Bridget Bromfield

Additional Curator's notes:

While many sources will list Bridget Bucke as the daughter of Rev. Richard Bucke, the math doesn't work. Thomas would have been a father at 13 and would not have become a scholarship student of divinity at Cambridge. It is more likely that she was a sibling or cousin, and that she became his ward at some point before the family left for Virginia Colony. Until more concrete material becomes known, I have listed Bridget as the sister (and not the daughter) of Rev. Bucke.

If Bridget Bucke married John Burrowes in February, 1624 and John was murdered in 1628, they could not have had the numerous children attributed to them in various web trees. The most likely offspring of this marriage is John Burris, commonly called Jr., who died in 1705. There may have been others, but no proof has been found.

This Bridget Bucke is not the same person as Bridget, the second wife of Rev. Bucke. The two are often confused.

Maria Edmonds-Zediker, Volunteer Curator, 12/20/2013

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Notes from http://awt.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=GET&db=genealogicalpool&...

[Samuel BURRUS_3129437.FTW]from Raymond C Mays--Birthdates for Richard and Bridgett don't quite make sense. Could they have been siblings or cousins?Place of birth matches residence of Elizabeth Brown's parents, so there appears to be some connection Immigration: 1610 to Virginia on ship, "Sea Venture"

Notes from http://www.rootsweb.com/~bmuwgw/seaventure.htm Virginia Historical Index by Swem:4V344 "As a results of the efforts, Sir Thomas Gates as sole and absolute Governor, with Sir George Summers, Admiral, and Capt. Newport, Vice Admiral of Virginia, and divers and other persons of ran four cke and quality in seven ships and two pinnaces, left Falmouth on the 8 of June 1609, and on the 24 day of July, 1609 they encountered a terrible storm that prevailed from Tuesday noone till Friday noone; that scattered the fleet and wrecked The Sea Venture(on July 28 1609) upon the island of Bermuda"

24V248 Francis Michell lived at Elizabeth Citty February 1623 and Josuah Chard, aged 36, who came in the Sea Venture, May 1607.

29V299 Josuah Chard came in the SV Purse and Person

The following came in the sea Ventura ( from different pages)

• p15 Henry Bagwell
• p22 Samuel Sharp
• p30 John Lightfoote
• p31 Capt. Wm Pierce
• p32 George Grave
• p38 John Procter
• p140 Richard Buck sailed June 1609 with wife, Miss Langley and four Buck children. Marooned for 9 months embarked for Virginia from Bermuda 10 May 1610. Arrived in Jamestown 21 May 1610. He was a minister . The four Buck children , Elizabeth, Bridget and Bermuda were born and died while their parent marooned on Somers Island(1609-10). Mara born in Virginia 1611 ward of brother-in-law, John Burrows.
• p374 Stephen Hopkins left England 9 June 1609 among 150 persons cast ashore etc etc then it states "Although there is no complete list of the shipwrecked party which eventually reached Jamestown in the two pinnaces Patience and Deliverance, built on the islands, Hopkins did not remain on The Somers Islands and the conclusion is that the recalcitrant came to Virginia despite his known wish to return to England. (He went back to England and came on the Mayflower in 1620 to Plymouth, Mass. No further connection with the Colony.
• p475 Wm Pierce
• p507 John Rolfe and wife . 9 months on Somers Island. Wife died on Somers Island or shortly after arriving in Virginia.
• p590 Wm Strachey from Surrey England b 1572 on SV, marooned 9 mo etc
• p650 Lieut. Edward Waters on SV and on to Virginia in Patience.
• p724 George Yeardley

Birth: 1607 in Argecroft Hall, Manchester, Lancashire, England, United Kingdom

Death: AFT DEC 1656 in Burrows Hill Pl.-Jamestown, James Citiy, Virginia

Ancestral File #: 1JVN-LRF

Father: Rev. Richard BUCK b: 1582 in Wymondham, Norfolk, England, United Kingdom Mother: Elizabeth Langley BROWN b: 1582 in Tharston, Norfolk, England, United Kingdom

Marriage 1 John Sr Gentleman BURROWS b: in Burroughsmount, Wymondham, Norfolk, England, United Kingdom c: 22 DEC 1594 in Thurlton, Norfork, England, United Kingdom Married: BEF 21 JUN 1624 in Jamestown, James City, Virginia, United States

Children

• John BURROWS b: 1624 in Burrows Mt, , England, United Kingdom
• Anthony BURROWS b: ABT 1626 in Burrowshill, Plantation, Jamestown, Jamescity, Virginia
• Edmund BURROWS b: ABT 1655 in King William, Virginia, United States c: in New Kent, Virginia, United States
• Jacob BURROWS b: ABT 1653 in James City, Virginia, United States
• Thomas BURROWS b: ABT 1651 in James City, Virginia, United States
• Christopher BURROWS b: in Jamestown, James City, Virginia, United States

