Edmund Wood, Jr., of Oakham

• Edmund Wood Find A Grave Memorial# 79150760

Edmund WOOD [Parents] 1 was born in 1578 in Shelf, Halifax Parish, York, England. He was christened in 1578 in Halifax, Yorkshire, England. He died in 1660 in Huntington, Long Island, New York, USA. He married Martha LUM LOME on 21 May 1611 in York, England.

Martha LUM LOME [Parents] 1 was born on 7 Jan 1581 in York, England. She was christened on 8 Jan 1580 in Sourbie, Halifax, Yorkshire, England. She died before 1635. She married Edmund WOOD on 21 May 1611 in York, England.

They had the following children:

• M i William WOOD 1 was christened on 18 Aug 1605 in Halifax, Yorkshire, England.
• F ii Mary WOOD 1 was christened on 3 Apr 1608 in Halifax, Yorkshire, England.
• F iii Martha WOOD
• M iv Jonas Owram WOOD
• F v Susan(Nah) WOOD
• M vi Edmund WOOD 1 was born in <1618> in <Shelff, Yorkshire, England>.
• M vii Jeremiah WOOD
• M viii Timothy WOOD
• F ix Susan WOOD 1 was born in <1624> in <Halifax, , Eng>.
• F x Mary WOOD 1 was born in <1629> in Hamlet Of Shelf, Halifax Parish, Yorkshire, Eng..

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Edmund Wood was one of many who joined the Puritan movement with Richard Denton to New England. They sailed on the ship "James" - He and his five children - He was widowed at the time. They ended up settling in Hempstead, NY. He met Capt. John Underhill in 1643.

Edmund was a member of the Puritian Movement in England and decided it was in the Wood families best interest to imagrated to the new world because he saw no religous future in England.

The Sources for the Wood Genealogy are as follows., The Halifax Parish Church is St . John in Halifax , England , the Wood family genealogy and The family bible of Jonathan Wood of Orange Co. New York.

Wood genealogy---Scottish or English in origin. The Wood family traces their roots back to the Normans before 1100. The names means some one who lived by a wood or occupational meaning a wood cutter of forester. But it was also the nick name for a mad , eccentric or violent person as in Adam Le Woden of Worcestershire England in 1221.

the parish of Halifax is the largest in Yorkshire , England . Legend say that John the Abtist was buried here after his execution . Criminals who were found guilty of stealing more then thirteen pence were put to death.

Edmund was a son of Edmund Wood of Shelff, Halifax, Yorkshire, England. He was born in Halifax by 1586.[1]

He was married 21 May 1611 at Halifax to Martha Lome (Lum), daughter of William Lum. [1]

Edmund Wood and his family emigrated to New England in 1634/35,[2]probably aboard the James of Bristol. He settled initially at Watertown, Massachusetts.[1][2]

In 1636 he owned lands in Springfield and Wethersfield, Mass, then to Stamford Conn in 1641. By 1644 the Wood family was located in Hempstead, Long Island. In 1650 Edmund and his sons bought largely in Smithtown from the Indians. In 1655 he removed to Huntington, Long Island.[3]

He was among the original proprietors of Hempstead, Long Island, moving there in 1644. Others were Jeremiah Wood, Richard Gildersleeve, Thurston Rainer, Robert Coe, Jonas Wood "Halifax," John Seamon, Edmond Wood, Jonas Wood "Owram" and Samuel Clark.

He died at Huntington, Long Island, NY before 7 June 1663, the date of a deed executed by his son Jonas for "land that was formerly my father Edmond Woode's."[1]

Children of Edmund Wood and 1st wife name unknown:

William bapt 18 Aug 1605, probably died young or remained in England Mary bapt 3 Apr 1608 Children of Edmund & Martha (Lome) Wood:

