John Goodrich (abt. 1587 - 1632)

Born about 1587 in Hessett, Suffolk, England

Ancestors

Husband of Margery (Howe) Goodrich — married 7 Aug 1615 in Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk, England

Descendants

Died 20 Apr 1632 at about age 45 in Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk, England

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Biography

A sourced account with more detail can be accessed here: ^[1]

John Goodrich, Clothier of Bury St. Edmunds, was born after his brother Henry Goodrich; the third son of William Goodrich of Hessett, was baptized at St. Ethelbert Parish, Hessett, Suffolk, England on 12 Jan 1583/4. ^[2]

John Gutterich & Margery How were married on 07 Aug 1615 at Bury St. James Parish in Bury St. Edmunds, Suffolk, England. ^[3] Wife Margery Howe was a daughter of John Howe and Margery Lonsdale.

John and Margery had 5 sons born ~1616-1627; four sons John (bp. 22 Mar 1617/8), Henry (bp. 14 Nov 1619), William the Younger (bp. 13 Feb 1621/2) and Jeremy (bp. 24 Jun 1627) were baptized at Bury St. Mary Parish in Bury St. Edmunds, and William the Elder, who became a minister, enrolled at Caius College in 1634 at age 17, and so was likely born ~1616-1617 and, as the eldest son, was named after paternal grandfather William Goodrich of Hessett in keeping with family tradition. ^[4]

1938-1939 Research at Bury St. Edmunds of Lillian Jane Redstone (1885-1955)

The will of John Goodrich, Clothier of Bury St. Edmunds, has long been known to have been made 14 Apr 1632 and proved 16 May 1632. ^[5]

What is not as well known is a legal document dated 24 Jul 1633, in which brothers Thomas Chaplin and Clement Chaplin contested certain features of the will of John Goodrich, and further revealed John Goodrich died on 20 Apr 1632, and his wife Margery died within 7 days afterward (20-27 Apr 1632), and confirmed that they had both died during an epidemic of a disease they had contracted together. ^[6]

Orphaned by 27 Apr 1632, their sons John Goodrich and William the Younger Goodrich came to America in the care of guardian Clement Chaplin in 1635 on the Elizabeth and Ann. ^[7] Clement Chaplin had been appointed by the 14 Apr 1632 will of their father John Goodrich as their guardian, and the keeper of their inheritances, until each reached the age of 21. ^[8] After a brief stay in Cambridge, MA, Clement Chaplin brought John and William Goodrich with him; first to Hartford, Connecticut and then Wethersfield, Connecticut in 1636, where John and William no doubt were kept busy on the 1,200 acres of land in what later became Glastonbury that was owned by Clement Chaplin; then the largest landowner of Wethersfield. ^[9]

Y-DNA

Y-DNA test results have proven that Thomas Goodrich of Old Rappahannock, Virginia, co-descended from the Felsham Goodrich ancestry, and link him to County Suffolk. A definitive scientific advance in Y-DNA testing, that had been available to the public since 2013, ^[10] finally intervened in 2015, in the form of next-generation-sequencing (NGS) Y-SNP tests of Y-descendants of ...

- William Goodrich of Wethersfield, CT - G18 ^[11]

- William Goodrich III; later known as William-1 Goodridge of Watertown, MA - G50 ^[12]

- Thomas Goodrich of Old Rappahannock, VA - G62. ^[13]

The results of the testing showed that ...

1. G62, G50 and G18 all shared the Y-SNP mutation E-L1019.

Published Biography

John Goodrich was born about 1587 to William Goodrich of Hegessett County, Suffolk, England. When William died (before February 1631/32), he left all of his property in Hegessett to his son John, on the condition that John pay his siblings their inheritance. (That inheritance was as follows: to son William, 16 pounds; to daughter Elizabeth Clarke, wife of Philip Clarke, 8 pounds; to daughter Susan Beamand, wife of John Beamand, 8 pounds.) William Sr also named his son John executor. No mention of a wife implies her predecease.^[14]

John himself died a few months later, but not before making out his own will.

