WHITE, Bridget

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• Name	WHITE, Bridget
  Birth	Aft 3 Jul 1575	Sturton le Steeple, Nottingham, England
  Gender	Female
  Death	Aft 28 Oct 1643	Leiden, Zuid-Holland, Netherlands
  Burial	Nov 1643
  WAC	13 Mar 1925
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  Person ID	I39593	Joseph Smith Sr and Lucy Mack Smith
  Last Modified	19 Aug 2021

  
  

  Father	WHITE, Alexander ,   b. 1550, Stourton, Somerset, England Stourton, Somerset, Englandd. 6 May 1596, Sturton le Steeple, Nottinghamshire, England (Age 46 years)
  Mother	SMITH, Eleanor ,   b. 1546, Stourton, Somerset, England Stourton, Somerset, Englandd. 6 May 1596, Sturton le Steeple, Nottinghamshire, England (Age 50 years)
  Marriage	Abt 1570	Stourton, Somerset, England
  Family ID	F19507	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	ROBINSON, Reverend John ,   b. 1576, Sturton le Steeple, Nottingham, England Sturton le Steeple, Nottingham, Englandd. 1 Mar 1625, Leiden, South Holland, Netherlands (Age 49 years)
  Marriage	15 Feb 1603	Greasley, Nottingham, England
  Family ID	F21703	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	24 Jan 2022

  
  

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  James I vigorously enforced The Act Against Puritans (1593), 35 Elizabeth, Cap. 1, making it illegal for separatists to hold their own services. Anyone who did not attend the services of the Church of England for forty days, and who attended private services “contrary to the laws and statutes of the realm and being thereof lawfully convicted shall be committed to prison, there to remain without bail mainprise until they shall confirm and yield themselves to same church. "The king’s campaign to suppress religious freedom ended academic freedom at the universities. Rather than remain in this environment, John Robinson resigned his teaching position at Cambridge on February 10, 1604, and returned home to Nottinghamshire. St Andrew's Church Married men were prohibited from teaching at Cambridge, and a desire to marry may have been a factor in Robinson’s resignation. Just five days later, on February 15, 1604, he married Bridget White (1579-1643), the daughter of Alexander and Eleanor (Smith) White. She was born in 1579, to prosperous yeoman farmer parents. Bridget Robinson still lived on in the Pieterskerkhof, where her husband had spent the best years of his life. She was there in 1635, ten years after John Robinson's death. The last notice of her recorded by Dexter is as a witness at the betrothal of George Materse to Elizabeth Loder, April 6, 1640. She spent her declining years with her kinsfolk in the fair city of Holland which had given them asylum in earlier days. The indications from her Will are that she remained in Holland and identified herself more and more with the Dutch Church, as her husband's Church departed from his liberal principles, and became too weak to sustain a regular pastor.