SpouseSARAH REDER OR READER2,39 , 32
Birthca 1587, Kent, England66
Death11 Oct 1616, Leyden, Holland, age: 2967
BurialSaint Peter’s Cemetery, Leiden, Leiden Municipality, Zuid-Hollad, Netherlands
FlagsAncestor of RCC
Death:
Oct. 11, 1616
Wife of Deacon Robert Cushman and mother of Elder Thomas Cushman. Robert and Thomas migrated to Plymouth Colony aboard the "Fortune" 4 years after Sara's death. She is buried at St. Peters, Leiden, Zuid-Holland Province, Netherlands. 68
She of Christ Church shown as Reder39
For many years the origins of Sara Reder or Reader, the first wife of Robert Cushman, have remained unknown. Cushman was well known as the principal agent working on behalf of the Mayflower Pilgrims in London in 1617. Little information about Sara is available in the written records. Robert Cushman and Sara Reder were married on 31 July, 1606 at St. Alphege Church, Canterbury. Their first child, Thomas, was baptized at St. Andrews, on 7 February, 1607/8. The two were Separatists who moved to Leiden, The Netherlands in about 1608/9 to join the Pilgrim Church. In 1616 Sara died in Leiden and was commemorated on a plaque of deceased Separatists on the wall of the Pieterskerk. Their son, Thomas Cushman, had eight children in Plymouth, New England and was the ancestor of many Cushman descendants in the United States.
In 2016, Michael Paulick and Robert C Cushman published additional information about the probable origins of Sara Reader. Her baptismal record at St. Mary’s Lenham, Kent, England for Sara and her brothers, Thomas and Helchea Reader - 17 September, 1585 “Baptizata fuit Sara filia Pauli Reader” [was baptized Sara daughter of Paule Reader]. See also, LDS Family History Library, Salt Lake City, Utah, microfilm #1751918, Item 3, Archdeacons transcripts: Baptisms, marriages and burials 1564-1813, [Lenham].69
Family ID20
Marriage31 Jul 1606, Canterbury, England70,71,39
Marr Memoat Alphege Parish church, Marriage 2nd; also married 3rd, Mary Clarke Singleton, June 5 at Leyden, Holland (Mayflower Planters, Vol. 2, the widow of Thomas Singleton of Sandwich, England. (page 179)
According to the published version of St. Alphege Parish Record, the script reads “The 31st of July 1606 were married Robert Cushman and Sara Reder dwelling with in P’rcincts of Christchurche”