Elizabeth Doud

Everything I've read has listed her maiden name as Dadson, but then I found this reference to an Elizabeth Woollett with the same birth and death dates, same locations and so...who knows?

http://www.woolletthistory.co.uk/main/doude.htm

Excerpted:

Copied from the web site "www.dowdgen.com":-

".... Parish records for Woodchurch, England, reveal that "The 27th of October was baptized Henrie ye son of Henrie Dowde" (1611). From the same source, we learn that Henry Dowd, about 22, married Elizabeth Dadson, about 22, on 2 May 1635. She was the daughter of Ambrose Dadson, a carpenter." Woodchurch is east northeast of Tenterden, Henry's probable birthplace, in the Vale of Kent.

It is not known when the young couple first heard the preaching of Reverend Henry Whitfield, the pastor who was to lead them to the New World. His church was in Ockley, Surrey. It was not unusual for the pious to travel considerable distances to hear the sermons of eloquent ministers, or for ministers to visit other parishes preaching the gospel according to Puritan tenets. The East Anglia region, comprised of Norfolk, Suffolk, and Essex, was a Puritan stronghold. About 65 to 70 percent of English emigrants to New England at the time of The Great Migration came from East Anglia and surrounding counties ....."

also:-

"..... 1625 – 1649: Generation 1 Henry and Elizabeth Doude were Puritan settlers. We can learn something about them by understanding the religious community they were a part of at the time of The Great Migration (1629 - 1640.

English marriage records indicate that Elizabeth's last name may have been Dadson, not Woolett as often supposed.

An inventory of Henry Doude's estate at the time of his death was recorded in New Haven Probate District between November 1668 and October 1669 ......"

Family

“The descendants of Henry Doude, who came from England in 1639.” Publication date 1885. Archive.Org

He was probably married before leaving England, as there is no record of the maiden name of his wife. Her Christian name was Elizabeth, and she died in 1713.

Henry died in 1668, thirty years after landing. There is no record when Thomas, his oldest child, was born, nor is there any of some of the other children.

GENERATION II.

The children of HENRY and ELIZABETH as follows:

• 2 THOMAS, d. 1713, m. Ruth Johnson, d. 1713.
• 3 JOHN, b. 1650, d. 1712; m. 1679, (1) Sarah Tallman, (2) Mary Bartlett.
• 4 JACOB, b. 1653, s.
• 5 ELIZABETH, d. 1669, s.
• 6 JEREMIAH, d. 1668, s.
• 7 SARAH, m. John Bowers.
• 8 MARY, m. 1666, Samuel Hughes.
• 9 REBECCA, d. 1703; m. Daniel Evarts.