Mary Sharpe

Mary Gosnold Sharpe (Golding)

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Biography

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Mary Goldinge was the daughter of Robert Goldinge and Martha Judde.[1]

Mistress Mary Goldinge married Mr. Bartholomewe Gosnolde on 19 Jun 1595 at Latton, Essex.[2]

Mary was noted as Mary 'Gosnall' in the will of her grandmother Dame Mary Judde of Latton, Essex, the will made in 1597 and proved in 1602.[1] Mary's father Robert Golding was a co-Executor of the will. Mary's mother Martha, a daughter of Dame Mary Judde, was bequeathed "one neaste of gilte gobletts with a cover which were Sir Andrewe Judds".

Her husband Bartholomew Gosnold died in 1607 at Jamestown in the Colony of Virginia.[3][4]

Mary Gosnold, widow, married Jasper Sharpe, gentleman, on 23 May 1615 at Fornham St Martin, Suffolk.[3]

"Magister Maria Sharpe vidua" was buried on 23 Oct 1665 at St James Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk.[3]

Children

Of the seven known children of Mary and Bartholomew Gosnold, six were baptised at Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk:[3][4][5]

1. 24 Apr 1597 Martha (presumed to have died young)
2. born about 1599 Mary
3. 20 Oct 1600 Robert
4. 02 Aug 1602 Susan
5. 16 Dec 1603 Bartholomew
6. 11 Dec 1605 Paul
7. 05 Feb 1606/1607 Martha

Mary was also presumably the mother of Jasper Sharpe, son of Jasper, gent, of Bury st Edmunds, who was born around 1615.[6]

References

• Will of Dame Mary Judd or Judde, Widow of Leyton, Essex. 19 Feb 1602. PROB 11/99/135. National Archives.
• Parish Registers of St. Mary, Latton, Essex (Essex Record Office, D/P 344/1/1).
• Gookin W F (1950) Family Connections of Bartholomew Gosnold. The New England Historical and Genealogical Register. Vol. CIV, Jan 1950, p27-36..
• Bury St Edmunds, St James Parish Registers, Baptisms 1558-1800. Suffolk Green Books, XVII. [2].
• Alumni Cantabrigienses from the earliest times to 1751. Venn J and Venn J A (1927) Vol. IV., p49.
• See also: Oxford Dictionary of National Biography: Gosnold, Bartholomew (d. 1607)
• Adventurers of Purse and Person, Virginia, 1607-1624/5: Families G-P edited by John Frederick Dorman. GoogleBooks