Mary (Bourchier) Whitaker (abt. 1596 - aft. 1626)

Born about 1596 in Lambeth, Surrey, England

Ancestors

Wife of Jabez Whitaker — married 16 Jul 1619 in Lamb's Chapel, Monkwell Street, London

Descendants

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Biography

Mary Bourchier^[1][2]

Mary was the daughter of John Bourchier, Knt., of Hanging Grimston, Yorkshire and Lambeth Marsh, Surrey, by Elizabeth, daughter of George Verney, Esq.^[3] She married Jabez Whitaker on 16 July 1619 at Lamb's Chapel, Monkwell Street, London.^[4][5] They had one son, William.^[6] Jabez immigrated to Virginia by 1620 and settled in Elizabeth City County.^[6]

In 1622 Mary must have been in Virginia as that summer her father sought permission for her husband to come to England, leaving his wife and child in Virginia, in order to acquire "necessaries" but not staying long in England.^[7]

Mary was living 5 April 1626 when she was granted the administration of her father's estate within a few weeks of his death.^[6][8] Her father had died intestate. The speed with which she secured the administration suggests that she may have been in London rather than Virginia at the time. The administration was clearly contested: in August 1627 letters of administration were issued to a servant of her father's, who was suing a lawyer over the handling of some Yorkshire lands of her father; in 1635 one of her brothers took over the administration.^[9]

Research Notes

Name: Bourchier in most references. Spelt Bouchier in Boyd’s Marriage Index, but this may be a misreading of the handwriting in her parish register marriage entry.^[5]

Estimated Birth Year: "About 1596", based on parents' marriage "by 1593",^[9] husband's birth 5 December 1595,^[10] and marriage in 1619.^[4]

Death: Douglas Richardson does not give a death date for Mary. She was obviously alive in 1626 when she was granted the administration of her father's estate. She was likely to have been alive in 1635 when her brother Verney took over the administration. Her husband moved to Barbados (see his profile), and it is possible she died there. Trees on the internet postulate a death date of 1666, place Jamestown, Virginia, but do not give any source for this.

Sources

1. ↑ Douglas Richardson. Magna Carta Ancestry: A Study in Colonial and Medieval Families, 4 vols, ed. Kimball G. Everingham, 2nd edition (Salt Lake City: the author, 2011), volume I, pages 276-291 BOURCHIER.
2. ↑ Douglas Richardson. Royal Ancestry: A Study in Colonial and Medieval Families, 5 vols, ed. Kimball G. Everingham (Salt Lake City: the author, 2013), volume I, pages 479-492 BOURCHIER.
3. ↑ Richardson. Magna Carta Ancestry, I:290-291 BOURCHIER 15.
4. ↑ ^{4.0 4.1} Parish register of Lamb's Chapel, London.
5. ↑ ^{5.0 5.1} Boyd's marriage index, 1538-1850, in the collection of the Society of Genealogists, London, transcript viewable at FindMyPast.
6. ↑ ^{6.0 6.1 6.2} Richardson, Magna Carta Ancestry, IV:332 WHITAKER 14.i.
7. ↑ Records of the Virginia Company, Vol. II p. 50
8. ↑ Susan Myra Kingsbury (ed.), Records of the Virginia Company, Government Printing Office, Washington, 1906-35, vol. I p.370, cited in Frederick Lewis Weis, The Magna Carta Sureties, 1215, 5th edition, Genealogical Publishing Company 1999, page 90.
9. ↑ ^{9.0 9.1} History of Parliament Online: Sir John Bourchier (accessed 11 April 2019).
10. ↑ Richardson, Royal Ancestry, V:360 WHITAKER 18.i.

• Richardson, Douglas. Royal Ancestry: A Study in Colonial and Medieval Families, 5 vols, ed. Kimball G. Everingham. Salt Lake City: the author, 2013. See also WikiTree's source page for Royal Ancestry.
• Richardson, Douglas. Magna Carta Ancestry: A Study in Colonial and Medieval Families, 4 vols, ed. Kimball G. Everingham. 2nd edition. Salt Lake City: the author, 2011. See also WikiTree's source page for Magna Carta Ancestry.

See also:

• Entry for John Bourchier, "Tudor Place" database (accessed 11 April 2019). Note: Not a recommended source; see the Magna Carta Project's Reliable Sources page.

Acknowledgments

Magna Carta Project

This profile was reviewed/approved for the Magna Carta Project 11 April 2019 by Liz Shifflett.

