Neville Goddard born in St. Michael, Barbados

Neville Lancelot Goddard was born to Joseph Nathaniel Goddard and Wilhelmina Goddard, the fourth of ten children.

Adjudication: Wikipedia and Broome's biography independently converge on the specific date February 19, 1905, both citing added biographical detail (parents' names, birth order) beyond a bare year. The other three sources give only the year 1905, consistent with but less precise than the dated sources -- they are not wrong, just vaguer, so they remain valid corroborating claims rather than refuted ones.
Place: St. Michael, Barbados
Person: Neville Goddard
Ruling: accepted (all claims kept), Rudi 2026-07-23

Confirmed by primary document: Neville's own Petition for Naturalization (Section 701, Nationality Act of 1940) gives his birth date as 19 February 1905 and his birthplace as Barbados, British West Indies.

A 1927 Atlanta Municipal Opera press caption (article node 4024) describes Neville as 'half Scotch, half Spanish' -- almost certainly journalistic embellishment for a dance-team bio; it conflicts with Neville's own stated ancestry (Scotch, English and Irish, forefathers from Cornwall; hist_event 18887) and is not adopted as fact.

The source identifies his parents as Joseph Nathaniel Goddard and Wilhelmina Hinkson and the family home as Sunnyside, Fontabelle.

The family record identifies Neville as the son of Joseph Nathaniel Goddard and Wilhelmina Ellis Hinkson and lists nine named siblings.

Neville says his mother recalled his birth at 9:15 Sunday night while church bells were ringing and believed he had been sent to do God's work.

Broome describes Neville as the fourth son in a family of nine boys and one girl.

