♀Mildred Weston

Mildred Weston (buried 8 January 1567) was an Englishwoman whose grandson John White^W was the Dorchester minister who helped to obtain the charter of the Massachusetts Bay Company. She married John White of Timsbury, in Hampshire, England, and was the thirteenth great-grandmother of Nancy Jane Blanchard (1929–2006), through her son John White (died between 1616 and 1618).

Family

John White married Mildred Weston, and they are said to have had seven children. Their eldest son, John, settled at Stanton St John, in Oxfordshire, where he lived as a gentleman and raised a family that included the Dorchester minister. Two of the daughters were probably Avis, who married a man named Summers, and Alice, who married a man named Cannon; their brother John remembered both in his will in 1616. Mildred was buried on 8 January 1567. John outlived her and was buried on 1 February 1579/80.

Notes

Sources

The pedigree of “White of Dorchester” in W. Harry Rylands, ed., Pedigrees from the Visitations of Hampshire (Harleian Society 64, 1913), pp. 229-230, attested for her grandsons John White of Dorchester and Josiah White of Hornchurch, names her only as “the Da: of .... Weston”, wife of John White of Timsbury; her first name is left blank and her father is not named. Her first name, her burial date and the count of seven children come from Michael Russell’s compiled pages on the White family for the Dorset online parish clerks. Both are compiled sources, not parish records.

Another Weston

Russell gives the mother of her son’s wife, Isabel Bawle, as another Weston: Alice Weston, the wife of John Bawle of Lichfield. The sources do not say whether the two women were related.

The daughters Avis and Alice

The will of her son John White of Stanton St John, dated 30 September 1616, leaves “my sister Avis Sum’ers” ten shillings “to be layd out in a ring” and “my sister Alice Cannon” forty shillings. In 1616 “sister” could also mean a sister-in-law. Frances Rose-Troup’s 1930 book on the Dorchester minister, as Russell reports it, places Avis as a sister of the testator by blood. Alice is placed as a daughter of John and Mildred because she is not known among the children of the testator’s wife’s parents.