A woman in Barbados prophesies Neville's future

When Neville was seven or eight an old Englishwoman at Bathsheba, on the windswept side of Barbados, told him he would do something men would discuss for centuries, with two others named with him, and gave three proofs: he would leave Barbados and live abroad, be the first of his family to marry, and have two children - all of which came true (he left Barbados in 1922, married first though fourth in line, and has two children).
Date (happened)
between 1912 and 1913
unresolved
  1. between 1912 and 1913 stated · preferred
    Source Suffering Is Like That of David ¶22"when I was a boy either seven or eight years old", told in Suffering Is Like That of David (nid 1349)
  2. between 1912 and 1913 stated
    Source Hear O Israel ¶8"When I was a little boy — just a little one", told in Hear O Israel (nid 2130)
  3. between 19 February 1912 and 18 February 1914 estimated · probable
    Source Suffering Is Like That of David ¶22passage 537893 (nid 1349), 'when I was a boy either seven or eight years old'; corroborated by passage 553593 (nid 2130), 'I was maybe seven or eight'
    Why Existing d0/d1 give 1912-??..1913-?? year-only; this claim adds day precision at both edges and corrects the upper bound to 1914-02-18 to match 'eight' properly.
    Reasoning Anchoring the self-reported age of seven-or-eight to Neville's certain birth date 1905-02-19 (hist_event 950) gives the true window 1912-02-19 (7th birthday) to 1914-02-18 (day before 9th birthday); this refines the existing year-only 1912..1913 claims, which do not reach the correct upper edge because they omit the February birthday. Confidence capped at probable because the age is a decades-later recollection, not a record.
  4. before 1971 bound · possible
    Source Hear O Israel ¶8qualifying source passages 553593; telling lecture nids 2130
    Reasoning Qualifying passage ids [553593] belong to telling lecture nids [2130]. Each listed lecture contributes the selected safe envelope year 1971 (MAX of its non-refuted delivery years); 1971 is the MIN across telling lectures.
  5. between 1912 and 1913 bound · probable
    Source Hear O Israel ¶8Neville says in the event-bearing passage that he was maybe seven or eight in this Barbados childhood scene.
    Reasoning Passage 553593 directly anchors the narrated childhood-home scene to Neville being maybe seven or eight years old. Applying that explicit relative-age anchor to his established 1905 birth year yields 1912 through 1913; probable reflects his own 'maybe' qualification.
Place
Bathsheba, Barbados
Persons
Neville Goddard
Told / reported
  1. 8 April 1968 stated
    Source Suffering Is Like That of DavidSuffering Is Like That of David (nid 1349), telling 1349-9, told 1968-04-08
  2. 1971 stated · probable
    Source Hear O IsraelHear O Israel (nid 2130), telling 2130-2, told 1971
  3. 9 February 1971 estimated · probable
    Source Hear O Israel
    Reasoning Passage 553593 clearly tells this event within lecture node 2130. The packet's standing precise delivery claim is 1971-02-09 at probable, derived from the same-Tuesday earthquake reference and retained by the authoritative adjudication. A node-derived told claim is estimated rather than stated, and its confidence cannot exceed the probable anchor.
Sources

Source

  • Suffering Is Like That of David ¶22 (“Neville, you will do something that unnumbered centuries after you are gone men will discuss. You will do something, and two others will be named with you in the doing, and it’ll be discussed. I can’t tell you what it is.”)
  • Hear O Israel ¶8 (And one day — I was maybe seven or eight — this weird creature said to me, “You know, you’re going to leave this island and make your home far off, in another country. You’ll be the first to be married”)
  • Hear O Israel ¶8 (But she lived in a windswept area in Barbados, where a constant breeze from the sea brought the salt in, and hardly anything could be done with metal there — all the nails were wooden nails, all the shingles were nailed with wood, the hinges were all woo…)