Date (happened)
19 February 1905
unresolved
  1. 19 February 1905 stated · preferred
    Source petition item (3), 'I was born on February 19, 1905' (OCR renders the year as '1305'); birthplace given as Barbados, British West Indies
    Why Same document also gives his then-nationality as British and his address as Washington Square, New York.
    Reasoning Neville's own sworn naturalization petition states his birth date. This is the first primary-document source for the date on this event — every other witness here is a lecture passage or a secondary biography. The OCR renders 1905 as '1305'; 19 February 1905 is what the form requires and what the rest of the corpus independently states, so the transcription defect does not put the date in doubt.
  2. 1905 stated · possible
    Source American Mystic A Ramanas Meeting With Neville Goddard"Neville Goddard (1905 to 1972)"
  3. 1905 stated · possible
    Source Neville Goddard Research Rev Frederick Eikerenkoetter Jr Rev Ike And Neville Goddard ¶1"born in 1905 on the island of Barbados in the British West Indies"
  4. 1905 stated · possible
    Source The Finances Of Neville Goddard What He Charged For Lectures And Why He Never Charged For Private Interviews ¶1"Neville Goddard (1905–1972)"
  5. 19 February 1905 stated
    Source Neville Goddard Wikipedia ¶0"born on 19 February 1905 in St. Michael, Barbados"
  6. 19 February 1905 stated · possible
    Source Margaret Ruth Broome Neville Goddard The Man Who Knew He Was God ¶0"the boy who was born on February 19, 1905, the fourth son"
  7. between 1905 and 1921 stated · probable
    Source The Most Practical, Yet Most Profoundly Spiritual ¶31"in those days", told in The Most Practical, Yet Most Profoundly Spiritual (nid 1303)
  8. between 1910 and 1918 stated · probable
    Source "When I was a child", told in The Awakening of Faith (nid 1505)
Show all 29 claims
  1. 1905 stated
    Source No Other Foundation ¶11"in the year 1905", told in No Other Foundation 2 (nid 4393)
  2. 19 February 1905 stated · probable
    Source Margaret Ruth Broome Neville Goddard The Man Who Knew He Was GodBroome, The Man Who Knew He Was God
    Why The source also calls him the fourth son.
    Reasoning Broome's retrospective explicitly gives Neville's birth as February 19, 1905; the source is a remembered biography rather than a civil record.
  3. 19 February 1905 stated · probable
    Source Goddards Homes West Hollywood New Yorkresidence/life-event table and genealogy section
    Why Sunnyside, Fontabelle, St. Michael, Barbados.
    Reasoning The research chronology states Neville's birth date and family home; its introductory caveat warrants probable confidence.
  4. 19 February 1905 stated
    Source Goddards Wives Children Research Notesbirth and baptism research section
    Why Parents Joseph Nathaniel Goddard and Wilhelmina Ellis Hinkson.
    Reasoning The page states the date from a birth record and repeats it in the marriage certificate summary.
  5. 19 February 1905 stated
    Source Prophecy Astrology Chart They Will Tell Work That DidThe Divine Body excerpt reports Neville's mother's account: 9:15 Sunday night, 19 February 1905
    Why Church bells were ringing when his mother felt labor.
    Reasoning The timestamp is explicitly stated in the reproduced first-person account and is unrelated to page chrome.
  6. 19 February 1905 stated · probable
    Source Goddards Military RecordsCWB transcription of Army service statement
    Why The document's Bridgetown wording is retained as evidence without overwriting the corpus's St. Michael title.
    Reasoning The page transcribes an official military statement giving Neville L. Goddard's birth as Bridgetown, British West Indies, February 19, 1905; the page itself is a secondary transcription.
  7. 19 February 1905 stated
    Source Broome identifies Neville as born 19 February 1905
    Why Fourth son in a family of nine boys and one girl.
    Reasoning The biographical passage states the exact date and family position directly.
  8. 19 February 1905 stated · probable
    Source phase-2 canonical event (fingerprint references)
  9. 1905 stated
    Source The Most Precious Gift ¶5"in the year 1905", told in The Most Precious Gift (nid 1028)
  10. 1905 stated
    Source The Divine Body ¶41"when I was born in 1905", told in The Divine Body (nid 1036)
  11. 1905 stated
    Source The Lord's Anointed ¶10"in this century in the year 1905", told in The Lord's Anointed (nid 1072)
  12. 1905 stated
    Source The Tree of Life ¶5"a little time slot called 1905", told in The Tree of Life (nid 1429)
  13. 1905 stated
    Source The Riddle ¶9"in 1905", told in The Riddle (nid 1923)
  14. 1905 stated
    Source Nothing But God ¶25"the year 1905", told in Nothing But God (nid 2149)
