Mary Eldred was born on June 15, 1646 in Cambridge, Middlesex, Massachusetts. She was the daughter of Samuel Eldred and Elizabeth Miller.[1].
She married by 1671 or at least 1676 Rouse Helme.[2][3]
She did not, as some have surmised, marry Benoni Gardiner.[4]: UPDATE: She has been removed as wife of Benoni Gardiner and mother of his children. Smith-32867 14:18, 8 January 2021 (UTC)
↑ "Torrey's New England Marriages Prior to 1700," entry for Rouse Helme; database, AmericanAncestors.org (accessed 2014). Location references given as Kingston, RI; places both of their deaths at 1712; cites several works consulted as "Austin: GDRI 140, 322; Eldredge-Dutcher 6; Noyes-Gilman 78; Brownell 31; Hazard 7, 17; Reg. 98:23."
↑ George C. Davis, The American Family of John Watson of the Narragansett County Rhode Island, Jean Adams Bradley, editor (1983), 7 (in particular part); digital images, via Family History Library Catalog (accessed 2014). Reports Mary, the daughter of Samuel and Elizabeth (Miller) Eldred, probably "married Rouse Helme."
↑ Clara Gardner Miller and John Milton Stanton, Gardiner-Gardner genealogy, including the English ancestry of George Gardiner, immigrant ancestor of Newport, R.I., & many of his descendants, especially his grandson, Stephen Gardiner of Gardner Lake, Connecticut (1937), p. 33; digital images, Hathi Trust (accessed 2014). Notes "recent research by an Eldred genealogist" saying this "reveals the fact that Mary Eldred was born in 1646 and died in 1712, years before the death of Benoni's wife."
See also:
Eldred Family, The; from New Lisbon files: Note: sent to me [who?] by town historian, New Lisbon, Otsego county, NY, in 1998.
Eldred, Nelson B. III, and Eldrid, John Trevor, Saxon House of Eldred, The, 1992, Phillimore & Co. Ltd, Shopwyke Hall, Chicester, Sussex, England. Well written and researched: Call Number: ISBN 0-85033-822-0; LOC Card No. 2-81631
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There is a death record for Mary Gardner, "wife of Benoni, Portsmouth, died at her son-in-law Job Shearman's, aged 84 years, Jan. 16, 1729" (Arnold, James N. 1895. Vital Record of Rhode Island, 1636-1850, Vol. VII. Friends and Ministers, page 103, www.ancestrylibrary.com). Job Shearman (or Sherman) married Mary's daughter Bridget (Robinson, Caroline E. 1919. The Gardiners of Narragansett, http://persi.heritagequestonline.com and elsewhere).
The Mary Eldred, daughter of Samuel Eldred and Elizabeth Miller, was the wife of Rouse Helme, and not Benoni Gardiner. Please remove Gardiner as husband and his children as her children. See Some North American Descendants of John Elmes of Lincolnshire, England through his Great-Grandson Christopher Helme, published 2006, for a fairly exhaustive treatment of Rouse Helme and his wife Mary Eldred. No mention anywhere of Gardiner.
The Mary Eldred, daughter of Samuel Eldred and Elizabeth Miller, was the wife of Rouse Helme, and not Benoni Gardiner. Please remove Gardiner as husband and his children as her children. See Some North American Descendants of John Elmes of Lincolnshire, England through his Great-Grandson Christopher Helme, published 2006, for a fairly exhaustive treatment of Rouse Helme and his wife Mary Eldred. No mention anywhere of Gardiner.
Hi Mark, do you think that this Mary should be detached from her current parents, given Thomas Eldred, the father died in 1640, 6 years before she was born, and Anna, her mother, would have been 56? Thanks for reviewing. Gillian
Eldred-529 and Eldred-87 appear to represent the same person because: Same birthplace, husband, birth dates similar. The LDS source shows a large number of children.
Unknown-248662 and Eldred-87 appear to represent the same person because: These profiles are close to the same with husband & places in common. Please examine these potential matches & merge them as appropriate.
Thanks, Cindy Williams Lesure
Please help resolve the identity of Mary Eldred's husband. It is unlikely she married two different men at about the same time.
From the few notes and sources posted, it seems unlikely she was the woman who married Benoni Gardiner.
Thank you in advance for any assistance you are able to provide.