Name: John Goodrich. ^[15]

Birth

ABT 1575. prob. Suffolk County, England. ^[16]

Occupation: a clothyer. ^[17]

Marriage 07 AUG 1615. Burie St. Edmund, Suffolk County, England. ^[18][19]

Marriage: 1568, Felsham, Suffolk County, England. ^[20]

Will

John's will dated 14 Apr 1632 and proved 16 May 1632 gives John's occupation as "clothier", and lists wife, Margerie, and four sons: "William Gooderiche the elder, William Gooderiche the younger, John Gooderich, and Jeremy Gooderich"^[21]

14 APR 1632. Burie St. Edmond, Suffolk County, England. Note: and said will is transcribed below. ^[22] 16 MAY 1632. Sudbury, Suffolk County, England. ^[23]

Transcription of the will of John Gooderich as printed in the Case book: "ffirst and principallie I comend my sowle into the hands of the Almightie God, my Creator, and to Jesus Christ, his only sonne, my lord and only Saviour, by the merits of whose death and passion I steadfastlie beleeve to have free p'don and forgivenes of all my synnes, and to be made p'taker of the ioyes of heaven." To Margerie, my wife, my house wherein I now dwell in Bury, and my land in Horningherth, in the County of Suffolk, for her life, and on her death to descend to my four sons, William Gooderiche the elder, William Gooderiche the younger, John Gooderich, and Jeremy Gooderich. To my son John Gooderich, my house or tenement and lands in Hessett, in the said County of Suffolk, my said wife to have the profits till my son John Gooderich shall attain twenty-one. If he die without lawful issue under twenty-one, then the property to him bequeathed to descend and come to the said William Gooderich the elder, Wm. Gooderich the younger, and Jeremy Gooderich, to be equally divided amongst them. To my said three sons, William Gooderich the elder, William Gooderich the younger, and Jeremy Gooderich, one hundred pounds apiece at twenty-one. If any die under twenty-one and without issue, then the portion or legacy of him or them so dying shall come to the rest of my said sons. My wife to have the managing of the portions during minority, and the increase and benefit arising from their said several portions to be for their education and maintenance, and for binding of any of them forth apprentices, and the residue to be delivered to my sons at the time limited for payment of the portions. If any of my said children prove rebellious, stubborn, and disobedient, and refuse to be maintained, ordered, and governed according to my said wive's discretion, or the discretion of such others as during their minority shall have the managing of their said portions, in case my wife die, then the profits and increase of his or their portions that shall so misdemean shall go to the others of them that are dutiful and obedient. Provided that my wife do pay all such legacies contained in my father's will, which on my part are yet to be paid. To Margaret, daughter of my brother Henry Gooderich, five pounds at 24, and to William Gooderich, son of my said brother Henry Gooderich, five pounds at 24, with benefit of survivorship. To the two younger children of my sister Susan, by her first husband John Lark, forty shillings apiece at 24, with benefit of survivorship. To the poor of the parish of St. Mary in Bury, forty shillings to be distributed one month after my decease. To the poor spinners of Drinkstone, in the County of Suffolk, twenty shillings to be distributed within a month after my decease. All the rest of my goods, chattels, wares, stock, plate, household stuff, and moveables to Margerie, my wife, whom I make sole executrix. Thomas Chaplyne, mercer, Clement Chaplyne, brother of said Thomas, Jeremy Stafford, mercer, and my cousin, Robert Gooderich of Bury St. Edmunds, aforesaid supervisors, and for their pains I give every one forty shillings. If my wife die before the will is fully performed, and have not nominated any person or persons for the performance thereof, then my said supervisors to take upon them the performance, and shall also have the managing and employment of all such portions as shall come to any of my said children after the decease of my said wife. Witness: Richard Cooper Harman, by mark; the mark of Robert Brightnall, Philip Crowe". ^[24]

Burial

Burial:

Date: 21 APR 1632

Place: Bury St. Mary's, St. Edmunds, Suffolk, England^[25][26]

