Margaret Wood

Margaret Sparks was born about 1628 (estimate based on children's age) and died on 5 Jul 1667 in Ipswich, Essex County, Massachusetts.

She married Obadiah Wood (1625-1694) about 1646 in Charlestown, Suffolk County, Massachusetts [or Ipswich, Essex County, Massachusetts]; his first wife. He married Hazelponi Willix, widow of John Gee, second. Obadiah was the son of Edward Wood and Ruth Lee.

Their children:

1. Mary Wood b: ABT 1647
2. Ruth Wood b: ABT 1649
3. John Wood b: ABT 1650/1651
4. Obadiah Wood b: 1652/1653 in Ipswich, , MA
5. Samuel Wood b: 1655/1656
6. Josiah Wood b: ABT 1658
7. Nathaniel Wood b: ABT 1661
8. Joseph Wood b: ABT 1664
9. (son) Wood b: 11 Apr 1665

notes

Margaret Sparke's ancestry is unknown, but it is known that her brother John was a farmer and innkeeper at Ipswich, and was born about 1635. At one time John Sparks was apprenticed to Obadiah Wood, "biskett baker".

Court document exist to prove John Sparks was born in 1634 when he apprenticed at age 16 to his brother-in-law Obadiah Wood 1625 – 1694 and that he would come of age (21) in 1655 years old. Parents unknown but he had 3 siblings: Margaret 1628 – 1667 (m Obadiah Wood), Samuel and probably Thomas.

Marriage seen as "26 Mar 1650 in Charlestown, Middlesex, Massachusetts."

From http://www.sparksfamilyassociation.net/archive/wn164a.html

• The Sparks Family Quarterly
• VOL. XLI, NO. 4 DECEMBER 1993 WHOLE NO. 164a

A carefully researched article on the Wood family by Janet Ireland Delorey appeared in The Genealogist, Vol. 9, No. 1, Spring 1988 issue.  According to her research, Obadiah Wood had been baptized on October 2, 1625, in the parish of Nuneaton, in the county of Warwick, England, and was a son of Edward and Ruth (Lee) Wood.  He came with his parents and several siblings to the Colony of Massachusetts prior to the summer of 1639, settling in Charlestown, which is now part of Boston.   Like his father, Obadiah became a baker; he moved to Ipswich about 1646, and it is believed that it was there that he was married to Margaret Sparks, older sister of John Sparks.  It was in Ipswich that their first child, Mary Wood, was born about 1647. ...
Obadiah Wood continued as a "biskett baker" in Ipswich for the remainder of his life.  He made his will on October 26, 1694, and he died prior to December 3, 1694, on which date his will was proved in the Essex County Court.  His first wife, Margaret (Sparks) Wood, sister of John Sparks, had died sometime after April 11, 1667, when her tenth child had been born.  Obadiah had then been married to a widow, Hazelelponi (Willix) Gee, prior to June 5, 1675, when their first child was born. 
The children of Obadiah and Margaret (Sparks) Wood, who were thus nephews and nieces of John Sparks, were, according to Janet Ireland Delorey's fine article, cited earlier:  (1) Mary Wood, born ca.1647; (2) Ruth Wood, born ca.1649; (3) John Wood, born 1650/51; (4) Obadiah Wood, Jr., born 1652/53; (5) Samuel Wood, born 1655/6; (6) Josiah Wood, born ca.1658; (7) Nathaniel Wood, born ca.1661; (8) Joseph Wood, born ca.1664; (9) an unnamed son born April 11, 1665, who died young; and (10) Margaret Wood, born April 11, 1667, who died as an infant the same year.

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Married Abt. 1646 in Charlestown, Middlesex, MA