Mary Bishop (1610 - abt. 1675)

Born 1610 in Ipswich, Suffolk, England

Died about 14 Sep 1675 at about age 65 in Guilford, New Haven, Connecticut [uncertain]

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Disputed Existence

This person does not exist. She has been left here in hope, that she will not be recreated.

The dates given on this memorial are the dates for Mary Unknown-137651, the wife of George Hubbard. At one time it was believed that immigrant George Hubbard's wife Mary was the daughter of John Bishop and his wife, Ann/Anne.^[1](Ann Stevens), which was followed by later works.

"Mary Bishop, dau. of John Bishop and Anne , b. probably as early as 1610 in England m. George Hubbard about 1627, d. in Guilford, Sep. 14, 1673. Mr. Hubbard was one of the earliest settlers in Wethersfield, Conn., 1635..."^[2]

However, a 1933 article by renowned researcher D. L. Jacobus in The American Genealogist challenges this:

"The writer has not found any evidence to bear this out, and is convinced that the said Mary was not a daughter of John Bishop."^[3]

He goes on to point out that George Hubbard and John Bishop were contemporaries; therefore a daughter of John's would have been too young to be the Mary that married George Hubbard.

He also demonstrates that the very will that suggested that Mary, wife of George Hubbard, must be daughter of John Bishop, actually proves she could not have been:

"All statements to the effect that Hubbard's wife was daughter of Bishop are apparently based on the will of Mrs. Ann Bishop, made 12 June 1673, in which she gave twenty shillings to her grandchild Elizabeth Hubbard... Mrs Bishop gave her eldest son John Bishop L5 above 'his equal proportion with my Too [2] other children," and she willed that the residue of her estate should be divided 'Betwixt my three children, viz., John and Steuen Bishop and James Steele.' Further, she called James Steele her son-in-law, and the inventory mentioned property in Mr. Steele's hands 'which his wife claimed as given to her by her Mother.'"

Therefore, Ann Bishop had three children alive in 1673-- John, Stephen and Bethia (who married James Steele). No fourth child who might have been Mary Hubbard who did not die until 14 Sep 1676.

Jacobus concludes that the granddaughter Elizabeth Hubbard in the will of Ann Bishop might have been Elizabeth Jordan who married Daniel2 Hubbard (son of George) and was daughter of Mr. John Jordan and his wife Ann who died 1 Jan 1671/2 before Ann Bishop's will was made. This Ann (____) Jordan might have been a Bishop. Jacobus admits this part is still theory, but the information above proves that Mary (_____) wife of George Hubbard could NOT have been the daughter of John Bishop and his wife Ann.

For another discussion about the dubious association of George Hubbard's wife as the daughter of John Bishop, see also, Nathan Grier Parke, The ancestry of Lorenzo Ackley & his wife Emma Arabella ..., Donald Lines Jacobus, ed. (1960), 98-99.

Notes

She has been detached from being the wife of John Culpeper, a Gateway Ancestor documented by Douglas Richardson in Magna Carta Ancestry and Royal Ancestry - see John's profile - and Richardson shows no children and no maiden name for Mary, his wife. ~ Noland-165 06:49, 15 December 2017 (EST)

And she has also been detached as mother of Henry Culpepper. Smith-32867 06:23, 6 March 2018 (EST)

Sources

1. ↑ Namely "1000 Years of Hubbard History" (pp199-200) and other derivative works.
2. ↑ Descendant of John Bishop, by William W. Cone and George A. Root, published by John Guy Bishop, 1951 Nyack, NY. Referred to as DJB.
3. ↑ Donald L. Jacobus, "George Hubbard's Wife," in The American Genealogist, 10(1933):17

• Cone, William Whitney. Record of the Descendants of John Bishop, One of the Founders of Guilford, Connecticut in 1639 (J.G. Bishop, Nyack, N.Y., 1951) Page 1