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Thomas Goodale

Birthdate:
Birthplace: Woodbridge, Suffolk, England (United Kingdom)
Death: between circa 1570 and circa 1602 (28-77)
England (United Kingdom)
Place of Burial: Great Yarmouth, Norfolk, England, United Kingdom
Immediate Family:

Son of John Goodale and Ann Pope
Husband of Elizabeth Goodale
Father of Alice Portler Kilham; Robert Goodale, of Dennington; William Goodale; George Goodale; John Goodale and 2 others
Brother of Richard Goodale; William Goodale and Thomas Goodale, “the younger”
Half brother of Ann Pope

Managed by: Margaret Kathleen Callan
Last Updated:

About Thomas Goodale

John Goodale bp 5 Aug 1541 Fincham St. Martin, named in his father's will, deceased by 1587 (not named in his brother's will. He had a son Richard. We have no evidence he ever married or had children. He probably died young.

  1. Myrtle Stevens Hyde, FASG, Additions to the Ancestry of Richard1 Goodale of Salisbury, Massachusetts , in The American Genealogist (TAG). (Donald Lines Jacobus, et.al.), 85:134-140, Apr 2011.

Unknown Goodale Not John Goodale

  • We know nothing about the identity of this man
  • We know he left a widow Elizabeth see below

Widow Elizabeth Goodale (Unknown)

  • Facts We know about Widow Elizabeth Goodale (Unknown)
  • The identity of her husband is unknown. She did not marry John Goodale as shown on some Internet trees.
  • Elizabeth was buried on 05 March 1601/02, Dennington, Suffolk,England. Her will is summarized by Waters in "Genealogical Gleanings": Elizabeth Goodale of Dennyngton, widow, 1 March 1601/02, proved 7 March 1601/02.
  • She names her children: Alice, Thomas, William, Margaret, John, George and Robert.
  • She states that daughter Margaret is wife of William Downing and mother of Margaret Downing
  • She states that daughter Alice is wife of Henry Killham and is no doubt the mother of immigrant Austin Kilham
  • She is *Not* the mother of Robert Goodale of Salem, MA per The Great Migration
  • Likewise there is *no* evidence that Kathrine the wife of Robert Goodale of Salem, MA is related to this family as has been proposed per The Great Migration.

Sources

  1. Robert Goodale in Anderson, Robert Charles; George F. Sanborn; and Melinde Lutz Sanborn. The Great Migration: Immigrants to New England, 1634-1635. (NEHGS, 1999-2011), Vol 3 pp 101-108
  2. Great Migration Newsletter, (Online Database: AmericanAncestors.org, New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2018.) 17:29, 2:24, 4:5
  3. Waters, Genealogical Gleanings in England: Elizabeth Goodale, The New England Historical and Genealogical Register. Boston, MA: NEHGR, 1898) 52:238-39
  4. William Stowell Mills, The Early Kilhams, The New England Historical and Genealogical Register. (Boston, MA: NEHGR, 1902) 56:344+
  5. Paige, Lucius R. List of Freemen. New England Historical and Genealogical Register. (New England Historic Genealogical Society, Jan, Apr, Jul, Oct 1849), 3:188.
  6. Austin Killam, in Anderson, Robert Charles. Marriages of Promise. American Genealogist (D.L. Jacobus). (Jan 1992), 67:53-54.
  7. Austin Kilham, in Savage, James. A Genealogical Dictionary of the First Settlers of New England: Showing Three Generations of Those Who Came Before May, 1692, on the Basis of Farmer's Register. (Boston: Little, Brown, and Co, 1860-1862), 3:21.
  8. Perley, Sidney. Killam Genealogy. Essex Institute Historical Collections (Essex Institute Press). (Jul 1913), 49:210-14.
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Thomas Goodale's Timeline

1533
1533
Woodbridge, Suffolk, England (United Kingdom)
1560
1560
Dennington, Suffolk, England (United Kingdom)
1568
1568
Dennington, Suffolk, England (United Kingdom)
1570
1570
Age 37
England (United Kingdom)
1625
July 7, 1625
Age 37
Great Yarmouth, Norfolk, England, United Kingdom
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