Born about [location unknown]
Daughter of [father unknown] and [mother unknown]
[sibling(s) unknown]
Wife of
William Prindle
— married
7 Dec 1655 in New Haven, New Haven, Connecticut
Descendants 
Mother of
Phebe (Prindle) Beecher, John Prindle, Mary Pringle, Ebenezer Prindle, Joseph Prindle Sr., Jonathan Prindle, Sarah Prindle, Samuel Prindle, Eleazer Prindle, Hannah (Prindle) Hull and Joanna Pringle
Died after
after about age 54
in New Haven, Connecticut Colony [uncertain]
[uncertain]
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Biography
Unknown Origins
The origins of Mary Disborough, wife of William Prindle (also seen as Pringle) are unknown at this point. She may have been asserted as the daughter of a Richard Bronson and Abigail Wilbourne but as explained below, there is no indication that her last name at birth was anything but Disborough.
Previously, Mary Brunson/Brownson the wife of early immigrant Nicholas DIsborough Jr was mistakenly shown as Mary Disborough who married William Prindle (also seen as Pringle) in 1655 at New Haven, Connecticut. Likely the belief was that William's wife was widow of Nicholas. However, Nicholas outlived Mary Brownson, so the wife of Walter Prindle was a different woman.
She was also not the widow of Isaac Disbrowe Jr. of Eltisley, Cambridgeshire, England who was an early immigrant to New England but then returned to England with wife Elizabeth (not Mary) and had several more children there. Nor was she the Mary Unknown, wife of Isaac's father, Isaac Sr as that Mary never emigrated to New England and was born before 1600 making her far too old to marry William Prindle in 1655 and then bear several children.
Whether her last name at birth was "Disborough" is not known, as her origins are not known.
Birth
Unknown birth location and date. With a first known marriage of 1655 and using standard WikiTree estimate of 20 years old at first marriage for a female, that puts her birth at about 1635 which could have been in New England or elsewhere.
Marriage
Mary Disburrow married William Prindle or Pringle on 7 Dec 1655 at New Haven, Connecticut.[1]
Their children appear in the same New Haven Vital Records source cited here beginning with "Phebe" on page 14 through birth of Joanna on page 36 (and her death on page 38).
Death
Mary was apparently listed in the 17 Oct 1689 will of husband William although she is not named, only listed as "loving wife". Since no record has been found of a second marriage of William she is presumed to be that wife.[2] The probate found so far is only an inventory of his estate and did not indicate if she was still alive and the inventory was not dated making it difficult to determine exactly when he died.
Her eventual fate and a will or probate has not yet been found.
Research Notes
Sources
- ↑ Vital records of New Haven, 1649-1850 (Part 1) by Order of the Founders and Patriots of America. Connecticut Society Publication date 1917 Publisher Hartford, The Connecticut society of the Order of the founders and patriots of America p. 3
- ↑ Probate Records, New Haven Probate Records for William Prindle 1690 Vol. 2 Part 1 pp 38-39.
See Also
- http://derbyshire_2.tripod.com/PRINGLE7.htm unsourced website
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Hi Philip, after doing a lot of research on Mary and her one known husband, William Prindle aka Pringle, we (PGM) have determined that her "best" known name should be Disburrow per the earliest found written record about her, the 1655 marriage to William at New Haven as shown in the vital records https://archive.org/details/mccutcheoncutche00mcke/page/294/mode/2up
We were able to determine with certainty that she was not the widow of Nicholas Disborough-3 (he outlived her and remarried) nor the widow of Isaac Disbrowe-21 (early immigrant to New England who returned to England and had several more children there with his only known wife, Elizabeth Unknown).
I've edited and sourced her profile and also corrected the profile of William Prindle to reflect all this.
If you'd like to change her last name to Disburrow that would be most accurate although alternate names of Desborough (as shown in the Florence McKee book cited on William's profile, although Ms. McKee provided no source for her information) should be included too.
Thanks for your initial look at these profiles, it was good to get the information sorted out properly. Brad Stauf PGM membership coordinator
Thank you, S, Co-Leader, PGM Project
Edited to add: I can find nothing regarding an Isaac Disborough (and alternate spellings) in Connecticut in this timeframe at all. What sources show his marriage, death date and daughter?
Further edited to add: An Isaac Disbrowe Gentleman (abt.1592-1660) married a Mary (Unknown) Desborough per Anderson's Great Migration; his son Isaac was in Lynn, Massachusetts for a short while in 1639-40. Perhaps this Mary was confused with his wife Mary (UNKNOWN) Disbrowe (bef.1600-). However, these are two different generations of people. Isaac did have a daughter, Mary, born in 1657; far too late to have married Pringle.
edited by S (Hill) Willson
The immigrant's son Isaac Disbrow-33 (the second one, Isaac Disbrow-353 was the first who died young) doesn't seem to have a record of who he married, if anyone. He wasn't born until 1654 so clearly the Mary Disborough who married William Pringle/Prindle in 1655 was NOT his widow, nor was she the widow of his father Isaac the immigrant who married an Elizabeth.
And, since Nicholas Disborough-3 seemed to outlive his first wife Mary and then marry Elizabeth Shepard by 1674, it wasn't his "widow" Mary Disborough who married William Pringle/Prindle in 1655 either. The "Prindle Genealogy" here https://archive.org/details/prindlegenealogy00prin/page/n31/mode/2up gives her LNAB as Disborough but has no sources.
So, this Mary married to Isaac the 3rd seems to be completely unsupported.
edited by Brad Stauf
edited by S (Hill) Willson
The Nicholas Disborough/Mary Brunson/Bronson marriage by 1640 is solid based on primary vital records and so is the William Prindle/Mary Disborough 1655 marriage. Nicholas' probate was 1683, so clearly the wife of William Prindle was NOT the widow of Nicholas whether she was born Disborough or not. The two Marys must be different people, that's easy enough.
So, we sever Mary Bronson-379 from Isaac Disbrowe-17, they were never married. That leaves her the wife of William Prindle, but her LNAB should be Disborough since there is no proof of her marrying previously that I've seen and she wasnt' listed as widow or anything in the New Haven VR.
Then, what do we do with Isaac Disbrowe-17? Original intent seems to be an Isaac from Etisley, Cambridge so he's a dup of one of the two sons of Isaac the immigrant and returnee to England, right? Alternatively, "Isaac" was meant to be "Nicholas" who DID marry a Mary Brunson/Bronson so we change him to Nicholas and merge those two together. Hard to tell, he was imported with no birth location, just the west haven 1647 death. Later on somebody came along and set his birth to Etisley and married him to Mary Bronson and gave him a death date of 1655, just in time to provide a widow to marry William Prindle but as we now know, not the same woman. Argh.
edited by Brad Stauf
Mary Bronson then married (2) William Pringle in 1755
Otherwise the two profiles seem to represent the same person.