Happy 100th Birthday to Dick Van Dyke! Did you know he was a Mayflower Descendant?

 

Dick Van Dyke 1964

We recently watched the PBS production of American Masters “Starring Dick Van Dyke” which aired on 12 December 2025 to honor his 100^th birthday.  You can catch this show airing many times this month on PBS stations and streaming online. Watching this documentary made me nostalgic for the old TV shows and movies like Mary Poppins and Chitty Chitty Bang Bang, but it also made me curious about his family tree.  Of course, since he is so famous, it was easy to find a lot of information on his ancestry online. 

This is what I learned about his family tree:

Dick Van Dyke was born Richard Wayne Van Dyke 13 December 1925 in West Plains, Missouri and raised in Danville, Illinois.  His father, Loren Wayne Van Dyke, is of Dutch origins, and his mother, Hazel Victoria McCord, has English and Scots ancestry.  Dick is a veteran of World War II, where he served as a radio announcer and entertained the troops.  He married Margerie Willet in 1948 on the air for the radio show “Bride and Groom”.  He has four children and seven grandchildren. In 2012 he married Arlene Silver.

As an actor and entertainer Dick Van Dyke’s career spans over 80 years and he has won six Emmy Awards, a Grammy Award, and a Tony Award.  He is known as a slapstick comedian, singer and dancer, but he is less well known for his many dramatic roles.  He is also related to many other entertainers, including Walt Disney! 

I was surprised to find that Dick Van Dyke has at least eight Mayflower passenger ancestors.  Here is a list from https://famouskin.com/famous-kin-menu.php?name=6554+dick+van+dyke

Francis Eaton

Peter Brown

John Alden

Francis Cooke

Myles Standish

Edward Doty

George Soule

Degory Priest

I won’t give all the details (you can check out the websites listed below), but since I share a few Mayflower ancestors with Dick Van Dyke, here are our shared ancestors, and Dick’s lineage from these few:

Myles Standish

Alexander Standish and Sarah Alden

Sarah Standish and Benjamin Soule

Sarah Soule and Nathan Tinkham

Isaiah Tinkham and Susannah Ellis

Susanna Tinkham and David Child

David Lorenzo Child and Margaret Longwell Dysart

Susan Elizabeth Child and Ninian Alphonse McCord

Charles Cornelius McCord and Adeline Verinda Neal

Hazel Victoria McCord and Loren Wayne Van Dyke

Dick Van Dyke

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Edward Doty

Mary Doty and Samuel Hatch

Hannah Hatch and Japhet Turner

Hannah Turner and William Thomas

Ruth Thomas and Thomas Churchill Ellis

Susannah Ellis and Isaiah Tinkham

(see above)

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George Soule

John Soule and Rebecca Simmons

Benjamin Soule and Sarah Standish

Zachariah Soule and Mary Eaton

Sarah Soule and Nathan Tinkham

Isaiah Tinkham and Susannah Ellis

(see above)

 

Dick Van Dyke descends from the following Great Migration immigrants, and probably many more.  You can have fun finding a cousin connection with some of these colonial settlers.

Benjamin Nye

John Jenny

Griffith Bowen

Nathaniel Child

Edmund Freeman

William Hoskins

Phineas Pratt

John Johnson (c. 1588 -1659)

Thomas Holbrook

William Hatch

William Heath

Moses Simmons

For the truly curious:

For specific details on Dick Van Dyke’s Mayflower ancestors and his other colonial ancestry, see this link at the website Famous Kin:     https://famouskin.com/famous-kin-menu.php?name=6554+dick+van+dyke

Wikipedia  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dick_Van_Dyke 

The webpage for PBS American Masters “Starring Dick Van Dyke”   https://www.pbs.org/wnet/americanmasters/dick-van-dyke-documentary/37036/    

All Family Tree results for Dick Van Dyke at Ancestry:    https://www.ancestry.com/search/categories/42/?name=Dick_Van+Dyke&searchMode=advanced 

The Dick Van Dyke webpage:  https://www.officialdickvandyke.com/biography/   

The image above, "Dick Van Dyke in 1964" is by Rogers & Cowan, public relations, Beverly Hills - eBay itemphoto frontphoto back, Public Domain, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=79770747

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To cite/link to this blog page:  Heather Wilkinson Rojo, "Happy 100th Birthday to Dick Van Dyke!  Did you know he was a Mayflower Descendant?", Nutfield Genealogy, posted December 14, 2025, ( https://nutfieldgenealogy.blogspot.com/2025/12/happy-100th-birthday-to-dick-van-dyke.html: accessed [access date]). 

Surname Saturday ~ CLARK of Plymouth and Duxbury, Massachusetts

CLARK / CLARKE

In 1634 my 9th great grandfather, Thurston Clark, "aged 44" sailed to Plymouth, Massachusetts from Ipswich, England aboard the ship Francis.  Listed with the children on board was "Fayth Clearke, aged 15", my 8th great grandmother.  It is believed that his wife and other children arrived on a later ship since a daughter named Abigail was buried in England in 1637.  He removed from Plymouth to Duxbury in 1652.

Thurston Clark was a farmer.  He was probably educated (he could read) because he owned a bible and a psalmbook valued at 3 shillings 4 pence in his inventory.  He died unexpectedly returning on foot from Plymouth to Duxbury when he became lost in an early winter snowstorm.  There was a coroner's inquiry two days later "to view the dead body of Thirston Clarke, Senior, of Duxburrow".    A margin note in the Plymouth County Records Volume 4, page 12 reads "he was lost, as we conceive, in the evening, and so he did bewilder himself, the sixth of this instant December, 1661".

He died without a will and an inventory was taken of his estate, and the court decided in 1663 that his daughter Faith, my ancestress, would received one quarter, and the remainder of the estate was divided between her two brothers Henry and Thurston, Jr. who were "incompetent" (probably mentally handicapped).  In 1690 the Plymouth court ordered "Henry Clarke and Thursten Clarke, by reason of their age, indiscretion & weakness of understanding, are incapable of making necessary provision for their own support, sustenance, and livelihood, notwithstanding they have an estate in lands sufficient, as is judged, to supply their necessity during their lives."  Their nephew John Doty (son of Faith) was ordered "to provide for their needs, and report once a year to the selectmen in return for which he shall have 'full satisfaction' made him out of the lands of said impotent persons" [Plymouth Colony Records 6:236 and 6:99) and also see History of the Town of Duxbury, by Justin Winsor, 1849.

