Mary Blinman (Thompson) - Death date

She's listed on a cenotaph with about a million other people (20?) in Winslow Cemetery, Marshfield, Plymouth County, Massachusetts but that doesn't tell us much. http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=102766625

She was the 5th grgr of Louisa May Alcott!

"died 27 Nov 1651 at: ,Suffolk,Massachusetts" according to http://genpc.com/gen/files/d0027/f0000012.html .

There are no sources cited - but it's a theory to test!

Jennifer - that's one of the "other" Mary Thompson's!

FindAGrave has the family relationships incorrect.

Rev Blinman's 1687 will, Bristol, England says: please bury me with my dear wife.

I don't think he was asking for his body to be shipped back to Boston ...

There's yet a 3rd Mary Thompson died in Roxbury 1693

David L. Greene, "Mary, Wife of the Rev. Richard Blinman of Marshfield, Gloucester, and New London: An Unsolved Problem," The Genealogist 4 (Fall 1983): 173-186, at 178. Hereafter cited as Greene, "Mary, Wife of the Rev. Richard Blinman."

A really thorough treatment of the father, John Thompson: http://familytreemaker.genealogy.com/users/t/h/o/Cheri-Thompson-Cal...

The cenotaph lists Rev Blinman & his wife Mary, but we know he died in Bristol England about 1687. Therefore this is simply a memorial stone, not a gravestone.

Mary (Thompson) Blinman either died early & he remarried or she accompanied him to England in the 1650s & died there prior to 1687.

There isn't a documented wedding record for their marriage but its pretty clear she married him (about 1640) as he's listed as son in law, husband of my daughter Mary, in Rev John Thompson's will.

We should try & find the TAG article & go with their conclusions as to death year & place.

Definition of CENOTAPH : a tomb or a monument erected in honor of a person or group of persons whose remains are elsewhere