Person:Thomas Goodenow (1)

Parish registers of Donhead St. Andrew begin in 1622. A search of surrounding parishes has not yet revealed birth date or marriage date of husband and wife nor birth dates of any of their children. Will of Thomas lists children in different order from which they are shown on this family group sheet. However, will of Ursula lists them in order they are shown: i.e., Ralph, my eldest son; John my second son; Simon, my third son; Nathaniel, my fourth son; Ursula and Dorothy my daughters and then Edmund, my son. Savage's Genealogical Dictionary of New England says that John was the eldest of the three Goodenow brothers to come to America in 1638.

!(1) Probate Document (wd 20 Dec 1617) (will registered 19 Mar 1617/18) Archdeaconry Court of Sarum G wills 1546-1629 (GSF 97448) (2) Sudbury Vital Records 974.44/n1 V2n (printed volume) (3) Sudbury Vital Records GSF 25418 (handwritten microfilm) (4) Sudbury Records (GSF 185453-25416) (5) Middlesex County Probates for Ursula (daughter), John and Thomas (6) Puritan Village by by Sumner Chilton Powell (7) Middlesex County Land Records GSF532454 Grantees index and 532492 Grantors index.

1. ↑ ^{1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 1.5} Thomas Goodenow, in Smith, Dean Crawford, and Melinde Lutz Sanborn. The Ancestry of Eva Belle Kempton 1878-1908. (Boston, Massachusetts: New England Historic Genealogical Society, 1996-2008)
   3:163-68.

   "Thomas^A Goodenow (John^B), born say 1569, under 16 if he is the son of John; died in Donhead St. Andrew, Wiltshire, between 20 December 1617 and 6 February 1617/18, the writing of his will and the taking of his inventory; …"