynes, and Robert Lynes. Daughter Benit Lynes had died when less than a year old. Joan and Francis became the parents of three more: Susan, Sampson, and Mary.

Information in the July 1589 will of Robert Fenne of South Walsham, near Ranworth, strongly identifies her as his sister. Robert’s wife’s rarely seen name, Bennett, is the name Joan gave a daughter with her second husband. Probably Joan was fond of her sister-in-law. Also Robert Fenne had a son with the again rare name of Sampson, as did Joan, this child by her third husband. The records of her marriages list Henry Cobbe and Joan Fenne, Thomas Lynes and Joan Cobbe, then Francis Goodwin and Joan Lynes.)

When his youngest child was ten years of age Francis became afflicted with an illness which he felt would take his life, and he prepared his will, June 21, 1602. Indeed, he died within days, receiving burial June 25. Daughter Margaret had married by this time, and son John was apparently courting, as he married the following October. Because of the way Francis expressed himself in his long will, with the many details he included, much is learned from it about how his family lived and their environment. For ease in understanding it, it is quoted with spelling and punctuation altered. He began the will by giving his wife Joan a multitude of things, beginning with livestock: “two of my best milk neat [cows], and one young heifer to be taken at her choice, my sorrel ambling mare colt and my red roan ambling gelded colt, ten wethers [rams], and five ewes to be indifferently taken at her choice, one of my best skeps [hives] with bees likewise at her choise.”

1. ↑ Norwich Consistory Court Probate (NCC) will register Stywarde 73 Goodwyn, Joan, widow, of Ranworth 1611.

   A film of her will can be ordered here (a transcript follows below):
   
   Norwich Consistory Court Probate (NCC) will register Stywarde 73 Goodwyn, Joan, widow, of Ranworth 1611
   
   https://nrocatalogue.norfolk.gov.uk/index.php/goodwyn-joan-widow-of-ranworth
   
   His widow Joan had several children by her first marriage and evidently held considerable property.
   
   In her will dated 8 February 1610/ 1 and proved 27 April 1611 (NCC, 73 Stywarde), Joan Goodwyn of Raynworth, widow, asked that she be buried in Raynworth chruchyard and left: "to son Robert Lynes lands in Raynworth and Panxforth... to my son Sampson Goodwyn £20... to daughter Elizabeth £3, a red cow, ewe sheep, etc.... to daughter Susan Goodwyn £5, a calf, son Robert Lyne to keep till a young cow... to daughter Mary Goodwyn £5 and one weaned black calf... ewe sheep, etc.... to daughter Elizabeth Sadd 20s.... to Francis Downing 20s... to Sampson Goodwyn flock transom bed, blanket, sheets, cushion pillow, pillow bere, table cloth and napkins and tree pieces of pewter... to Elizabeth Lynes a feather bed... to Susan Goodwyn a bedstead... and down covering, latten candlestick... to Mary Goodwyn featherbed, feather transom, flock, etc... and a white coffer and all in it to be parted with her sister Susan except to daughter Elizabet Lynes one sheet. Residue to son Robert Lynes, he to be executor."

2. ↑ Early Settlers of Hampton, New Hampshire- William Haslet Jones, , in The New England Historical and Genealogical Register. (Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society)
   Vol.141, pp.124-6.