Thurston's daugher, Faith, married Mayflower passenger Edward Doty (about 1600 - 1655) and had nine children.  She married second to in 1667 to John Phillips.  In the next generation I descend from her daughter Desire Doty (about 1645 - 1731) who married Alexander Standish, grandson of Mayflower passenger Captain Myles Standish.

For the truly curious, please see the sketch for Thurston Clark in The Great Migration: Immigrants to New England 1634 - 1635, Volume II, pages 99 to 101.


My CLARK genealogy:

Generation 1:  Thurston Clark, born about 1590 in England, died 6 December 1661 in Duxbury, Massachusetts; married to Faith Unknown.  She died 1 January 1663.  Six children.

Generation 2:  Faith Clark, born about 1619, died before 21 December 1675 in Marshfield, Massachusetts; married on 6 January 1635 in Plymouth to Edward Doty.  He was born about 1599 and died 23 August 1655 in Plymouth.  Nine children.

Generation 3:  Desire Doty m. Alexander Standish
Generation 4: Desire Standish m. Nathan Weston
Generation 5:  Nathan Weston m. Hannah Everson
Generation 6:  Zadoc Weston m. Mary Clements
Generation 7:  Matilda Weston m. Joseph Edwin Healy
Generation 8:  Mary Etta Healy m. Peter Hoogerzeil
Generation 9:  Florence Etta Hoogerzeil m. Arthur Treadwell Hitchings
Generation 10:  Gertrude Matilda Hitchings m. Stanley Elmer Allen (my grandparents)

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Heather Wilkinson Rojo, "Surname Saturday ~ CLARK of Plymouth and Duxbury, Massachusetts", Nutfield Genealogy, posted October 6, 2018, (https://nutfieldgenealogy.blogspot.com/2018/10/surname-saturday-clark-of-plymouth-and.html: accessed [access date]).

Surname Saturday ~ DOTY of the Mayflower

DOTY / DOTEN / DOUGHTY / DOTIE /DOLTON

My 8^th great grandfather, Edward Doty, was a passenger on the Mayflower in 1620 to Plymouth, Massachusetts, and signed the Mayflower Compact. His origins are still unknown.  He was a servant to Stephen Hopkins during the voyage and for the first few years in Plymouth.  The first duel (with a sword and dagger) in New England was in 1621 between Edward Doty and Edward Leister, both servants to Hopkins.  Both were wounded, and both were punished by being bound with their head and feet together.  The sentence was for them to be bound for 24 hours, but within one hour “because of their great pains, and at their own and their master’s humble request, upon promise of better carriage, they are released by the governor” [A Chronological History of New England, by Thomas Prince, 1852, pages 190-191]

After this and Doty was in court many times for fighting, trespass, slander and debt.  But he married twice, prospered, had an apprentice. In his will he left land and property to his sons and wife.  In Faith’s will she left her land, willed to her from her husband, to her son John Doty.

 I descend from his daughter, Desire, my 7^th great grandmother, who married Alexander Standish, the son of Mayflower passenger Myles Standish.   Alexander also married Sarah Alden, daughter of Pilgrims John Alden and Priscilla Mullins.  Desire had eleven children by three husbands and outlived them all.  Her will written in 1723 mentions a sons William Sherman, Ebenezer Sherman, Israel Holmes, John Holmes, Thomas Standish and Ichabod Standish; and daughters Hannah Ring, Experience Standish and Desire Weston (my 6^th great grandmother). 

For the truly curious:

The Great Migration Begins, by Robert Charles Anderson, Volume 1, pages 573 - 577.

The Doty - Doten Family in America, by Ethan Allen Doty, 1897. 

Mayflower Families Five Generations, Doty, published by the General Society of Mayflower Descendants, Volume 11,  1996.

The Pilgrim Edward Doty Society:   http://www.edwarddoty.org/  

The General Society of Mayflower Descendants:  https://www.themayflowersociety.org/

My DOTY genealogy:

Generation 1:  Edward Doty, born about 1599, died 23 August 1655 at Plymouth, Massachusetts; married first to unknown before 1634; married second on 6 January 1635 in Plymouth to Faith Clark, daughter of Thurston Clark and Faith Unknown.  She was born about 1619 and died before 21 December 1675 in Marshfield, Massachusetts. Faith was the mother of nine children.  She remarried to John Phillips on 14 March 1667 in Plymouth as his second wife.

Generation 2: Desire Doty, born about 1645 in Plymouth, died 22 January 1731 in Marshfield; married first to William Sherman on 25 December 1667 in Marshfield (six children); married second on 24 November 1681 in Marshfield to Israel Holmes (two children); and married third before 1689 to Alexander Standish, son of Mayflower passenger Captain Myles Standish and Barbara Unknown.  He was born about 1626 in Plymouth and died 6 July 1702 in Duxbury.  Desire and Alexander Standish had three children together. 

Generation 3:  Desire Standish, born 5 May 1689 in Marshfield, died 20 June 1766 in Plympton; married on 21 February 1716 in Plympton to Nathan Weston, son of Edmund Weston and Rebecca Soule (granddaughter of Mayflower passenger George Soule).  He was born 8 February 1689 in Plympton, and died 11 October 1754 in Plympton.  Four children.

Generation 4: Nathan Weston m. Hannah Everson

Generation 5:  Zadoc Weston m. Mary Clements

Generation 6:  Matilda Weston m. Joseph Edwin Healy

Generation 7:  Mary Etta Healey m.  Peter Hoogerzeil

Generation 8:  Florence Etta Hoogerzeil m. Arthur Treadwell Hitchings

Generation 9:  Gertrude Matilda Hitchings m. Stanley Elmer Allen (My grandparents)

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Heather Wilkinson Rojo, “Surname Saturday ~ DOTY of the Mayflower”, Nutfield Genealogy, posted September 22, 2018, ( https://nutfieldgenealogy.blogspot.com/2018/09/surname-saturday-doty-of-mayflower.html: accessed [access date]). 