Martha baptized at Halifax 8 April 1612; married Thurston Raynor (Rainer) at Wethersfield about 1638.[2] Jonas baptized at Halifax 18 September 1614, resided Southampton and Huntington, NY, believed to have married Elizabeth Strickland. daug of John Strickland. He was known as Jonas Wood "Owram" to distinguish him from Jonas Wood "Halifax", another immigrant from the same part of England, of no known relationship.[2] Susannah, baptized at Halifax 23 March 1616, possibly married Samuel Clarke of Southampton, NY Jeremiah, baptized at Halifax 6 January 1619/20, resided Hempstead, NY, married Elizabeth, believed daughter of the first Richard Gildersleeve. Jeremiah died 28 Dec 1686 at Huntington Timothy, baptized at Halifax 12 July 1622, resided Jamaica, NY died in 1659, John Strickland administered Timothy's estate for the benefit of Timothy's children. Sources

↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 Anderson, Robert Charles. The Great Migration, vol. VII, pages 491-496. ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 Great Migration Newsletter, V.9, p. 4,5.(Online Database: AmericanAncestors.org, New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2015.) ↑ "One branch of the Miner family with extensive notes on the Wood, Lounsberry, Rogers and fifty other allied families of Connecticut and Long Island" by Lillian Lounsberry Miner Selleck, publ 1928 p 51-54 archive.org Great Migration Newsletter, V.9, p. 4,5.(Online Database: AmericanAncestors.org, New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2015.)link for subscribers "John Strickland of Long Island and His Son-in-laws" by Herbert F. Smith aka Seversmith of Washington, D.C. in The American Genealogist, 1934, vol 11, pp 200-205 "Torrey’s New England Marriages Prior to 1700". (Online database. AmericanAncestors.org. New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2008.) Originally published as: New England Marriages Prior to 1700. Boston, Mass.: New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2015. p. 1707. https://www.americanancestors.org/DB1568/i/21176/1707/426910935 Moore, Charles B. "Early History of Hempstead, Long Island New York: Trow's Printing and Bookbinding Company, publ 1879, p 12 https://archive.org/stream/earlyhistoryofhe00moor#page/12/mode/2up Wood, Matthew. "English Origins of the Mitchell, Wood, Lum and Halstead Families." In The New York Genealogical and Biographical Record, 6-7. 1st ed. Vol. 120. New York, N.Y.: New York Genealogical and Biographical Society, 1989. New Jersey GS. "Wood." njgsbc.org. Accessed 30 Jun 2016. http://njgsbc.org/files/BCFamilies/BCFam-Wood.pdf PDF The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, Ancestral File 5 January 1998. Ancestry Family Tree http://trees.ancestry.com/pt/AMTCitationRedir.aspx?tid=26914960&pid...

Edmund Wood Jr. was a puritan which was a movement of Englsh reformers of the 16th. and 17th. centuries who were frustrated by the slow progress of the reformation of the Angilican Church after 227 when christen leaders had been burned at the steak during the reign of (Queen Bloody Mary) from 1553-1558.

  It was during the reign of Queen Elizabeth (1558-1603) that puritans believed that the bible was gods true law. Queen Elizabeth was the head of the National Church and she opposed and blocked all the reform.

  During this time Edward struggled to make his home for his family just as puritan people were running out of options and room to grow. 

  When a letter forced him to leave Halifax, Yorkshire, England giving up his church chapel and flee England to the wilderness of the New World in America.To escape persecution from church leadership and the king. The Wood family became part of the puritan emigration to the American Colonies.

GEDCOM Note

Came from Halifax, Yorkshire, to Massachusetts Bay in 1635, probably on the James of Bristol. His first residence is unknown, but he was at Springfield by 1636, a yeoman at Wethersfield in 1637, Stamford in 1641, Hempstead in 1644, & finally Huntington.
He was born by about 1586 (based on date of marriage), son of Edmund Wood of Shelf in Halifax, Yorkshire.
He married at Halifax, Yorkshire, 21 May 1611, Martha Lum, daughter of William Lum. They had 5 known children.
He died after 1650 & by 1663, & probably closer to the latter date.
Edmund Wood was brother of Susan (Wood) (Butterfield) Mitchell, wife of MATTHEW MITCHELL 1635, Charlestown, Since Wood & Mitchell were brothers-in-law & were seen together at Springfield, Wethersfield, & Stamford, it is likely that Wood was a passenger on the James in 1635 & also briefly resided at Charlestown & Concord, though there is no record of him there.
Source: Anderson's Great Migration Study Project.