John Doane was born at Stone, Staffordshire, Eng., in 1811, and died at his residence Greenwood Cottage, Hamilton, Bermuda. He married at the residence of Thomas Pitt, in Hamilton, Sarah Hariot Sutcliffe Atwood, who was born at Hamilton in 1820 and died there at Greenwood Cottage Jan. 5, 1889. Both were buried in his tomb, in the yard of St. John's church, Pembroke, Bermuda. She was highly educated and a well informed woman. Her father, Benjamin Atwood, was an educated man and "the personification of a down east Yankee." Her grandfather Commodore Goddard Atwood, owned Atwood Island, one of the Bahamas and operated his fleet of vessels during the Revolutionary war against the British, American and French commerce. He died somewhere on the Island of New Providence. After his death his widow, Love Watkins, returned to Bermuda to live with her son Benjamin.
When a young man Mr. Doane came from England to Bermuda, where he met and married his wife. He told his children that he could trace his line of ancestors to the time of the Danes in England. He always wrote his name Doane but stated that his ancestors spelled it without an "a."
Children:
GODDARD ATWOOD, b. at No. 1 Prince Albert Row, Ireland Isl., Bermuda, June 22, 1855; m. in Brooklyn, N. Y., June 3, 1875, Mary Coyle, of Donegal, Ire, from whom he obtained a divorce in 1889; res. Brooklyn. Ch.: 1. Mary Minnie, b. at No. 2 Portland Place, Ireland Isl., May 7, 1876. 2. Charles Goddard Alonzo, b. at No. 2 Portland Place, June 27, 1877.
Walter W., b. ___________; res. Bermuda.
John Doane was born at Stone, Staffordshire, Eng., in 1811, and died at his residence Greenwood Cottage, Hamilton, Bermuda. He married at the residence of Thomas Pitt, in Hamilton, Sarah Hariot Sutcliffe Atwood, who was born at Hamilton in 1820 and died there at Greenwood Cottage Jan. 5, 1889. Both were buried in his tomb, in the yard of St. John's church, Pembroke, Bermuda. She was highly educated and a well informed woman. Her father, Benjamin Atwood, was an educated man and "the personification of a down east Yankee." Her grandfather Commodore Goddard Atwood, owned Atwood Island, one of the Bahamas and operated his fleet of vessels during the Revolutionary war against the British, American and French commerce. He died somewhere on the Island of New Providence. After his death his widow, Love Watkins, returned to Bermuda to live with her son Benjamin.
When a young man Mr. Doane came from England to Bermuda, where he met and married his wife. He told his children that he could trace his line of ancestors to the time of the Danes in England. He always wrote his name Doane but stated that his ancestors spelled it without an "a."
Children:
GODDARD ATWOOD, b. at No. 1 Prince Albert Row, Ireland Isl., Bermuda, June 22, 1855; m. in Brooklyn, N. Y., June 3, 1875, Mary Coyle, of Donegal, Ire, from whom he obtained a divorce in 1889; res. Brooklyn. Ch.: 1. Mary Minnie, b. at No. 2 Portland Place, Ireland Isl., May 7, 1876. 2. Charles Goddard Alonzo, b. at No. 2 Portland Place, June 27, 1877.
Walter W., b. ___________; res. Bermuda.
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