Mary (Bourchier) Whitaker is listed in Magna Carta Ancestry as a Gateway Ancestor (vol. I, pages xxiii-xxix), in a Richardson-documented trail to Magna Carta Surety Baron Henry de Bohun (vol. I, pages 277-291 BOURCHIER). This profile was developed in accordance with project standards by Michael Cayley in April 2019 and was badged 5 July 2019 by Noland-165. The Bohun trail connected this Gateway to previously-badged trails to other surety barons, including John de Lacy, Saher de Quincy, Gilbert de Clare, Richard de Clare, Robert de Vere, Hugh le Bigod and Roger le Bigod. All these trails are set out below.

See Base Camp for more information about identified Magna Carta trails and their status. See the project's glossary for project-specific terms, such as a "badged trail".

Magna Carta Trails

Badged Richardson-documented trail to Bohun (MCA I:277-291 BOURCHIER):

Gateway Ancestor Mary Bourchier (badged 2019)

1. Mary is the daughter of John Bourchier (badged 2019)

2. John is the son of Ralph Bourchier (badged 2019)

3. Ralph is the son of James Bourchier (badged/100% 5-star)

4. James is the son of John Bourchier (badged/100% 5-star)

5. John is the son of Humphrey Bourchier (badged/100% 5-star)

6. Humphrey is the son of John Bourchier (badged/100% 5-star)

7. John is the son of Anne of Gloucester (badged/100% 5-star)

8. Anne is the daughter of Eleanor de Bohun (badged/100% 5-star)

9. Eleanor is the daughter of Humphrey de Bohun (badged/100% 5-star)

10. Humphrey is the son of William de Bohun (badged/100% 5-star)

11. William is the son of Humphrey de Bohun (badged/100% 5-star)

12. Humphrey is the son of Humphrey de Bohun (badged/100% 5-star)

13. Humphrey is the son of Humphrey de Bohun (badged/100% 5-star)

14. Humphrey is the son of Humphrey de Bohun (badged/100% 5-star)

15. Humphrey is the son of Magna Carta Surety Baron Henry de Bohun

Badged trails to Lacy, Quincy (x2), the Clares, Vere, and the Bigods:

10. Humphrey de Bohun is the son of Elizabeth de Badlesmere (badged/100% 5-star)

11. Elizabeth is the daughter of Margaret de Clare (badged/100% 5-star)

12. Margaret is the daughter of Thomas de Clare (badged/100% 5-star)

13. Thomas is the son of Maud de Lacy (badged/100% 5-star)

14. Maud is the daughter of Magna Carta Surety John de Lacy

14. Maud de Lacy is the daughter of Margaret de Quincy (badged/100% 5-star)

15. Margaret is the daughter of Robert de Quincy (badged/100% 5-star)

16. Robert is the son of Magna Carta Surety Saher de Quincy

13. Thomas de Clare is the son of Richard de Clare (badged/100% 5-star)

14. Richard is the son of Magna Carta Surety Gilbert de Clare

15. Gilbert is the son of Magna Carta Surety Richard de Clare

9. Eleanor de Bohun is the daughter of Joan FitzAlan (badged/100% 5-star)

10. Joan is the daughter of Richard FitzAlan (badged/100% 5-star)

11. Richard is the son of Alice de Warenne (badged/100% 5-star)

12. Alice is the daughter of Joan de Vere (badged/100% 5-star)

13. Joan is the daughter of Robert de Vere (badged/100% 5-star)

14. Robert is the son of Hugh de Vere (badged/100% 5-star)

15. Hugh is the son of Magna Carta Surety Robert de Vere

14. Robert de Vere is the son of Hawise de Quincy (badged/100% 5-star)

15. Hawise is the daughter of Magna Carta Surety Saher de Quincy

10. Joan FitzAlan is the daughter of Eleanor Plantagenet (badged/100% 5-star)

11. Eleanor is the daughter of Maud Chaworth (badged/100% 5-star)

12. Maud is the daughter of Isabel de Beauchamp (badged/100% 5-star)

13. Isabel is the daughter of Maud FitzJohn (badged/100% 5-star)

14. Maud is the daughter of Isabel Bigod (badged/100% 5-star)

15. Isabel is the daughter of Magna Carta Surety Hugh le Bigod

16. Hugh is the son of Magna Carta Surety Roger le Bigod