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L Stiller - Posted - 02/17/2015: 12:19:35
here is a list of all passengers on the mayflower. My mothers side of the
family claims to be descendants of the Thomas Rogers listed on here. Anyone
else look familiar to anybody?
Edited by - L Stiller on 02/17/2015 12:22:02
OM45GE - Posted - 02/17/2015: 12:27:29
My mom was supposedly descended from the Hopkins. They had a baby on board and named him Oceanus. I don't know if it's true or not and always thought it was a little meaningless. That many generations back we have tens of thousands of ancestors. Odds are some are famous, some are infamous, some good, some bad.
L Stiller - Posted - 02/17/2015: 12:33:13
bill
what an unusual name ! very interesting though. id hate to think
what his nickname may have been !
donc - Posted - 02/17/2015: 12:40:02
Every one of those names is fairly common. Anyone with the same name could be a possible link. My grandfather passed down a couple of stories that were later proven incorrect. The claim was that my ancestors were servants of Mary, Queen of Scots. When she moved from France to Scotland she took her servants with her. We were not really part of that. He also said that the town of Craik, Saskatchewan was named after his grandfather who was a member of the Upper Canada parliament. Its true about the grandfather but the town itself was named after the head surveyor of the railroad. Not everything our elders tell us may be true.
Edited by - donc on 02/17/2015 12:40:42
figmo59 - Posted - 02/17/2015: 12:45:25
I did not know there were ..Whites...on tha boat..
ScratchJohnson - Posted - 02/17/2015: 12:48:11
My girl is huge into ancestry so she bought the books that break down the lineage of everyone that came over, interesting stuff.
Brian T - Posted - 02/17/2015: 12:48:35
We all have different parents and grand parents from eachother, agreed?
And they had different parents and grandpatents, too.
But
The human population is growing.
Going back into the past, the human population was smaller, and smaller before that.
Question: how far back do you have to go before your ancestors and my ancestors
were one-and-the-same?
30-40 generations.
Frisco Fred - Posted - 02/17/2015: 12:51:47
My mother is...
... one of the couple million decedents of Liz Tilley and John Howland.
It's not that uncommon
Klondike Waldo - Posted - 02/17/2015: 12:53:29
Lots of those names are familiar, but then I'm from the South Shore, Eastern MA. None of my ancestors came over on the Mayflower, though.
Charles in SC - Posted - 02/17/2015: 17:53:07
My mother was decended from William Bradford.
Edited by - Charles in SC on 02/17/2015 17:53:42
desert rose - Posted - 02/17/2015: 18:10:10
My brother in laws family was on that boat
Scott
mike gregory - Posted - 02/17/2015: 18:26:47
I am descended from along line of short people, but nobody off that boatload.
raharris - Posted - 02/18/2015: 05:45:02
No one looks familiar to me but my wife, a university history professor, has been into genealogy for a few years now and claims a connection to one of the passengers on my paternal grandmothers side. I'm skeptical. She decided at some point that genealogy would be a good semester-long project for the students in one of the classes she teaches and in order to teach her students to trace their ancestry she spent a year doing her own and, when she got tired of that, mine. I was always raised to believe I was almost 100% Irish on my mothers side, some Irish on my fathers. Turns out there is much more French than Irish in mom's lineage and all the Irish on my fathers is . . . Scottish. Scots-German-French is my guess, with a bunch of English in there as well. Or as I like to put it: North American Mutt. Putting it that way is a) easier than explaining the complex and (likely) partially incorrect entanglements of my heritage and puts me in good company, to wit, the vast majority of my fellow North Americans!
Anyway, Molly has traced my paternal grandmothers family back to a small, Amish-like religious order in Ohio in the 18th and 19th centuries. That far I follow. The lines from there to Mayflower New England lose me somewhat. They're tenuous at best, in my opinion.
But really, who cares?! I used to think I had a lot of Irish heritage, turns out I don't. Doesn't change me, my life my wife or my job one iota. Having had an ancestor who rode over on the Mayflower might be vaguely interesting, but anyone who has had family here for over 400 years is the same as most of the rest of us: North American Mutts!
trapdoor2 - Posted - 02/18/2015: 08:11:48
My parents are 10th cousins (or something like that). A guy named John Emery, one of the founding fathers of Newbury, MA, hit the beach in 1633. His first wife had a son (another John Emery), who is my mother's paternal g6-grandfather. His second wife had a daughter named Anne who married the son of a guy named James Ordway (also a founding family in Newbury). They are my father's g6-grandparents.
Nope, not on the Mayflower...but only 13yrs later!
Mom's connection to the early settlement of North America may be earlier than that. There is a Dutch line that I've traced back to the 1630's in New Amsterdam (now NYC).
