Publisher's Synopsis
"If we are true to ourselves, we cannot be false to anyone."(Shakespeare, Hamlet.) George H. Goodale (1810-1881) represents a confluence of Puritan families; in particular, Annis family from County Fermanagh in Northern Ireland, Goodale from Suffolk County; Eaton from Warwickshire; Wardwell from Lincolnshire, Cousins from Wiltshire, Littlefield from Hampshire, and Hatch from Devonshire. These families stayed together generation after generation in York County in Maine. However, with better means of travel in the late nineteenth century, families began to spread out. In 1865, George W. Goodale (son of George H. Goodale) married Eunice A. McLaughlin, born in Nova Scotia. Her family came from Scotland, but without ancillary information, we cannot trace her genealogy. In 1896, Charles F. Goodale (son of George W. Goodale) married Frances Jane Chartres. Fortunately, she kept family correspondence which indicated her Ponsonby and Chartres genealogy. The lesson learned is that any family should keep vital records "that one might read the book of fate, and see the revolution of the times." (Shakespeare, Henry IV, Part 2.)
