Mary (Birchard) Rudd (1623 - abt. 1694)

Born 2 Apr 1623 in Terling, Essex, England

Ancestors

Died about 30 Jun 1694 at about age 71 in Lyme, New London, Connecticut [uncertain]

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Biography

Mary (Birchard) Rudd immigrated to New England as a child during the Puritan Great Migration (1621-1640).

Labouring man. Thomas Burchard .... 40; Mary Burchard 38; Elizabeth Burchard 13; Marie Burchard 12 ; Sara Burchard 9; Suzan Burchard 8; Jo: Burchard 7; Ann Burchard 18 mo. “ ^[1]

Child of Thomas & Mary (Robinson) Birchard christened at Terling, Essex, England.^[2]

Mary Byrchard bapt. 2 Apr 1623;^[2][3] age 12 in 1635.^[1]

Death ^{[citation needed]}

There seems to be no source showing that she died in 1694 or that she died at Lyme. The only death record for that date in 1694 in Lyme, Conn., seems to be for Elizabeth Mary (Lynde) Beckwith, although that is based on a secondary source (findagrave): ^[4]

Research Notes

Disputed Spouse

The claim has been made for some years in various secondary sources that daughter Mary Birchard was the famous, unnamed "Bride of Bride's Book." Unfortunately without some evidence that she actually married the groom, Jonathan Rudd, or that only Thomas Birchard was prominent & influential enough to cause Gov. Winthrop to travel out in the snow to perform this marriage, no identification can be made.^[5]

Sources

1. ↑ ^{1.0 1.1} Hotten, John Camden (editor). The Original Lists of Persons of Quality: Emigrants, Religious Exiles, Political Rebels, Serving Men Sold for a Term of Years, Apprentices, Children Stolen, Maidens Pressed, and Others, who Went from Great Britain to the American Plantations, 1600-1700. London: John Camden Hotten, 1874. Page 131
2. ↑ ^{2.0 2.1} Glazier, Prentiss. “Thomas and Mary (Robinson) Birchard Their Origin, Ancestry and Family” The American Genealogist 51:17. 1975.
3. ↑ "England Births and Christenings, 1538-1975," database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.1.1/N51T-VYW : accessed 20 March 2016), Mary Byrchard, 02 Apr 1623; citing TERLING,ESSEX,ENGLAND, reference ; FHL microfilm 0962530 IT 2.
4. ↑ Find A Grave: Memorial #34387859 for Mary Elizabeth Lynde Beckwith (1625–1694),, citing Duck River Cemetery, Old Lyme, New London County, Connecticut, USA .
5. ↑ Anderson, Robert Charles et. al. The Great Migration, Immigrants to New England, 1634-1635, Volume 1, A-BBoston: New England Historic Genealogical Society, 1999.

Acknowledgments

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