# What Mayflower passenger(s) are you a descended from? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [July 16, 2011, 12:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-mayflower-passenger-s-are-you-a-descended-from/589233 "2011-07-16T12:04:27Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![robert\_columbia](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/e79b87/32.png) [@robert\_columbia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/robert_columbia)\ **Post date:** [July 16, 2011, 12:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-mayflower-passenger-s-are-you-a-descended-from/589233/1 "2011-07-16T12:04:27Z")
I’m going by: [http://www.mayflowerhistory.com/History/pilgrim2.php](http://www.mayflowerhistory.com/History/pilgrim2.php). For families, I’m listing the father only. Which passenger(s) are you descended from? You DON’T have to be a US Citizen or live in the US to post here - I’d expect that there are a few Canadians or other Commonwealth citizens who can claim ancestry to a Pilgrim. Let’s see who here is related! ---
**Author:** ![Idle\_Thoughts](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/838e76/32.png) [@Idle\_Thoughts](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Idle_Thoughts)\ **Post date:** [July 16, 2011, 12:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-mayflower-passenger-s-are-you-a-descended-from/589233/2 "2011-07-16T12:14:39Z")
Anyone descended from Gov William Bradford is related to me somehow. I’m a direct descendant (all of the kids of kids that he had lead directly to me). I found out, earlier, that **Chefguy** and I are distantly related. We’re like 7th cousins or something like that. ---
**Author:** ![Mehitabel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/8797f3/32.png) [@Mehitabel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mehitabel)\ **Post date:** [July 16, 2011, 12:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-mayflower-passenger-s-are-you-a-descended-from/589233/3 "2011-07-16T12:21:24Z")
Peter C\_\_\_\_ came over in the 1690s from Bordeaux and married Penelope White, daughter of Resolved, granddaughter of William. We still have his last name. Edit: \ Hey cuz! ---
**Author:** ![Cicero](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cicero/32/3594_2.png) [@Cicero](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cicero)\ **Post date:** [July 16, 2011, 12:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-mayflower-passenger-s-are-you-a-descended-from/589233/4 "2011-07-16T12:25:12Z")
I’m pure convict stock. ---
**Author:** ![Smapti](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/smapti/32/17938_2.png) [@Smapti](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Smapti)\ **Post date:** [July 16, 2011, 12:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-mayflower-passenger-s-are-you-a-descended-from/589233/5 "2011-07-16T12:32:07Z")
> [@Idle\_Thoughts](#): > > Anyone descended from Gov William Bradford is related to me somehow. I’m a direct descendant (all of the kids of kids that he had lead directly to me). As am I by way of my maternal grandmother. Ain’t that somethin’? ---
**Author:** ![septimus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/septimus/32/410_2.png) [@septimus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/septimus)\ **Post date:** [July 16, 2011, 12:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-mayflower-passenger-s-are-you-a-descended-from/589233/6 "2011-07-16T12:51:39Z")
I am closely related to [the Great Abolitionist, John Brown](http://www.legendsofamerica.com/ks-johnbrown.html), for whom Mayflower descent is often claimed, as shown at the linked page. But the Daughters of the Mayflower, or whatever they’re called, will not accept this descent. A Peter Browne of the right age to be son of Peter Mayflower Browne did indeed appear in the Plymouth colony by the early 1630’s. But if he was Mayflower’s son, he was an undocumented bastard. :smack: ---
**Author:** ![PandaBear77](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/edb3f5/32.png) [@PandaBear77](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PandaBear77)\ **Post date:** [July 16, 2011, 1:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-mayflower-passenger-s-are-you-a-descended-from/589233/7 "2011-07-16T13:10:15Z")
John Howland & John Tilley. ---
**Author:** ![RickJay](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/bb73d2/32.png) [@RickJay](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RickJay)\ **Post date:** [July 16, 2011, 1:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-mayflower-passenger-s-are-you-a-descended-from/589233/8 "2011-07-16T13:32:04Z")
I’m just flatly amazed - impressed, really - that anyone knows this. I quite honestly cannot even tell you anything about my ancestry beyond my great-grandparents, and I’m unclear on them. How does a person even know this stuff? ---
**Author:** ![Morgenstern](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f9ae1b/32.png) [@Morgenstern](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Morgenstern)\ **Post date:** [July 16, 2011, 1:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-mayflower-passenger-s-are-you-a-descended-from/589233/9 "2011-07-16T13:57:41Z")
None. My earliest ancestor to leave footprints in this country is the Rev. Goodlove. ( I wish I had that name). In the very late 1600s. I also have ties to the SAR from a colonist in Massachusetts. I’ve never met either of them though. ---
**Author:** ![Shagnasty](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/9dc877/32.png) [@Shagnasty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shagnasty)\ **Post date:** [July 16, 2011, 2:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-mayflower-passenger-s-are-you-a-descended-from/589233/10 "2011-07-16T14:04:30Z")
None that I know of for the Mayflower. However, I am a direct descendant of married Jamestown colonists and still have the last name. Jamestown was before the Mayflower as I like to point out to people here in Massachusetts. ---
