John Woods

Not the same as John Wood of Rossmead

John Woods (b 1654), son of John Woods, Kt. and Isabella Bruce. The wives Elizabeth Worsop/Worsham and Anne Bedlow have been proven as incorrect - he married his cousin Elizabeth Woods. Children include Michael Woods.

https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Woods-461

“Instead, according to Fabosbecker, John Woods of Dunshaughlin married a cousin of his, named Elizabeth Woods, daughter of Thomas Woods of Dunshaughlin. John Woods and Elizbeth Woods, did in fact have children, including (among others) “

• Michael
• and his sister Elizabeth who married a Wallace, believed to be named Peter.

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• from http://genforum.genealogy.com/woods/messages/724.html

I just started using the World Family Tree CD's, vol.'s 1-5 and noticed the same error repeated in several Woods family trees. The error is the listing of Michael Woods 684-1762, the son of John Woods and Elizabeth _Worsop_ of Northern Ireland. In the 1970's and 80's several researchers examined Irish records.

One of the best descriptions of one such effort is in "Woods-Wallace Cousin Clues" by Ruth Lamar Petracek. Elizabeth Worsop was married to _a_ John Wood (no"s") and was his second wife, but not the ancestor of the Borden Grant, Virginia Woods. Elizabeth Worsop is proven to have had _NO_ children. (Public Records office, Belfast, Ireland, T 559, Vol. 42, p. 148)

Note: "was NOT the husband of Elizabeth Warsop: she married a different John WOOD (no 's') as his 2nd wife and may have had no children." See Major Error in Michael Woods Trees

• from http://www.wheeler-roots.org/getperson.php?personID=I12407&tree=001

John was a cousin of his wife, Elizabeth Woods.   The marriage was said to have been arranged between cousins to keep some prized lands and buildings in the family.  Elizabeth had inherited Dunshaughlin Castle from her father, Sir Thomas Woods.  John was a second son of his parents, and thus had little if any land that he was eligible to inherit.  The laws of primogeniture gave almost everything to the first born son.

Sir John Woods of Dunshaughlin Castle was the son or grandson of Sir John Woods of Yorkshire County, England who married Isabel Bruce and had come into Ireland with Cromwell.

This Woods family still has a branch in Ireland, descended from John and Elizabeth Woods(s)' first born son, that owns Milverton Hall at Skerries, on the coast north of Dublin. [1]

References

• Woods’ Family Myths and the Real Facts By Cecilia Fábos-Becker (2020-08-03) Myth 1: Trooper John Woods came with Cromwell to Ireland. Wife: Isabella Bruce. Myth 2: the Woods’ who emigrated to Pennsylvania in the 1720’s ad 1730’s were children of John Woods of Rossmead/Rossmidhe and Elizabeth Worsopp.
• Updated from WikiTree Genealogy via daughter Elizabeth Woods by SmartCopy: Nov 1 2015, 0:53:50 UTC