Veteran: U S Army
h/o Mary Booker.
Birth: 1st of three known children of mother 7th of father's nine, in South Carolina.
Came from a long line of Virginia Godwins: father born Nansemond county in 1829, grandfather born 2 February 1793, a veteran of the War of 1812, with grandmother drawing his pension, his father, Jeremiah,jr born 2 February 1766, two days later his mother, Mary Holladay, died, she, first of at least four wives of Jeremiah Sr, who was son of Thomas, III that married 1st cousin Mary Godwin (d/o Captain Edmund Godwin & Sarah Bembridge), --- he son of Colonel Thomas Godwin II, married to Martha, daughter of Colonel Joseph Bridger of Isle of Wight, and is said to have been Speaker of the House of Burgess during Nathaniel Bacon's Rebellion of 1676, who in turn was son of Captain Thomas Godwin, the original emigrant mid-seventeenth century to Upper Norfolk, later Nansemond, the ancestor of the Godwins of Nansemond county, reportedly was (or son Thomas II) justice, coroner and Colonel Commandant of Nansemond county and had represented Nansemond county in the House of Burgess in 1652, 1654 & possibly other years.
The 1674 (2 Hening,318) act, ascertaining the bounds of counties of Isle of Wight and Nansemond, he is designated as "an ancient inhabitant of Nanzemond Countie Court" -- the act directed that the boundary line should be so run as to leave the house and cleared land of Capt. Thomas Godwin ("Old Castle", within Nansemond county. His will is dated March 24th, 1676-7. Most all of above is from S. Bassett French's (1820-1898) Biographical Sketches published in Virginia Historical Magazine, Notes and Queries, Volume 17, pages 96-98, [with incorrect spelling of names] much confirmed with Thomas Hume Papers, summary, #3239 of the University of North Carolina, pages 1-7, dated 2/18/05 and by descendant Barbara of Houston, Texas. Another source said; Captain Thomas Godwin emigrated to Nansemond county when it was known as "Upper Norfolk", then "Nandsamund" in mid-seventeenth century!
Lost his father in early 1890 when not yet six years of age, raised by widowed mother. Was a civil engineer with two years of college who became a Lt Colonel in the army spending many years in the Panama Canal Zone having one known child. He and family are buried in Forest Lawn Memorial Park (Hollywood Hills), Los Angeles, Los Angeles county, California.
Census: 1900, age 16 Washington, District of Columbia, with widowed mother, widowed maternal grandmother & two younger siblings at 3112 O street, mother a clerk at Treasury department, he a salesman.
~ CITY DIRECTORY, Washington, District of Columbia:
(younger brother David is not with them)
1908 - 1503 30th northwest, with mother & younger sister.
Census: 1910, age 27 (Hal), Precinct 7, Washington, District of Columbia with wife of four years & her younger brother, a civil engineer, an inspector.
Census: 1920, age 35 Washington, District of Columbia with wife and daughter, an officer in U S Army, at 2118 P street.
Census: 1930, age 45 Quarry Heights, Balboa district, Panama Canal Zone with wife & daughter at 196 Officers Row.
Census: 1940, age 56 Fort Sherman, Cristabal, Panama Canal Zone, a major
Death: in Los Angeles county, California.
Father: Col David Jeremiah Godwin b: 1829 Nansemond county, Virginia.
Mother: Mary Elizabeth Parker b: 17 NOV 1860 in South Carolina.
Marriage: Mary Booker b: 30 MAR 1885 Virginia.
Married: around 1913 Washington District of Columbia.
Known Child
Marian Elizabeth Godwin b: 19 FEB 1914 Washington District of Columbia.
~ updated November 2012 following its transfer ~
h/o Mary Booker.
Birth: 1st of three known children of mother 7th of father's nine, in South Carolina.
Came from a long line of Virginia Godwins: father born Nansemond county in 1829, grandfather born 2 February 1793, a veteran of the War of 1812, with grandmother drawing his pension, his father, Jeremiah,jr born 2 February 1766, two days later his mother, Mary Holladay, died, she, first of at least four wives of Jeremiah Sr, who was son of Thomas, III that married 1st cousin Mary Godwin (d/o Captain Edmund Godwin & Sarah Bembridge), --- he son of Colonel Thomas Godwin II, married to Martha, daughter of Colonel Joseph Bridger of Isle of Wight, and is said to have been Speaker of the House of Burgess during Nathaniel Bacon's Rebellion of 1676, who in turn was son of Captain Thomas Godwin, the original emigrant mid-seventeenth century to Upper Norfolk, later Nansemond, the ancestor of the Godwins of Nansemond county, reportedly was (or son Thomas II) justice, coroner and Colonel Commandant of Nansemond county and had represented Nansemond county in the House of Burgess in 1652, 1654 & possibly other years.
