Mary Goodhind

Not the same as Mary Levett

Mary Buckland was baptised on the 6th October 1667 at St Michael the Archangel, Lewes, Sussex, the daughter of Charles Buckland and Bridget Relfe.

She married, as Mary Buckland [so a spinster], to John Goodhind on the 16th March 1698/99 at St Mary's, West Harptree, Somerset.

Mary was described as "my eldest daughter Mary & the wife of John Goodhind" in the 1699 will of her father Charles Goodhind.

She died on the 7th May 1743 at Whitchurch, Somerset and was buried there.

She did NOT marry Robert Levett in 1675 when she would only have been 8 years old

[An entirely different] Mary Buckland;. She married Robert Levett on 25 May 1675 in Goudhurst Kent, son of James Levett and Philadelphia Bennet.

Children of Mary Buckland and Robert Levett are:

1. +James Levett, b. 1683, Alfriston Sussex, d. 1765, Berwick Sussex.
2. Mary Levett, b. 1686, d. date unknown.
3. Elizabeth Levett, b. 1688, d. date unknown.
4. Edmund Levett, b. 1692, Berwick Sussex, d. 1773, Berwick Sussex.

Gournay Court, West Harptree

West Harptree, Somerset

In "The Goodhinds of Saltford" Goulstone relates that Gournay Court was the home of Mary's father, Charles Buckland: JOHN GOODHIND - bapt Whitchurch 1661; buried Whitchurch 1737; will proved Wells 1737. Bought houses and lands in Saltford from William and Thomas Tunstall for £1010 1698, from Robert and Ann Bayley for £300 1702, from William Richmond for £78 1722 (Somerset RO: DD/SOG/913). Chancery plaintiff as gentleman of Whitchurch 1690 (see Judith) and 1723, regarding £450 loan to a yeoman of Chewstoke; MARRIED BY 1699 MARY DAUGHTER OF CHARLES BUCKLAND OF GOURNAYS COURT, WEST HARPTREE - "Mrs. Mary Goodhind ye wife of ye late Mr John Goodhind" buried Whitchurch 1743. Mary was a great great great great granddaughter of Edward Seymour, Duke of Somerset and Lord Protector of England during part of the reign of his nephew Edward VI