Mary Robinson, 15971655 (aged 58 years)

Name
Mary /Robinson/
Given names
Mary
Surname
Robinson
Married name
Mary /Birchard/
Birth 1597 39 35
MarriageThomas BirchardView this family
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Death of a motherElizabeth Orvice
December 11, 1611 (aged 14 years)
Death of a paternal grandmotherAnne Withers
October 20, 1614 (aged 17 years)
Birth of a daughterSarah Birchard
August 22, 1624 (aged 27 years)
Death of a fatherRev Henry Robinson
November 6, 1625 (aged 28 years)
Birth of a granddaughterMary Barnard
1648 (aged 51 years)
Death March 24, 1655 (aged 58 years)
Family with parents
father
15571625
Birth: April 4, 1557 34 33London, England
Death: November 6, 1625Fairsted, Essex, England
mother
15611611
Birth: November 23, 1561 26 22Terling, Essex, England
Death: December 11, 1611Fairstead, Essex, England
Marriage Marriage
herself
15971655
Birth: 1597 39 35Fairsted, Essex, England
Death: March 24, 1655Roxbury, Suffolk, Massachusetts Bay Colony
Family with Thomas Birchard
husband
15951683
Birth: 1595 26 21Fairsted, Essex, England
Death: 1683Norwich, New London, Connecticut
herself
15971655
Birth: 1597 39 35Fairsted, Essex, England
Death: March 24, 1655Roxbury, Suffolk, Massachusetts Bay Colony
Marriage Marriage
daughter
16241698
Birth: August 22, 1624 29 27Terling, Essex, England
Death: 1698Hartford, Hartford, Connecticut
Note

Biography Mary Robinson was born 18 Mar 1596/7, and baptized on the 27th at Fairsted by her father, the rector of Fairsted. Mary was the daughter of the Rev. Henry and Elizabeth (Orvice) Robinson. She was the grranddaughter of Rev. John Orvyce rector of Terling.[1]

She married Thomas Birchard at Fairsted on 23 Oct 1620.[1]

Good wife Birchard died 1m.24d.1654/5 {24 March 1655}[2] Would John Eliot have made a note of this some 15 years after the couple had left?

“THEIS vnder-written names are to be transported to New-England imbarqued in the Truelove Jo: GIBBS Mr. the Men have taken the oaths of Alleg: & Suprem.:: Labouring man. Thomas Burchard .... 40; Mary Burchard 38; Elizabeth Burchard 13; Marie Burchard 12 ; Sara Burchard 9; Suzan Burchard 8; Jo: Burchard 7; Ann Burchard 18 mo. “ xix Sept: 1635[3]

She and Thomas were on an annotated list of members of the Congregational Church in Roxbury. The list was kept by John Eliot.[2]

Mary and Thomas had eight children christened at Terling. [1]

Elizabeth bapt 1 Nov 1621; age 13 in 1635 Mary bapt 2 Apr 1623; age 12 in 1635. Perhaps the wife of Jonathan Rudd Sara bapt 22 Aug 1624; age 9 in 1635; m. at Hartford, Conn., 25 Oct 1647 Bartholomew Barnard Susanna bapt 26 June 1626; age 8 in 1635; almost certainly Susanna wife of Robert Wade John bapt 31 Jan 1627/8; age 7 in 1635; m 1) Christian Andrews; 2) Jane (Lee) Hyde. Thomas bapt 24 Sep 1629 bur 19 feb 1631/2 Deborah, bapt 18 April 1632, bur 6 April 1633 Hannah, bapt 17 Oct 1633; called Ann age 18 mos in 1635; m 12 April 1653 John Baldwin.