Margaret
Goodwin
formerly [surname unknown] aka Norman, Goodwing, Goodin
Born about in England
[uncertain]
[uncertain]Daughter of [father unknown] and [mother unknown]
[sibling(s) unknown]
Wife of
Richard Norman
— married
before 1650 [location unknown]
Wife of
Robert Goodwin
— married
15 Oct 1685 in Marblehead, Essex, Massachusetts
[children unknown]
Died before
before about age 63
in Marblehead, Essex, Massachusetts Bay
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Disputed Origins
Many older references and internet family trees refer to Margaret, the wife of Richard Norman and Robert Goodwin, as Margaret Flint, daughter of William Flint, with a birth year of about 1642. However, more recent sources including Robert Charles Anderson, (see biography section below) concluded that there was insufficient support for her being William Flint's daughter.
Biography
According to the latest research by Leslie Mahler and Robert Charles Anderson, Lt Richard Norman only had one wife named Margaret. Her maiden name and parents are unknown.[1][2][3]
However, Torrey (a derivative, not primary source) reports that that she was Margaret Flint and that as the widow Margaret Norman, then married Robert Goodwin. Both Margaret's marriages to Norman and Goodwin are found in Torrey as follows:
NORMAN, Richard (?1622, 1624?, 1623-1683) & 2/wf? Margaret [FLINT] (?1635-1705), m/2 Robert GOODWIN 1685; ?28 Mar 1660; Marblehead[4] However, in reviewing all of Torrey's references for the marriage, only Perley (History of Salem vol 2), Tingley-Meyers page 258 and Driver 297 show her as the daughter of William Flint; none of those references cite any sources for that information.
Her marriage to Robert Goodwin is found in Torrey as follows:
GOODWING, Robert & Margaret (FLINT) NORMAN (-1705, dau Wm; 15 Oct 1685; Marblehead.[5] Torrey's only source listed was Tingley-Meyers 113,258. As noted above, Tingley-Meyers page 258 cites no sources for his information.
What is certain is that Margaret married first Richard Norman, and second Robert Goodwin. What is not certain is that she was the daughter of William Flint, and he has been detached as her father
Death & Estate
Margaret Norman's death is given by the probate of her first husband Richard Norman's estate. His paperwork begins with a cover sheet listing RIchard's probate of 27 Nov 1683. Page 2 of this paperwork is a petition dated 5 Jul 1685 asking the court to award Margaret, widow of Richard a greater sum of Richard's estate so she was clearly alive at that time. Page 3 is dated 3 Sep 1705 and lists Margaret also as deceased. Probate paperwork available at americanancestors.org listing both Richard and Margaret as deceased.[6]
Note that Marblehead was set off from Salem on 6 May 1635[7]
Research Notes
- According to an 1889 book, Margaret was born about 1642. She was the daughter of William Flint, and she married ________ Goodwin.[8]
- Alice Flint, widow of William Flint (reported by some references to be Margaret Flint's father), filed a document with the court February 10, 1675/6 acknowledging that William had left his daughters out of his unsigned 'will-type' document, requesting that the court distribute William's estate in a "fair and just" manner so that the daughters, "Elizabeth, Margaret, Alice and Hannah" received their shares of his estate.[9] It should be noted that the probate information doesn't prove that this is the same Margaret of this profile.
Sources
- ↑ Leslie Mahler, "English Origin of Richard Norman of Salem, Mass." in The American Genealogist (New Haven, CT: D. L. Jacobus, Online database. AmericanAncestors.org. New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2002), 77, 102-3 $subscription
- ↑ Robert Charles Anderson, The Great Migration Begins: Immigrants to New England, 1620-1633. (Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society, 1995), vol 2 pp 1334-1336 $subscription
- ↑ Walter Goodwin Davis, The ancestry of Sarah Stone, wife of James Patten of Arundel (Kennebunkport) Maine, (Portland, Me., The Southworth Press, 1930) p 45
- ↑ 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. Vol 2. p. 1098
- ↑ 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. Vol 1. p. 635 $subscription
- ↑ Essex County, MA: Probate File Papers, 1638-1881.Online database. AmericanAncestors.org. New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2014. (From records supplied by the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court Archives.) $subscription
- ↑ https://www.massmoments.org/moment-details/marblehead-carved-out-of-salem.html
- ↑ Cooke, Harriet Ruth, The Driver family: a genealogical memoir of the descendants of Robert and Phebe Driver, of Lynn, Mass. With an appendix, containing twenty-three allied families. 1592-1887, published 1889. Reference page 293-297
- ↑ Essex County, MA: Probate File Papers, 1638-1881.Online database. AmericanAncestors.org. New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2014. (From records supplied by the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court Archives.) Reference Essex Case 9664, page 4 via $American Ancestors
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= From the bio above, "Documentary evidence of such a marriage [i.e., to Richard Norman] has not been found, and Margaret is the only known wife of Richard Norman."
Given this, should not all of her [Whitridge-1] children be linked instead to Margaret (Unknown) [Unknown-322075] as their mother?
Richard Norman and Margaret (Unknown)'s children are outlined in Walter Goodwin Davis, The Ancestry of Sarah Stone: Wife of James Patten of Arundel (Kennebunkport) Maine (Portland, Maine: The Southworth Press, 1930), pages 52-54. =
Thus, I recommend all of the following profiles be attached as children of Margaret (Unknown) [Unknown-322075]:
Re: immigration date, nothing more than what's on her father's record which has his first documented appearance 1642/43 in court and anything earlier is only "by family tradition" which also has him from Wales and probably says he immigrated with his 3 brothers and served under Cromwell and is the disinherited son of a noble family who had to change his name and also that he was Scottish nobility who was sent as a slave to New England and also that he founded Jamestown...but that's only "by family tradition" ;)
OK I cheated and did some more research and added it to Goodwin-7033 and submitted the merge request to Goodwin-88. Torrey clearly states Margaret was Flint, married both men and William Flint was known to have a daughter Margaret of that age in that location.
edited by Brad Stauf
edited by S (Hill) Willson
This strengthens the assertion that Margaret's last name was Flint (edited to add): but doesn't prove that Margaret Flint is the same as this Margaret.
edited by S (Hill) Willson
edited by Brad Stauf