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.