Surname Saturday ~ SOULE of the Mayflower

SOULE /  SOOLE /  SOLE /

George Soule (about 1593 – 1680), my 9^th great grandfather, was a passenger on the ship Mayflower in 1620.  He was then a young, unmarried man, and a servant of Edward Winslow.  He signed the Mayflower Compact.

George’s wife, Mary Buckett, arrived on the ship Anne in 1623.  They were married around 1625, and by the time of the May 1627 Cattle Division he was listed with Mary and their first son, Zachariah as the eleventh, twelfth, and thirteenth people in the ninth company.  They removed to “Duxburrow” or Duxbury where he lived for the rest of his life and is buried there.  During his life he served as deputy, on the grand jury, and other civic positions appointed at town meetings.   He had nine children.

I descend from George’s son, John (about 1632 – 1707) who apparently had a family rift with his sister, Patience.  In George’s 1677 will he recorded “If my son John Soule above named or his heirs or assigns or any of them shall at any time disturb my daughter Patience or her heirs or assigns or any of them in peaceable possession or enjoyment of the lands I have given her at Nemasket alias Middleboro and recover the same from her or her heirs or assigns or any of them; that then my gift to my son John Soule shall be void: and that then my will is my daughter Patience shall have all my lands at Duxbury and she shall be my sole executrix of this my last will and testament and enter into my housing lands and meadows at Duxbury.”  John married Rebecca Simmons and had nine children.

John’s daughter, Rebecca (1656 – 1732) is my 6^th great grandmother.  She married Edmund Weston about 1688 and had six children. 

Notable descendants:  actors Richard Gere and Dick Van Dyke

For more SOULE information:

The Great Migration Begins, by Richard Charles Anderson, 1995, Volume III, pages 1704-1708

Note:  Anderson reports “serious flaws” in the Mayflower Families Through Five Generations, Volume Three: George Soule, 1980.  He recommends two articles which point out the problems in The Genealogist, Volume 1, pages 225 – 258, and also in The American Genealogist, Volume 57, pages 57 – 58.

The Soule Kindred (Soule family association)  https://soulekindred.org/   

Family Tree DNA project for George Soule:

https://www.familytreedna.com/group-join.aspx?Group=Soule   

My SOULE genealogy:

Generation 1:  George Soule, born about 1593, died 22 January 1679/80 in Duxbury, Massachusetts; married about 1623 in Plymouth, Massachusetts to Mary Beckett.  She was born about 1602 and died 16 December 1676 in Duxbury.  Nine children.

Generation 2:  John Soule, born about 1632 in Plymouth, died before 14 November 1707 in Duxbury; married about 1654 in Duxbury to Rebecca Simmons, daughter of Moses Simmons and Sarah Unknown.  She died before 1678 in Duxbury.  Nine children

Generation 3:  Rebecca Soule, born about 1656 in Duxbury, died 18 November 1732 in Plympton, Massachusetts; married about 1688 to Edmund Weston, son of Edmund Weston.  He was born about 1660 and died 23 September 1727 in Plympton.  Six children.

Generation 4: Nathan Weston born 8 Feburary 1689 in Plympton, Massachusetts m. Desire Standish (granddaughter of two other Mayflower passengers - Myles Standish and Edward Doty) on 21 February 1716 in Plympton.  He died on 11 October 1754 in Plympton.  Four children. 

Generation 5:  Nathan Weston m. Hannah Everson.  This couple removed to Nova Scotia in the 1760s and had nine children, some born in Plympton and some born in Yarmouth, Nova Scotia.  Nathan died in Yarmouth in 1780, and Hannah died in Yarmouth in 1814. 

Generation 6:  Zadoc Weston m. Mary Clements. He had three wives (Mary Pratt about 1785 (no children?),  Sarah Mac Duffie about 1790 (seven children?), and last Mary Clements, my 4th great grandmother, about 1824) 

Generation 7:  Matilda Weston m. Joseph Edwin Healy. This couple was born in Yarmouth, Nova Scotia, married in Canada, and removed to Beverly, Massachusetts where four children were born between 1852 and 1857.  Joseph died at the Battle of Saint Charles in Arkansas during the Civil War, when his iron-clad ship exploded. 

Generation 8:  Mary Etta Healey m. Peter Hoogerzeil

Generation 9:  Florence Etta Hoogerzeil m. Arthur Treadwell Hitchings

Generation 10: Gertrude Matilda Hitchings m. Stanley Elmer Allen (my grandparents)

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To cite/link to this blog post: Heather Wilkinson Rojo, “Surname Saturday ~ SOULE of the Mayflower”, Nutfield Genealogy, posted September 15, 2018, ( https://nutfieldgenealogy.blogspot.com/2018/09/surname-saturday-soule-of-mayflower.html: accessed [access date]). 

Surname Saturday ~ STANDISH of the Mayflower

Myles Standish's burial ground in Duxbury, Massachusetts

STANDISH

Myles Standish (1584 – 1656), my 8^th great grandfather, was not only a passenger on the Mayflower in 1620, but he was also the Captain and leader of the Plymouth Colony military forces until his death.  He served in several civic leadership positions in the colony, such as an Assistant to the Governor on 1 January 1632/3, treasurer in 1644 and many years after, and on May 1653 he was made the Deputy Governor.   Myles Standish is also recognized as the first person to settle in the town of Duxbury, where he lived for the rest of his life.

Although you might read on the internet that Myles Standish was from Lancashire, or even that he was from the Isle of Man, his origins are still unknown.  I know that genealogists and historians are working on proving his origins now, and maybe we will have an answer or a good clue by the 2020 anniversary of the arrival of the Mayflower in New England?

Standish was a soldier in the war with Spain, and he was in Leyden, Holland when the Scrooby Separatists were there with Pastor John Robinson.  He was hired by the separatists and arrived on the Mayflower in 1620 with his wife Rose, who died that first winter when half the passengers succumbed to some mysterious illness.  His second wife Barbara arrived on the ship Anne in 1623.  They had seven children, including Alexander Standish (about 1626 – 1702), my 7^th great grandfather.

