Edmund Wood Sr (abt. 1550 - aft. 1614)

Born about 1550 in Yorkshire, England

Descendants

Died after 4 Sep 1614 after about age 64 in Yorkshire, England

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This person is the parent of several PGM immigrants. He is frequently conflated. Protected by the Puritan Great Migration project to curb incorrect merges.

Disambiguation: Please see Research Note 2 (below) regarding the wife/wives of Edmond Wood.

Caution: inconclusive information to identify the mother of Edmund Wood: The baptism records of Halifax have several children of different men named Richard Wood.

Biography

Edmund Wood was born about 1550 in Halifax, England.^[1][2]It is possible he was the son of Richard Wood, mother's name not given.^[3]He lived in the Shelf-Northowram area of Yorkshire.^[2]

The name of Edmund Wood's wife is not known. They had the following children:^[1]

Children of Edmund Sr & unknown wife:

1. Edmund Jr. born in Bingley and baptized at Keighley on March 2, 1571/2. He probably married first before February 9, 1600 to an unknown wife. He married probably (2nd) to Martha Lum (Lome) at Halifax on May 21, 1611.^[1]Children were Martha, Jonas, Susan, Jeremiah, Timothy. ^[2][4]
2. Richard Wood was baptized at Halifax on February 10, 1576/7. No further information found.^[1]
3. John Wood was baptized on March 22, 1583/4 at Halifax and died between May 27, 1618 (date of will) and May 3 1619 when his will was filed. His death probably occurred at Shelf, where he lived. He had married Dorothy Moakson at Halifax on December 30, 1609.^[1] When his children were baptized at Halifax, he is listed as a resident of Shelf. Mentioned in will are children: Susan, John, Mary; and appointed as executors and his children's tutors were Edmond Wood and his brother-in-law Matthew Mitchell^[2][1]
4. Susan (Wood) Butterfield Mitchell born about 1590. Married about 1611 to Thomas Butterfield who died about July 3, 1516. She married 2nd Matthew Mitchell at Halifax on August 21, 1616. Children: Samuel Butterfield, unnamed Butterfield, Abigail Mitchell, David Mitchell, Sarah Mitchell, Martha Mitchell, Jonathan Mitchell, Susan Mitchell, Matthew Mitchell, Hannah Mitchell.^[2][5]Susan died after June 1631, the birth of her last known child.^[1]

Research Note

Research Note #1: Research Note 1: The NYGBR article "English Origins of the Mitchell, Wood, Lum and Halstead Families," - speaking of Edmund Wood Sr, the father of Edmund Wood the emigrant says: research shows there actually were two or possibly even three men with the name "Edmund (Edmond) Wood" who lived in England, the same vicinity, the same time. Genealogical confusion/conflation has resulted.

Research Note #2: Previously three women were attached as wives to this Edmond Wood: (1) Alyce Edwards from whom no children were born. (2) Jenet or Janet Hurst who was thought to be the mother of John Wood. (3) Margret Heard (Heird) who was thought to be the mother of Edmund Jr. and Susan (Wood) Butterfield Mitchell. These three women have been detached as wives since the published research of Louis G. Ogden and Brent M. Owen in "Revisiting the Stamford Pioneers of Halifax Parish, Yorkshire, West Riding, England" in The New York Genealogical and Biographical Record, Vol. 151 in October of 2020.^[1]

Sources

1. ↑ ^{1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 1.5 1.6 1.7} Louis G. Ogden and Brent M. Owen in "Revisiting the Stamford Pioneers of Halifax Parish, Yorkshire, West Riding, England" in The New York Genealogical and Biographical Record, Vol. 151 in October 2020.
2. ↑ ^{2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 2.4} Matthew Wood. "English Origins of the Mitchell, Wood, Lum, and Halstead Families" The New York Genealogical and Biographical Record, Vol. 120. January 1989.
3. ↑ England: Births and Christenings, 1538-1975. Online database. AmericanAncestors.org. New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2014. (Original index: England Births and Christenings, 1538-1975. FamilySearch, 2014.)[https://www.americanancestors.org/databases/england-births-and-christenings-1538-1975/transcript/?rId=389050504
4. ↑ Great Migration 1634-1635, T-Y. (Online database. AmericanAncestors.org. New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2012.) Originally published as: The Great Migration, Immigrants to New England, 1634-1635, Volume VII, T-Y, by Robert Charles Anderson. Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2011. pp. 493.[link for subscribers
5. ↑ Walker, Walter James. "Chapters on the Early Registers of Halifax Parish Church" Published by Whitley & Booth, Crown Street. Halifax. 1885. p. 88.see at hathitrust

See also:

• Edmund Wood Sr - Baptism 4 Feb 1549 in St John Baptist Church, Halifax, West Riding, Yorkshire, England
• Global, Find A Grave Index for Non-Burials, Burials at Sea, and other Select Burial Locations, 1300s-Current for Edmund Wood
• U.S. and Canada, Passenger and Immigration Lists Index, 1500s-1900s for Edmund Wood
• U.S., New England Marriages Prior to 1700 for Edmund Wood
• Jeffrey Hause. "Wood Genealogy" online site, part of the Hause Genealogy collection at http://hausegenealogy.com/wood.html --site includes sources, complete with images of pertinent documents; created and maintained by Jeffrey Hause.
• "Wood Genealogy" in the article "John Strickland of Long Island and His Son-in-laws" by Herbert F. Smith aka Seversmith of Washington, D.C. in "The American Genealogist" 1934, vol 11 pp 200-205