Mary Rickard

Do not confuse with Mary Rickard who married John Rickard, Jr.

Disambiguation

Mary Snow vs Mary Cook vs Mary unknown

Why are people writing that John Rickard's wife was Mary Snow when records state that he married Mary Cook? (Answer - there are 2 John Rickards, one who married Mary Cooke and one who married Mary, possibly Snow. People have gotten them hopelessy mixed up over the years)

Biography

Retrieved from https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Snow-259 and then edited

Mary Snow is thought to be the Mary who married John Rickard, son of Giles Rickard, but there is no proof for this. Robert Wakefield quoted Shaw's Families of the Pilgrims: Peter Brown as stating that Mary Snow "probably married John Rickard, but conclusive proof has not been discovered." Wakefield speculated that "this opinion is apparently based on the fact that Mary's sisters Hannah and Rebecca married Giles and Samuel Rickard" (brothers of John Rickard). He stated, "While possible, this assumption is not accepted by by the Mayflower Society."[2] This marriage is estimated to have been in 1676, probably in Plymouth.[3]

Children of John Rickard, Sr., and Mary were:[8][9]

From https://www.werelate.org/wiki/Person:John_Rickard_%281%29

1. Mary (or Marcy), born 27 October 1677 in Plymouth;[9] she may be the Mary Rickard who married Jabez Eddy in 1700 and died in 1711[10]
2. Lydia, born 12 July 1679. Married John Tilson.
3. John, born 29 December 1681 in Plymouth[11].
4. Joseph, born 7 February 1683 in Plymouth[12]. Married Deborah Miller.
5. Eleazer, christened 1686; died the same week.
6. Mercy (or Marcy) born 14 May 1687 in Plymouth. Married Ephraim Tilson.
7. Patience, 1689: Patience, daughter of John & Mary Rickard senior [baptized].
8. Joanna (aka Joannah) born 22 September 1691 in Plymouth
9. Abigail born 22 May 1694 in Plymouth. Married Israel Dunham.
10. Rebeckah (Rebecca) born 3 January 1699 in Plymouth[13]. Married Thomas Pratt.

The Plymouth Church Records also list the baptisms in 1686 of Eliezer, an infant son who died that same week,[14] and in 1690 of Patience, "daughter of John & Mary Rickard senior".[15]
Other than the Plymouth "Vital Records," few contemporary sources exist that discuss the lives of the Rickard and Snow families in the late 1600s. For example, many have confused the lives and families of first-cousins & homonyms, John Rickard, mixing together John Rickard Jr. who was born in 1657 and who married Mary Cooke with "Deacon John Rickard" who was born in 1652 and who is thought to have married Mary Snow, subject of this profile.

Mary Snow's husband, "Deacon John Rickard," died in 1726 at age 74. She would have been about 68.

Some family genealogies, but with No sources, state that she married "Ephraim Tinkham" after John's death but this remains unproven.

Her exact death date and location are also unproven unless further research uncovers them. It is assumed that she died after 1726 in any case and most likely in Plymouth, Massachusetts.

