Question of the Week: Have you found a Mayflower passenger or Puritan ancestor in your lineage?

Question

The roots of the Thanksgiving tradition in the US are often attributed to the Pilgrims who arrived in the Plymouth Colony aboard the Mayflower. You can use the Relationship Finder Quick Links to see if you may be related to one of the original passengers.

Maybe you've found that one of your lines descends from the larger group of Puritans who arrived in New England a little later. The Puritan Great Migration Project is working to identify and document these families.

Share the stories you've discovered, and be sure to check out the projects. There is some great work happening!

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I have multiple Snows in my line too. Among them are Anthony Snow (and wife Abigail Warren) and then I come down through their daughter Sarah and her husband, Joseph Waterman.

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yes. Nicholas Snow Sr. Was father to Nicholas Snow Jr. and William Snow Sr.

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I'm reading a book just written called "PilgrimLives" by Martyn Whittock.

Nicholas Snow Jr and others are mentioned. I'm only in chapter 3. Good read

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Henry Howland Jr. migrated to New England during the Puritan Great Migration (1620-1640). My husband and I are 11th cousins , once removed. 

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Yes and I found a drunk in me cupboard too...

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LoL Sue.

Same here. All of my ancestors came across later. Mostly as steerage.

:)

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We were brought up in a similar fashion growing up here in New England. “Humble and honest” just as our cousin Abe was.

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Probably not.

MY GGF was born Joseph John Bond in England.  Some time between  1872 of 1873 he changed his do Dodd.

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My great grandmother, Franc Palmer, was a puritan. Born in Indiana.

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Richard Warren who was  identified as a 'Stranger-Adventurer'Mayflower passenger is my 11th great  grandfather.

Elder William Brewster who is identified as the spiritual leader of the  Separatist Leiden congregation Mayflower passengers is my 12 th great grandfather

Answer 1

I am a descendant of Francis Cooke, Francis Eaton & James Chilton that I've found so far. Making application to Mayflower Society. Hopefully I can prove up all 3.

Answer 2

I have a couple connections that I need absolute proof before I say yes positive, but I am suppose to have a line that goes to Peregrine White, one to William White, and two separate lines one from my mothers side and one from my fathers side to Stephen Hopkins.

Answer 3

My wife has a link because her Dutch Ancestry through the Dubbeldam name from her Great Grandfathers line then a link through the Cushman line,to Mary Allerton.The dutch connection was formed by her Great Grandfather arriving to help dig the Manchester Ship Canal, they then became potatoe farmers, in Astley Lancashire where my wife was born.

Answer 4

Thanks to McCourt et al.  The American descendants of Rev. John Smith, who married 13 June 1643 Susanna Hinckley page 164 while working on my great grandfather, Luce-1381 , it seems that Resolved White is my 8th great grandfather. 

Answer 5

Yes, John, Edward Winslow and his wife Elizabeth Barker as well as his brother Gilbert Winslow were on the Mayflower. My 9th Great Grandmother is May Magdalene Winslow, sister of the Winslow brothers and she married Peter Worden II.

Answer 6

Not one single possible relationship to Mayflower passengers.  Which I actually find refreshing.  It seems I could share possible relationships with just about everyone else.

Answer 7

Richard Warren and Francis Cooke 10x great grandfathers

Answer 8

Ok I have been working on a batch of folks that go back to the PGM project folks but not sure if they were considered Puritans or what - reverend Ezekiel Rogers gathered many Yorkshire folks and brought them over, they landed in Salem 1638, Founded the town of Rowley in 1639 - I don't even think they connect up to my family, but an interesting batch of folks

Answer 9

I found quite a few, so I glossied up my profile (at least for a while) with the boxes for each of them . You all can see them at Flamer-1, and I sure enjoy them as proof of the research required.

This is considering that they are all ancestors of my mother, since my father's were much more recent.

Answer 10

I had a new supplemental approved very recently to Richard Warren.  I have been working on it for about 15 years, and it took the help of the Massachusetts historian to get it through for me.  While it had been my hope to get it done in my mother's lifetime, so she could have been a member of MSoD, that did not happen.  I am reaching out to our relatives on her side, so they will know they share this heritage, nearly 400 years of family and history.

Answer 11

I’ve found and verified numerous Mayflower passengers in my lineage. The count is 16 or 17 now, and I have traced two of them back to the 12th century and their involvement in the crusades.

Answer 12

Richard Warren and Edward Fuller are both my 10th great grandfathers. I thought at one point that I was also descended from Stephen Hopkins but I was mistaken on the identity of a descendant and had to demote him to "father-in-law of 10th great uncle". Jame Chilton suffered the same fate. I found that there are a lot of people with the same names and you have to be very careful when building your tree.

Answer 13

Found 20 Mayflower Ancestors!

Answer 14

I found that my husband and my adoptive father are both tied to Miles Standish. I joke with my dad that my daughter really is related to him through blood now because of my husband and him being distant cousins!

Answer 15

I have a few connections in my family tree according to the relationship finder but I have not made it back that far in all of my research.

Agnes (Cooper) Tilley (Cooper-827) and I share a great grandfather in Nicholas (Harrington) Harington MP (Harrington-91). He was her 7th and my 18th.

Henry Samson (Samson-27) and I share the same connection as Agnes and I. Nicholas was his 8th great grandfather.

William Mullins (Mullins-5) is also related through Nicholas - his 7th great grandfather.

Richard More Sr. (More-108) shares a grandfather in Ralph (Neville) de Neville KG PC (Neville-53) the 1st Earl of Westmorland, 4th Baron Neville de Raby. He is Richards 7th great grandfather and my 18th.

Lastly, Katherine (White) Carver (White-11597) is related through Robert (Clifford) de Clifford, the 1st Lord Clifford. (Clifford-242). He is Katherines 9th great grandfather and my 21st. Robert is a descendant of a Magna Carta Surety barons Hugh le Bigod and Roger le Bigod. Hugh is my 24th great grandfather, Katherines 13th and Roberts 2nd.

Answer 16

I thought I did once a few years ago.  But it was fake.

Comments

Oh how sad, Keep looking

Answer 17

My most satisfying experience as a genealogy "wanna be" was tracing my wife's father's line back to the Mayflower. He was born in NYC but quickly I found his parents in Eastern Massachusetts, the Cape and into Portsmouth RI.  I did not recognize any of the names until I found a Nickerson.  Shortly after that it was Constance Hopkins and her father.  I mentioned the connection but said I wanted to double check the sources.  Shortly after that experience I communicated with one of the wife's distant cousins in her paternal line who suggested I start using WikiTree.  Doing that, as I entered family information the connection to the Hopkins was verified in WikiTree.

Answer 18

I've found a couple of possibles.  I haven't sent them in yet to get them verified.  The best one, I think, is to Richard Warren.  Also thought I had one to Billington, but found a glitch that I haven't been able to resolve.

Answer 19

Richard Warren is a bloodline ancestor of mine ..

Answer 20

I have several brick walls the have stopped me from getting back to some ancestors that I suspect had New England origins and possible Mayflower connections.  Some of the names that have me stymied are Smith, Wheelock, Welsh, Willcox, Patterson, Hatchett, Ferguson, at al.

EuGene Smith