The Woodforde Family

A History of the Woodforde Family from 1300


THE CHILDREN OF ROBERT WOODFORDE (1606-54)
BIOGRAPHICAL REFERENCES
THE FAMILY DESCENT FROM ROBERT WOODFORDE
 

Of the many children born to Robert and Hannah, only two survived to adulthood and had children.  These were the two eldest sons, Samuel and John.  Early in their lives on 13 August 1638, as their father’s diary records, they were taken in wicker baskets on horses to London away from the danger of the plague in Northamptonshire.  Samuel was aged two years and John aged eight months. The family's trusted friends Goodman Lamport and Goodman Wright led the way and their parents  accompanied them as far as the town:-

From Samuel would descend the Woodforde family of Ansford, Somerset; from John, the Woodford family of Carleby, Lincs.

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