Sarah (Hooper) Goodman

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Biography

In 1905, Henry Martyn Dexter proposed that John Goodman, Mayflower passenger, was the man found in Leiden records as John "Codmoer," widower of "Marytgen Backers", who married Sarah Hooper 16 Sep 1619^[1]

But this has been disputed by many later researchers as unfounded: The actual spelling on the record was "Codmoer" and is a pretty significant misspelling of "Goodman" even by Dutch standards.^[2][3]

A recent analysis, by Caleb Johnson of Bradford's passenger list, places John Goodman in the group of Leiden Church members. He suggests that the relevance of the marriage record be reconsidered, since John was a Leiden member and there is a marriage record of a John Goodman to a Mary Barker (widow) on 26 Oct 1604 at Everdon, Northamptonshire, consistent with the Leiden betrothal record.^[4]

As of 2006, These wives are neither proven or accepted.^[5][6]

Sources

1. ↑ Dexter, Henry Martyn. The England and Holland of the Pilgrims. (Boston, New York, Houghton, Mifflin and company, 1905) pp 577, 615
2. ↑ Stratton, Eugene. Plymouth Colony: Its History and Its People, 1620-1691, (1986) p. 297
3. ↑ Caleb Johnson's Mayflower History
4. ↑ Johnson, Caleb. "New Light on Mayflower Passengers" The American Genealogist 80:97 (2005) https://www.americanancestors.org/DB283/i/13263/97/235861403
5. ↑ *Anderson, Robert C. The Pilgrim Migration. Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2004. p. 228. Available free 2020 American Ancestors
6. ↑ Johnson, Caleb H. The Mayflower and Her Passengers. (Caleb H. Johnson 2006) p. 154

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