Alexander Standish married twice, both times to daughters of Mayflower passengers.  His first wife was Sarah Alden, the daughter of John Alden and Priscilla Mullens.  His second wife was Desire Doty, my ancestress, who was the daughter of Mayflower passenger Edward Doty and his wife Faith Clark.  She was the widow of both William Sherman and Israel Holmes.   Alexander was the constable in Duxbury, and a farmer. 

In the next generation I descend from Desire Standish (1689 – 1766), my 6^th great grandmother, wife of Nathan Weston.  She had four children. 

Famous Descendants:
Actor Dick Van Dyke, Vice President Dan Quayle, Revolutionary War Patriot Deborah Sampson, 

For more STANDISH information:

Mayflower Families Through Five Generations (Silver book), Volume 14, published by the General Society of Mayflower Descendants, Plymouth, Massachusetts, 2007.

The Great Migration Begins: Immigrants to New England 1620 - 1633, by Robert Charles Anderson, Volume III, pages 1741-1747.

Myles Standish Society (Standish descendants)   https://www.mylesstandishsociety.org/

My STANDISH genealogy:

Generation 1:  Myles Standish, born about 1584, died 3 October 1656 at Duxbury, Massachusetts; married first to Rose Unknown; married second to Barbara Unknown, mother of seven children.  She died after 6 October 1659.

Generation 2:  Alexander Standish, born about 1626 in Plymouth, Massachusetts, died 6 July 1702 in Duxbury; married first to Sarah Alden; married second to Desire Doty, widow of William Sherman and of Israel Holmes, daughter of Edward Doty and Faith Clark.  She was born about 1645 in Plymouth, and died 22 January 1731 in Marshfield, Massachusetts.  Three Standish children.

Generation 3: Desire Standish, born 5 May 1689 in Marshfield, and died 20 June 1766 in Plympton, Massachusetts; married on 21 February 1716 in Plympton to Nathan Weston, son of Edmund Weston and Rebecca Soule (the granddaughter of Mayflower passenger Edward Soule).  Four children.

Generation 4: Nathan Weston m. Hannah Everson

Generation 5:  Zadoc Weston m. Mary Clements

Generation 6:  Matilda Weston m. Joseph Edwin Healy

Generation 7:  Mary Etta Healey m. Peter Hoogerzeil

Generation 8:  Florence Etta Hoogerzeil m. Arthur Treadwell Hitchings

Generation 9:  Gertrude Matilda Hitchings m. Stanley Elmer Allen (my grandparents)

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Heather Wilkinson Rojo, “Surname Saturday ~ STANDISH of the Mayflower”, Nutfield Genealogy, posted September 8, 2018, ( https://nutfieldgenealogy.blogspot.com/2018/09/surname-saturday-standish-of-mayflower.html: accessed [access date]). 

Surname Saturday ~ WESTON of Duxbury, Massachusetts

WESTON / WESTIN  / WESTING

My 8^th great grandfather is Edmund Weston (about 1605 – 1686), who is of unknown origins.  He arrived in New England on 8 May 1635 aboard the Elizabeth & Ann.  He was a servant to John Winslow and to Nathaniel Thomas before setting in Duxbury, Massachusetts where he took the oath as a freeman in 1639.  The name of his wife is unknown.  His will names his four children.

In the second generation, my 7^th great grandfather is Edmund Weston (about 1660 – 1727) who removed to Plympton and owned a grist mill.  He married Rebecca Soule, the granddaughter of Mayflower passenger George Soule.  They had six children.

Their son, Nathan Weston (1689 – 1754) is my 6^th great grandfather.  He was listed as a laborer.  He married Desire Standish, the granddaughter of two more Mayflower passengers, Captain Myles Standish and Edward Doty.  Nathan and Desire had four children born in Plympton.

Nathan Weston, Jr. (1723 – 1780), my 5^th great grandfather, was granted 500 acres of land in Yarmouth, Nova Scotia in 1766.  He arrived in Melbourne (10 miles from Yarmouth) in 1767 and is on a list of grantees dated 7 April 1767.  His wife was Hannah Everson, and they had nine children born in Plympton and Yarmouth, Nova Scotia.

Zadoc Weston (about 1761 – 1849) , my 4^th great grandfather, was probably born in Plympton, and he owned a grist mill there.  In Chester, Nova Scotia he was listed as a laborer, and he married his wife, Mary Pratt there in 1785.  His second wife was Sarah MacDuffie.  His third wife was Mary Clements, mother of my 3^rd great grandmother, Matilda Weston (1825 – 1909).

Matilda was born in Yarmouth, where she probably married my 3^rd great grandfather, Joseph Edwin Healy, who was also born there.  They had four children born in Beverly, Massachusetts.  My Weston line daughters out here, but my family stayed in Beverly until I was born there, too.  Matilda was left a widow when her husband died in 1862 at the Battle of Saint Charles, Arkansas during the Civil War. She remained a widow until her death in 1909. 

Some WESTON resources:

Mayflower Descendant, Volume 15, pages 186 – 189 (corrects an earlier sketch of Edmund Weston’s descendants in the NEHGS Register Volume 41, pages 285 – 286)

National Genealogical Society Quarterly Volume 71, pages 41 – 63

Yarmouth Genealogies, page 410

My WESTON genealogy:

Generation 1:  Edmund Weston, born about 1605 in England, died between 18 April and 3 June 1686 in Duxbury, Massachusetts; married about 1658 to Unknown.  Four children.

Generation 2:  Edmund Weston, born about 1660, died 23 September 1727 in Plympton, Massachusetts; married in 1688 to Rebecca Soule, daughter of John Soule and Rebecca Simonson.  She was born in 1656 in Duxbury, and died 18 November 1732 in Plympton.  Six children.

Generation 3:  Nathan Weston, born 8 February 1689 in Plympton, died 11 October 1754 in Plympton; married on 21 February 1716 in Plympton to Desire Standish, daughter of Alexander Standish and Desire Doty.  Four children.

Generation 4:  Nathan Weston, born 11 July 1723 in Plympton, died after 29 February 1780 in Yarmouth, Nova Scotia; married on 29 August 1751 in Kingston, Massachusetts to Hannah Everson, daughter of John Everson and Silence Staples.  She was born 6 July 1732 in Kingston, and died 26 April 1814 in Yarmouth, Nova Scotia.  Nine children.

