Winch and Allied Families - Our Mayflower Families - Introduction

 I have heard about the Mayflower and it's passengers for "nigh on" 60 years.

Little did I know they we are direct line ancestors to - wait for it - 10 people on the Mayflower!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

On this page I will list the persons/families and their English origins that we have as dicect line ancestors, and then dedicate a page to each family. I have not been able to find any in the Clark(e) Family - yet - 

This is my way to celebrate Thanksgiving this year.

The passengers we are directly descended from are as follows:

Isaac and - I believe - Mary Allerton - I think. I believe they came from Suffolk

William and Mary Brewster - Their son Jonathan came over the next year. Possibly from Nottingham.

Francis and his son John Cooke. From Leiden, The Netherlands.

Samuel Fuller - from Redenhall, Norfolk.

Degory Priest - He was a hatter from London.

John and Elizabeth Tilley - Elizabeth was the daughter of John.

John Howland - From Fenstation, Norfolk. The Manservant and Executive assistant for Govenor John Carver.

John, Eleanor, John (son), Francis (son) Billington  (possibly from Lancanshire)

Francis, Sarah, Samuel Eaton (possibly from Bristol, Gloucestershire/Somerset).

William, Alice, Priscilla, Joseph Mullins (from Dorking, Surrey.

My hopes are to do short documentation on each of the above.

You may want to go to:

https://winchandalliedfamilies.blogspot.com/

Which includes as far back as I have gone - not including the Mayflower Families as I didn't know at the time that I had ancestors among the Mayflower.

Around 2023, I saw the name "Brewster" show up in my FamilySearch.org tree. I recognized the name as being from a list of passengers on the Mayflower. I followed the name up into the tree and found that our family - the Winch side - were direct line descendants of William and Mary Brewster. William was the religious "leader" of the Mayflower passengers.

They both survided the voyage lived for a number of years in Plymouth.

I have the following "Silver Books" on the families of the Mayflower, which were published by the General Society of Mayflower Descendents".

They books highlight the following families:

#8 - Degory Priest 2nd edition Part 1

#16 - John Alden Volume Sixteen Part 1

#21 - Billington Family part 1 and 2

#22 - Brewster Family part 1 and 2

These books reside in my office on the top of my mother's desk.

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