Sources

1. ↑ Goodrich Family Association Quarterly, volume 9, issue 4 (Sep 2013), page 92: http://goodrichfamilyassoc.org/Newsletters/Documents/September_2013.pdf
2. ↑ Records of Saint Ethelbert Parish, Hessett, Suffolk, England.
3. ↑ Church of England Records of St. James-Bury St. Edmunds, Suffolk Record Office, duplifiche 2
4. ↑ Goodrich Family Association Quarterly, volume 9, issue 4, pages 91-98: http://goodrichfamilyassoc.org/Newsletters/Documents/September_2013.pdf
5. ↑ Goodrich Family Association Quarterly, volume 9, issue 4, pages 91-98: http://goodrichfamilyassoc.org/Newsletters/Documents/September_2013.pdf
6. ↑ UK National Archives C8/86/83, Chaplin vs. Howe-1633; Inheritance Disputes Index,1574-1714; 24 Jul 1633.
7. ↑ Goodrich Family Association Quarterly, volume 9, issue 4, pages 97-98: http://goodrichfamilyassoc.org/Newsletters/Documents/September_2013.pdf
8. ↑ Goodrich Family Association Quarterly, volume 9, issue 4, pages 97-98: http://goodrichfamilyassoc.org/Newsletters/Documents/September_2013.pdf
9. ↑ Goodrich Family Association Quarterly, volume 9, issue 4, pages 97-98: http://goodrichfamilyassoc.org/Newsletters/Documents/September_2013.pdf
10. ↑ https://isogg.org/wiki/Y-DNA_next_generation_sequencing
11. ↑ Full Genomes Corp. Y-Elite 2.0 test 7YZ53; YFull tree kit YF05423.
12. ↑ Full Genomes Corp. Y-Elite 2.0 test 8YQRA; YFull tree kit YF05422.
13. ↑ Full Genomes Corp. Y-Elite 2.0 test N2L2C; YFull tree kit YF05421.
14. ↑ The Goodrich family in America. A genealogy of the descendants of John and William Goodrich of Wethersfield, Conn., Richard Goodrich of Guilford, Conn., and William Goodridge of Watertown, Mass., together with a short historical account of the family in England, the origin of the name, a description of Goodrich castle etc. by Goodrich Family Memorial Association. Chicago: Fergus Printing Co. 1889. p. 19.
15. ↑ Source: #S711279053 Book Title: Autobiography of William Seymour Tyler, D D , LL D and related papers : with a genealogy of the anc
16. ↑ Source: #S5 page 182
17. ↑ Source: #S2 page 21
18. ↑ Source: #S2 page 21
19. ↑ Source: #S5 page 183. Gives year and place of marriage, as well as wife's name
20. ↑ Source: #S5 page 181. This data states that the Suffolk Marriage Index in Ipswich shows the marriage of a William Goodrich and Margaret Richardson. It goes on to state that this is probably the marriage of William Goodrich of Hessett. It further states that the afore mentioned record must be from a transcript, as the earliest extant register of Felsham begins in 1656
21. ↑ The Goodrich family in America. A genealogy of the descendants of John and William Goodrich of Wethersfield, Conn., Richard Goodrich of Guilford, Conn., and William Goodridge of Watertown, Mass., together with a short historical account of the family in England, the origin of the name, a description of Goodrich castle etc. by Goodrich Family Memorial Association. Chicago: Fergus Printing Co. 1889. pp. 20-21.
22. ↑ Source: #S2 page 20
23. ↑ Source: #S2 page 20
24. ↑ Source: #S2 pages 20 and 21
25. ↑ Source: #S2 page 21, which cites as its source the Parish Register of St. Mary, Bury St. Edmunds
26. ↑ Source: #S5 page 183

• Ancestry-Goodrich. Son of William and Margaret. Husband of Margerie Howe. Father of William. born 1587 in Bury St Edmund. Died 19Apr1632 in Bury St Edmund.

• The Goodrich family in America. A genealogy of the descendants of John and William Goodrich of Wethersfield, Conn., Richard Goodrich of Guilford, Conn., and William Goodridge of Watertown, Mass., together with a short historical account of the family in England, the origin of the name, a description of Goodrich castle etc. by Goodrich Family Memorial Association. Chicago: Fergus Printing Co. 1889. pp. 20-21, 31. [[1]]

• Source: S-1418014784Ancestry.

• Source: S5 Ancestry of Colonel John Harrington Stevens and his wife Francis Helen Miller, Volumes: 2 Volumes Holman, Mary Lovering; Holman, Winifred Lovering; Pillsbury, Helen Pendleton Winston Publication: Privately printed at Rumford Press, Concord, New Hampshire, 1948-1953.

• Find a Grave, database and images (https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/48313932/john-goodrich: accessed 18 February 2023), memorial page for John Goodrich Sr. (1587–21 Apr 1632), Find a Grave Memorial ID 48313932, citing St. Mary's Churchyard, Bury St Edmunds, St Edmundsbury Borough, Suffolk, England; Maintained by Don Blauvelt (contributor 46932939).

Acknowledgment

• This person was created through the import of Watkins.ged on 04 April 2011.
• This person was created on 14 September 2010 through the import of 124-DeCoursey.ged.