Mary, second wife of Peter Browne (mtDNA)
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Status summary
As of September 26, 2020
- Page created for Mary, wife of Peter Browne
- recruitment of individuals who are mtDNA descendants of Mary. Folks who are mtDNA descendants are encouraged to contact Raymond T. Wing (email: wing.genealogist AT gmail DOT com)
Background
Biography
Almost nothing is known about Mary, the second wife of Peter Browne. She married Peter by 1631 and survived her husband by at least one year.[1]
Peter and Mary had two children; a child who died young and Rebecca.
Second Generation
Rebecca Browne was born in Plymouth about 1631. She married about 1654 to William Snow.[2] William and Rebecca had eight children; four sons and four daughters (Mary [never married], Lydia [never married], Hannah and Rebecca.
Third Generation
Hannah Snow was born about 1664. She married twice, first to Giles Rickard about 1683 and second to Joseph Howes in 1713/4. All of her children were by her first marriage.
Rebecca Snow was born about 1671. She married 1689 to Samuel Rickard.
- ↑ Plymouth Colony Records 1:28, but was probably dead by 1647 when one of her daughters sold her father's land without referring to the widow's dower rights. TGMB I:261
- ↑ Plymouth Colony Land Records 5:197
mtDNA Results
Currently no known mtDNA descendants of Mary have publicly released their mtDNA results. Anyone who believes they are a mtDNA descendant of Mary (that is to say anyone who believe's their mother's mother's mother's etc. mother was Mary) is encouraged to contact Raymond Wing (email wing DOT genealogist AT gmail DOT com) and take a full mtDNA test as well as make the results available to the public for analysis.
