Brief Life History of Sarah
When Sarah Woodward was born in 1680, in Goochland, Virginia, British Colonial America, her father, Samuel Woodward, was 24 and her mother, Mrs. Samuel Woodward, was 29. She married Capt James Holman in 1714, in St. Jame's Parish, Goochland, Virginia, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 son and 1 daughter. She died on 14 October 1774, in St. Jame's Parish, Goochland, Virginia, British Colonial America, at the age of 94.
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- Will books, with inventories and accounts, 1749-1887; general indexes to wills, 1749-1975
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English: occupational name for a forester employed to look after the trees and game in a forest, Middle English woodward (from Old English wudu ‘wood’ + weard ‘guardian, protector’).
History: Henry Woodward emigrated from England in 1635 and settled first in Dorchester, MA, and subsequently in Northampton, MA. He had many prominent descendants. Another Henry Woodward, born c. 1646 in the British West Indies, was the first English settler in SC (1664).
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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