Mary Soule

• Updated from Find A Grave Memorial via daughter Susannah West (born Soule) by SmartCopy: Sep 1 2015, 18:36:29 UTC

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This might be the Mary who was baptized February 24, 1605 at St Mary Church, Walford, Hertfordshire, England. Further research is warranted.

This Mary is the same as Mary Soule. Merge requested.

brief biography and family

The passenger ship Anne arrived in Plymouth in July 1623 accompanied by the Little James, bringing new settlers along with many wives and children who had been left behind in Leiden when the Mayflower departed. Mary Beckett was one of the passengers in Anne in 1621. Her marriage to George is established through George's sale of an acre of land granted to Mary as a ship passenger, which he could do as her husband.

1658/9, March 1- Indicted for absence from church.

The origins of Mary, wife of 1620 Mayflower passenger George Soule and mother of George's nine known children, remains unconfirmed. She likely was born in England in the early 1600s and died, per son John, in December 1676 at Duxbury, Mass., but John did not provide her age at death.

In the 2016 GSMD published Mayflower Families in Progress for Mayflower passenger George Soule, George's wife is identified as Mary, " b. ca. 1605, and possibly bap. St. Mary Church, Walford, Hertfordshire, England 24 Feb. 1605, and if so, daughter of John and Ann (Alden) Beckett. Recent findings indicate this Mary had siblings bap. 1607-1618 who were named John, James, Nathaniel and Jeremy. The surname Alden in this period appears interchangeable in English records with Aldwyn, Aldin, and Aldyn. This Mary Beckett's father John d. 1619 when she was about 14 years old. John's widoiw Ann is still referred to as "widow Buckett" in the burial entry of her son James in 1622. It is presumed that half-orphaned Mary, in the years before 1623, could have lived with another family and then accompanied that or another family for the voyage across the Atlantic Ocean on the Anne. Futher work in English records is needed."

The foregoing represents the most current prospective identity of George Soule's wife Mary and her possible origins. Mary arrived at Plymouth in 1623 aboard the Ann, the third ship to bring groups of Pilgrim families to Plymouth. Whether she knew her evential husband in England prior to George Soule sailing in 1620 on the Mayflower is unknown. She is not considered to have been an indentured servant upon arrival as she is not shown in Plymouth's initial 1623 division of land as attached to a specific person. In the latter division she was allotted one acre of land "next to John Rogers" who is otherwise shown as having been allotted two acres at a different location than Mary.

On May 22, 1627 the Division of Cattle was recorded in the Plymouth Colony Records. This division was essentially a complete census of 1627 Plymouth. At the date of division Zachariah was George and Mary's only living child.

George Soule and wife Mary had nine known children, eight of which were born by 1650. This is reflected in the 1650 Journal of William Bradford by the entry "George Soule is still living and hath 8 children." The ninth child, Benjamin, was born approximately one year later in 1651, but died unmarried in 1676 at Pawtucket, RI, a combatant and casualty of the King Philip's War with the Massaquoit Indians.

The known children of George Soule and wife Mary, the exact order unknown but likely:

• Zachariah Soule, b. before May 22, 1627, d. before Dec. 11, 1663 as a combatant in the French & Indian War; on the latter date his estate was inventoried at Duxbury, Mass. by John Alden and Constant Southworth with the estate falling to his brother John after settlement. He m. in 1646 a wife named Margaret whose identity has never been uncovered. No known children have been identified and the widow is believed to have remarried and moved from Duxbury.
• John Soule, b. circa 1632 (deposed Mar. 8, 1705/6 at aged "about seventy-four years"), d. intestate at Middleborough, Mass. before Nov. 9, 1707, the date his 2nd wife attested to his estate inventory; m. 1) by about 1656 Rebecca Simonson, daughter of Moses Simonson, by whom he had eight known children; m. 2) by 1679 Esther (Delano) Samson, daughter of Philip Delano and widow of Samuel Samson, by whom he had three children.
• Nathaniel Soule, b. circa 1637, d. intestate at Dartmouth, Mass. prior to Oct. 12, 1699, the date of his estate inventory; m. a wife named Rose by whom he had at least four children.
• George Soule, Jr., b. circa 1639 (deposed Mar. 1, 1672/3 "aged 34 years or thereabouts"), d. testate at Dartmouth, Mass. May 12, 1704; m. an unidentified wife named Deborah, who d. at Dartmouth in Feb. 1709/10. Eight known children of the family.
• Susanna Soule, b. circa 1642, d. Jan. 2, 1715/16 at North Kingstown (q.v. N. Kingston), Rhode Island; m. Francis West, s. of Matthew, who d. at N. Kingstown Jan. 2, 1695/96. Nine children of the family.
• Mary Soule, b. circa 1644, was living on Mar. 26, 1720 at Duxbury, Mass.; m. John Peterson, who d. testate at Duxbury between Apr. 29, 1718 (date of will) and Mar. 26, 1720 (date of estate inventory). Purportedly nine children of the family.
• Elizabeth Soule, b. circa 1646, d. circa 1700 at Woodbridge, New Jersey; m. July 23, 1667, Francis Walker, who d. circa 1702 at Woodbridge. Purportedly four children of the family.
• Patience Soule, b. circa 1648, d. Mar. 11, 1705/6 at Middleborough, Mass.; m. in Jan. 1666/7, John Haskell, who d. May 15, 1706 at Middleborough. Eight children recorded at Middleborough.
• Benjamin Soule, b. circa 1651, d. unmarried Mar. 26, 1676 at Pawtucket, Rhode Island a combatant in King Phillips War against the Massaquoit Indians.

