Mary (Birchard), bp. Terling, Essex, 2 April 1623 [Terling PR]; no further record. … On 19 September 1635, … "Marie Burchard," aged 12, … enrolled at London for passage to New England on the Truelove [Hotten 131]. … The claim has been made for some years in various secondary sources that Mary Birchard, daughter of Thomas Birchard, was the famous, unnamed "bride of Bride's Brook." … Unfortunately, without some evidence that the bride was Mary Birchard, we cannot expediently assume that is was she who married Jonathan Rudd.