The 1674 (2 Hening,318) act, ascertaining the bounds of counties of Isle of Wight and Nansemond, he is designated as "an ancient inhabitant of Nanzemond Countie Court" -- the act directed that the boundary line should be so run as to leave the house and cleared land of Capt. Thomas Godwin ("Old Castle", within Nansemond county. His will is dated March 24th, 1676-7. Most all of above is from S. Bassett French's (1820-1898) Biographical Sketches published in Virginia Historical Magazine, Notes and Queries, Volume 17, pages 96-98, [with incorrect spelling of names] much confirmed with Thomas Hume Papers, summary, #3239 of the University of North Carolina, pages 1-7, dated 2/18/05 and by descendant Barbara of Houston, Texas. Another source said; Captain Thomas Godwin emigrated to Nansemond county when it was known as "Upper Norfolk", then "Nandsamund" in mid-seventeenth century!
Lost his father in early 1890 when not yet six years of age, raised by widowed mother. Was a civil engineer with two years of college who became a Lt Colonel in the army spending many years in the Panama Canal Zone having one known child. He and family are buried in Forest Lawn Memorial Park (Hollywood Hills), Los Angeles, Los Angeles county, California.
Census: 1900, age 16 Washington, District of Columbia, with widowed mother, widowed maternal grandmother & two younger siblings at 3112 O street, mother a clerk at Treasury department, he a salesman.
~ CITY DIRECTORY, Washington, District of Columbia:
(younger brother David is not with them)
1908 - 1503 30th northwest, with mother & younger sister.
Census: 1910, age 27 (Hal), Precinct 7, Washington, District of Columbia with wife of four years & her younger brother, a civil engineer, an inspector.
Census: 1920, age 35 Washington, District of Columbia with wife and daughter, an officer in U S Army, at 2118 P street.
Census: 1930, age 45 Quarry Heights, Balboa district, Panama Canal Zone with wife & daughter at 196 Officers Row.
Census: 1940, age 56 Fort Sherman, Cristabal, Panama Canal Zone, a major
Death: in Los Angeles county, California.
Father: Col David Jeremiah Godwin b: 1829 Nansemond county, Virginia.
Mother: Mary Elizabeth Parker b: 17 NOV 1860 in South Carolina.
Marriage: Mary Booker b: 30 MAR 1885 Virginia.
Married: around 1913 Washington District of Columbia.
Known Child
Marian Elizabeth Godwin b: 19 FEB 1914 Washington District of Columbia.
~ updated November 2012 following its transfer ~
Veteran: U S Army
h/o Mary Booker.
Birth: 1st of three known children of mother 7th of father's nine, in South Carolina.
Came from a long line of Virginia Godwins: father born Nansemond county in 1829, grandfather born 2 February 1793, a veteran of the War of 1812, with grandmother drawing his pension, his father, Jeremiah,jr born 2 February 1766, two days later his mother, Mary Holladay, died, she, first of at least four wives of Jeremiah Sr, who was son of Thomas, III that married 1st cousin Mary Godwin (d/o Captain Edmund Godwin & Sarah Bembridge), --- he son of Colonel Thomas Godwin II, married to Martha, daughter of Colonel Joseph Bridger of Isle of Wight, and is said to have been Speaker of the House of Burgess during Nathaniel Bacon's Rebellion of 1676, who in turn was son of Captain Thomas Godwin, the original emigrant mid-seventeenth century to Upper Norfolk, later Nansemond, the ancestor of the Godwins of Nansemond county, reportedly was (or son Thomas II) justice, coroner and Colonel Commandant of Nansemond county and had represented Nansemond county in the House of Burgess in 1652, 1654 & possibly other years.
The 1674 (2 Hening,318) act, ascertaining the bounds of counties of Isle of Wight and Nansemond, he is designated as "an ancient inhabitant of Nanzemond Countie Court" -- the act directed that the boundary line should be so run as to leave the house and cleared land of Capt. Thomas Godwin ("Old Castle", within Nansemond county. His will is dated March 24th, 1676-7. Most all of above is from S. Bassett French's (1820-1898) Biographical Sketches published in Virginia Historical Magazine, Notes and Queries, Volume 17, pages 96-98, [with incorrect spelling of names] much confirmed with Thomas Hume Papers, summary, #3239 of the University of North Carolina, pages 1-7, dated 2/18/05 and by descendant Barbara of Houston, Texas. Another source said; Captain Thomas Godwin emigrated to Nansemond county when it was known as "Upper Norfolk", then "Nandsamund" in mid-seventeenth century!
Lost his father in early 1890 when not yet six years of age, raised by widowed mother. Was a civil engineer with two years of college who became a Lt Colonel in the army spending many years in the Panama Canal Zone having one known child. He and family are buried in Forest Lawn Memorial Park (Hollywood Hills), Los Angeles, Los Angeles county, California.
