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Dorothy (Yorke) Dudley
née Yorke
Dorothy (Yorke) Dudley (née Yorke) (died 27 December 1643) was born in Northamptonshire, England. She married Gov. Thomas Dudley. Her child was Mercy (Dudley) Woodbridge. She died in 1643, in Roxbury, Suffolk County, Massachusetts.
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- Jones 1899 pp.24, 317-318: Thomas Dudley married Dorothy Yorke, daughter of Edmond Yorke of Cotton End, Northamptonshire; she was mother of five of his children and died 27 Dec 1643 aged 61 (epitaph by her daughter Anne Bradstreet).
He was married to Miss Dorothy Yorke, the daughter of Edmond Yorke of Cotton End, in the county of Northampton, England. ... An Epitaph On my dear and ever honored Mother, Mrs. Dorothy Dudley, Who deceased Decemb. 27, 1643, and of her age, 61
- Jones 1899 pp.24, 317-318: Thomas Dudley married Dorothy Yorke, daughter of Edmond Yorke of Cotton End, Northamptonshire; she was mother of five of his children and died 27 Dec 1643 aged 61 (epitaph by her daughter Anne Bradstreet).
Mrs. Catherine Dudley, the widow of Governor Dudley, and eight of his children survived him, as follows: Rev. Samuel Dudley, Mrs. Anne Bradstreet, Mrs. Patience Dennison, Mrs. Sarah Pacey, and Mrs. Mercy Woodbridge, by his first wife, Dorothy; and Mrs. Deborah Wade, Governor Joseph Dudley, and Paul Dudley, by his last wife Catherine.
- Wikipedia, Thomas Dudley: b. Yardley Hastings near Northampton 12 Oct 1576, son of Roger and Susanna (Thorne) Dudley; m. Dorothy Yorke 1603; Mercy, last child with Dorothy, m. John Woodbridge; 2nd/4th Governor of Massachusetts Bay; d. Roxbury 31 Jul 1653, buried Eliot Burying Ground.
Dudley married Dorothy Yorke in 1603 and had five or six children.