Name origin: This surname, derived from the Saxon God, or good, and win, conqueror that is, a conqueror in God, converted or victorious in God. the family is of ancient English origin seated at Braintree and Bocking, County of Essex; the first English ancestor is Robert Goodwin, living in Norwich, 1238.
b.1510 Blofield, Norfolk, England; s/o William and Margary Goodwin
d.Jan. 1562 Blofield, Norfolk, England
m.abt.1537 Alice ______
b.1512 Blofield, Norfolk, England
d.Feb. 22, 1566 Blofield, Norfolk, England
CHILDREN included:
Ciceley Goodwin b.abt.1538 Blofield, Norfolk, England
Thomas Goodwin b.abt.1538 Blofield, Norfolk, England
John Goodwin b.abt.1540 Blofield, Norfolk, England d.Apr. 29, 1593 Blofield,Norfolk, England
Francis Goodwin b.1544 Hemblington, Norfolk, England d.July 25, 1602 Hemblington, Norfolk, England
Myles Goodwin b.Sept. 8, 1546 Blofield, Norfolk, England d.Sept. 1619
Elizabeth Goodwin b.Jan. 12, 1548/9 Blofield, Norfolk, England d.abt.1551 d.y.
Edmund Goodwin b.Jan. 8, 1550/1 Blofield, Norfolk, England d.abt.1552 d.y.
James Goodwin b.Jan. 8, 1550/1 Blofield, Norfolk, England d.Apr. 27, 1578 Blofield, Norfolk, England
b.1544 Hemblington, Norfolk, England; s/o John and Alice Goodwin
d.June 25, 1602 Hemblington, Norfolk, England
m.Oct. 12, 1585 Hemblington, Norfolk, England Joan Lysinge
b.1543 Ranworth, Norfolk, England
d.Aug. 27, 1611 Ranworth, Norfolk, England
CHILDREN included:
Thomas Goodwin b.Apr. 5, 1568 Blofield, Norfolk, England d.abt.1570 d.y.
Margaret Goodwin b.April 23, 1570 Ranworth, Norfolk, England d.Apr. 11, 1637 m.Robert Page
John Goodwin b.Aug. 20, 1571 Ranworth, Norfolk, England d.July 5, 1637
James Goodwin b.March 21, 1572 Blofield, Norfolk, England d.Sept. 21, 1574 Blofield, England
Mary Goodwin b.Aug. 2, 1573 Ranworth, Norfolk, England
Sadie Goodwin b.1575 Ranworth, Norfolk, England
Francis Goodwin b.Aug. 15, 1576 Blofield, Norfolk, England
Peter Goodwin b.May 23, 1581 Blofield, Norfolk, England
Elizabeth Goodwin b.1578 Ranworth, Norfolk, England
Sampson Goodwin b.abt.1580 Ranworth, Norfolk, England
Elias Goodwin b.March 30, 1581 Blofield, Norfolk, England
Susan Goodwin b.Nov. 9, 1586 Ranworth, Norfolk, England d.May 22, 1615
Mary Goodwin b.March 22, 1592 Hemblington, Norfolk, England