Prudence Brewster (Perkins) - What is the REAL maiden name for Prudence?

Started by Private User on Monday, November 26, 2012
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Private User
11/26/2012 at 10:22 AM

Does anyone know the real scoop on Prudence? According to this she was a Stockton => http://www.ctgenweb.org/county/conewlondon/billc1600.html I have also seen her listed as a Perkins and a Peck.

I can't seem to find anything online that gives her a proven maiden name or parentage. She is my 13th great grandmother. Would appreciate any information.

11/26/2012 at 12:21 PM

Leslie it's most often given as Prudence Peck and I'm not clear where the Perkins even comes from.

However as far as I can tell from the Mayflower Society and the Great Migration Project, there is no definitive answer. I consider the Great Migration project work "state of the art" and would really expect a strong challenge mounted to their work.

Would you be kind enough to update the Geni profile? This site has good information but I think needs to be just "extracted from" for the profile, and I'll look for more references.

http://familytreemaker.genealogy.com/users/m/y/e/Ron-C-Myers/GENE30...

11/26/2012 at 12:23 PM

The Stockton source may be outdated

1580 -    Sometime after 1579, William BREWSTER (Sr.) married second to Prudence STOCTON, who was his relict.  William and Prudence (STOCTON) BREWSTER probably had children James BREWSTER m. --?-- WELBECK; Prudence BREWSTER m. Robert PECK; and John BREWSTER.  THE AMERICAN GENEALOGIST, v.41, pp.1-5; Banks, Charles Edward, THE ENGLISH ANCESTRY AND HOMES OF THE PILGRIM FATHERS (1929), pp.35-39; Sherwood, Mary B., PILGRIM, A BIOGRAPHY OF WILLIAM BREWSTER (1982), p.15.

And may refer to a different Brewster. There were a lot of them in Scrooby at the time ....

Private User
11/30/2012 at 1:22 PM

According to this site => http://www.treetreetree.org.uk/Brewster.htm Perkins may have been the name of a first husband. Of course that is based on works of John G. Hunt, so I guess we'll take that with a grain of salt.

If you could unlock the names, I should be able to complete the merge on her and then I will add a little something in the about me section.

Thanks!

11/30/2012 at 3:43 PM

Unlocked. I would love the overview fleshed out - we picked up some good references.

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