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Joyce Goffe (Frost)

Birthdate:
Birthplace: of, Wherstead, Suffolk, England (United Kingdom)
Death: November 15, 1638 (28-37)
Cambridge, Middlesex, Massachusetts
Place of Burial: No date or place given.
Immediate Family:

Wife of Edward Goffe and Capt. Edward Goffe
Mother of Lydia Sprague; Lydia Sprague; Samuel Goffe and Nathaniel Goffe

Managed by: Bernard Raimond Assaf
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About Joyce Goffe

Joyce Frost

  • Birth: Say 1605
  • Husband: Edward Goffe, (probably) son of Edward, married on 6 March 1624/5, as per the parish register of St. Mary's, Wherstead, on the southern edge of Ipswich.
  • Death: Nov 1638 - Watertown, Middlesex, Massachusetts

Children of Edward Goffe and bJoyce include Samuel, Lydia, Mary and Nathaniel, the last two dying before they reached maturity. First son Samuel was born in England and baptized there, and he was seven years old when he was baptized again when his father joined the church in Cambridge. Wife Joyce died in November 1638.[7]. He married again to Margaret Wilkinson.

Notes:

Recent research (Roger Thompson, "Edward and Joyce Goffe: New Information About Their Origins," The New England Historical and Genealogical Register 158 (April 2004): 101-104) has determined that Joyce's maiden name is Joyce Frost.

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Joyce Goffe's Timeline

1605
1605
of, Wherstead, Suffolk, England (United Kingdom)
1628
1628
Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, England, United Kingdom
1628
England
1630
1630
Ipswich, Suffolk, England (United Kingdom)
1638
February 1638
Cambridge, Middlesex, Massachusetts
November 15, 1638
Age 33
Cambridge, Middlesex, Massachusetts
1933
November 7, 1933
Age 33
1934
March 21, 1934
Age 33
March 21, 1934
Age 33