Mary [--?--], Wife of William Brewster

Abt 1569 - 1627  (~ 58 years)

• Name	Mary [--?--]
  Suffix	Wife of William Brewster
  Born	Abt 1569	Scrooby, Nottinghamshire, England
  Gender	Female
  FamilySearch ID	LH5W-4T5
  	https://www.familysearch.org/tree/person/details/LH5W-4T5
  FindaGrave Memorial ID	34836091
  	https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/34836091
  Group	Descendant of Mayflower Passenger
  	Passenger or Descendant of the Mayflower
  Group	Immigrant Ancestors
  	Immigrant Ancestors of New England Halls
  Group	Mayflower - William Brewster
  	Descendant of William Brewster of the Mayflower
  Group	Mayflower Passenger
  	Passenger on the 1620 sailing of the Mayflower - Founder of the Plymouth Colony
  Died	17 Apr 1627	Plymouth, Plymouth Colony
  Person ID	I8388	New England Hall Families Master Tree
  Last Modified	31 May 2020

  
  

  Family	Elder William Brewster, of the Mayflower,   b. Abt Jan 1564, Scrooby, Nottinghamshire, England ,   d. 10 Apr 1644, Plymouth, Plymouth Colony  (Age ~ 80 years)
  Married	Bef 1593
  Children	1. Jonathan Brewster,   b. 12 Aug 1593, Scrooby, Nottinghamshire, England ,   d. 7 Aug 1659, New London, New London County, Connecticut  (Age 65 years)   2. Patience Brewster,   b. 1600, Scrooby, Nottinghamshire, England ,   d. 12 Dec 1634, Plymouth, Plymouth Colony  (Age 34 years)   3. Love Brewster, of the Mayflower,   b. 15 May 1611, Leiden, ____, Zuid-Holland, Netherlands ,   d. 31 Jan 1650/51, Duxbury, Plymouth Colony  (Age 39 years)
  Last Modified	17 Oct 2017
  Family ID	F2950	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

• Event Map

  Born - Abt 1569 - Scrooby, Nottinghamshire, England Died - 17 Apr 1627 - Plymouth, Plymouth Colony  = Link to Google Earth

  
  

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• Notes

  From FindaGrave: Pilgrim Elder William Brewster married by 1593 Mary _____, and she & two of their sons accompanied him on the MAYFLOWER. She died at Plymouth 17 April 1627. They had 6 children: Jonathan, Patience Prence, Fear Allerton, Love, a child buried at St. Pancras in Leiden, & Wrestling. The quest for the identity of Mary, the wife of William Brewster, has attracted the attention of many genealogists, but as yet without a definitive result. For some time she had been thought to be Mary Wentworth, daughter of Thomas Wentworth of Scrooby, and in 1965 John G. Hunt presented his case in favor of this identity, but this claim was rejected by Rubincam and others, and Hunt himself has now given up this position. He has, however, published a pamphlet claiming that she was a certain Mary Wyrrall, based on the appearance in a will of a bequest to "Mary Butho," which Hunt took to be a variant of Brewster resulting from a speech defect in the person dictating the will [John G. Hunt, Of Mary Brewster: The Identity of Mary, Wife of Elder William BREWSTER of the Mayflower Voyage of 1620 from Plymouth, England, to New Plymouth, New England. Eugene A. Stratton reviewed this volume negatively in 1985, to which Hunt responded with a supplement to his pamphlet. The maiden surname of Mary, wife of Elder Brewster, remains unknown. (Hunt has published other articles on various aspects of William Brewster's life which, as with all of Hunt's work, need to be used with caution: "`Master Williamson' of the Mayflower;" "The Mother of Elder William Brewster of the Mayflower;" "Mary Stubbe - A Connection of Elder William Brewster?") A number of other children have been proposed for William Brewster. Jacobus in 1936 disposed of the claimed connections between William Brewster of Plymouth and Francis Brewster of New Haven and his son Nathaniel. Mary Walton Ferris proposes a son Edward. Source: Anderson's Pilgrim Migration.