Along the Pilgrim Trail, Part 16
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| The Pilgrims Memorial, Immingham |
Vincent and I recently
took the General Society of Mayflower Descendants Historic Sites Tour of
England, Wales and The Netherlands along with 41 other enthusiast participants
(known as "The 43"). We traced
the footsteps of the Separatists and the Mayflower passengers and crew all
around these countries with some amazing tour directors, guides, historians and
authors. We were given access to places
off the usual tourist trails, and behind the scenes. We had a wonderful time, and I will be
blogging about it over the next few weeks.
In the last few posts of this series the Separatist members
of the Scrooby congregation were arrested at Fishtoft, and imprisoned at
Boston. This was a very perilous part of
the Pilgrim story. They went back to
their homes after being released from Boston, but in 1608 they tried another
attempt to escape to Holland.
Scrooby Separatists found themselvese at a creek in
Immingham near the Humber River. While
the women and children went ashore because of bad weather, a contingent of
armed men arrived to arrest the whole bunch of them. The captain of the ship panicked and set sail
for Holland, taking all the men. The
women and children were arrested, but the public outcry against this was so
great that they were freed and eventually joined their husbands and menfolk in
Holland.
In 1924 a memorial was placed along the creek to mark this
location where the Pilgrims set sail for Holland. This really was the start of their new
journey to find a permanent home where they would be accepted. Over the years the creek and marsh were
redeveloped into industrial properties, and the memorial was moved to a small
park in the town of Immingham. This is
where we all posed for photos in front of the memorial.
The sign says the memorial was made out of “Plymouth Rock”. I think they used some rock from Plymouth,
Massachusetts, but not “The Plymouth Rock”!
The local town here is very proud
of their Pilgrim history. There was a
street named after the Pilgrims, and the local soccer team is the Immingham
Pilgrims.
After visiting Immingham, we took the modern ferry from Harwich to the Hook of Holland, over the North Sea. The ferry ride was about seven hours. I can't imagine how long it took the Pilgrims to cross from England to Holland in 1608. Or how primitive the conditions were. We had a fine crossing in calm seas, but I know the North Sea can be rough and dangerous. The next stop for the Pilgrims would be Amsterdam in the
Netherlands. They ended up staying 13 years in Holland. Stay tuned for the next
post!
FROM THIS CREEK
THE PILGRIM FATHERS
FIRST LEFT ENGLAND IN 1608
IN SEARCH OF RELIGIOUS LIBERTY
THE GRANITE TOP STONE WAS
TAKEN FROM PLYMOUTH ROCK MASS
AND PRESENTED BY THE
SULGRAVE INSTITUTION OF USA
THIS MEMORIAL WAS ERECTED
BY THE ANGLO-AMERICAN SOCIETY
OF HULL
1924
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| This monument was removed from its original site, known as Immingham Creek and re-erected in this position in May 1970. It was rededicated on Sunday 20th July 2008 to mark the 400th anniversary of The Separatists (later known as The Pilgrim Fathers) leaving England from Immingham to Leiden, Holland |
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| PILGRIM FATHERS IMMINGHAM TO HOLLAND 1609 TO PLYMOUTH ROCK NEW ENGLAND 1620 |
Part 1 of this series "Babworth, Nottinghamshire":
Part 2 of this series "Scrooby Manor"
Part 3 of this series “Gainsborough, Lincolnshire”:
Part 4 of this series "Harwich, Essex, home of the
Mayflower"
Part 5 this series "Stephen Hopkins of Upper Clatford,
Hampshire"
Part 6 of this series "William Mullins of Dorking,
Surrey"
Part 7 of this series “Edward Winslow of Droitwich,
Worcestershire”
Part 8 of this series "The Fullers of Reddenhall, Norfolk":
Part 9 of this series "John Howland of Fenstanton, Cambridgeshire":
Part 10 of this series "Tilley and Sampson of Henlow, Bedfordshire":
Part 11 of this series "William Bradford of Austerfield, Yorkshire":
Part 12 of this series "Francis Eaton of Bristol":
Part 13 of this series "James Chilton, Robert Cushman of Canterbury, Kent, England":
https://nutfieldgenealogy.blogspot.com/2017/11/along-pilgrim-trail-fishtoft.html
Part 15 of this series "Boston, Lincolnshire, where the Pilgrims were jailed":
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Heather Wilkinson Rojo, "Along the Pilgrim Trail ~ 1608 Immingham, Lincolnshire to Holland”, Nutfield Genealogy,
posted November 20, 2017, (
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