Sylvanus Edward Goodwin

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Sylvanus Edward Goodwin

Birthdate:
Birthplace: Lower Argyle, Yarmouth County, NS, Canada
Death: January 1940 (63)
Boston, Suffolk, Massachusetts, United States
Place of Burial: Barrington, Shelburne County, Nova Scotia, Canada
Immediate Family:

Son of Edward Goodwin and Matilda Goodwin
Husband of Mary Leona Goodwin
Father of Almira/Elmira Alma Matilda Blades; Lawrence Edward Goodwin; Vida Evelyn Goodwin; Vanetta "Venetta" Leola Goodwin; James Adelbert Goodwin and 5 others
Brother of Euzebah "Zebe" Comfort; Thomas Smith Goodwin; Phineas Goodwin; Hannah L. Goodwin; Nancy May Newell and 6 others

Managed by: Roxanne M.R. Pushie
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About Sylvanus Edward Goodwin

Sylvanus E. Goodwin, born 1876 in Lower Argyle, Yarmouth County

Item can be found in Registration Year: 1876 - Book: 1823 - Page: 275 - Number: 96



Sylvanus Goodwin was born February 20, 1876, in Lower Argyle, Nova Scotia. His parents were Edward Goodwin (fifth great-grandson of Daniel Goodwin the immigrant) and Matilda Nickerson, daughter of Phinneas Nickerson and Rosanna (Rose) Nickerson. As a young man, Sylvanus was a fisherman. Later, he shipped out of Boston as a cook on a fishing schooner. Later still (between 1916 and 1920), Sylvanus was owner and master of his own fishing schooner, the Regina, which he used for fishing off the Grand Banks. The Regina was sixty feet long and carried a crew of eight. In addition to sail, she had a 20 HP Fairbanks engine for emergencies.

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Sylvanus Edward Goodwin's Timeline

1876
February 20, 1876
Lower Argyle, Yarmouth County, NS, Canada
1899
February 1899
Oak Park, Shelburne County, Nova Scotia, Canada
1901
May 17, 1901
Argyle Sound, Yarmouth County, Nova Scotia, Canada
1903
October 19, 1903
Argyle, Yarmouth County, Nova Scotia, Canada
1905
May 1905
Nova Scotia, Canada
1907
January 16, 1907
Pembroke, Plymouth County, Massachusetts, United States
1908
May 1908
Pembroke, Plymouth County, Massachusetts, United States
1912
1912
1917
1917