Goddard family moves to Los Angeles

In 1955 Neville, having decided his major work was to be in Los Angeles, packed up his wife and daughter and moved the Goddard family there.

Adjudication: Rows 0-1 corroborate the same 1955 move to Los Angeles (row 0 from a fuller biographical account is preferred); rows 2-3, however, describe genuinely different subsequent events (a 1956 return to New York, then a 1957 return to Los Angeles) that form a real back-and-forth itinerary rather than competing versions of one move. The group conflates a true year-dispute (rows 0-1, resolved) with a separate multi-event timeline (rows 2-3) that should be split out.
Place: Los Angeles, CA
Person: Neville Goddard
Ruling: accepted (all claims kept), Rudi 2026-07-23

Neville had hoped to move to San Francisco but concluded that his major work was to be done in Los Angeles.

Date (happened)
1955
unresolved
  1. 1955 stated · preferred
    Source Margaret Ruth Broome Neville Goddard The Man Who Knew He Was God ¶15"the Goddard family moved to Los Angeles in 1955"
  2. 1956 stated · possible
    Source Margaret Ruth Broome Neville Goddard The Man Who Knew He Was God ¶15"They returned to New York in the fall of 1956"
  3. 1957 stated · possible
  4. 1955 stated · probable
    Source Goddards Homes West Hollywood New YorkGoing West chronology
    Why With Catherine and Victoria.
    Reasoning The source states the family moved to Los Angeles in 1955 but gives no month or day.
  5. 1955 stated · possible
    Source Margaret Ruth Broome Neville Goddard The Man Who Knew He Was GodBroome, The Man Who Knew He Was God
    Why No month is stated.
    Reasoning Broome says the Goddard family moved to Los Angeles in 1955; this remembered chronology is retained as possible because the corpus also contains a conflicting 1945 relocation title.
  6. 1955 stated · possible
    Source Broome says the family moved to Los Angeles in 1955
    Reasoning The date is directly stated in Broome's retrospective chronology and retained at possible confidence alongside other evidence.
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