Question

What were the identities re the earliest known Goodales located in England?

Answer 1

The webpage http://www.wiggo.com/Personal/Genealogy/Goodale_Book/goodale_book.htm presents some different theories on the origin of the Goodale/Goodell name in England.

I have Goodale ancestry. I have little confidence that we can reliably trace my Goodale ancestors back to England, much less to the "earliest known Goodales" there.

See http://www.wikitree.com/genealogy/goodale for the Goodales currently included in WikiTree (WikiTree member "genealogists" can see a better version of this list at http://www.wikitree.com/index.php?title=Special:Surname&s=GOODALE&limit=1000&cln=1&order=dobup&u= ).

Answer 2

Here are some who were in England 1500-1600. Prior to 1500 not yet checked.

John Goodale
England Births and Christenings, 1538-1975
christening:    1 May 1600    SHOREHAM, KENT, ENGLAND    
father:    Thomas Goodale        

William Goodale
England Births and Christenings, 1538-1975
christening:    11 November 1589    WILNE, DERBY, ENGLAND    
father:    William Goodale        

John Goodale
England Births and Christenings, 1538-1975
christening:    6 June 1555    WILNE, DERBY, ENGLAND    
father:    Tho. Goodale        

Radulphe Goodale
England Births and Christenings, 1538-1975
christening:    13 February 1579    WILNE, DERBY, ENGLAND    
father:    William Goodale        

Annys Goodale
England Births and Christenings, 1538-1975
christening:    22 January 1552    WILNE, DERBY, ENGLAND    
father:    Thomas Goodale        

Ellen Goodale
England Births and Christenings, 1538-1975
christening:    15 January 1575    WILNE, DERBY, ENGLAND    
father:    Willm Goodale        

Robt Goodale
England Births and Christenings, 1538-1975
christening:    23 May 1574    WILNE, DERBY, ENGLAND    
father:    Willm Goodale        

Alise Goodale
England Births and Christenings, 1538-1975
christening:    28 April 1584    WILNE, DERBY, ENGLAND    
father:    William Goodale        

John Goodale
England Births and Christenings, 1538-1975
christening:    26 December 1587    SHILLINGTON, BEDFORD, ENGLAND    
father:    Richard Goodale

Answer 3

Looks like they go back to the 1100's (12th Century) in England. 

Goodale

This interesting name has two possible origins. The first being a metonymic occupational name for a brewer of good ale, deriving from the medieval English "gode" meaning "good" plus "ale", ale or malt liquor. The surname from this source is first recorded in the latter half of the 12th Century (see below). One Roger Godhal appears in the 1221 Assize Court Rolls of Shropshire and a William Godale in the 1244, Calendar of the Monastery of Ramsey, Bedfordshire. The second distinct possibility is that the name is of locational origin from a place in the West Riding of Yorkshire, originally called Goldale, but now called Gowdall. The name derives from the Olde English pre 7th Century "golde", a marigold plus "halh", a nook or recess. One Ricardus de (of) Goldall, is noted in Poll Tax Returns of Yorkshire (1379). In 1635, Thomas Goodall married Alice Fluen in St. James' Clerkenwell, London. Among the earliest settlers in the New World were Robert Goodall, aged 30 yrs., and his wife Katherin, aged 28 yrs., who departed from Ipswich aboard the "Elizabeth", bound for New England, in April 1634. The first recorded spelling of the family name is shown to be that of Toka Godala, which was dated 1181, in the "Pipe Rolls of Suffolk", during the reign of King Henry 11, known as "The Builder of Churches", 1154 - 1189. Surnames became necessary when governments introduced personal taxation. In England this was known as Poll Tax. Throughout the centuries, surnames in every country have continued to "develop" often leading to astonishing variants of the original spelling.

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