Goodyear Family

GENEALOGY OF THE GOODYEAR FAMILY BY GRACE GOODYEAR KIRKMAN OF BENICIA, OALIFORNr.A. Member Connecticut Society "Colonial Dames of America." "As yon like your father to be an honorable man, why not your grandfather and his ancestors before him?" - Wm. 1,I. _Thackery. SAN FRANCISCO CuBERY & COMPANY, Boox AND JoB P.amTBRs, No. 587 MISSION 8-rBEE'l' 1899. DEDICATED TO THE MEMORY OF MY FATHER ANDREW. GOODYEAR 1819-1892 CONTENTS. PAGE PREF.A.OE .••••••••••••••••••••••••••.••••..••.••••••••.•••••••• ;... •••••••• •••• •••• •• 7 ARRANGEMENT-NUMBElUNG... • • • • • • • • • • .. • • .. .. • .. • • .. • . .. • .. • . • . • • • .. .. .. .. .. • .. • 8 THE F A:MILY NAME-ARMS AND CRESTS. • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • . • • • . • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • 9 MoNKE:!11 RADLEY, ENGLAND .••...••••••••••••••••..••••••.•..•••• _.. • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • 11 ENGLISH REBE.A.ROB ......................................................·• • .. • .. • • • • • 82 THE COLONISTS. • • • . • . • • • • • • . • . • • • • . • . • • • • • • • • • • • . • • . • • • • • • • • . • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • 84 DEPUTY GovERNoll STEPHEN GooDYEAR . • . • • • • • • • . • • . .. • • • • • • • • • • • • • • . • • • • • .. • • • .. • • 85 POLITIC.U. LIFE AS DERIVED FROM COLO~~il RECORDS • • • . • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • 40 DESOE:!.'DA.'<TS OP GOVERNOR GOODYE.Ul ............................... ,_. .. .. .. .. .. • • .. 55 UNATTACHED FAMILIES ••••••••••••••••••••••••••..•••••.•••••••••••••••••••••••••••• 228 ERRATA ••••••••••••••••••••••••.••••••••• ••••••· •..........•••••••••••••••.•••••••• 233 PREFACE. An accurate genealogy is at best but a compilation from authentic records-the more complete the records, the better access to them, the more perfect the genealogy. The most favored of compilers meet with manifold difficulties, and a family hist-0ry has never appeared without its errors, its omissions, its apologies. With such results from learned and experienced genealogists, who have records, libraries, all the best facilitiet1 at their com mand, what excuse shall be found adequate for publishing these notes, compiled in the far West? Perhaps as great leniency will be shown the work il the apologies for the shortcomings are omitted. If the errors will lead some one to correct and continue the work-if those who have remained in the Colonial States will pass over the early records, which they could have better supplied, and learn something of interest of their Western cousins, who have followed the example of the Colonists and built up new Empires-and il the Western cousins, who have lived far from the firesides and traditions of the forefathers, will share with satisfaction the reverence for the old and the interest in the contemporary which led to these researches, the work will have accomplished its purpose. Lest anyone should believe this work is published with a hope of pecuniary recompense, it is but due to state that all expenses, with one exception stated, have been cheerfully borne by the compiler, and the subscription price will, perhaps, return fifty per cent. of the expenditure. Should thanks here be extended, by name, to all who have assisted, the list would be e.n index of nearly all names of the family now living. Not one curt nor unpleasant reply has come to mar the pleasure derived from the correspondence involved, a pleasure greatly in excess of the labor. To all, grateful acknowledgment is here made, and to the following credit is especially due for documents and lengthy records sent, of families other than their own lines. DR. l'rIARY C. BRIGGS, MRS. F. M. CRAFTS, l\I1ss HAR.A. A. GoooYEAR, GEN. E. D.S. GooD YE!.R, CAPT. Eow. B. GooDYE!.R, E. F. GooDYEAR, Esq., CHAs. HAYWARD, Esq., JoHN EDw. HEATo:s, EsQ., FRA..','K E. HoTcmass, Esq., REV. MYRON 'MUNSON, GEo. F. TUTTLE, Esq., Ro.B ERT A.. SlIITH, Esq., FRANK G. S=, ESQ., SHELDON B. THORPE, Esq. · CH.As. W. GooDYEAR, Esq., of Buffalo, in addition to records, contributed forty dollars triward tbe English search. ARRANGEMENT. 1'he system of arrangement and numbering is taken from the work of Geo. F. Tuttle, Esq "'rhe Tuttle Family," a system devised by Rev. Dr. John E. Todd. The general arrangement is in lines-all the descendants of the eldest child being given first, followed by the next eldest, and so on. The numbering is according to the following example: On page 55, John Goodyear is the sixth child of Stephen; his number is 6 through out the book. On page 59, his children's names are given, of whom Andrew is the eighth; this number, 8, placed at the right of his father's number, is 68. On page 150 are Andrew's chlldren, of whom Titus is the fifth, which makes his number 685. On page 181 are the chil dren of Titus, of whom Andrew is the second, making his number 6852 .. On page 182 are the children of Andrew (II) of whom Andrew (III) is the sixth. His number is 68526. On page 204 are the children of Andrew (Ill) of whom the first is Henry Clay; his number is 685261. On page 205 are the children of Henry Clay, of whom John Murray is the first; bis number is 6852611. In recapitulation we have: 6 John, 6th child of Stephen. 