Francis Gould

Abt 1622 - 1676  (~ 54 years)

• Name	Francis Gould  [1, 2]
  Birth	Abt 1622  [3]
  Gender	Male
  Death	27 Mar 1676	Chelmsford, Middlesex, Massachusetts   [3, 4, 5]
  Person ID	I1075	Ancestry of PNH, TNH, and others
  Last Modified	5 Jan 2025

  
  

  Family	Rose   d. Abt 1679, Chelmsford, Middlesex, Massachusetts
  Children	+ 1. Mary Gould,   b. 23 Dec 1651, Braintree, Norfolk, Massachusetts d. 18 Aug 1687, Chelmsford, Middlesex, Massachusetts (Age 35 years)
  Family ID	F2881	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	20 Sep 2015

  
  

• Notes

  He is probably the Francis Gould in Boston in 1639, a watchman, being censured by the court. In 1643 he is in Duxbury, recorded as among those able to bear arms. By 1649 he is in Braintree where he is living with his wife Rose. Late in 1659 or early in 1660 they moved to Chelmsford. In all these records and others his surname is spelled variously — Goole, Goold, Gold, Gould, etc. On 3 Apr 1645 one John Eddy, aged eight, is recorded as apprenticed to "Francis Goulder of Plymouth, yeoman," and subsequent records show that young Eddy learned the trade of a blacksmith from Goole.

  
  

• Sources

  [S676] The Wattles Collection by Lucille Wattles. Copper City, Florida: 1997. [S4034] The English Ancestry of Peter Talbot of Dorchester, Mass. by J. Gardner Bartlett. Boston, 1917. [S4973] The Genealogy of the Gould Family by Mark Sumner Still. Whitter, California, 1971. [S1844] Vital Records of Chelmsford, Massachusetts, to the End of the Year 1849. Salem, Massachusetts: The Essex Institute, 1914. [S4974] Genealogies of the Families of Braintree, Mass. 1640-1850, Including the Modern Towns of Randolph & Holbrook and the City of Quincy, After the Separation from Braintree in 1792-3 by Waldo Hamilton Sprague, compiled from 1934 to 1960. Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2001.