Marriage 2 William DAVID Married: 27 MAR 1643 in James City, Virginia, United States

Marriage 3 John BROOMFIELD Married: DEC 1656 in James City, Virginia, United States

Sources: Abbrev: IGI Title: The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, International Genealogical Index (R) Copyright (c) 1980, 2002,;LDS Church, FamilySearch Internet Genealogy Service Internet: http://www.familysearch.orggical Index (R) Copyright (c) 1980, 2002,ical Index (R) Copyright (c) 1980, 2002,

Repository: Name: Family History Library Repository: Abbrev: Ancestral File Title: The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, Ancestral File (R) Copyright (c) 1987, June 1998, data as of 5 JAN 1998;FamilySearch® Ancestral File? v4.19" 3 Feb 2001 /i> Copyright (c) 1987, June 1998, data as of 5 JAN 1998;FamilySearch® Ancestral File? v4.19" 3 Feb 2001

/i> Copyright (c) 1987, June 1998, data as of 5 JAN 1998;FamilySearch® Ancestral File? v4.19" 3 Feb 2001

Repository: Name: Family History Library 35 N West Temple Street Repository:

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Immigration: 1610 to Virginia on ship, "Sea Venture"

Notes from http://www.rootsweb.com/~bmuwgw/seaventure.htm

Virginia Historical Index by Swem:�4V344 "As a results of the efforts, Sir Thomas Gates as sole and absolute Governor, with Sir George Summers, Admiral, and Capt. Newport, Vice Admiral of Virginia, and divers and other persons of ran four cke and quality in seven ships and two pinnaces, left Falmouth on the 8 of June 1609, and on the 24 day of July, 1609 they encountered a terrible storm that prevailed from Tuesday noone till Friday noone; that scattered the fleet and wrecked The Sea Venture(on July 28 1609) upon the island of Bermuda" �24V248 Francis Michell lived at Elizabeth Citty February 1623 and Josuah Chard, aged 36, who came in the Sea Venture, May 1607.�29V299 Josuah Chard came in the SV

Purse and Person�The following came in the sea Ventura ( from different pages)�p15 Henry Bagwell�p22 Samuel Sharp�p30 John Lightfoote�p31 Capt. Wm Pierce�p32 George Grave�p38 John Procter�p140 Richard Buck sailed June 1609 with wife, Miss Langley and four Buck children. Marooned for 9 months embarked for Virginia from Bermuda 10 May 1610. Arrived in Jamestown 21 May 1610. He was a minister . The four Buck children , Elizabeth, Bridget and Bermuda were born and died while their parent marooned on Somers Island(1609-10) Mara born in Virginia 1611 ward of brother-in-law, John Burrows.

�p374 Stephen Hopkins left England 9 June 1609 among 150 persons cast ashore etc etc then it states "Although there is no complete list of the shipwrecked party which eventually reached Jamestown in the two pinnaces Patience and Deliverance, built on the islands, Hopkins did not remain on The Somers Islands and the conclusion is that the recalcitrant came to Virginia despite his known wish to return to England. (He went back to England and came on the Mayflower in 1620 to Plymouth, Mass. No further connection with the Colony.

�p475 Wm Pierce�p507 John Rolfe and wife . 9 months on Somers Island. Wife died on Somers Island or shortly after arriving in Virginia.�p590 Wm Strachey from Surrey England b 1572 on SV, marooned 9 mo etc �p650 Lieut. Edward Waters on SV and on to Virginia in Patience. �p724 George Yeardley

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Richard Bucke may have returned to England at least once. It is possible that his wife Elizabeth died and that he remarried, perhaps to a woman named Bridget. However, both Richard Bucke and Elizabeth the wife were deceased around 1623, so it is unclear when Richard Bucke would have been married to this Bridget.

The exact date of Richard Bucke's death is unknown. He is not listed among those killed during the Powhatan uprising in March 1622, but the census of January 1624 omitted him and described his four youngest children as living in three different households, which strongly suggests that he was dead by then. On June 21, 1624, the General Court ordered his daughter's guardians to give £100 security to the executors of the minister's estate.

In February, 1624, Bridget Langley, described as "widow of Rev. Richard Bucke," married Virginia planter, John Burrowes (or Burrus). It is believed that they had a son, also named John, who would have been born between 1624 and 1628.

http://www.encyclopediavirginia.org/Bucke_Richard_1581_or_1582-ca_1624