68 Andrew, 8th child of John. 685 Titus, 5th child of Andrew. 6852 Andrew, 2d child of Titus 68526 Andrew, 6th child of Andrew. 685261 Henry Clay, let child of Andrew. 6852611 John Murray, 1st child of Henry Clay. That is to say John Murray is the 1st child of the 1st child of the 6th child of the 2d child of the 5th cbiM of the 8th child of the 6th child of Deputy Governor Stephen Goodyear, as represented by the number 6852611, at the left of his name. To trace any line back, discard the first figure on the right and look along the left hand side of the page for the number that remains. The next link is found in the same manner, by discarding the right hand figure. Lists of children's names are given in small capitals, with Roman numbering. Where the record is not of sufficient length to take up later under a separate number, the grandchildren's · names are given in the same paragraph, in common type, with Arabic numbering. Female lines have been carried out as far as possible, excepting in cases where the record has been fully given in other published genealogies. The unequal space given different families has resulted from the varying amount of material obtainable. An earnest effort was made to secure full records, but many sent only names and dates. The literal translation of the Latin of the family motto, "They are able because they seem to be able," bas been prettily converted iuto, "They conquer who bel~eve they can." ABBREVIATIONS. b., born; bap., baptized; m., married; unm., unmarried; d. died; s. p. (sine prole) without issue. THE FAMILY NAIVIE. The Rev. Fred. Chas. Cass writes: "The Gooderes came originall:iz from Cumberland, close to the Scotch border, settled at l\Ionken Hadley and 1·emained connected with it for two or three centuries. 'fhey afterward became widely scattered throughout the country under the names Gooclere, Goodier, Gooclair, Gooclyer, Goodyere, Goodyeere, Goodyeare and Goodyear." Geo. F. Tuttle states: "In early times uniformity in such matters was discarded, and the same person signed his name to the most important docu ments, as deeds, conveyances and wills, in divers ways." In the will of Zacharye Goodyeare, of London, the name is spelled in three ways in the one document: Goodyeare-yere-yeAre. The crest, with its ear (sometimes spelled "ere") of wheat, may indicate the original spelling-the crest often implying a play on the family name. The name of the Deputy Governor iu America was variously spelled Good yeare, Goodyere and Goodyear, but most frequently in the last fashion, and that early became the settled American style for his descendants. The Goodiers of Western New York, however, of whom a short account is given later, are undoubtedly of the same English descent. In Chicago, Kansas City and New Orleans there are families of German descent spelling their names Goodyear. Possibly their line originated in England, and their ancestors have been among those refugees who fled to Holland when the Puritans came to New England. Of the arms and crest Burke has the followiug:- " Good ere ( Glonces tershire) Gu., a fesse between two chevrons vall'e. Crest: a partJ:idge holding in its beak an ear of wheat, all ppr. Motto: "Posswd quiet posse videnfur.'' "Goodyear (Hythorpe, Co. Oxford; Polesworth, Co. Warwick) Gu., a fesse between two chevrons vaire. "Goodyer or Goodier (Windsor, Co. Berks; St. Albans, Co. Hertford, and Cos. Middlesex and Oxford, granted 1579) Gu., a fesse between two 10 GEi\EALOGY OF THE GOODYEAR FAl\lILY. chevrons vaire. Crest: a partridge holding in the beak three ears of wheat, all proper." "Goodyere (Hertfortshire; Hadley, Co. Middlesex) Gu., a fesse between two chevrons vaire.'' The arms, which must, in England, be legally issued, are identical, showing the many families to have been one. In the matter of crestsiudividual selection is permitted. The crest with the three ears of wheat probably designated a younger branch of the family than that using but the one ear in the beak of the partridge. In J as. Macveigh's "English Crests" is given: " Goodear and Goodyear-a lion's head, erased, imperially crowned." This may have been adopted with a marriage of rank. On the memorial in Hadley Church to John Goodyere, who died 1404, are two shields-Gu., a fesse between two chevrons vaire; and another, a fesse between three lions passant. The crest of the family of Goodier, of Western New York, was also, accord ing to their records, that of the partridge. In the seventeenth century it was united, on account of a marriage with the Turner family, with the crest of that family, a "lion passant," and the Goodiers have since used the united crests. Their motto. "Robur cum Fide," is similar in meaning to the motto of the Goodyears. The arms of the family of Goodhue r..re similar to those of Goodyear. From an early date, how early has not been learned, the crest of the partridge and the arms "Gu., a iesse between two chevrons vaire," have been used by the American branch, and ha,e been ,,-.rilled iu the " College of Arms" in London.

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