Elizabeth Woods

John Woods (1654-1723) married Elizabeth Woods, daughter of Thomas Woods & Elizabeth Parsons, of Meath in Ireland.

John was a cousin of his wife, Elizabeth Woods. The marriage was said to have been arranged between cousins to keep some prized lands and buildings in the family. Elizabeth had inherited Dunshaughlin Castle from her father, Sir Thomas Woods. John was a second son of his parents, and thus had little if any land that he was eligible to inherit. The laws of primogeniture gave almost everything to the first born son.

John Woods (b 1654), son of John Woods, Kt. and Isabella Bruce. The wives Elizabeth Worsop/Worsham and Anne Bedlow have been proven as incorrect - he married his cousin Elizabeth Woods. Children include Michael Woods.

https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Woods-461

“Instead, according to Fabosbecker, John Woods of Dunshaughlin married a cousin of his, named Elizabeth Woods, daughter of Thomas Woods of Dunshaughlin. John Woods and Elizbeth Woods, did in fact have children, including (among others) “

• Michael
• and his sister Elizabeth who married a Wallace, believed to be named Peter. [SIC: Samuel]

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http://dprhcp170.doteasy.com/~tonybeck/files/WoodsFamilyMythsandthe...

So far, ​from the actual records we have as probable brothers and sisters of the emigrant generation of Woods,: Michael, Samuel, Andrew, William, Nathan, John, Sarah (married Davis Stockton) and Elizabeth Woods (married Samuel Wallace, Esq​.--chronically mis-identified as “Peter Sr.”, but was a widow when she arrived) and ​we don’t know who David Woods--pew holder along with Nathan, William and Samuel--was.​ We also ​don’t know who Adam and George Woods were​, who arrived as “brothers” in Lancaster County in 1747, from a county history, or ​who was Thomas Woods​, who arrived, or came of age, just before 1744, and settled near Andrew Woods.

Elizabeth Parsons, married to Sir Thomas Woods of Dunshaughlin, county Meath, Knt., by whom he had numerous issue.

Their daughter Elizabeth married her cousin John Woods. (Yet to be determined but seems to have become established from an erroneous pedigree initiated by Hamlet McCleneghan - McClenaghan Papers on the Dunshaughlin Union of Parishes pg 125.)

References

• Woods’ Family Myths and the Real Facts By Cecilia Fábos-Becker (2020-08-03) Myth 1: Trooper John Woods came with Cromwell to Ireland. Wife: Isabella Bruce. Myth 2: the Woods’ who emigrated to Pennsylvania in the 1720’s ad 1730’s were children of John Woods of Rossmead/Rossmidhe and Elizabeth Worsopp.
• https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Woods-7625
• https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sir_William_Parsons,_1st_Baronet_of...
• see A genealogical history of the dormant, abeyant, forfeited, and extinct peerages of the British empire (1866) pg 419 for corrected entry.
• Also review https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Worsop-22