Generation 5:  Zadoc Weston, born about 1761 probably in Plympton, died 1849 in Nova Scotia; married first to Sarah MacDuffie, second to Mary Pratt, and third to my 4^th great grandmother, Mary Clements.

Generation 6:  Matilda Weston, born in October 1825 in Yarmouth, Nova Scotia, died 19 August 1909 in Beverly, Massachusetts; married on 3 February 1848 in Canada to Joseph Edwin Healy, son of Comfort Healy and Rebecca Crosby.  He was born 12 August 1823 in Yarmouth and died 17 June 1862 at the Battle of Saint Charles, Arkansas during the Civil War.  Four children.

Generation 7:  Mary Etta Healey m. Peter Hoogerzeil

Generation 8:  Florence Etta Hoogerzeil m. Arthur Treadwell Hitchings

Generation 9:  Gertrude Matilda Hitchings m. Stanley Elmer Allen (my grandparents)

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To cite/link to this blog post: Heather Wilkinson Rojo, “Surname Saturday ~ WESTON of Duxbury, Massachusetts”,  Nutfield Genealogy, posted April 14, 2018, ( https://nutfieldgenealogy.blogspot.com/2018/04/surname-saturday-weston-of-duxbury.html: accessed [access date]). 

Happy Thanksgiving! My Mayflower Ancestors

I post this almost every year at Thanksgiving time.  This is the time of the year when people traditionally wondered "Did I have ancestors on the Mayflower?"  As we get closer to the year 2020, the 400th anniversary commemoration of the arrival of the Mayflower in New England, more and more people are asking that question.  It is estimated that over 20 million people around the world have an ancestor who arrived in Plymouth, Massachusetts in the year 1620 aboard the Mayflower.

You might be a Mayflower cousin, too!


For a list of Mayflower passengers who left descendants, click here:
https://www.themayflowersociety.org/the-pilgrims/the-pilgrims

Here are my own lineages in alphabetical order with Mayflower passenger ancestors in bold:

Isaac Allerton(abt 1586 – 1659)and Mary Norris (1587 – 1621-died during  the “starving time” in the first winter on Cape Cod)

Remember Allerton (abt 1614 – 1656) and Moses Maverick

Abigail Maverick and Samuel Ward

Martha Ward and John Tuthill

Martha Tuthill and Mark Haskell

Lucy Haskell and Jabez Treadwell

Nathaniel Treadwell and Mary Hovey

Jabez Treadwell and Betsey Jillings Homan

Eliza Ann Treadwell and Abijah Hitchings

Abijah Franklin Hitchings and Hannah Eliza Lewis

Arthur Treadwell Hitchings and Florence Etta Hoogerzeil

Gertrude Matilda Hitchings and Stanley Elmer Allen (my maternal grandparents)

Edward Doty (abt 1599 – 1635) and Faith Clark

Desire Doty and Alexander Standish

Desire Standish and Nathan Weston

Nathan Weston and Hannah Everson

Zadoc Weston and Mary Clements

Matilda Weston and Joseph Edwin Healey

Mary Etta Healey and Peter Hoogerzeil

Florence Etta Hoogerzeil and Arthur Treadwell Hitchings

Gertrude Matilda Hitchings and Stanley Elmer Allen (my maternal grandparents)

John Tilley (abt 1571- 1620) and Joan Hurst (abt 1568 – 1621) both died in “starving time”

Elizabeth Tilley (1607 – 1687) and John Howland (1592 – 1673)

Hope Howland and John Chipman

Hannah Chipman and Thomas Huckins

Hope Huckins and Benjamin Hamblin

Hannah Hamblin and Jonathan Crosby

Ebenezer Crosby and Elizabeth Robinson

Rebecca Crosby and Comfort Haley

Joseph Edwin Healey and Matilda Weston

Mary Etta Healey and Peter Hoogerzeil

Florence Etta Hoogerzeil and Arthur Treadwell Hitchings

Gertrude Matilda Hitchings and Stanley Elmer Allen (my maternal grandparents)

John Tilley (abt 1571- 1620) and Joan Hurst (abt 1568 – 1621) both died in “starving time”

Elizabeth Tilley (1607 – 1687) and John Howland (1592 – 1673)

Desire Howland and John Gorham

Desire Gorham and John Hawes

Elizabeth Hawes and Thomas Daggett

Elizabeth Daggett and John Butler

Keziah Butler and Samuel Osborn

Samuel Osborn and Sarah Wass

Sarah Osborn and Charles Skinner

Ann Skinner and Thomas Ratchford Lyons

Isabella Lyons and Rev. Ingraham Ebenezer Bill

Caleb Rand Bill and Ann Margaret Bollman

Isabella Lyons Bill and Albert Munroe Wilkinson

Donald Munroe Wilkinson and Bertha Louise Roberts (my paternal grandparents)

George Soule ( abt 1593 – 1680) and Mary Beckett

John Soule and Rebecca Simonson

 Rebecca Soule and Edmund Weston

Nathan Weston and Desire Standish

Nathan Weston and Hannah Everson

Zadoc Weston and Mary Clements

Matilda Weston and Joseph Edwin Healey

Mary Etta Healey and Peter Hoogerzeil

Florence Etta Hoogerzeil and Arthur Treadwell Hitchings

Gertrude Matilda Hitchings and Stanley Elmer Allen (my maternal grandparents)

Captain Myles Standish (abt 1584 – 1656) and Barbara Unknown

Alexander Standish and Desire Doty

Desire Standish and Nathan Weston

Nathan Weston and Hannah Everson

Zadoc Weston and Mary Clements

Matilda Weston and Joseph Edwin Healey

Mary Etta Healey and Peter Hoogerzeil

Florence Etta Hoogerzeil and Arthur Treadwell Hitchings

Gertrude Matilda Hitchings and Stanley Elmer Allen (my maternal grandparents)

For information about Mayflower passengers online see Caleb Johnson’s Mayflower History at

http://www.mayflowerhistory.com/

Some genealogy tips on finding Mayflower ancestors (a blog post from 2015 "Ten Things to Know about Researching a Pilgrim in your Family Tree")
https://nutfieldgenealogy.blogspot.com/2015/11/ten-things-to-know-about-researching.html

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To cite/link to this blog post:  Heather Wilkinson Rojo, "My Mayflower Ancestors", Nutfield Genealogy, posted November 23, 2017, ( https://nutfieldgenealogy.blogspot.com/2017/11/happy-thanksgiving-my-mayflower.html: accessed [access date]). 

