Robert Goodbody (1708-1762)


Dates

Birth: 1708 Swaffham, Norfolk, UK
Father: Robert Goodbody 1687-1723
Mother: Sarah Newcomb 1682-a1723

Christening: 27 Dec 1708 Swaffham, Norfolk, UK

Marriage: 18 January 1732/3 South Rainham, Norfolk, UK
Wife: Alice Jarvis 1706-1790

Death: 5 February 1762 Weasenham All Saints, Norfolk, UK

Children

James Goodbody 1732/3-1794
Elizabeth Goodbody 1735
Robert Goodbody 1732/3-1794
Mary Goodbody 1742
Sarah Goodbody 1742
Alice Goodbody 1745

Notes

Not in the IGI index, but an image "Christenings 1708 [...] Dec [...] 21 Robert S of Robt & Sarah Goodbody 27" in Swaffham, Norfolk.

Entry in Phillimore Norfolk Parish Records Vol 11 South Rainham Marriage of Robert Goodbody batchelor and Alice Jarvis spinster, both of Weasenham, January 18 1732-3 by lic.

His children were christened at Weasenham All Saints in 1732 to 1745

Entry in Ancestry UK, Extracted Probate Records for Goodbody, Robert Roper - 1763 Goodbody, Robert, Weasenham all Saints, N., labourer 40 Roper Norfolk: Norwich - Index of Wills, Consistory Court of Norwich, 1751-1818.

There are some thirty entries in Ancestry Public Member Trees for Robert Goodbody born on 27 Dec 1708 in Swaffham, Norfolk, parents Robert Goodbody and Sarah Newcomb, his marriage to Ann Jarvis on 18 January 1723 (only one has the correct date of 1732), his children (some cannot be his), and death in Weasenham, Norfolk on 5 February 1762. There are also entries with similar information but for Norfolk, Massachusetts, USA.

Swaffham is 16 miles SE of Kings Lynn on A1065, Weasenham 9 miles north of Swaffham also on A1065, South Raynham 3 miles NE of Weasenham, also on A1065.

Relationship

Robert Goodbody was Felicity's sixth great grandfather.

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