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Bloodline — Dudley & Booker

The Dudley Line

Mary Catherine Dudley's family in York County, Maine — traced back through her parents and siblings to Aaron Booker, a Revolutionary War patriot. Her marriage into the Schmidt family is covered on the Schmidt Line; this page follows her own ancestry.

Ancestor Records
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Married into Schmidt Line

Mary Catherine Dudley Schmidt

A York, Maine, Native
b. 1840, Boston, MA d. 1920, Kittery, ME m. Edward Schmidt, 1861; m. John A. Tucker, 1882

Mary's Boston birthplace was confirmed through her 1882 marriage record to John A. Tucker — the first documentation of her remarriage after Edward's death, and the record that later explained why her 1912 widow's pension application was rejected. Her own roots, though, are in York County, Maine, through her parents John H. Dudley and Lydia Jane Voudy.

Photo / document placeholder — 1882 Tucker marriage record
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Parents of 001

John H. Dudley & Lydia Jane Voudy

intention filed June 1840, York, Maine

Mary's parents. York's own vital records show John Dudley and Lydia Jane Voudy filing a marriage intention on June 3, 1840, with a certificate issued June 17, 1840 — the town's authorization for the marriage to proceed. That's the earliest documented step toward their marriage; the record of the ceremony itself (a "return of marriage") hasn't yet been located, so the exact wedding date is still unconfirmed. The 1850 census confirms John Dudley as her father — a detail that matters, since his given name is recorded differently across other family records (see Open Questions, below).

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Siblings of 001

The Dudley Siblings

Six confirmed siblings of Mary Catherine Dudley, established through census and vital records. Two have individual death records on file so far.

Confirmed
Annie S. (Dudley) Burnham
d. 1924, Scarborough, ME
George W. Dudley
d. 1935, Lynn, MA
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Confirmed via census — details pending
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Confirmed via census — details pending
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Confirmed via census — details pending
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Confirmed via census — details pending
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Revolutionary War Patriot

Aaron Booker

The Earliest Confirmed Ancestor on Mary's Side
b. Aug. 29, 1758, York, ME

Confirmed through the 1850 census and a DAR application (Beatrice Wayland Smith/English, National No. 150069), which traces the Booker line back to Aaron Booker's Revolutionary War service. This is the earliest confirmed ancestor on Mary's side of the family.

Document placeholder — DAR application No. 150069
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Dorcas Booker

b. c. 1780 (DAR) — see Open Questions

Daughter in the Booker line connecting Aaron Booker forward to the Dudley family. Full biography pending further primary-source confirmation.

Open Questions & Discrepancies
Father's Name

Seven independent records — four census entries, his gravestone, and two of his own children's marriage records — name Mary's father "John" or "John H. Dudley." Two records — a 1919 DAR application and a son's 1935 death certificate, both secondhand family memory recorded decades after his death — name him "William Dudley" instead. The weight of evidence favors John H., but since "William" recurs independently across two unconnected descendant lines, this is kept as an open question rather than a settled correction.

Marriage Date

York's own vital records (also independently confirmed via the New England Historical and Genealogical Register, Vol. 119, p. 224) show the marriage intention was filed June 3, 1840, with a certificate issued June 17, 1840 — not 1839, as earlier family research had assumed. The intention and certificate are documented; the actual date of the ceremony is not yet confirmed.

Dorcas Booker's Birth Year

The DAR application gives c. 1780; an Ancestry tree shows 1796. The DAR-sourced 1780 date is currently treated as correct pending further verification.