References

1. https://www.werelate.org/wiki/Person:John_Rickard_%281%29 cites
   1. Pulsifer, David (editor), and Nathaniel B. (editor) Shurtleff. Records of the Colony of New Plymouth, in New England. (Boston, MA: William White, 1855-1861) Vol. 8 (Misc.), p. 14. 1652. Plymouth Regester of the Beirth of theire Children John the sonne of Gyles Rickard, Juni, borne the [In this source, the line is finished with two '^' characters, which seem to indicate to copy the date from the line above, i.e., 16th of September. In the transcription given in Source:MD, p. 16:238, these extra characters are not given, and an editor's note says "The entry was not finished".]
   2. Plympton, Plymouth, Massachusetts, United States. Vital Records of Plympton, Massachusetts, to the Year 1850. (Boston, Massachusetts: New England Historic Genealogical Society, 1923) 506. (Rickard, John, Dea., s. Giles of Plymouth, Oct. 11, 1726, in 74th y.) Notes in parentheses (the whole entry in this case) were entered by Lewis Bradford, town clrk from 1812-1851.
   3. "Gravestone Records in the Old Cemetery at Plympton, Mass.", in Massachusetts Society of Mayflower Descendants. Mayflower Descendant: An Illustrated Quarterly Magazine of Pilgrim Genealogy, History and Biography 11:115. Rickard, John, Deacon, died 11 October, 1726, in his 74th year. [Age 73, so birth about 1653.]
   4. Stratton, Eugene A. "Which John Rickard Married Mary Cooke?", in General Society of Mayflower Descendants (Plymouth, Massachusetts). Mayflower quarterly. (Boston, Massachusetts, United States: General Society of Mayflower Descendants) 49:122. Will of John Rickard, s/o Giles, will [Plymouth Probate #16909] dated 11 Oct 1726, proved 7 Nov 1726, mentions sons John and Joseph, daughters Mary Eddy, Lydia Tilson, Mercy Tilson, Joanna Dunham and Rebecca Pratt, and grandchildren. Other son John d.. young, Abigail married but d. young.
2. https://www.familysearch.org/tree/person/details/KL85-WJD
3. WikiTree contributors, "Mary (Snow) Rickard (abt.1658-aft.1726)," WikiTree: The Free Family Tree, (https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Snow-259 : accessed 07 December 2024). cites
   1. Snow, page 7
   2. Wakefield, "The Tilson Family of Plymouth Colony," page 39, footnote
   3. New England Marriages to 1700. (Online database. AmericanAncestors.org. New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2008.) Originally published as: New England Marriages Prior to 1700, by Clarence A. Torrey. Boston, Mass.: New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2015. Vol. II, page 1275.
   4. Plymouth (Massachusetts) Vital Records, accessed at Ancestry.com (p. 26) and on Book One, p. 15, at AmericanAncestors.org (New England Historic Genealogical Society)
   5. Plymouth Vital Records, page 669: "Mary the daughter of John Rickard son of Gyles Rickard was born the 27th of Oct 1677"
   6. “New England Marriages Prior to 1700” by Clarence Almon Torrey, Pg. 242, and “The Eddy Family in America” compiled by Ruth Story Devereux Eddy, Pg. 61
   7. Plymouth Vital Records, page 671: "John, the son of John Rickard, the son of Gyles Rickard, was born the 29th of Dec. 1681"
   8. Plymouth Church Records, page 254 reports the baptism in 1683 of "Joseph son of John & Mary Rickard Junior," but this assignment to John Jr. is assumed to be an error, because Plymouth Vital Records names his father as John Sr., and there is no mention of Joseph in the will of John Rickard Jr.
   9. Plymouth Vital Records gives the birthdate as 3 January 1699. It is not clear whether this is an old-style or new-style date. See also:
4. Shaw, Hubert K. Families of the Pilgrims: Peter Brown. Boston, 1955, page 6.
5. Snow, Edwin H. The William Snow family. Descendants of William Snow, who landed at Plymouth, Mass., in 1635. Providence, R.I.: Snow & Farnham Co., Printers. 1908.
6. Wakefield, Robert S. "Husbands of Brown Women," The Mayflower Quarterly. Plymouth, MA: General Society of Mayflower Descendants, 1935-1985. (Online database: AmericanAncestors.org, New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2019). Vol. 44 (1978), page 44. Note: Five men are listed as having married granddaughters of Peter Brown, viz: ?Howes, Joseph; Rickard, Giles; ?Rickard, John; Rickard, Samuel; Tomson, John.
7. Wakefield, Robert S. Mayflower Families through Five Generations, Volume 7, Peter Brown, Plymouth MA: General Society of Mayflower Descendants, 2002.
8. Wakefield, Robert S. "The Tilson Family of Plymouth Colony." The American Genealogist, vol. 69 (1994), pages 37 ff.