Mary
"Marie"
Knight
formerly [surname unknown]
Born about in England
Daughter of [father unknown] and [mother unknown]
[sibling(s) unknown]
Wife of
John Knight Sr.
— married
1619 in Southampton, Hampshire, England
Descendants 
Died
at about age 78
in Charlestown, Middlesex, Massachusetts Bay
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Biography
A previous version of this profile claimed, citing only a private online tree at Ancestry.com, that her maiden name was "Pickering". Lacking a response since 2013 for a better source, we have changed her last name to Unknown until we can find a solid source for her name.
Mary was born about 1598 in Romsey, Southampton, England.[citation needed]
She married about 1619 in Southampton, Hampshire, England John Knight and had the following children:[citation needed]
She died 19 May 1676 in Charlestown, Middlesex, Massachusetts.[1]
Sources
- ↑ Charlestown Massachusetts Vital Records to 1850, www.americanancestors.org
- Marriage (NEHGS): "KNIGHT, John (1595/6-1670) & Mary ____ (-1676); in Eng, by 1620, by 1625; Charlestown/Watertown (calls John Chickering "bro"); {Charlestown 590; Stevens-Miller 229; Woolson-Fenno 58; Cleveland 58; EIHC 18:173; Cram 38; Reg. 30:79}" -- Torrey, Vol. 2, p. 906; New England Marriages to 1700. (Online database. AmericanAncestors.org. New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2008.) Originally published as: New England Marriages Prior to 1700. Boston, Mass.: New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2015; https://www.americanancestors.org/DB1568/i/21175/906/426893563 (by subscription)
- Death (NEHGS; image of typewritten transcript): "Marie, widow of John Knight, the elder, d. May 19, 1676." -- Charlestown VRs, Vol. 1, p. 94 (orig. p. 64); Massachusetts: Vital Records, 1620-1850 (Online Database: AmericanAncestors.org, New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2001-2016); https://www.americanancestors.org/DB190/i/13924/94/33461569 (by subscription)
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Categories: Charlestown, Massachusetts | Puritan Great Migration
No record found thus far for a m. of any John Knight to a "Mary Chickering" on either side of The Pond. The one bride of that approximate name found, via NEHGS, is "Mary Chickring", who m. Nathan Aldis at Dedham (Mass.) on "April 19 ____" [entry placed between two from 1715]. The Chickering "bro" connection could of course equally well have come via a marriage of John Chickering to a sister of John Knight... or even, conceivably, if a brother of John Knight had married a sister of John Chickering.
edited by Christopher Childs
The wikitree profile on John Chickering's father Henry says that he "first married Elizabeth Smithe, a widow... " in 1622. While this was the first marriage for Henry of record in Wrentham, I wonder whether this was really Henry's "first" marriage, as he would have been 33 years old at the time. There is no such record in the familysearch database, but that doesn't mean that it didn't happen.
So let's think about the possibility that Henry could have married at, say, age 21 like a normal young man of his time, in some parish whose records have not survived, and had a daughter in 1611. Plainly, however, that daughter would not have been old enough to have become the mother of John Knight's daughter Mary (born about 1620 per her age as given in a deposition).
And then there's the problem that John Chickering is only known to have had two sisters. They were both named Elizabeth. One of them died in infancy. The other died in 1673, unmarried. So that leaves me thinking that where my honored ancestor John Knight named his "friend and brother John Chickering" as the overseer of his estate, he was used the word "brother" in the sense of a brother in Christ.