Mary (Bitfield) Plumer (abt. 1627 - abt. 1701)

Born about 1627 in Bristol, England [uncertain]

Ancestors

Wife of Samuel Plummer — married before 1647 in Newbury, Essex, Massachusetts Bay Colony

Descendants

Died about 1701 at about age 74 in Newbury, Essex, Province of Massachusetts Bay [uncertain]

Problems/Questions Profile managers: Jeffrey Swett [send private message], Loren Fay [send private message], and John Roberts [send private message]

Biography

This is the profile for Mary Bitfield, the daughter of Samuel Bitfield.

Parentage; Date and Place of Birth

John Plummer's 1992 article entitled "English Origin of Samuel Bitfield" in The American Genealogist statee that Mary's mother was Samuel's unidentified first wife and estimated that Mary's date of birth was "say 1626".^[1] Subsequent research has, however, discovered records that establish the identity of her mother and suggest a later date of birth.

Elizabeth's mother was very probably Margery Offlett, who married Samuel Bitfield May 1626 at St. Werburgh, Bristol^[2] and was buried at at St. Thomas, Bristol on 1 April 1632.^[3]

While no baptism record has yet been found for Mary, her sister Elizabeth was very probably the Elizabeth Bidfield, daughter of Samuel Bidfield, who was baptized on 21 March 1628/9 at St. Thomas, Bristol, England.^[4] Since Mary's parents were married in May 1626, (2) her sister Elizabeth was baptized in March 1628/9, and (3) the fact that her family is mentioned before Elizabeth's in her father's will,^[1] suggesting the Mary was born before Elizabeth, Mary was probably born about 1627. Since the records indicate that her family was probably living in Bristol at the time, Mary was probably born there.

Death

"Mrs. [Mary] Plumer died in 1701, and Mr. [Samuel] Plumer died in the summer of the following year, at the age of eighty-three."^[5] These deaths are not recorded in the Newbury Vital Records, nor on Findagrave.com, however Samuel's will & probate file is extant and agrees with his death in 1702. His wife's death perhaps needs to be substantiated beyond Perley's genealogy.

Sources

1. ↑ ^{1.0 1.1} Plummer, John, "English Origin of Samuel Bitfield." The American Genealogist. Vol 67 (1992), pp 236-42, AmericanAncestors (by subscription).
2. ↑ "Bristol, England, Church of England Baptisms, Marriages and Burials, 1538-1812". Bristol Archives; Bristol, England; Bristol Church of England Parish Registers; Reference: P/St W/R/1. Ancestry Sharing Link - Ancestry Record 61666 #1643139 (accessed 3 April 2023).
3. ↑ "Bristol, England, Church of England Baptisms, Marriages and Burials, 1538-1812". Bristol Archives; Bristol, England; Bristol Church of England Parish Registers; Reference: P/St T/R/1/a. Ancestry Sharing Link - Ancestry Record 61666 #1615734 (accessed 22 October 2023).
4. ↑ "Bristol, England, Church of England Baptisms, Marriages and Burials, 1538-1812". Bristol Archives; Bristol, England; Bristol Church of England Parish Registers; Reference: P/St T/R/1/a. Ancestry Sharing Link - Ancestry Record 61666 #16610610 (accessed 22 October 2023).
5. ↑ Essex Institute Historical Collections, Vol. 50(1914):39 "The Plumer Genealogy," Sidney Perley.

See also:

• Marriage info, death date of 1701: Torrey's New England Marriages Prior to 1700, (Online database. AmericanAncestors.org. New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2008.) Originally published as: New England Marriages Prior to 1700. Boston, Mass.: New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2015. Reference Volume 2, page 1206
• Source S-869848842: Family Data Collection - Individual Records, Edmund West, comp., Online publication - Provo, UT, USA: The Generations Network, Inc., 2000. Ancestry.com.