Lucinda Devenport, {Fictional}

Invented wife of George Carr, of Salisbury

TheCarrFamilyRecords_10536403.pdf

" ...on the 6th day of November, 1621, the anchor was cast at dark some way out at sea for fear of
unseen rocks
“ Next morning the boats were lowered and we landed ...
and myself went to view her resting place" .....

"Lucinda Davenport, George Carr’ s wife, had died.
With tear full eyes I viewed the last resting place of poor Lucinda Devenport,
She had died in a
foreign land of privation an d cold, and was buried side by
side with many others who had shared the same fate.
My heart sank within me to" think that I should never see Lucinda
whom I had known in England".

https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Devenport-5

Lucinda is mentioned by Susan Rothchild Carr in her writings that are included in "The Carr family records : embacing [sic] the record of the first families who settled in America and their descendants, with many branches who came to this country at a later date" Page 10, 11 and 12.[1]

Edson Carr's 1894 Carr Family genealogy begins with four brothers Benjamin, William, George, James, and their children.[2] It includes claims that George, son of William went to America in 1620 on the Mayflower with wife Lucinda Davenport.

The above claims to be from family Bible printed London 1585 belonging to Susan, wife of William, son of William, including this supposed story recorded in the bible:

"My maiden name was Susan Rothchild. I was born in Devonshire, Eng., in the year of our Lord, A.D. 1598, April 30. I married William Carr, of London, May 16, 1619. He was born in 1597, June 17. Husband says he had a brother George Carr, who went to America in 1620... " It goes on to say that Susan and her husband sailed to America in 1621, and upon arrival discovered that Lucinda Davenport (wife of George Carr) had died the previous winter.

• No records have been found to verify any of these dates or facts.
• Of Susan Rothchild's alleged "bible" and migration story Anderson says: "The highly amusing account of the migration of the Carr family to New England is one of the more outlandish of its genre, and was probably concocted sometime in the nineteenth century.[3]
• Anderson's Great Migration series assigns no origins or parents for Robert and Caleb or George Carr.

Therefore, there is no actual evidence beyond a highly questionable bible entry that Lucinda Davenport existed, married George Carr, much less sailed on the Mayflower with him and died the first winter.

She has, therefore, been detached as spouse of George Carr.

Everton Pedigree and Family Group Sheets full size at (document attached)

Comment: Document uses disproved data from genealogist Edson Carr for parents & first wife.

References

1. Edson Irving Carr, The Carr Family Records: Embacing [sic] the Record of the First Families who Settled in America and Their Descendants, with Many Branches who Came to this Country at a Later Date, reprint; Herald printing house, 1894 p 12. < Archive.Org > (has errors)