Immigrant Ancestors
As follows are my trans-Atlantic ancestors, the first in their line to move to the New World, ordered below by year of birth.
| Immigrant | Born | Place of Birth | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
Elizabeth Strutt
|
1584 | Suffolk, England | |
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John Spofforth
|
1588 | England | Progenitor of the Spoffords. |
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John Wheeler
|
1591 | Salisbury, Wiltshire, England | |
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Humphrey Wise
|
c. 1591 | prob. England | Surname also occasionally given as Wythe. Sometime said to have come from Cornwall. |
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Agnes Thorne
|
1593 | Pitminster, Somerset, England | |
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William Blake
|
1594 | Pitminster, Somerset, England | |
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Thomas Scott
|
1595 | Suffolk, England | Baptized in Rattlesden in February 1594/5. |
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Agnes Yeoman
|
1595 | Salisbury, Wiltshire, England | |
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Isaac Stearns
|
1597 | England | |
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Susanna Wilterton
|
1599 | Suffolk, England | |
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Nathaniel Merrill
|
1601 | Suffolk, England | Baptized in Wherstead in May 1601. |
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Mary Barker
|
c. 1604 | Suffolk, England | |
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John Cheney
|
c. 1605 | prob. England | Arrived in Roxbury, MA, in 1635. |
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Thomas Brown
|
1606 | Christian Malford, Wiltshire, England | Arrived in Newbury, MA, in 1635. |
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Christopher Osgood
|
1606 | Wiltshire, England | Baptized in Newton Toney in April 1606. |
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Martha Parratt
|
c. 1608 | prob. England | Arrived in Roxbury, MA, in 1635. |
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Joanna Hooker
|
1612 | Kent, England | Baptized in Lenham in April 1612. |
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John Clough
|
1613 | prob. England | Also Clouch. Dibblee-Perry and Allied Families (1983) claims he was born in Denbigh, Wales, but cites no source. Arrived in New England in 1635 on the ship Elizabeth. |
William Freethy
|
1613 | Cornwall | Baptized at Landrake in August 1613. The surname has been connected to Cornish freth (“eager, fluent”), but not definitively. Cornish had long retreated from Landrake by the time of his birth, but his name in Cornish would be Wella Frydhi. |
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Margery Fowler
|
1615 | Wiltshire, England | Baptized in Marlborough in March 1615. |
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John Gay
|
1615 | Plymouth, Devon, England | |
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Nicholas Noyes
|
1615 | Wiltshire, England | Departed from Cholderton in 1634. |
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Sarah Sanders
|
1615 | England | |
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Robert Pike
|
1616 | Landford, Wiltshire, England | Arrived in Massachusetts in 1635. |
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Aquila Chase
|
1618 | Chesham, Buckinghamshire, England | Arrived in Hampton, NH, in 1639. |
Marie Marguerie
|
c. 1620 | Rouen, Normandy, France | |
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Quentin Moral dit St Quentin
|
c. 1620 | France | |
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Edward Hawes
|
1622 | Warwickshire, England | |
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Isaac Learned
|
1623 | Surrey, England | |
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John Bond
|
1624 | Suffolk, England | Baptized at Bury St Edmunds in February 1624. |
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John Barrett
|
1625 | England | |
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Eliony Lombard
|
1626 | England | Perhaps Eliony is a hypocoristic form of Eleanor. |
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Sarah Bate
|
1628 | Kent, England | |
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Abigail Shepard
|
1631 | England | |
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John Atkinson
|
1635 | England | |
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William Ryves
|
c. 1636 | Oxfordshire, England | |
Gerrit van Sweringen
|
1636 | Rijnsaterwoude, South Holland, Netherlands | |
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Henri Brault dit Pominville
|
1638 | Ballon, Aunis, France | |
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Barbara de Barrette
|
1640 | France | |
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Jacques Jouiel dit Bergerac
|
1642 | Bergerac, Périgord, France | Arrived in Montréal in 1658. |
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Marie-Claude de Chevrainville dite La Fontaine
|
1646 | Paris, Île-de-France, France | |
| Amor Via | c. 1660 | unknown | See extensive discussion here. |
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Geoffrey Vincelet dit Labossière
|
1677 | France | |
William Allen
|
c. 1680 | County Derry, Ireland | Ulster-Scotch. |
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Hilaire Jean-Baptiste Sorel
|
c. 1695 | Languedoc, France | Christened in Carcassonne in 1695. |
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William McBrayer
|
c. 1696 | unknown | Either born in Scotland or in Northern Island to Ulster-Scotch parents. |
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James Forrester
|
c. 1701 | prob. Lowland Scotland | Could also have numbered among the Ulster Scots of Northern Ireland, closely or distantly related to the landed Forrester clan of the Scottish Lowlands. |
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Matthew Edmiston
|
c. 1710 | County Antrim, Ireland | Ulster-Scotch. |
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Margaret Ann Whiteside
|
c. 1710 | County Derry, Ireland | Ulster-Scotch. |
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James Kirk
|
1720 | Ballymoney, Antrim, Ireland | Ulster-Scotch Orangeman. |
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Agnes Edmiston
|
c. 1728 | Ballymoney, Antrim, Ireland | Ulster-Scotch. |
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John Patton
|
1728 | County Derry, Ireland | Ulster-Scotch. |
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Jane Bell
|
1770 | Canonbie, Dumfries-shire, Scotland | Died in Ontario in 1844. |
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John Grieve
|
1781 | Scotland | Died in Ontario in 1850. |
Dennis Cushing
|
1800 | Galbally, Limerick, Ireland | Born among Munster Irish speakers; his Irish name would have resembled Donnchadh Ó Cuisín. Immigrated to Boston in April 1844. |
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Catherine Casey
|
1806 | Galbally, Limerick, Ireland | Born among Munster Irish speakers; her Irish name would have resembled Caitríona Ní Chathasaigh. Immigrated to Boston in April 1844. |
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Mary Ogilvie
|
1817 | Scotland | Arrived in New York City in October 1833. |