Edmund Wood

Abt 1572 - Abt 1660  (~ 87 years)

• Name	Edmund Wood  [1, 2, 3, 4]
  Birth	Abt 2 Mar 1572	Bingley, Bradford, Yorkshire, England   [2]
  Baptism	2 Mar 1572	Keighley, Bradford, Yorkshire, England   [4]
  Gender	Male
  Residence	Between 1635 and 1636	Watertown, Middlesex, Massachusetts, USA   [4]
  Immigration	17 Aug 1635	Massachusetts, USA   [2, 4]
  Occupation	church warden  [4]
  Residence	Between 1636 and 1644	Stamford, Fairfield, Connecticut, USA   [2]
  Residence	16 May 1636	Wethersfield, Hartford, Connecticut, USA   [4]
  Occupation	25 Mar 1640  [4]
  	yeoman
  Residence	25 Mar 1640	Wethersfield, Hartford, Connecticut, USA   [4]
  Residence	1644	Hempstead, Nassau, New York, USA   [2, 4]
  Residence	1650	Smithtown, Suffolk, New York, USA   [2]
  Residence	1655	Huntington, Suffolk, New York, USA   [2]
  Residence	1659	Huntington, Suffolk, New York, USA   [4]
  Death	Abt 1660	Huntington, Suffolk, New York, USA   [2]
  Person ID	I300	Wood Genealogy
  Last Modified	29 Jun 2025

  
  

  Father	Edmund Wood,   b. Abt 1546, Halifax, Calderdale, Yorkshire, England d. Aft 4 Sep 1614, Shelf, Calderdale, Yorkshire, England (Age ~ 68 years)
  Relationship	natural
  Mother	Jenet Hurst,   b. Abt 1550, England
  Relationship	natural
  Marriage	Abt 1571
  Family ID	F490	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	Margaret Lum,   b. 7 Jan 1581, Sowerby, Calderdale, Yorkshire, England d. Bef 23 May 1635, Sowerby, Calderdale, Yorkshire, England (Age < 54 years)
  Marriage	21 May 1611	St. John the Baptist Church, Halifax, Calderdale, Yorkshire, England   [4]
  Children	1. Jeremiah Wood,   b. 1 Jan 1620, Shelf, Calderdale, Yorkshire, England d. 28 Dec 1686, Hempstead, Nassau, New York, USA (Age 66 years)   2. Timothy Wood,   b. Abt 14 Jul 1622, Shelf, Calderdale, Yorkshire, England d. 1659, Jamaica, Queens, New York, USA (Age ~ 36 years)  [Father: natural]  [Mother: natural]   3. Martha Wood,   b. Abt 8 Apr 1612, Shelf, Calderdale, Yorkshire, England d. Oct 1667, Southampton, Suffolk, New York, USA (Age ~ 55 years)  [Father: natural]  [Mother: natural]   4. Susan Wood,   b. Abt 23 Mar 1616, Shelf, Calderdale, Yorkshire, England d. Abt 1687, Southampton, Suffolk, New York, USA (Age ~ 70 years)  [Father: natural]  [Mother: natural]   5. Jonas Owram Wood,   b. Abt 18 Sep 1614, Shelf, Calderdale, Yorkshire, England d. 12 Jun 1689, Brookhaven, Suffolk, New York, USA (Age ~ 74 years)  [Father: natural]  [Mother: natural]   6. Mary Wood,   b. Abt 1618, Shelf, Calderdale, Yorkshire, England d. Aft 1644, Huntington, Suffolk, New York, USA (Age ~ 27 years)  [Father: natural]  [Mother: natural]
  Family ID	F106	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	29 Jun 2025

  
  

• Notes

  WOOD FAMILY OF HUNTINGTON, SUFFOLK CO., L. I. EDMOND WOOD, the ancestor of this family, came with his two sons, Jonas (2), and Jeremiah (3), from Oakham, Eng., to Stamford, Conn., thence to Hempstead, L. I., where his sons were two of the Patentees named in Govr. Kieft’s Patent of 1643. Jeremiah (3) d. in Hempstead, 1686, leaving sons Jeremiah, Joseph and John. (Printed Hempstead Recds., Vol. I. p. 63.) source: Jones, John Henry. The Jones Family of Long Island: Descendants of Major Thomas Jones (1665-1726) and Allied Families. New York, NY: Tobias A. Wright, 1907.

  
  

• Sources

  [S284] Charles R. Street, Huntington Town Records, Including Babylon, Long Island, N.Y. 1653-1688, with Introduction, Notes and Index, Volume 1, (Name: The Long Islander; Location: Huntington, NY; Date: 1887;). [S285] Casey Albert Wood, The Wood Family of Shelf, Halifax Parish, Yorkshire, England, Massachusetts, Connecticut, Long Island, N.Y., and Canada, (Name: Casey Albert Wood; Location: Chicago, IL; Date: 1920;). [S286] John Henry Jones, The Jones Family of Long Island: Descendants of Major Thomas Jones (1665-1726) and Allied Families, (Name: Tobias A. Wright; Location: New York, NY; Date: 1907;). [S54] Herbert Barber Lowe, Yorkshire to Westchester: A Chronicle of the Wood Family, (Name: Tuttle Publishing Company; Location: Rutland, VT; Date: 1948;).