American Mutt: that's me!
Nels - Posted - 02/18/2015: 08:37:39
quote:
Originally posted by Frisco Fred
My mother is...
... one of the couple million decedents of Liz Tilley and John Howland.
It's not that uncommon
my dau-in-law decends from John Howland's brother Arthur Howland and wife Margaret Walker.... close, but no cigar..
banjophil - Posted - 02/18/2015: 08:46:36
I googled the Eaton family from the Mayflower and it turns out Francis Eaton was a carpenter . I'm a carpenter, Maybe we're related I don't know. Thanks for posting I didnt know there was Eaton's on the Mayflower.
Phil Eaton
Frisco Fred - Posted - 02/18/2015: 09:21:36
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Originally posted by Nels
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Originally posted by Frisco Fred
My mother is...
... one of the couple million decedents of Liz Tilley and John Howland.
It's not that uncommon
my dau-in-law decends from John Howland's brother Arthur Howland and wife Margaret Walker.... close, but no cigar..
Are you saying that John Howland had a brother who remained in England?
The only reason I found out about these people who first settled in Barnstable, Mass is because my wife's interest in genealogy, that and Ancestry.com. It was never anything my parents talked about. When I asked my mother about her ancestry, she said, "Oh, I know my mother use say we should learn it, but it wasn't anything we really cared about".
My wife's search did begin with a set of handwritten letters of lineages, I found in my mother's effects. They went back to a person in the US military that was dated 1820. The letters were a series of who married who and had these children who then married who... an so on. The rest is based on the Ancestry website... Who knows? Then again, who really cares?
BTW: It does indicate that I'm related to Sarah Paiin and George Bush... That explains things... 
Nels - Posted - 02/18/2015: 09:42:55
quote:
Originally posted by Frisco Fred
quote:
Originally posted by Nels
quote:
Originally posted by Frisco Fred
My mother is...
... one of the couple million decedents of Liz Tilley and John Howland.
It's not that uncommon
my dau-in-law decends from John Howland's brother Arthur Howland and wife Margaret Walker.... close, but no cigar..
Are you saying that John Howland had a brother who remained in England?
The only reason I found out about these people who first settled in Barnstable, Mass is because my wife's interest in genealogy, that and Ancestry.com. It was never anything my parents talked about. When I asked my mother about her ancestry, she said, "Oh, I know my mother use say we should learn it, but it wasn't anything we really cared about".
My wife's search did begin with a set of handwritten letters of lineages, I found in my mother's effects. They went back to a person in the US military that was dated 1820. The letters were a series of who married who and had these children who then married who... an so on. The rest is based on the Ancestry website... Who knows? Then again, who really cares?
BTW: It does indicate that I'm related to Sarah Paiin and George Bush... That explains things...
Arthur Howland died 30 Oct 1675 in Marshfield, Plymouth, Mass. his wife died in Marshfield in 1683..However,they didn't come over on the Mayflower.
8thpol - Posted - 02/18/2015: 09:44:57
My Relatives traveled here via Space Ship
bubbalouie - Posted - 02/18/2015: 19:34:46
Q. Why do pilgrims pants always fall down?
A. They put their belt buckles on their hats!
dustyelmer - Posted - 02/18/2015: 20:11:10
John Billington is my 13x and Francis is my 12x great-grandfather.
steve davis - Posted - 02/24/2015: 15:06:29
Geena also claims John Davis as an ancestor.
My folks didn't move very far from the original landing...looks like this was one of Stiller's last gasps.
Edited by - steve davis on 02/24/2015 15:11:00
banjoman56 - Posted - 02/24/2015: 16:20:15
Some of my ancestors were already here when the Mayflower landed. I have heard that we're descendants of John Davis also. This I do know, my Great Grandfather "Tom Davis" married a Cherokee Indian. I'm supposed to have Blackfoot blood from my other grandmothers side.
Edited by - banjoman56 on 02/24/2015 16:21:24
steve davis - Posted - 02/24/2015: 18:11:28
We are in the local tribes,somewhere...likely Wawanoc.
brokenstrings - Posted - 02/24/2015: 18:32:07
I came over, with my parents and younger brother, on the S.S. Ernie Pyle in 1947. Held a celebration for friends & family in 1997.
Edited by - brokenstrings on 02/24/2015 18:33:43
DJMorgan - Posted - 02/24/2015: 19:28:08
I'm a member of the Mayflower Society, my ancestors are John Tilley, his wife Joan, their daughter Elizabeth and her husband John Howland.
martinsindian - Posted - 02/24/2015: 20:47:22
I traced my lineage back to a guy who built a really big boat , his name was Noah .