Census: 1900, age 16 Washington, District of Columbia, with widowed mother, widowed maternal grandmother & two younger siblings at 3112 O street, mother a clerk at Treasury department, he a salesman.
~ CITY DIRECTORY, Washington, District of Columbia:
(younger brother David is not with them)
1908 - 1503 30th northwest, with mother & younger sister.
Census: 1910, age 27 (Hal), Precinct 7, Washington, District of Columbia with wife of four years & her younger brother, a civil engineer, an inspector.
Census: 1920, age 35 Washington, District of Columbia with wife and daughter, an officer in U S Army, at 2118 P street.
Census: 1930, age 45 Quarry Heights, Balboa district, Panama Canal Zone with wife & daughter at 196 Officers Row.
Census: 1940, age 56 Fort Sherman, Cristabal, Panama Canal Zone, a major
Death: in Los Angeles county, California.
Father: Col David Jeremiah Godwin b: 1829 Nansemond county, Virginia.
Mother: Mary Elizabeth Parker b: 17 NOV 1860 in South Carolina.
Marriage: Mary Booker b: 30 MAR 1885 Virginia.
Married: around 1913 Washington District of Columbia.
Known Child
Marian Elizabeth Godwin b: 19 FEB 1914 Washington District of Columbia.
~ updated November 2012 following its transfer ~
h/o Mary Booker.
Birth: 1st of three known children of mother 7th of father's nine, in South Carolina.
Came from a long line of Virginia Godwins: father born Nansemond county in 1829, grandfather born 2 February 1793, a veteran of the War of 1812, with grandmother drawing his pension, his father, Jeremiah,jr born 2 February 1766, two days later his mother, Mary Holladay, died, she, first of at least four wives of Jeremiah Sr, who was son of Thomas, III that married 1st cousin Mary Godwin (d/o Captain Edmund Godwin & Sarah Bembridge), --- he son of Colonel Thomas Godwin II, married to Martha, daughter of Colonel Joseph Bridger of Isle of Wight, and is said to have been Speaker of the House of Burgess during Nathaniel Bacon's Rebellion of 1676, who in turn was son of Captain Thomas Godwin, the original emigrant mid-seventeenth century to Upper Norfolk, later Nansemond, the ancestor of the Godwins of Nansemond county, reportedly was (or son Thomas II) justice, coroner and Colonel Commandant of Nansemond county and had represented Nansemond county in the House of Burgess in 1652, 1654 & possibly other years.
The 1674 (2 Hening,318) act, ascertaining the bounds of counties of Isle of Wight and Nansemond, he is designated as "an ancient inhabitant of Nanzemond Countie Court" -- the act directed that the boundary line should be so run as to leave the house and cleared land of Capt. Thomas Godwin ("Old Castle", within Nansemond county. His will is dated March 24th, 1676-7. Most all of above is from S. Bassett French's (1820-1898) Biographical Sketches published in Virginia Historical Magazine, Notes and Queries, Volume 17, pages 96-98, [with incorrect spelling of names] much confirmed with Thomas Hume Papers, summary, #3239 of the University of North Carolina, pages 1-7, dated 2/18/05 and by descendant Barbara of Houston, Texas. Another source said; Captain Thomas Godwin emigrated to Nansemond county when it was known as "Upper Norfolk", then "Nandsamund" in mid-seventeenth century!
Lost his father in early 1890 when not yet six years of age, raised by widowed mother. Was a civil engineer with two years of college who became a Lt Colonel in the army spending many years in the Panama Canal Zone having one known child. He and family are buried in Forest Lawn Memorial Park (Hollywood Hills), Los Angeles, Los Angeles county, California.
Census: 1900, age 16 Washington, District of Columbia, with widowed mother, widowed maternal grandmother & two younger siblings at 3112 O street, mother a clerk at Treasury department, he a salesman.
~ CITY DIRECTORY, Washington, District of Columbia:
(younger brother David is not with them)
1908 - 1503 30th northwest, with mother & younger sister.
Census: 1910, age 27 (Hal), Precinct 7, Washington, District of Columbia with wife of four years & her younger brother, a civil engineer, an inspector.
Census: 1920, age 35 Washington, District of Columbia with wife and daughter, an officer in U S Army, at 2118 P street.
Census: 1930, age 45 Quarry Heights, Balboa district, Panama Canal Zone with wife & daughter at 196 Officers Row.
Census: 1940, age 56 Fort Sherman, Cristabal, Panama Canal Zone, a major
Death: in Los Angeles county, California.
Father: Col David Jeremiah Godwin b: 1829 Nansemond county, Virginia.
Mother: Mary Elizabeth Parker b: 17 NOV 1860 in South Carolina.
Marriage: Mary Booker b: 30 MAR 1885 Virginia.
Married: around 1913 Washington District of Columbia.
Known Child
Marian Elizabeth Godwin b: 19 FEB 1914 Washington District of Columbia.
~ updated November 2012 following its transfer ~
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