Born in Virginia
[uncertain]
[uncertain]Daughter of [father unknown] and [mother unknown]
[sibling(s) unknown]
Wife of
William Woodward
— married
1645 [location unknown]
Descendants 
Mother of
Ann Elizabeth (Woodward) Spencer and Martha (Woodward) West
Died
at about age 85
in England
Profile last modified
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Biography
This profile represents the wife of William Woodard.
Nothing is known of the wife of William Woodard. William is only known from court and land records regarding his property, which do not name his wife.[1]
William and his wife were the parents of at least two children:
- Martha (who married 1. Gideon Macon; 2. Nathaniel West; 3. _______ Biggers)
- Anne (who married Thomas Spencer).[2]
The wife of William Woodward is said to have died 18 Dec 1700 in St Dunstan and All Saints, Stepney, Middlesex, England.[citation needed]
Research Notes
Disputed Parents
There are internet family trees claiming that the wife of William Woodward was a) named Martha, and/or b) a daughter of Governor Thomas West of Virginia and his wife Cicely Shirley. There is no known evidence to support this. Douglas Richardson does not recognize that Thomas West had a daughter Martha.[3]
Mrs. Woodward may have been Martha West, a descendant of Lord Delaware, whether or not she was Martha West, this great-grandmother was almost certainly Virginia born. [4]
The following Wikipedia page states Thomas West had a daughter Martha who married Woodward the interpreter. However, Wikipedia has labelled the source used for that information as an unreliable source. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_West,_3rd_Baron_De_La_Warr. This information being on Wikipedia may lead to future duplicates on WikiTree.
Sources
- ↑ King William County, VA Record Book 1, pp. 109-10, division of Woodward land July 20, 1703
- ↑ Virginia Land Records [database on-line]. Section: Some King William County, Va. Records page 288 (Ancestry.com); 1703 "Gideon Macon late of New Kent County, dec'd and Capt. Thos Spencer were in right of their wives, Martha & Anne, daughters and coheirs of Wm. Woodward, dec'd. Widow of Gideon Macon having just married Nathaniel West. Division of estate."
- ↑ Douglas Richardson, Magna Carta Ancestry, 2nd ed., vol. 4, pp. 325-26
- ↑ Patricia Brady, Martha Washington: An American Life, Penguin, May 30, 2006
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- Martha West may have been Native American Dec 7, 2020.
Rejected matches › Martha (Woodward) West (abt.1662-1723)
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And as long as we're here, it appears this profile's LNAB should be "Unknown" given what's in the narrative. I'll need to ask a Leader/Team member to fix that due to project protection.
edited by Kathie (Parks) Forbes