Em Goodale

Thomas (B) Goodale, the elder born say 1539 in Fincham son of John and Ann Goodale married Em ___. Named in the will of his father. His sons John and Robert were legatees of his brother Richard's 1587 will. He was living in Great Yarmouth, Norfolk by 1564 when he and his wife Em has a child bp there. They apparently had two children before this, places of birth unknown. One of these daughter Dianes, Thomas named in his will. Second is Jane; her burial record probably refers to a daughter of his. In 1579 a plague from May to Sep killed around 2,000 people including Thomas and three of his children. Thomas was buried on 24 Aug 1579 with 23 other people. Knowing if his impending demise he wrote a detailed will 20 Aug 1579 which is transcribed in TAG 85:134-140. It was proved 6 Dec 1579. His widow Em remarried 21 Sep 1579 to William Goose and they had a daughter Mary Goose. She is possibly the Em Goose buried on 17 Feb 1615/6. William Goose had previously married Alice Harding on 19 Jan 1572/3. Alice was buried on 1 Jul 1579.

Children

Children of Thomas (B) and Em (___) Goodale all bp in Great Yarmouth except the first two:

1. Jane b say 1560 buried 6 Jun 1570
2. Dianes b say 1562
3. Alice bp 30 Dec 1564 buried 22 Jun 1565
4. John bp 7 Jul 1566 m/2 Bridget Portler m/2 Elizabeth (Parlett) Tayler (see TAG Jan 2018)
5. Katheryn bp 12 Mar 1568/9 buried 5 Aug 1579
6. Margaret bp 23 Oct 1571 buried 10 Feb 1571/2
7. Robert bp 25 Nov 1573 and had a son Robert
8. Jeffrey bp 23 Feb 1575/6 buried 30 Jul 1579
9. Alice bp 6 Jun 1578 buried 12 Aug 1579

Source

1. Myrtle Stevens Hyde, FASG, Additions to the Ancestry of Richard1 Goodale of Salisbury, Massachusetts , in The American Genealogist (TAG). (Donald Lines Jacobus, et.al.. Apr 2011), 85:134-140,