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Mary (Norris) Allerton (abt. 1590 - 1621)

Mary Allerton formerly Norris aka Norreys
Born about in Englandmap
Daughter of [father unknown] and [mother unknown]
[sibling(s) unknown]
Wife of — married 4 Nov 1611 (to 1621) in Leiden, Holland, Republiek der Zeven Verenigde Nederlandenmap
Descendants descendants
Mother of , , , and
Died at about age 31 in Plymouth, Plymouth Colonymap
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Biography

From Of Plimouth Plantation by William Bradford.

Mary Norris' date and place of birth and parents are currently unknown. Mary (Norris) Allerton is thought to have been about age thirty when she arrived in Plymouth Colony aboard the Mayflower with her husband and three children.[1] [2] [3] Her 1611 Leiden marriage record indicates she was from Newbury,[4] which is presumably Newbury, county Berkshire, England; however, searches of this area for her baptism record and other Norris family records have not yet turned up anything conclusive.[3]

Mary married Isaac Allerton of London in Leiden on 4 November 1611,[5] banns having been published on 8, 15 and 22 October 1611.[4] They apparently had a double marriage, with Isaac's sister, Sarah (Allerton) Vincent marrying Degory Priest on that same day, before the same officials.[6] Their banns had been published on the same days as well.[4]

The translation of the Dutch record in the image below is as follows:

Isaac Allerton, unmarried man, from London, in England, accompanied by Edward Southworth, Richard Masterson and Randall Thickins, his acquaintances, with Mary Norris, single woman, from Newbury, in England, accompanied by Anne Fuller and Dille [Priscilla?] Carpenter, her acquaintances. They were married before William Cornelison Tybault and Jacob Paedts, sheriffs, this 4th November, 1611.[2][4]
Marriage Ysaack Allerton and Marie Norris, 4 November 1611, Leiden[7]

Mary died on February 25, 1620/1,[2][5][8][9] during the first winter, when half of the Mayflower passengers died. Her husband and three children all survived. Isaac remarried twice more after Mary's death and had two more children, Sarah and Isaac.

Children:

  1. Bartholomew, born c. 1612/3 in Leiden[2][5] and died between Oct 1658 and Feb 1659.[3] He married first to Margaret ___, second to Sarah Fairfax.[3][5]
  2. Remember, born c. 1614/5 in Leiden[2][5] and died between 1652-1656.[3] She married Moses Maverick by May 1635.[3][5]
  3. Mary, born c. 1616/7 in Leiden[2][5] and died 28 November 1699,[3] the last of the Mayflower passengers to die.[5] She married Thomas Cushman c. 1636.[3][5]
  4. an unnamed child, buried at St. Peters, Leiden, on 5 February 1620.[2][3][5]
  5. a stillborn son, born in Plymouth Harbor aboard the Mayflower on 22 December 1620.[2][3][5]

Research Note

Profiles of parents John Norreys and Elizabeth Norreys were detached 31 Oct 2019 as there is no evidence connecting them.

DNA

mtDNA Results W5a2[10] The Mayflower DNA Project lists one matrilineal (all female line) descendant of Mary. It is presumed this individual has taken the full mtDNA test, which tests every single base pair of the mitochondrial DNA.[11] FTDNA has assigned this individual to the W5a2 mtDNA haplogroup. Today this rare lineage is present at trace frequencies in the populations of Norway, Scotland, Ireland, and Germany.[12] Given the locations this haplogroup is found, it is possible Mary's family may have lived near Scrooby and participated in the early Separatist Church at Scrooby Manor.

Sources

  1. ↑ Bradford, William. History of Plymouth Plantation (Massachusetts Historical Society, 1856) pp 448, 451
  2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 2.4 2.5 2.6 2.7 Wakefield, Robert S. and Margaret Harris Stover. Mayflower Families Through Five Generations. (Mayflower Families, 1988). Vol. 17: Isaac Allerton, pages 1-3.
  3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 3.3 3.4 3.5 3.6 3.7 3.8 3.9 Johnson, Caleb. Profile of Mary (Norris) Allerton at MayflowerHistory.com.
  4. ↑ 4.0 4.1 4.2 4.3 "The Mayflower Marriage Records at Leyden and Amsterdam," published in the Mayflower Descendant (Boston, MA: Massachusetts Society of Mayflower Descendants, 1899- ). Online database with subs. at AmericanAncestors.org, Vol. 7, 1905, pages 129-130.
  5. ↑ 5.00 5.01 5.02 5.03 5.04 5.05 5.06 5.07 5.08 5.09 5.10 Anderson, Robert Charles. The Great Migration Begins: Immigrants to New England, 1620-1633, (Boston: New England Historical and Genealogical Society, 1996-2011). Online with subsc. at AmericanAncestors.org, Vol. 1, pages 35-39.
  6. ↑ Wakefield, Robert S. and Margaret Harris Stover. Mayflower Families through Five Generations, Vol. 8, General Society of Mayflower Descendants, Plymouth, MA., 2nd Ed., 2008: Degory Priest. Online (page 1 only) at AmericanAncestors.org.
  7. ↑ Dutch record of marriage 4 Nov 1611 and Banns in Oct 1611 in Leiden. Inventarisnummer: 198 Folio: B-004. See Image, page 4 (7).
  8. ↑ The Plymouth Colony Archive Project, Mayflower Passenger Deaths, 1620-1621, from William Bradford's Register of Some of the First Deaths at Plymouth.
  9. ↑ Prince, Thomas. A chronological history of New-England in the form of annals : being a summary and exact account of the most material transactions and occurrences relating to this country, in the order of time wherein they happened, from the discovery by Capt. Gosnold in 1602, to the arrival of Governor Belcher, in 1730 : with an introduction, containing a brief epitome of ... events abroad, from the creation, including ... the gradual discoveries of America, and the progress of the Reformation to the discovery of New-England. (Boston : N.E., Printed by Kneeland & Green for S. Gerrish, 1736) p. 98
  10. ↑ MayflowerDNA.org wiki mtDNA profile for Mary Norris
  11. ↑ Due to the fact some mtDNA mutations are directly linked to health issues, Full mtDNA results are not revealed on any FTDNA website. Instead, FTDNA only reveals the HVR (Hyper Variable Region) I & HVR II mtDNA results.
  12. ↑ Haplogroup.org (Link via Wayback Machine at Archive.org, capture date 05 Oct 2022.)

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Gary Spring
A bit of trivia about Mary: from "The Story of the Pilgrim Fathers 1606-1623" by Edward Arbor, Jan 1897

Mary was a maid when she married Isaac.

posted by Gary Spring
Madison-125 Bobbie (Madison) Hall
Thanks Gary. Do you read that (in context) as meaning she was a maid-servant, or as a single woman or maiden?
posted by Bobbie (Madison) Hall
Gary Spring
I read it as maid-servant but you make a good point that there is some ambiguity. I read it this way given, as you say, the context. She was listed as a single woman in the Dutch record, her age was only 21 years old, and no other husband known - thus it doesn't seem that there existed the need to state that she was a maiden.
posted by Gary Spring
Carol (Jennings) Thoma
Norris-12718 and Norris-75 appear to represent the same person because: Same husband. Same death date. Same approximate birth date.
posted by Carol (Jennings) Thoma
Thiessen-117 Traci Thiessen
DONE 10/31/19 - I will cite-check and do a biography review/update for this profile on Mayflower Project's 5-Star list.
posted by Traci Thiessen
Brown-7904 Heather Brown
Norris-2536 and Norris-75 appear to represent the same person because: Same name. Same marriage date to Isaac Allerton.
posted by Heather Brown

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