I am contacting you about this profile: Mary Helme
Help!!! In looking for more info for Mary Eldred, I believe that her only marriage was to Rouse Helme.
I have found info that Mary was NOT married to Timothy Adams [Timothy Adams, Sr., "I" ] (his wife was Mary Corey) and I do not believe that she was married to Benoni Gardiner either. I found one site that indicated they were married in 1666/7. However she married Rouse Helme in 1773. Benoni Gardiner [ @Benoni Gardiner) didn't die until 1712. I don't believe they were divorced as that wasn't a common practice then. I did find a discussion about Benoni Gardiner & Mary @ http://genforum.genealogy.com/eldred/messages/255.html and http://www.pcez.com/~bigshoe/du/Keny/gardiner.html
This site also had some interesting info: http://www.werelate.org/wiki/Person:Mary_Eldred_(6)
Erica responded with:
The wife of Benoni Gardiner was Mary UNKNOWN.
This is not in doubt in my opinion - the Gardiner genealogy does not know her surname.
A new profile needs to be made for Mary, wife of Benoni Gardiner, made MP, and the Gardiner children moved over to her.
We need to make a new Mary COREY profile and move the Adams children to her. (Found her name in his Find A Grave memorial & put all of that in his profile.../ps)
I feel like saying "Will the real husband of Mary Eldred please stand up?"
Of course that would be Rouse Helme, Sr. & not the 2 other fellows.
To confirm - can we reference their marriage?
I also have a question about her DOD--1712 or 1729???
Pat