**Author:** ![Shagnasty](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/9dc877/32.png) [@Shagnasty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shagnasty)\ **Post date:** [July 16, 2011, 2:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-mayflower-passenger-s-are-you-a-descended-from/589233/11 "2011-07-16T14:12:14Z")
> [@RickJay](#): > > I’m just flatly amazed - impressed, really - that anyone knows this. I quite honestly cannot even tell you anything about my ancestry beyond my great-grandparents, and I’m unclear on them. How does a person even know this stuff? Geneology is one of the most popular hobbies in the U.S. Websites like [ancestry.com](http://ancestry.com) make finding original records and prior geneology work done by relatives no matter how distant fairly easy. I have spent thousands of hour on mine with an indefinite amount still go but it is fairly straightforward to trace a single family line back to historical figures like the people on the Mayflower. Lots of people are interested in proving that so all you have to do is trace your ancestry back far enough so that it connects with work that has already been done and well documented. It is pretty easy to go back really far and still only have a couple of degrees of separation between yourself and say, the U.S. Civil War. Older relatives can often tell you lots of details about relatives that were old when they were young for example taking you back a really long way. ---
**Author:** ![Cicero](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cicero/32/3594_2.png) [@Cicero](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cicero)\ **Post date:** [July 16, 2011, 2:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-mayflower-passenger-s-are-you-a-descended-from/589233/12 "2011-07-16T14:14:28Z")
> [@Morgenstern](#): > > None. My earliest ancestor to leave footprints in this country is the Rev. Goodlove. ( I wish I had that name). In the very late 1600s. I also have ties to the SAR from a colonist in Massachusetts. I’ve never met either of them though. I’d be very surprised if you had. ---
**Author:** ![YaraMateo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/y/58f4c7/32.png) [@YaraMateo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/YaraMateo)\ **Post date:** [July 16, 2011, 2:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-mayflower-passenger-s-are-you-a-descended-from/589233/13 "2011-07-16T14:28:07Z")
> [@Shagnasty](#): > > None that I know of for the Mayflower. However, I am a direct descendant of married Jamestown colonists and still have the last name. Jamestown was before the Mayflower as I like to point out to people here in Massachusetts. Sometimes, you actually make me like you. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![ryan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/a8b319/32.png) [@ryan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ryan)\ **Post date:** [July 16, 2011, 2:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-mayflower-passenger-s-are-you-a-descended-from/589233/14 "2011-07-16T14:30:57Z")
As far as I know, none of them. I don’t know a lot of family history, but we’ve been pretty much “dirt-poor emigrant trash” forever. ---
**Author:** ![Chefguy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chefguy/32/138_2.png) [@Chefguy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chefguy)\ **Post date:** [July 16, 2011, 2:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-mayflower-passenger-s-are-you-a-descended-from/589233/15 "2011-07-16T14:33:45Z")
> [@Idle\_Thoughts](#): > > Anyone descended from Gov William Bradford is related to me somehow. I’m a direct descendant (all of the kids of kids that he had lead directly to me). > > I found out, earlier, that **Chefguy** and I are distantly related. We’re like 7th cousins or something like that. Howdy, cuz! Bradford, Brewster and George Soule for me. ---
**Author:** ![Bartman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/779978/32.png) [@Bartman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bartman)\ **Post date:** [July 16, 2011, 3:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-mayflower-passenger-s-are-you-a-descended-from/589233/16 "2011-07-16T15:09:13Z")
Robert Carter for me. Or at least I think it was Carter. I would have to check with my brother to confirm. He has joined the Mayflower Society. That has always meant less to me. ---
**Author:** ![AClockworkMelon](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aclockworkmelon/32/10803_2.png) [@AClockworkMelon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AClockworkMelon)\ **Post date:** [July 16, 2011, 3:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-mayflower-passenger-s-are-you-a-descended-from/589233/17 "2011-07-16T15:21:12Z")
None. Maternal grandfather is a third generation American immigrant trash, maternal grandmother only moved to the States to be with my grandfather and all my family on my dad’s side are Irish steel workers. ---
**Author:** ![Qin\_Shi\_Huangdi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/f04885/32.png) [@Qin\_Shi\_Huangdi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Qin_Shi_Huangdi)\ **Post date:** [July 16, 2011, 3:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-mayflower-passenger-s-are-you-a-descended-from/589233/18 "2011-07-16T15:37:30Z")
None, all of my ancestry is Korean although it may be that my clan’s founder was Song royalty from China. ---
**Author:** ![Azeotrope](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/0ea827/32.png) [@Azeotrope](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Azeotrope)\ **Post date:** [July 16, 2011, 3:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-mayflower-passenger-s-are-you-a-descended-from/589233/19 "2011-07-16T15:38:32Z")
Zippo. 3rd generation Polish/Dutch. ---
**Author:** ![Enginerd](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/bcef8e/32.png) [@Enginerd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Enginerd)\ **Post date:** [July 16, 2011, 4:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-mayflower-passenger-s-are-you-a-descended-from/589233/20 "2011-07-16T16:08:26Z")
John and Priscilla Alden, through my maternal grandmother. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-mayflower-passenger-s-are-you-a-descended-from/589233.md?page=2)