Martha (Lome) Wood (1581 - bef. 1635)

Born 7 Jan 1581 in West Riding, Yorkshire, England

Ancestors

Wife of Edmund Wood Jr — married 21 May 1611 in St John Baptist, Halifax, Yorkshire, England

Descendants

Died before Apr 1635 before age 54 in Sowerby, Halifax, Yorkshire, England

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Biography

Martha Lum or Lume was born 7 Jan 1580/1 in West Riding, Yorkshire, England. She died before 17 Aug 1635 in Sowerby, Halifax, Yorkshire, England.

Martha Lume (umlaut over the vowel in her surname) was married on 21 May 1611 at St John Baptist, Halifax, Yorkshire, England to Edmund Wood of Shelf. ^[1][2](1578-1663).^[2]

Edmund was from Oram, Yorkshire, and he was married and his children baptized in Halifax, Yorkshire, where he was church warden 1604-5. He sailed for America 23 May 1635 on the James, and arrived in Boston 17 Aug 1635, a widower with five children. He was an original settler of Springfield, MA, in 1636, Wethersfield in 1637, Stamford in 1641, and was a proprietor of Hempstead, Long Island, in 1647.

1. Martha Wood (bapt.8 Apr 1612) m.1636/7 Thurston Raynor (1594-1667) Southampton, LI

2. Jonas "Oram" Wood (bapt.18 Sep 1614-12 Jun 1689) m.1636 Elizabeth Strickland

3. Susannah Wood (bapt.23 Mar 1616-c1687)

4. Jeremiah Wood (6 Jan 1619/20-24 Dec 1686) m. Elizabeth Gildersleeve, Hempstead, LI

5. Timothy Wood (14 Jul 1622 -1659) of Huntington, LI, married a daughter of John Strickland.^[3]

The Lum family originated in Sowerby, Halifax Parish, Yorkshire, at a place known as "Lumb" meaning, in Yorkshire dialect of West Riding, a small wood or grove. The name is variously spelled Lome, Lum, Lombe, Loom, etc. The family we trace is identified in the 1536 Tithe Rental of Halifax Parish as "The Heirs of John Lome near Lighthaselle in Sowerby." Lighthazles is in the south of Sowerby near Soyland.^[4]

William Lome (bap.18 Dec 1552-1592) m.7 Nov 1580 Agnes Bairstow (bap.5 Feb 1557/8) daughter of Richard Bayrstow of Shibden. William lived in Lighthazles, Sowerby, made his will 2 May 1591, and it was proved 16 Nov 1592.

1. Abraham Lum (bap.6 Aug 1581)

2. Matthew Lum (bap.22 Sep 1583)

. . . 21. John Lum (bap.15 Jun 1615-aft.1689) married a daughter of John Strickland.

3. Grace Lum (bap.8 Aug 1585) died young

4. William Lum (c.1587-1615)

5. John Lum (c.1589).

6. Martha Lum (7 Jan 1580/1-bef.1635) m.21 May 1611 Edmund Wood (c1575-bef.7 Jul 1663)

Birth

Birth BEF 7 JAN 1581 Sowerby, Halifax, Yorkshire, England

Death

Death BEF APR 1635 Sowerby, Halifax, Yorkshire, England

Sources

1. ↑ Halifax Parish Register - Image 5 by subscription at: https://www.ancestry.com/imageviewer/collections/2256/images/32355_248981-01054?pId=8922737
2. ↑ ^{2.0 2.1} Torrey, New England Marriages to 1700. (Online database. AmericanAncestors.org. New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2008.) Originally published as: New England Marriages Prior to 1700. Boston, Mass.: New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2015
3. ↑ http://jliptrap.us/gen/lum.htm
4. ↑ The New York Genealogical and Biographical Record, v.120, p.142, July 1989

• Wood, Matthew. "English Origins of the Mitchell, Wood, Lum and Halstead Families" The New York Genealogical and Biographical Record. (NYGBR) Vol. 120, Number 1, January 1989, p. 9 lists children of Wood & Lum. (copy in the files of Cheryl Skordahl

• Wood, Matthew. "III The Origin of Martha Lome, wife of Edmund Wood"' The New York Genealogical and Biographical Record. (Continued from the Record 120:101.) (copy in the files of Cheryl Skordahl

• Torrey, New England Marriages to 1700. (Online database. AmericanAncestors.org. New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2008.) Originally published as: New England Marriages Prior to 1700. Boston, Mass.: New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2015.link for subscribers

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