The Goodridge Genealogy

Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: THE FAMILY IN ENGLAND EMOTE ancestors of the Goodricke, Goodridge, Goodrich and other families of like name were early located in many parts of Great Britain. Taking the university town of Cambridge as a centre, Bury St. Edmunds is twenty-five miles to the east; Ely, a cathedral town, fifteen miles...
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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: THE FAMILY IN ENGLAND EMOTE ancestors of the Goodricke, Goodridge, Goodrich and other families of like name were early located in many parts of Great Britain. Taking the university town of Cambridge as a centre, Bury St. Edmunds is twenty-five miles to the east; Ely, a cathedral town, fifteen miles northeast; Peterborough, another cathedral town, thirty-five miles northwest; and Croyland, or Crowland, as the name is now spelled, forty-five miles northwest. The country in which these towns are situated, for a distance, north and south, of two hundred miles, and east and west, fifty to a hundred, is among the most beautiful in England. Here the Angles established their kingdom and were among the first to listen to St. Augustine's appeal and embrace Christianity. Here, also, among the Angles, the venerable Bede, one of the great educational lights of his time, fixed the attention of the World, and still holds that of scholars. The Angles, at the beginning of the eighth century, led all England in zeal for Christianity and education, and at Croyland they built a large abbey church that was destroyed by the Danes under Harold and Sidroc in 870. It was not until 878 that, led on by the great Alfred, they again possessed the country. And then the abbey was rebuilt. In Ingulph's History of the Abbey of Croyland it is said that: By common consent of all, the venerable Father Godric, though very reluctant and making great opposition thereto, was elected abbot. The abbot, for the next four years, was harassed by fines and confiscations by the King of Mercia till that kingdom ended and Alfred reigned over both that and Wessex. In the reign of Edmund, A. D. 940, weighed down with extreme old age, Godric, abbot of Croyland, died. Again, we find a Godric?or Godrick, according ...