Was john carver married

Answer 1

John Carver [Pilgrim] was married on two occasions. His first wife, Marie De Lannoy (Delano) was born in 1570 at L'Escluse, France. She attended a Walloon church at Lille, France. She fled to England during the massacre of Huguenots and Walloons by the Roman Catholic Church in the mid sixteenth century in France. John Carver married her in England, and in 1609 they went to Leiden, Holland where they joined the Walloon church there.

When the English Separatists moved to Leiden John Carver joined them. It is usually accepted that his first wive had died by then, possibly in childbirth, as a child was born to them and buried in Leiden that year. No name or sex is recorded.

While Deacon in the Separatist church he married Catherine Leggatt [nee White]. She came from Sturton-le-Steeple, Nottinghamshire England and her younger sister Bridget married Rev John Robinson [the Pilgrim's pastor]. They both came from the same village.

John and Catherine Carver had a baby in 1617 but that too was born dead. There is also no name or sex recorded for this baby either. They both sailed on the Mayflower but died without issue.