  15. 1905 stated · probable
    Source derived from the event's own title: "Neville Goddard born in 1905"
    Reasoning The event held NO date claim of any kind; its own title states 1905 (year precision, parsed as "year only"). ⚠ A title in this corpus is a DERIVED artefact — an earlier pass wrote it from the passage text — so this claim is title-derived and is marked as such rather than cited as a source document; the underlying text remains the real evidence and would supersede it. Confidence `probable`, never `certain`, for that reason. Precision is never inflated beyond the title's own wording. CALIBRATION (run v1.1/l1.4/titledate, against the 489 events that already hold an independent preferred date): day 96.1%, month 94.1% agreement. Titles naming a REFERENCE event rather than the event itself ("before", "after", "during the week of", "per ... lecture") are refused outright and never reach this write — reading an anchor as the date is the same laundering phase3b committed when it wrote telling dates onto events.
  16. 1905 stated
    Source I AM the Reality Called Imagination ¶29
    Reasoning Passage 549279 states directly, in a plain autobiographical aside dating his 1933 Barbados voyage, that he was born in 1905, adding that this tells you his age. No relative arithmetic and no dependence on any lecture delivery date is involved since the passage names the year itself directly, so this is a witnessed statement, not a derived one; the weakest link is only that the passage gives no month or day, which is why precision stops at year. This upgrades the event's existing title-derived claim (probable) to a witnessed certain claim.
  17. 1905 stated
    Source "born in the year 1905", told in Spiritual Sensation (nid 2042)
  18. before 1969 bound · possible
    Source The State of Paul: The Free Man ¶41qualifying source passages 544613; telling lecture nids 1795
    Reasoning Qualifying passage ids [544613] belong to telling lecture nids [1795]. Each listed lecture contributes the selected safe envelope year 1969 (MAX of its non-refuted delivery years); 1969 is the MIN across telling lectures.
  19. before 13 October 1969 bound
    Source The State of Paul: The Free Mantelling lecture nid 1795, certain delivery 1969-10-13
    Why Tightens the phase4 L6a envelope from before 1969 to before 1969-10-13.
    Reasoning L6a envelope tightened to the telling day of nid 1795 (certain delivery 1969-10-13); same premise, finer precision. The phase4 L6a bound on this event is `before 1969`, an envelope over delivery YEARS computed without reading text. Its premise is that the fact is true by the time it is told; on that same premise the DAY of the telling is a strictly better upper bound. Nothing is re-decided — the bound is stated to the precision the evidence always supported. The delivery claim for 1969-10-13 on nid 1795 is held at `certain` by the corpus, which is what carries this claim. #2274; the L6a row stands beside this one.
  20. 19 February 1905 estimated
    Source The State of Paul: The Free Man ¶41
    Why M7 dating pass (529; 525's readers, packet 026)
    Reasoning Passage 544613: 'it was born from the womb of a woman, my mother'. His birth is recorded as 19 February 1905 in Barbados (950, and he gives it in the frame).
  21. 4 May 1965 stated · refuted
    Source The Witness of the Spirit ¶42"today", told in The Witness of the Spirit (nid 1203)
    Why pm-actor-525: refuted by the M7 dating pass (529; 525's readers, packet 002): Passage 532958 states no birth year; '1965-05-04' is node 1203's telling date, mistakenly recorded as if it were a birth-date claim.
Place
Barbados
Persons
Neville Goddard
Trujillo
Columbus
Joseph "Joe" Goddard (Neville's father)
Wilhelmina Goddard
David
Told / reported
  1. 4 May 1965 stated
    Source The Witness of the SpiritThe Witness of the Spirit (nid 1203), telling 1203-7, told 1965-05-04
  2. 10 November 1967 stated
    Source The Most Practical, Yet Most Profoundly SpiritualThe Most Practical, Yet Most Profoundly Spiritual (nid 1303), telling 1303-8, told 1967-11-10
  3. 28 November 1969 stated
    Source The Awakening of Faith (nid 1505), telling 1505-0, told 1969-11-28
  4. 16 February 1968 estimated
    Source Infinite Powernid 1329 surviving delivery claim after refutation. All claims: 1968-2-16 certain; 1969-9-18 refuted; 1968-2-16 certain (preferred)
    Why Lane L7 (#2354) re-derivation. Supersedes in substance, not in storage, the refuted-date told claim(s) on this event; those rows stand per append-only.