My Mayflower Passenger Ancestors

It's that time of the year!  Near Thanksgiving everyone wonders "Did my ancestors come on the Mayflower?"  If you have colonial New England ancestry, you might have had a Pilgrim in your family tree.  It is estimated that over 20 million people around the world have an ancestor who arrived in Plymouth in 1620 aboard the Mayflower.

Here are my own lineages in alphabetical order with Mayflower passenger ancestors in bold:

Isaac Allerton(abt 1586 – 1659)and Mary Norris (1587 – 1621-died during  the “starving time” in the first winter on Cape Cod)

Remember Allerton (abt 1614 – 1656) and Moses Maverick

Abigail Maverick and Samuel Ward

Martha Ward and John Tuthill

Martha Tuthill and Mark Haskell

Lucy Haskell and Jabez Treadwell

Nathaniel Treadwell and Mary Hovey

Jabez Treadwell and Betsey Jillings Homan

Eliza Ann Treadwell and Abijah Hitchings

Abijah Franklin Hitchings and Hannah Eliza Lewis

Arthur Treadwell Hitchings and Florence Etta Hoogerzeil

Gertrude Matilda Hitchings and Stanley Elmer Allen (my maternal grandparents)

Edward Doty (abt 1599 – 1635) and Faith Clark

Desire Doty and Alexander Standish

Desire Standish and Nathan Weston

Nathan Weston and Hannah Everson

Zadoc Weston and Mary Clements

Matilda Weston and Joseph Edwin Healey

Mary Etta Healey and Peter Hoogerzeil

Florence Etta Hoogerzeil and Arthur Treadwell Hitchings

Gertrude Matilda Hitchings and Stanley Elmer Allen (my maternal grandparents)

John Tilley (abt 1571- 1620) and Joan Hurst (abt 1568 – 1621) both died in “starving time”

Elizabeth Tilley (1607 – 1687) and John Howland (1592 – 1673)

Hope Howland and John Chipman

Hannah Chipman and Thomas Huckins

Hope Huckins and Benjamin Hamblin

Hannah Hamblin and Jonathan Crosby

Ebenezer Crosby and Elizabeth Robinson

Rebecca Crosby and Comfort Haley

Joseph Edwin Healey and Matilda Weston

Mary Etta Healey and Peter Hoogerzeil

Florence Etta Hoogerzeil and Arthur Treadwell Hitchings

Gertrude Matilda Hitchings and Stanley Elmer Allen (my maternal grandparents)

John Tilley (abt 1571- 1620) and Joan Hurst (abt 1568 – 1621) both died in “starving time”

Elizabeth Tilley (1607 – 1687) and John Howland (1592 – 1673)

Desire Howland and John Gorham

Desire Gorham and John Hawes

Elizabeth Hawes and Thomas Daggett

Elizabeth Daggett and John Butler

Keziah Butler and Samuel Osborn

Samuel Osborn and Sarah Wass

Sarah Osborn and Charles Skinner

Ann Skinner and Thomas Ratchford Lyons

Isabella Lyons and Rev. Ingraham Ebenezer Bill

Caleb Rand Bill and Ann Margaret Bollman

Isabella Lyons Bill and Albert Munroe Wilkinson

Donald Munroe Wilkinson and Bertha Louise Roberts (my paternal grandparents)

George Soule ( abt 1593 – 1680) and Mary Beckett

John Soule and Rebecca Simonson

 Rebecca Soule and Edmund Weston

Nathan Weston and Desire Standish

Nathan Weston and Hannah Everson

Zadoc Weston and Mary Clements

Matilda Weston and Joseph Edwin Healey

Mary Etta Healey and Peter Hoogerzeil

Florence Etta Hoogerzeil and Arthur Treadwell Hitchings

Gertrude Matilda Hitchings and Stanley Elmer Allen (my maternal grandparents)

Captain Myles Standish (abt 1584 – 1656) and Barbara Unknown

Alexander Standish and Desire Doty

Desire Standish and Nathan Weston

Nathan Weston and Hannah Everson

Zadoc Weston and Mary Clements

Matilda Weston and Joseph Edwin Healey

Mary Etta Healey and Peter Hoogerzeil

Florence Etta Hoogerzeil and Arthur Treadwell Hitchings

Gertrude Matilda Hitchings and Stanley Elmer Allen (my maternal grandparents)

For information about Mayflower passengers online see Caleb Johnson’s Mayflower History at

http://www.mayflowerhistory.com/

For information about the Mayflower Society see http://www.mayflowerhistory.com/

Some genealogy tips on finding Mayflower ancestors (a blog post from 2015 "Ten Things to Know about Researching a Pilgrim in your Family Tree")
https://nutfieldgenealogy.blogspot.com/2015/11/ten-things-to-know-about-researching.html


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Heather Wilkinson Rojo, "My Mayflower Passenger Ancestors", Nutfield Genealogy, posted November 17, 2016, (http://nutfieldgenealogy.blogspot.com/2016/11/my-mayflower-passenger-ancestors.html: acceessed [access date]). 

My Mayflower Passenger Ancestors

The Mayflower II
at berth in Plymouth, MA

Happy Thanksgiving!

It seems that folks are taking time to post their Mayflower lines on blogs this week as a new meme for the Thanksgiving holiday.  This will be a fun way to compare lineages and find new cousins!

