Unknown (Unknown) Wood (bef. 1605 - abt. 1643)

Descendants

Died about 1643 after about age 38 in Maspeth, Queens, New York, British Colonial America [uncertain]

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Disputed Person

There was a Margaret Carter married 28 January 1610/11 at Southwark, St Saviours, Surrey, England to John Wood.^[1] However, the recently digitized Token Books of St. Savior's Parish suggest that John Wood, spouse of Margaret Wood, may still have been living in St. Savior's parish until as late as 1643, when John Wood of Portsmouth was documented as in Newport. This new evidence casts doubt on the claim that this is the Rhode Island couple.^[2] Therefore, the name of first wife of John Wood "the mariner" remains unknown.

Biography

Identity

According to Austin's Genealogical Dictionary, the first wife of John Wood "the mariner" was _____ ______ ie Unknown.^[3]

Birth

The date of birth remains unknown, so it would be similar to the date of John Wood's birth in 1587. The estimated date of her birth would be in the range of 1580 to 1590. However, considering her marriage to John Wood "the mariner" past the legal age of 18 before their first child born about 1615, it would lead to 1597 or before. Another consideration of their last child's birth about 1635 before her advanced maternal age of 40 that would put the date of her birth in 1595 or after.

Death

Unknown but it has been suggested that she was killed during the Maspeth Massacre.^[4]

DNA

A triangulated group has been discovered through autosomal testing that shares John Wood and his wife Unknown (Unknown) Wood as most-recent common ancestors. They share a 10.9 cM segment on chromosome 10.

• Duane Kelly is a descendant of Thomas Wood
• CM is a descendant of Margaret (Wood) Manchester
• CH is a descendant of John (Wood) Wood of Middletown

Sources

1. ↑ London, England, Church of England Baptisms, Marriages and Burials, 1538-1812.
2. ↑ Wood, Michael M. "The Token Books of St. Savior's, A Source for testing a John Wood Hypothesis." American Ancestor's Magazine. Vol 19, number 2 (Summer 1028)
3. ↑ Austin, John Osborne. Genealogical Dictionary of Rhode Island: Comprising Three Generations of Settlers Who Came Before 1690 : With Many Families Carried to the Fourth Generation. (Albany: J. Munsell Sons, 1887) p. 230
4. ↑ Clark, Bertha W, and Dorothy W. Ewers. John Wood of Rhode Island: And His Early Descendants on the Mainland. United States: B.W. Clark, 1966, p. 2, 6, and 11. Download at FamilySearch

See also:

• http://ffish.com/family_tree/pedigrees/3299.htm

Contributors

Ron Callahan, Jonathon Dale Walter Myers, Mike Wood, Bob Nichol, Beryl Meehan