    Reasoning Re-derived, not walked down. The existing told claim(s) on this event took their date from a delivery claim on node 1329 that the corpus has since REFUTED, so the corpus was asserting that Neville told this on a day it separately says he did not lecture. That is a contradiction rather than an over-confidence, and lowering the confidence would have hidden it instead of resolving it. The refutation stands and the told claim is the wrong side of it. Node 1329 surviving (non-refuted) claim: 1968-2-16 at `certain`. All claims on the node: 1968-2-16 certain; 1969-9-18 refuted; 1968-2-16 certain (preferred). Superseded here: delta 2: 1969-09-18 at `certain` (run `corpus v1 / phase3b`). The telling is dated by its lecture, so with the refuted date removed from consideration the surviving claim is what the telling inherits, at that claim own confidence and no higher.
  5. 13 March 1953 stated
    Source Catch the MoodCatch the Mood (nid 1001), telling 1001-1, told 1953-03-13
  6. 7 October 1968 stated
    Source The Most Precious GiftThe Most Precious Gift (nid 1028), telling 1028-0, told 1968-10-07
  7. 26 April 1963 stated
    Source Life Has a PurposeLife Has a Purpose (nid 1101), telling 1101-0, told 1963-04-26
  8. 2 November 1965 stated
    Source Life Is a RaceLife Is a Race (nid 1217), telling 1217-11, told 1965-11-02
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  1. 21 March 1969 stated
    Source The Tree of LifeThe Tree of Life (nid 1429), telling 1429-2, told 1969-03-21
  2. 1971 stated · probable
    Source Nothing But GodNothing But God (nid 2149), telling 2149-4, told 1971
  3. 1970 estimated
    Source The Divine Bodynid 1036 surviving delivery claim after refutation. All claims: 1957-??-?? refuted; 1968-5-10 refuted; 1970-??-?? certain (preferred)
    Why Lane L7 (#2354) re-derivation. Supersedes in substance, not in storage, the refuted-date told claim(s) on this event; those rows stand per append-only.
    Reasoning Re-derived, not walked down. The existing told claim(s) on this event took their date from a delivery claim on node 1036 that the corpus has since REFUTED, so the corpus was asserting that Neville told this on a day it separately says he did not lecture. That is a contradiction rather than an over-confidence, and lowering the confidence would have hidden it instead of resolving it. The refutation stands and the told claim is the wrong side of it. Node 1036 surviving (non-refuted) claim: 1970-??-?? at `certain`. All claims on the node: 1957-??-?? refuted; 1968-5-10 refuted; 1970-??-?? certain (preferred). Superseded here: delta 3: 1968-05-10 at `certain` (run `corpus v1 / phase3b`). The telling is dated by its lecture, so with the refuted date removed from consideration the surviving claim is what the telling inherits, at that claim own confidence and no higher.
  4. 11 November 1966 estimated · probable
    Source Take My Yokenid 1256 surviving delivery claim after refutation. All claims: 1967-1-24 refuted; 1966-11-11 probable (preferred)
    Why Lane L7 (#2354) re-derivation. Supersedes in substance, not in storage, the refuted-date told claim(s) on this event; those rows stand per append-only.
    Reasoning Re-derived, not walked down. The existing told claim(s) on this event took their date from a delivery claim on node 1256 that the corpus has since REFUTED, so the corpus was asserting that Neville told this on a day it separately says he did not lecture. That is a contradiction rather than an over-confidence, and lowering the confidence would have hidden it instead of resolving it. The refutation stands and the told claim is the wrong side of it. Node 1256 surviving (non-refuted) claim: 1966-11-11 at `probable`. All claims on the node: 1967-1-24 refuted; 1966-11-11 probable (preferred). Superseded here: delta 7: 1967-01-24 at `certain` (run `corpus v1 / phase3b`) | delta 13: 1967-01-24 at `probable` (run `v1.1/l4/ceiling/c2`). The telling is dated by its lecture, so with the refuted date removed from consideration the surviving claim is what the telling inherits, at that claim own confidence and no higher.
  5. 23 February 1948 estimated
    Source Thinking Fourth-Dimensionallynid 989 surviving delivery claim after refutation. All claims: 1948-2-23 certain; 1964-2-3 refuted; 1948-??-?? certain (preferred)
    Why Lane L7 (#2354) re-derivation. Supersedes in substance, not in storage, the refuted-date told claim(s) on this event; those rows stand per append-only.
    Reasoning Re-derived, not walked down. The existing told claim(s) on this event took their date from a delivery claim on node 989 that the corpus has since REFUTED, so the corpus was asserting that Neville told this on a day it separately says he did not lecture. That is a contradiction rather than an over-confidence, and lowering the confidence would have hidden it instead of resolving it. The refutation stands and the told claim is the wrong side of it. Node 989 surviving (non-refuted) claim: 1948-2-23 at `certain`. All claims on the node: 1948-2-23 certain; 1964-2-3 refuted; 1948-??-?? certain (preferred). Superseded here: delta 11: 1964-02-03 at `certain` (run `corpus v1 / phase3b`). The telling is dated by its lecture, so with the refuted date removed from consideration the surviving claim is what the telling inherits, at that claim own confidence and no higher.
