Mary brewster biography
Mary brewster biography
Margaret higgins sanger.
BIRTH: About 1569, probably in Yorkshire or Nottinghamshire.
MARRIAGE: William Brewster, by about 1592, probably in the vicinity of Scrooby, co.
Nottingham.
CHILDREN: Jonathan, Patience, Fear, an unnamed child who died young, Love, and Wrestling.
DEATH: 17 April 1627 at Plymouth.
mtDNA HAPLOGROUP: I4a
The English origins of Mrs.
Mary Brewster are not known. A number of theories have been proposed over the years, including maiden names such as Wentworth, Love, Wyrall, and others.
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However, no proof to support any of these hypotheses has been found.
We know that Mary was born about 1569 because she stated she was 40 years old in an affidavit filed in Leiden, Holland on 25 June 1609. She was presumably from the vicinity of Doncaster, Yorkshire or Scrooby, Nottinghamshire, as she married William Brewster in that area about 1592 and had their first son Jonathan in Scrooby a year later.
She next had a daughter Patience, born about 1600 or somewhat ea