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Mrs. James Chilton
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| Birth: Unknown,
probably around 1560-1565, based on the age of her husband and the birth
of her first child. |
 Mayflower
Families: James Chilton and Richard More for Five Generations, contains the best,
most thorough and completely researched genealogy on James Chilton.
It covers every descendant of his for the first five generations,
to the birth of the sixth generation. It's packed
full of well documented genealogical research. Published by the General Society of Mayflower Descendants.
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Marriage:
- James Chilton, about 1585 or 1586.
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| Death: Sometime
the first winter at Plymouth, January-March 1621. |
| Children:
Isabella, Jane, Mary (died young), Joel (died young), Elizabeth, James
(died young), Ingle, Christian, James, and Mary. |
Biographical Summary
Almost nothing is known about James
Chilton's wife. Mrs. Chilton's name has not even been discovered.
It has been widely suggested for many years she may have been Susanna
Furner, but this was fairly conclusively disproven by the research of
Michael Paulick published in 1999.
In May 1609 in Sandwich, Kent,
"_[blank]_ the wife of James Chilton" was one of several individuals
accused of attending the secret burial of a child of Andrew Sharpe.
Shortly thereafter the family apparently left for Holland and took up
residence with the Pilgrims' church in Leiden. She, her husband
James, and her youngest daughter Mary came on the Mayflower to Plymouth
in 1620. Her husband was one of the first people to die after
arrival, on December 8. She died sometime later the first winter,
but her orphaned thirteen year-old daughter Mary survived.
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Additional Resources
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Published Research
- Michael Paulick, "The 1609-1610 Excommunications of Mayflower
Pilgrims Mrs. Chilton and Moses Fletcher," New England Historic and
Genealogical Register 153 (October 1999):408-412.
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