Robert Burnett http://robtsfamily.blogspot.com/2011/11/making-fetich-of-first-rock.html

Wendy Callahan
http://freya-newenglandgenealogy.blogspot.com/2011/11/mayflower-2011.html   (a list)
her paternal lines
http://freya-newenglandgenealogy.blogspot.com/2011/11/paternal-mayflower-lines-part-1.html  (part 1)
http://freya-newenglandgenealogy.blogspot.com/2011/11/paternal-mayflower-lines-part-2.html (part 2)
http://freya-newenglandgenealogy.blogspot.com/2011/11/paternal-mayflower-lines-part-3.html (part 3)
http://freya-newenglandgenealogy.blogspot.com/2011/11/paternal-mayflower-lines-part-4.html  (part 4)
and her maternal lines
http://freya-newenglandgenealogy.blogspot.com/2011/11/maternal-mayflower-lines-part-1.html (part 1)
http://freya-newenglandgenealogy.blogspot.com/2011/11/maternal-mayflower-lines-part-2.html (part 2)
http://freya-newenglandgenealogy.blogspot.com/2011/11/maternal-mayflower-lines-part-3.html (part 3)
http://freya-newenglandgenealogy.blogspot.com/2011/11/maternal-mayflower-lines-part-4.html (part 4)

Jim Degerstrom http://www.growinupinmaine.com/2008/09/mayflower-genealogy-growin-up-in-maine.html

Midge Frazel  http://granite-in-my-blood.blogspot.com/p/our-mayflower-lines.html

Sarah Greenleaf http://mymouseisbroken.blogspot.com/2011/11/thanksgiving-meme-mayflower-line.html

Elizabeth Handler http://frommainetokentucky.blogspot.com/2011/11/mayflower-passenger-ancestors.html

Charles Hansen http://charles-mikkelshus.blogspot.com/2011/11/my-mayflower-lines.html  

Scott Jangro
http://www.familytreecircles.com/my-mayflower-connections-1-william-brewster-42989.html
and also http://www.familytreecircles.com/my-mayflower-connections-2-stephen-hopkins-42991.html

Jolleen http://yourpedigree.blogspot.com/2011/11/my-mayflower-ancestors.html

Karen K. http://www.theroadbackward.com/blog/2011/11/22/the-great-migration-begins-mayflower-edition-11th-great-gran.html   and also at http://www.theroadbackward.com/blog/2011/11/22/the-great-migration-begins-mayflower-edition-12th-great-gran.html

Polly Kimmitt http://pk-pollyblog.blogspot.com/2011/11/giving-thanks-for-some-mayflower-roots.html

Michael Maglio http://originhunters.blogspot.com/2011/11/our-mayflower-ancestor.html?spref=fb

Reba Mc http://marydexter.blogspot.com/2011/02/my-mayflower-lines-2-of-them-anyway.html

Barbara Poole http://lifefromtheroots.blogspot.com/2011/11/mayflower-ancestors-wordless-wednesday.html
her Alden lineage in detail http://lifefromtheroots.blogspot.com/2011/11/surname-saturday-alden-of-massachusetts.html
her Mullins http://lifefromtheroots.blogspot.com/2011/11/saturday-surname-mullins-of.html

Randy Seaver
http://www.geneamusings.com/2011/11/my-mayflower-connections-1-george-soule.html
and http://www.geneamusings.com/2011/11/my-mayflower-connections-2-william.html
and  http://www.geneamusings.com/2011/11/my-mayflower-connections-richard-warren.html
and also http://www.geneamusings.com/2011/11/my-mayflower-connections-4-francis.html
and also http://www.geneamusings.com/2011/11/my-mayflower-connections-5-stephen.html
and also http://www.geneamusings.com/2011/11/my-mayflower-connections-6-william.html
and finally http://www.geneamusings.com/2011/11/my-mayflower-connections-7-edward.html

Denise Spurlock http://pastlane.blogspot.com/2011/11/descended-from-james-chilton-mayflower.html 

Betty Huber Tartas http://bettysgenealogyblog.blogspot.com/2011/11/happy-thanksgiving-honoring-my.html?spref=fb

Erica Voolich  http://genea-adventures.blogspot.com/2011_12_01_archive.html

Anita Cramer Wells http://www.familytreerings.org/2011/11/happy-391st-thanksgiving-pilgrims-1620.html

Bill West http://westinnewengland.blogspot.com/2011/11/my-ellingwood-mayflower-ancestry.html  and also two more lines at http://westinnewengland.blogspot.com/2011/11/my-allerton-and-warren-mayflower.html 

Russ Worthington http://worthy2be.wordpress.com/2011/11/22/mayflower-descendant-in-the-family/

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Here are my own lineages in alphabetical order with Mayflower passengers in bold:

Isaac Allerton(abt 1586 – 1659)and Mary Norris (1587 – 1621-died during  the “starving time” in the first winter on Cape Cod)

Remember Allerton (abt 1614 – 1656) and Moses Maverick

Abigail Maverick and Samuel Ward

Martha Ward and John Tuthill

Martha Tuthill and Mark Haskell

Lucy Haskell and Jabez Treadwell

Nathaniel Treadwell and Mary Hovey

Jabez Treadwell and Betsey Jillings Homan

Eliza Ann Treadwell and Abijah Hitchings

Abijah Franklin Hitchings and Hannah Eliza Lewis

Arthur Treadwell Hitchings and Florence Etta Hoogerzeil

Gertrude Matilda Hitchings and Stanley Elmer Allen (my maternal grandparents)

Edward Doty (abt 1599 – 1635) and Faith Clark

Desire Doty and Alexander Standish

Desire Standish and Nathan Weston

Nathan Weston and Hannah Everson

Zadoc Weston and Mary Clements

Matilda Weston and Joseph Edwin Healey

Mary Etta Healey and Peter Hoogerzeil

Florence Etta Hoogerzeil and Arthur Treadwell Hitchings

Gertrude Matilda Hitchings and Stanley Elmer Allen (my maternal grandparents)

John Tilley (abt 1571- 1620) and Joan Hurst (abt 1568 – 1621) both died in “starving time”

Elizabeth Tilley (1607 – 1687) and John Howland (1592 – 1673)

Hope Howland and John Chipman

Hannah Chipman and Thomas Huckins

Hope Huckins and Benjamin Hamblin

Hannah Hamblin and Jonathan Crosby

Ebenezer Crosby and Elizabeth Robinson

Rebecca Crosby and Comfort Haley

Joseph Edwin Healey and Matilda Weston

Mary Etta Healey and Peter Hoogerzeil

Florence Etta Hoogerzeil and Arthur Treadwell Hitchings

Gertrude Matilda Hitchings and Stanley Elmer Allen (my maternal grandparents)

