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Research on the mitochondrial DNA of three descendants of Mary Beckett, through all-female lineages, shows Mary and her mother Ann Alden belonged to the group H1g1.
We may never know why Mary left home, and made the voyage to a new world. She boarded the ship "Anne" about the end of April 1623, one of about 60 passengers. The ship also carried 60 tons of goods, much needed by the Plymouth colonists. Governor Bradford said of the Mayflower voyage, "they were incountred many times with crosse winds, and mette with many feirce stormes, with which ye shipe was shroudly shaken.[3]" The voyage of the "Anne" would have been no different. During one storm their fellow ship the "Little James" was lost and did not arrive until some 10 days after the "Anne." Some of the passengers were "very usefull persons, and became good members to ye body[3]", and some were wives and children of previous arrivals. "And some were so bad, as they were faine to be at charge to send them home againe ye next year.[3]" Mary, no doubt, fell into the first group.
The Mayflower Society estimates Mary's birth at about 1605[4]. Specific dates such as 17 January 1589, 17 January 1590 and places (eg. St Botolph, Aldersgate, London; Eckington, Worcester, England)[5] are unproven, as are sometimes suggested parents Sylvester Beckett of Juddonham, Suffolk, England and Elizabeth (Hill) Becket.
Mary Bucket was on the passenger list of the "Anne" which arrived the latter part of June 1623, in the newly begun Plymouth Colony.[6] In the same year Marie Buckett received one acre of land in the 1623 division: "on the other side of towne towards the eele river" and next to Joseph Rogers[7][8].
In the 1627 division of animals, listed as part of the ninth lot, headed by Richard Warren were George Sowle, Mary Sowle and Zachariah Sowle[7].
The population of the New World was very small around 1624. Even a given name as common as Mary, could be tracked. Mary Bucket existed in 1623, but was not mentioned again. George's wife was "Mary" in 1627. No other known Mary's were available to be his wife[9][10].
Houses were small in Plymouth Plantation and life was filled with sunrise to sunset hard work. Mary and George had nine known children: Zachariah, John, Nathaniel, George, Susanna, Mary, Elizabeth, Patience, Benjamin.
George and Mary, left Plymouth Village, for Duxburrow, an area nearby the original Plymouth plantation, where they had probably been farming the land for some years.
At Court on 1 March 1658/1659, Goodwife Soule, the wife of George Soule of Duxburrow, their son John, and about ten others were fined for frequent absence from the public worship of God. The fine of 10 shillings each was for the colonies use.[11]
Mary Soule died December 1676. Among the items of debt to be paid to John Soule from his fathers estate, listed as part of the inventory presented March 1679/1680 is this, "Item for Diett and tendance since my mother Died which was three yeer the Last December ...". No value was actually put on this item.[12]
mtDNA testing of three[13] matrilineal (all female line) descendants of Mary have all come up with the same Haplogroup. H1g1. According to haplogroup.org (Link via Wayback Machine at Archive.org, capture date 14 Aug 2022) H1g1 is well over 1,000 years old, so mtDNA results cannot be used to conclusively prove an individual is a matrilineal descendant, but it can be used to conclusively disprove such a relationship.
A triangulated group has been discovered through autosomal testing that shares Mary (Bucket) Soule and her husband George Soule Sr as most recent common ancestors. They share a 10.5 cM segment on chromosome 2:
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Mary Buckett – until recently nothing has been known of her ancestry. But in the December 2013 Mayflower Quarterly, author Caleb Johnson reports new findings based on his research in England. He believes that she may be Mary Beckett, baptized February 24, 1605 at St. Mary, Watford, Hertfordshire, the daughter of John Beckett and Ann Alden. In Plymouth she was a single woman in the 1623 land division as "Marie Buckett." Married prior to 1627 Mayflower passenger George Soule. In the 1627 'Division of Cattle' she is listed as "Mary Sowle" with husband George and son Zachariah
Mayflower Quarterly, vol. 79, no. 4, pp. 318, 319
edited by Bobbie (Madison) Hall
Even now with the information on Mary of Watford, an LNAB would be problematic. The author of the article uses the spelling Beckett, but the record of her baptism uses the spelling Becket.
Side question: Were both names prevalent during that time period?
The only record we have spelling her name is the 1623 cattle division which spells it Buckett, so if you notice the decorative banner, uses Buckett.
See here: https://www.americanancestors.org/databases/great-migration-begins-immigrants-to-ne-1620-1633-vols-i-iii/image?volumeId=12107&pageName=267&rId=235174138
and here: https://www.americanancestors.org/databases/great-migration-begins-immigrants-to-ne-1620-1633-vols-i-iii/image?pageName=1706&volumeId=12107&rId=23896065
On WT there are presently two other profiles for her - Beckett-1404 and Becket-82 that should be merged into this one. Thanks.
https://www.soulekindred.org/
Paula