• General Notes

  REFERENCE: 1 Va Cousin
  Nothing is known concerning Richard Gode except his name. His residence
  can only be surmised, though, as has already been stated, the name seems
  to been most common in the west of England. It is the opinion of the
  writer that the original seat of the family was in Gloucestershire, near
  the borders of Worcestershire and Warwick. Although the pedigree of the
  heralds professes to be that of a Cornish family, it is very evident that
  Goode is not a Cornish name, and that the family must have migrated to
  Cornwall from some more eastern county. Lyson in his chapter upon the
  extinct families of Cornish gentry, gives this record:  p. 14, Virginia
  Cousins
  "Goode of Whitstone, traced eight generations above 1620, had been
  settled for only three descents at Whitstone by a match with the heiress
  of Whitstone, became extinct in the seventeenth century; heiress named
  Badcock. Arms: Gules, on a chevron, between three lions, rampant, or, as
  many cinquefoils."
  Lyson: Magna Britannia, Cornwall, Part I., p. cxxxv.
  Richard Gode is, in all probability, the ancestor not only of the Goode
  family in America but the ancestor of a large number of those families in
  England bearing the name Good, Goad and Goode, if the identity in the
  coat-armor of the Goods of Surrey, Lincolnshire, Dorsetshire,
  Oxfordshire, Worcestershire; the Goads of Buckinghamshire, and the Goodes
  of Cornwall, Suffolk, and Warwick may be cited in evidence. pp. 13 and
  14, Virginia Cousins
  Richard Gode is the 15th great-grandfather of Paul Byrne Haring, Esq. and
  John Goode Haring, Esq.
  Some of Richard Gode's contemporaries, all maternal ancestors in the same
  degree of Richard Goode, the third as he might be called for
  distinction's sake, were John Penkevil, Lord of the Manor or Barton of
  Penkevil St. Michael in 1342, Sir Reginald Mohun, whose father the last
  Lord Mohun of Dunster having died in 1331, Benedict and Jordan Rayneward
  of Penmayne who flourished between 1296 and 1348, Raphe Trenouth, who was
  born before 1377, and died in 1427, Sir Christopher Fleming about the
  same time and Ricardo Tregarrack, of Tregarrack who was alive in 1327.

Details of Richard's family with UNKNOWN Unnamed