1551 "John Wood" was buried "the xvth of August" in Hunsdon, Hertfordshire. [1]
1554 "Richard Wood" was buried "the first of Aprill" in Hunsdon, Hertfordshire. [2]
1555/56 Amy Wood wrote her will on February 21. [3] Robert Battle's abstract states, [4] No probate act is recorded.
“Amy Wood of hunsdon in the county of hertforth wyddow;” to be buried in Hunsdon churchyard; 4d. to the high altar of Hunsdon; to son John Wood of Netteswell household items (described); to his 4 daughters household items (described), and to his youngest daughter Parnyll a porringer, and to his 4 sons 2s. 8d.; to son John Wood of Hatfylde [prob. Hatfield Broad Oak, Essex] household
items (described); to his 4 daughters household items (described); to son Robart household items (described) and 10s.; to his son 8d., and to his 2 daughters a pair of sheets, and to his wife Marget my frock; to daughter Jone Myghell of Haddam [prob. Much Hadham, Herts.] household items (described) and 20s.; to her daughter Mary household items (described), and to her daughter
Alyce a sheet or a pewter dish, and to her daughter Rachyll the same, and to her son Wyllm Mychell 8d., and to her son Edward 8d.; to Elsebethe Throne of Haddam 20s.; to goddaughter Amy Wood (Rychard Wood’s daughter) a great pan, and to Elsebeth Wood a diaper tablecloth, and to Annes Wood a great kanstyck [candlestick?]; to son Nycolas Wood household items (described); to his 2 sons 16d., and to his daughter a sheet and a platter; to son Rychard Wood 2 of the best silver spoons; residue to son Rychard Wood, executor; 13s. 4d. to the poor at my burial; overseer eldest son John Wood; witnesses Jorge Thrain[?], John Lentten, Wyllm Borram, Thomas Wood, and John Sellyng.
1565/66 "Mother Wood" was "buried the iiijth of February" in Hunsdon, Hertfordshire. [5]
[1] Hertfordshire County Record Office, Hunsdon Parish Register, 1546-1679, D/P57 1/1, Hertfordshire Parish Registers, [FindMyPastImage], [FindMyPastRecord].
[2] Hertfordshire County Record Office, Hunsdon Parish Register, 1546-1679, D/P57 1/1, Hertfordshire Parish Registers, [FindMyPastImage].
[3] Essex Record Office, D/ABW 39/166, [Essex Archives].
[4] Robert Battle, "Ancestors of Widow Martha (Wood) Beard and Mary (Wood) Platt, Both of Milford, Connecticut," New England Historical and Genealogical Register 178 (2024), 150-168, at 157.
[5] Hertfordshire County Record Office, Hunsdon Parish Register, 1546-1679, D/P57 1/1, Hertfordshire Parish Registers, [FindMyPastImage], [FindMyPastRecord].