John Tilley (abt 1571- 1620) and Joan Hurst (abt 1568 – 1621) both died in “starving time”

Elizabeth Tilley (1607 – 1687) and John Howland (1592 – 1673)

Desire Howland and John Gorham

Desire Gorham and John Hawes

Elizabeth Hawes and Thomas Daggett

Elizabeth Daggett and John Butler

Keziah Butler and Samuel Osborn

Samuel Osborn and Sarah Wass

Sarah Osborn and Charles Skinner

Ann Skinner and Thomas Ratchford Lyons

Isabella Lyons and Rev. Ingraham Ebenezer Bill

Caleb Rand Bill and Ann Margaret Bollman

Isabella Lyons Bill and Albert Munroe Wilkinson

Donald Munroe Wilkinson and Bertha Louise Roberts (my paternal grandparents)

George Soule ( abt 1593 – 1680) and Mary Beckett

John Soule and Rebecca Simonson

 Rebecca Soule and Edmund Weston

Nathan Weston and Desire Standish

Nathan Weston and Hannah Everson

Zadoc Weston and Mary Clements

Matilda Weston and Joseph Edwin Healey

Mary Etta Healey and Peter Hoogerzeil

Florence Etta Hoogerzeil and Arthur Treadwell Hitchings

Gertrude Matilda Hitchings and Stanley Elmer Allen (my maternal grandparents)

Captain Myles Standish (abt 1584 – 1656) and Barbara Unknown

Alexander Standish and Desire Doty

Desire Standish and Nathan Weston

Nathan Weston and Hannah Everson

Zadoc Weston and Mary Clements

Matilda Weston and Joseph Edwin Healey

Mary Etta Healey and Peter Hoogerzeil

Florence Etta Hoogerzeil and Arthur Treadwell Hitchings

Gertrude Matilda Hitchings and Stanley Elmer Allen (my maternal grandparents)

For information about Mayflower passengers online see Caleb Johnson’s Mayflower History at

http://www.mayflowerhistory.com/

For information about the Mayflower Society see http://www.mayflowerhistory.com/

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Heather Wilkinson Rojo, "My Mayflower Passenger Ancestors", Nutfield Genealogy, posted November 22, 2011, ( https://nutfieldgenealogy.blogspot.com/2011/11/my-mayflower-passenger-ancestors.html: accessed [access date]). 

Tombstone Tuesday - Some Pilgrims in Plymouth

While in Plymouth, Massachusetts for the Triennial Mayflower Congress I was able to find a little bit of free time to find a few memorial stones at Burial Hill for passengers on the Mayflower.  These were erected by descendants, since no one knows exactly where their bodies lie in Plymouth.  The only known burial spot of a Mayflower passenger, with a grave marker contemporary to the time of death is that of Richard More in Salem, Massachusetts.

IN MEMORIAM

ELDER WILLIAM BREWSTER

PATRIARCH OF THE PILGRIMS

AND THEIR RULING ELDER 1609 - 1644

OUTSTANDING LEADER OF PILGRIM MOVEMENT

THE FOUNDING OF PLIMOTH PLANTATION

AND THE ESTABLISHMENT OF CIVIL AND

RELIGIOUS LIBERTY IN THE NEW WORLD

B. AT SCROOBY, ENGLAND, CA 1566-7

D. AT PLYMOUTH, N.E. CA APRIL 10, 1644

A RESIDENT OF PLYMOUTH AND DUXBURY

M. CA 1589 MARY WENTWORTH OF SCROOBY

B. CA 1568-9 D. AT PLYMOUTH CA APRIL 17, 1627

BOTH MAYFLOWER PASSENGERS REST

IN UNKNOWN GRAVES IN PLYMOUTH

POSSIBLY IN OR NEAR BURIAL HILL

ERECTED 1967

BY THE ELDER WILLIAM BREWSTER SOCIETY

SITE OF THE HOUSE WHERE

JOHN ALDEN

LIVED WHILE IN PLYMOUTH

THIS STONE ERECTED BY

HIS DESCENDANTS

THE ALDEN KINDRED

OF AMERICA

1930

We didn't find John Howland's memorial stone at Burial Hill, but whilst visiting the Jabez Howland House in Plymouth we photographed this rubbing of that same stone! 

Here ended the Pilgrimage of

JOHN HOWLAND

who died February 25, 1672/3

aged above 80 years

married Elizabeth daughter of

JOHN TILLEY

who came with him on the 

Mayflower dec. 1620

from them are descended 

numerous posterity.

"He was a godly man and an ardent

professor of the wayes of Christ. Hee was

one of the first comers into this land and 

was the last man that was left of those

that came over in the Shipp called the

Mayflower that lived in Plymouth"

--Plymouth Records

After leaving Burial Hill we went to Cole's Hill, which is on the waterfront near Plymouth Rock.  This is where the Mayflower passengers had their first cemetery, burying the victims who died that first winter in Massachusetts 1620-1621.   There is a large monument here, containing the unidentified remains found during excavations.  It is inscribed with the names of those who succumbed the first winter.  There is also a statue to Massasoit and a plaque identifying this area as a National Historic Monument.   The Wampanoag Nation also laid a plaque to the National Day of Mourning next to Massasoit. 

"OF THE ONE HUNDRED FOUR PASSENGERS

 THESE DIED IN PLYMOUTH IN THE FIRST YEAR

THIS TABLET

MARKS THE SPOT WHERE

LIES THE BODY OF ONE FOUND

OCT. 8TH 1883.  THE BODY OF ANOTHER

FOUND ON THE 27TH

ON THE FOLLOWING MONTH

LIES 8 FEET NORTHWEST OF

THE WESTERLY CORNER

OF THIS STONE.

ERECTED 1884."

[on the other side]

"Here under cover of darkness the fast dwindling company laid their dead, leveling the earth above them lest the Indians should learn how many were their graves. Reader, history records no nobler venture for faith and freedom than that of this pilgrim band. In weariness and painfulness in watchings often in hunger and cold, they laid the foundations of a state wherein every man through countless ages should have liberty to worship God in his own way. May their example inspire thee to do thy part in perpetuating and spreading the lofty ideals of our Republic throughout the world."

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Copyright 2011, Heather Wilkinson Rojo