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Birth surname has also been reported to be:

• Becket
• Buckett
• Bucket

Given name has also been reported to be:

• Marie
• C.

Date and place of birth have also been (erroneously?) reported to be:

• January 17, 1590 at St Botolph without Aldersgate, London, Middlesex (now Greater London), England <unattested?>
• 1603 at an unspecified location <unattested>

also erroneously reported to have migrated to colonial America aboard the passenger ship Mayflower

links

• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Soule_(Mayflower_passenger)#In...
• http://www.hoggattfamily.com/Mayflower%20Society%20-%20Documentatio... (search for "Mary Buckett/Beckett")
• https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/26862296/mary-soule
• https://www.dkdonovan.com/getperson.php?personID=I04745&tree=Main
• FamilySearch AFN 83QH-4H

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Mary Buckett b 1592 Eng arr on The Anne 31 July 1623 as a “pilgrim” of the Leyden Contingent d 22 Jan 1679 bur Duxbury m 1623 George Soule

Mary Beckett is believed to have been a passenger on the "Anne" in 1623. In the book "The English Ancestry and Homes of the Pilgrim Fathers" by Charles Edward Banks, p 177 in the Chapter "Female Passengers" it reads: "The following women came as passengers in the same two ships and married shortly after arrival:

[The first entry is "Mary Becket married George Soule."]" When the author refers to two ships he is referring to the ''Anne'' and "Little James." It appears the "Anne" arrived 10 Jul 1623. These two vessels traveled across the Atlantic together part of the way but became separated. The "Little James" was the smaller of the two and it arrived "a week or 10 days "after the "Anne." The "Anne" brought 60 persons and the" Little James" is listed as 44 tons.

There was no separate passenger list for these boats.The first boats that brought people to Plymouth Colony appear to be "The Mayflower" in 1620, "The Fortune" in 1621 and "The Anne" and "The Little James" in 1623.

Mary's surname has historically been written as Bucket, based on a singular record in 1623, with some writers writing her maiden name as Becket, but whether either was her maiden name remains unconfirmed. The most recent scholarly treatment regarding Mary's possible origins was published in the December 2013 issue of the Mayflower Descendant by Caleb Johnson, a noted Mayflower pilgrim researcher. While Mr. Johnson's research uncovered a potential promising lead, no concrete conclusion can yet be drawn as to Mary's origins.

Mary arrived at Plymouth in 1623 aboard the Ann, the third ship to bring groups of Pilgrim families to Plymouth. Whether she knew her eventual husband, George Soule, in England prior to George sailing in 1620 on the Mayflower is unknown. She is not considered to have been an indentured servant upon arrival as she is not shown in Plymouth's initial 1623 division of land as attached to a specific person or family. In the latter division she was allotted one acre of land "next to John Rogers" who is otherwise shown as having been allotted two acres at a different location than Mary.

George Soule and wife Mary had nine known children, eight of which were born by 1650. This is reflected in the 1650 Journal of William Bradford by the entry "George Soule is still living and hath 8 children." The ninth child, Benjamin, was born approximately one year later in 1651, but died unmarried in 1676 at Pawtucket, RI, a combatant and casualty of the King Philip's War with the Massaquoit Indians.

On May 22, 1627 the Division of Cattle was recorded in the Plymouth Colony Records. This division was essentially a complete census of 1627 Plymouth. At the date of division Zachariah was George and Mary's only living child.