Elizabeth Brewster

Also Elizabeth Emerson

Probably the wife of Thomas Emerson, married at Bishop's Stortford, England, on 1 July 1611, and the mother of Elizabeth (Emerson) Fuller.

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Life

  1. 1611
    Married Thomas Emerson
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Family

Parents
Not known
Spouse
Thomas Emerson 1584–bef. 1666 · married 1611
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1 child

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Pedigree

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Notes

Married Thomas Emerson at Bishop’s Stortford, 1 July 1611. The Ipswich Emersons suggests she was a daughter of Elder William Brewster of Scrooby; that is chronologically implausible, since his eldest known child was born in 1593.

Her husband made “my Loueing wife Elizabeth Emerson sole executrix.” During her widowhood she was to have the farm rent, the house, the household goods and all the cattle, and a codicil adds that she “shall enioy for hur vs halfe the fruit of the orchard during hur natural lif” (Probate Records of Essex County 2:36-37).

Mollie's typescript· 1 passage · 1 claim checked

What Mollie wrote about her in The Holbrook and Low Families, and her claims about her checked against the records.

  1. Mollie's Emerson chart gives her marriage to Thomas Emerson on 1 July 1611 and wonders whether she was a sister of Elder Brewster.

    Married July 1, 1611 Elizabeth Brewster (Sister(?) of Elder Brewster)
    p. 109 A →

Checked against the records

  • Unlikely
    Elizabeth Brewster was a sister of Elder Brewster

    Nothing found links her to Elder William Brewster of Plymouth, and her parents are unknown. The Ipswich Emersons (1900) suggests she was his daughter, which the dates rule out: his eldest known child was born in 1593, and she married Thomas Emerson in 1611.

    Read it in the book, p. 109 A →
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Connections

Famous kin
  • Ralph Waldo Emerson 1803-1882
    Essayist, poet and lecturer, leader of the Transcendentalists
    Ralph Waldo Emerson is the fifth cousin, four times removed, of the centre of this tree.
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