  6. 16 May 1969 estimated · probable
    Source The Lord's Anointednid 1072 surviving delivery claim after refutation. All claims: 1960-??-?? refuted; 1969-5-16 probable (preferred)
    Why Lane L7 (#2354) re-derivation. Supersedes in substance, not in storage, the refuted-date told claim(s) on this event; those rows stand per append-only.
    Reasoning Re-derived, not walked down. The existing told claim(s) on this event took their date from a delivery claim on node 1072 that the corpus has since REFUTED, so the corpus was asserting that Neville told this on a day it separately says he did not lecture. That is a contradiction rather than an over-confidence, and lowering the confidence would have hidden it instead of resolving it. The refutation stands and the told claim is the wrong side of it. Node 1072 surviving (non-refuted) claim: 1969-5-16 at `probable`. All claims on the node: 1960-??-?? refuted; 1969-5-16 probable (preferred). Superseded here: delta 4: 1960-00-00 at `certain` (run `corpus v1 / phase3b`) | delta 12: 1960-00-00 at `probable` (run `v1.1/l4/ceiling/c2`). The telling is dated by its lecture, so with the refuted date removed from consideration the surviving claim is what the telling inherits, at that claim own confidence and no higher.
  7. 14 April 1969 estimated
    Source Man Soul Body Emanationdelivery claims [d0] and [d1] on lecture nid 1838 agree at 1969-04-14
    Reasoning Lecture nid 1838 has two delivery claims that AGREE: [d0] legacy catalog #791 (1969-04-14, certain) and [d1] a chrome-dateline harvest independently confirming the same date from the transcript's own opening dateline '4/14/69', explicitly written at certain because it corroborates the catalog claim. No conflict to resolve.
  8. 16 May 1969 stated
    Source Spiritual Sensation (nid 2042), telling 2042-0, told 1969-05-16
  9. 13 October 1969 stated
    Source The State of Paul: The Free ManThe State of Paul: The Free Man (nid 1795), telling 1795-3, told 1969-10-13
  10. 18 September 1969 stated · refuted
    Source Infinite PowerInfinite Power (nid 1329), telling 1329-5, told 1969-09-18
    Reasoning || v1.1/l7/told-close: the delivery claim this was derived from (nid 1329, 1969-9-18) was refuted by the L7 adjudication (#2363). The corrected told claim from the same lecture stands at 1968-2-16. This row is retired rather than deleted so the derivation history remains readable.
  11. 30 January 1969 stated · refuted
    Source The One Greater Than JohnThe One Greater Than John (nid 1033), telling 1033-0, told 1969-01-30
  12. 10 May 1968 stated · refuted
    Source The Divine BodyThe Divine Body (nid 1036), telling 1036-9, told 1968-05-10
    Reasoning || v1.1/l7/told-close: the delivery claim this was derived from (nid 1036, 1968-5-10) was refuted by the L7 adjudication (#2363). The corrected told claim from the same lecture stands at 1970-?-?. This row is retired rather than deleted so the derivation history remains readable.
  13. 1960 stated · refuted
    Source The Lord's AnointedThe Lord's Anointed (nid 1072), telling 1072-0, told 1960
    Reasoning || v1.1/l7/told-close: the delivery claim this was derived from (nid 1072, 1960--) was refuted by the L7 adjudication (#2363). The corrected told claim from the same lecture stands at 1969-5-16. This row is retired rather than deleted so the derivation history remains readable.
  14. 24 January 1967 stated · refuted
    Source Take My YokeTake My Yoke (nid 1256), telling 1256-3, told 1967-01-24
    Reasoning || v1.1/l7/told-close: the delivery claim this was derived from (nid 1256, 1967-1-24) was refuted by the L7 adjudication (#2363). The corrected told claim from the same lecture stands at 1966-11-11. This row is retired rather than deleted so the derivation history remains readable.
  15. 3 February 1964 stated · refuted
    Source Thinking Fourth-DimensionallyThinking Fourth-Dimensionally (nid 989), telling 989-0, told 1964-02-03
    Reasoning || v1.1/l7/told-close: the delivery claim this was derived from (nid 989, 1964-2-3) was refuted by the L7 adjudication (#2363). The corrected told claim from the same lecture stands at 1948-2-23. This row is retired rather than deleted so the derivation history remains readable.
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Neville Goddard's Family – Photo Gallery and Newspaper Clippings — Cool Wisdom Books — 26
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