Person:Dorothea May (1)

Name	Dorothea May
Alt Name	Dorothy _____
Gender	Female
Birth`^?`	19 Mar 1590	Wisbech, Cambridgeshire, England
Christening`^?`		Wisbech, Cambridgeshire, England
Marriage Banns	15 Nov 1613	Leiden, Zuid-Holland, NetherlandsWilliam Bretfoort, fustian worker, a young man from Osterfeldt, Eng. was affianced to Dorothea May from Witzbutz (Wisbeach, Cambridge, Eng.) to Governor William Bradford, III
Marriage	10 Dec 1613	Amsterdam, Noord-Holland, Netherlandsto Governor William Bradford, III
Death`^?`	16 Dec 1620	Plymouth, Plymouth, MassachusettsDrowned, Plymouth Harbor
Burial`^?`	Dec 1620	Plymouth, Plymouth, Massachusetts
Ancestral File Number		96BP-6N
Ancestral File Number		1SMH-VCG

Dorothy drowned when she apparently fell over the railing of the ship.

References

Ancestral File.
Nathaniel Philbrick. Mayflower. (New York: Penguin Books (2006))
pg 76.

"Bradford never wrote about the circumstances of his wife's death. Much later in the century, the Puritan historian Cotton Mather recorded the Dorothy Bradford had accidentally fallen overborad and "was drowned in the harbor". That she fell from a moored ship has caused some to wonder whether she committed suicide."
Caleb Johnson, Sue Allen, Simon Neal, The English Origin and Kinship of Mayflower Passengers William1 White and Dorothy1 (May) Bradford of Wisbech, Cambridgeshire, in The American Genealogist (TAG). (Donald Lines Jacobus, et.al.)
89.2:82+, Apr 2017.

Daughter of Henry May and Katherine