Unknown (Unknown) Mayo (abt. 1655 - bef. 1727)

Descendants

Died before 1727 before about age 72 in Eastham, Barnstable, Province of Massachusetts Bay [uncertain]

Problems/Questions Profile manager: Mayflower Project WikiTree [send private message]

Unknown (Unknown) Mayo was related to a passenger on the Mayflower. Join: Mayflower Project Discuss: mayflower

Biography

It has been suggested that the wife of Samuel Mayo was Ruth Hopkins, the daughter of Giles and Catherine (Whelden) Hopkins, but no proof has been found,^[1][2] and in the 2014 Mayflower Families volume on Elder William Brewster it is indicated that the name of Samuel Mayo's first wife is completely unknown. It confirms that this unknown first wife is the mother of all of his children and that she probably died in Eastham before 15 July 1727.^[3] In the 2019 Brewster Silver Book (Part 3) all seven children (Hannah, Sarah, Samuel, Jonathan, Rebecca, Mary, and Mercy) are listed as being the children of Samuel with no mention of a mother.^[4]

Sources

1. ↑ Austin, John D., Mayflower Families Through Five Generations, Stephen Hopkins, Vol. 6 (Plymouth, MA: General Society of Mayflower Descendants, 2001 [3rd edition]), page 9.
2. ↑ The New England Historical and Genealogical Register. Boston, MA: New England Historic Genealogical Society, 1847-. (Online database: AmericanAncestors.org, New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2001-2018.) "Stephen Hopkins of the Mayflower and some of His Descendants" NEHGR Vol. 102(1948):49.
3. ↑ Merrick, Barbara Lambert. Mayflower Families through Five Generations. Volume Twenty-Four The Descendants of Elder William Brewster. (Plymouth, MA: General Society of Mayflower Descendants, 2014.) Part 1, page 313.
4. ↑ Brewster Silver Book, Part 3, published 2019, pages 109-116.

See also:

• John D. Austin, Mayflower Families Through Five Generations, Vol 6, Stephen Hopkins, Plymouth, Mass.: General Society of Mayflower Descendants, 2001 [3rd edition], Page 9.

• Ferris, Mary W. Dawes-Gates Ancestral Lines: A Memorial Volume Containing the American Ancestry of Rufus R. Dawes, Volume 1, published online by Ancestry.com, The Generations Network, Inc., Provo, UT, 2005; original book privately printed, 1943. (Vol. 2:444 was cited, but no mention of the wife of Samuel Mayo is found in this source)

• DeForest, L. Effingham and Anne Lawrence DeForest, Moore and Allied Families: The Ancestry of William Henry Moore, (NY, NY : The DeForest Publishing Company, 1938). (No reference to the wife of Samuel Mayo found)

• Caleb H. Johnson, The Mayflower and her passengers (Indiana:Xlibris Corp., Caleb Johnson, 2006) (page reference needed, with content)