Birth of Neville Goddard

Neville Goddard was born on Sunday, February 19, 1905, at 9:15 at night, on the island of Barbados -- the fourth of nine boys (and one girl) born to the Goddard family. He recounts the exact hour as his mother told it to him; in a tribute written by his student Margaret Ruth Broome, a relative climbing the stairs of the family's wooden-frame house on the day of the birth is said to have heard a voice announce 'His name is Neville' before the boy had been named. Across dozens of lectures he refers to 1905 as his birth year in passing, always consistently.
Date (happened)
19 February 1905
unresolved
  1. 19 February 1905 stated · preferred
    Source The Divine Body ¶41passage 528454 (nid 1036): '9:15 on Sunday night in 1905 the 19th of February' -- Neville's own recounting of what his mother told him about his birth. Corroborated by nine further passages across as many lectures naming 1905 as his birth year (533619, 540616, 540780, 545580, 548621, 551238, 553125, 555823) and by an independent secondhand account naming the same exact date, 'February 19, 1905' (passage 552122, nid 2039, Margaret Ruth Broome's tribute).
    Reasoning The fullest witness gives an exact date and time attributed to his mother; this matches the corpus's existing person-record birthdate (person 6) and is corroborated unanimously across all twelve witnesses with no conflicting date anywhere.
Place
Barbados
Persons
Neville Goddard
Told / reported
  1. 1970 estimated
    Source The Divine Bodylecture nid 1036 'The Divine Body': internal evidence (text twice names 1970 as the present year, discusses Bertrand Russell's death as recent -- Russell died 1970) overrides the file's two doubtful legacy claims (1957 catalog #74, 1968-05-10 catalog #443).
    Reasoning Both legacy catalog claims are marked doubtful in this lecture's own processing notes because neither fits the lecture's explicit internal self-dating; the certain internally-derived 1970 claim is preferred.
  2. 9 November 1965 estimated
    Source The New Manlecture nid 1219 'The New Man' delivery date 1965-11-09, corroborated by a chrome dateline ('11/9/65') and the internal reference to the East Coast blackout beginning 5:20pm that evening (the Great Northeast Blackout of 9 Nov 1965); the alternate 1966-10-18 and 1967-01-20 catalog claims are explicitly demoted to possible in this lecture's own processing notes as not witnessed by this text.
    Reasoning Two independent certain sources (chrome dateline + blackout reference) agree exactly and are preferred over the demoted catalog alternatives.
  3. 18 July 1969 estimated · doubtful
    Source Pre-Existencelecture nid 1470 'Pre-Existence' carries a certain/preferred catalog claim of 1969-07-18 (catalog #576) against a weaker probable/provisional 1969-07-16 (catalog #1112, 'provisional source').
    Reasoning No transcript or chrome corroboration for either claim, but the certain claim is inherently stronger than the merely probable alternative, so it is preferred rather than treated as a tie.
  4. between 25 October 1968 and 21 August 1969 estimated · doubtful
    Source The Promise's Fulfillment in Youlecture nid 1474 'The Promise's Fulfillment in You' carries two conflicting certain/preferred legacy catalog claims (1968-10-25 catalog #483, 1969-08-21 catalog #581); this lecture's own processing notes flag that the Holy Week internal evidence sits oddly with both and leave the conflict unresolved.
    Why Flag for another lane: lecture 1474's two catalogue delivery claims need adjudication; neither fits its own Holy-Week internal evidence well.
    Reasoning No basis to prefer one of two equally-confident conflicting claims, so written as a between range at possible confidence per the inheritance rule rather than picking one. || v1.1/l7/told-lower: lowered `possible` -> `doubtful`. The telling-date 1968-10-25 is refuted on the source lecture (nid 1474) and no live claim on that node supports it, so the corpus can no longer say WHEN this was told. ⛔ The row is KEPT, not retired: it also records THAT nid 1474 tells this event, which is true and checkable from the passages, and retiring it would discard that with the date.
  5. 19 May 1964 estimated
    Source Jesus, God's Plan of Salvationlecture nid 1821 'Jesus, God's Plan of Salvation' carries a single uncontested certain delivery claim, 1964-05-19 (catalog #233).
    Reasoning Single, uncontested certain claim inherited unchanged.
  6. 5 May 1969 estimated · probable
    Source The Wisdom, Power, and Glory Buried in Uslecture nid 1858 'The Wisdom, Power, and Glory Buried in Us' delivery date 1969-05-05 read verbatim from the source document's own printed dateline ('5/5/69'); no second corroborating source.
    Reasoning Single dateline reading with no corroboration, so inherited at the probable confidence it was recorded with.
  7. 9 April 1963 estimated
    Source The Crucifixionlecture nid 1908 'The Crucifixion' carries two certain catalog claims that agree exactly, 1963-04-09 (catalog #144, and a merged duplicate catalog #861 from the same underlying source event).
    Reasoning Both recorded claims agree exactly with no conflict.
  8. 24 January 1969 estimated · probable
    Source Mystery Electionlecture nid 1910 'Mystery Election': chrome dateline '1/24/69' explicitly supersedes this lecture's own weaker 1963-1964 internal-evidence inference per its processing notes (the Estes/Baker corruption references cited for that inference in fact stayed current news for years, not tight contemporary anchors).
    Reasoning The lecture's own dating trail names the dateline reading as superseding the weaker inference and its own state is 'confirmed'; inherited at the probable confidence the dateline claim itself carries.
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  1. 26 July 1968 estimated
    Source Signs End July 26 Marines Memorial Club San Franciscolecture nid 1999 'Signs End July 26 Marines Memorial Club San Francisco' carries two agreeing certain sources: an explicit opening dateline ('26-Jul-1968 San Francisco') and a dated lecture advertisement (media:170).
    Reasoning Two independent certain sources agree exactly.
  2. between 1 January 1971 and 30 June 1971 estimated
    Source Amnesia, The Sleep Of Deathlecture nid 2108 'Amnesia, The Sleep Of Death': Neville explicitly says 'this is 1971' and, before the anniversary, calls his July 1959 awakening 'almost twelve years ago this coming July', bounding delivery to before that July.
    Reasoning Explicit self-dating plus an explicit reference to the upcoming July anniversary give a certain bound without a precise day, so written as a between range across the first half of 1971 rather than inventing an exact date.
  3. after 1965 estimated · possible
    Source The Rocklecture nid 2270 'The Rock' dated only by inference: it postdates the Stork Club's October 1965 closure (referenced as recent, garbled by ASR as 'salt couch'/'store club'); no further internal evidence fixes month, day, or a tighter year.
    Reasoning Weak single inference bound, recorded as 'state: weak' in this lecture's own processing; inherited as possible/after rather than invented as an exact year.