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Saturday, August 11, 2018

Surname Saturday ~ STANDLAKE of Scituate, Massachusetts



STANDLAKE / STANLEY / STANDLACK / STANDLICK
(all these spellings are found in the Scituate, Massachusetts vital records)

Daniel Standlake, my 10th great grandfather, and his wife Jane, was of unknown origins, and it is unknown when he arrived in New England from England.  He was make a freeman in Scituate, Massachusetts in 1636.  The History of Scituate, page 50, states that he “settled amongst the men of Kent, on Kent Street, the 3d. lot south of the ‘drift way’".   He had three children, and he died in May 1638 shortly after arriving here.  He left a wife and three children,  the youngest died the following year recorded in the vital records as “the youngest child, a daughter, of “Goody Standley” was buried 19 April 1639”. 

The oldest child, Richard Standlake, is my 9th great grandfather.  He had five children by an unknown wife.  He remarried to a woman known only as “Lydia”, the widow of Jeremiah Barstow.  His only son died young “killed by the discharge of a gun by Robert Trayes, a Negro tried and acquitted it appearing to be accidental".   Richard’s will mentions his four daughters and his wife Lydia. The History of Scituate records that Richard’s house “was on the west side of Walnut Tree Hill, near that of Cornet John Buck”.  There is an abstract of his will in the Mayflower Descendant, Volume 31 [1933], page 62 “Abstracts of Plymouth County Probate Records”.

I descend from Richard’s eldest daughter, Joanna Standlake, my 8th great grandmother, who married John Mendall, a Quaker, and had three children.  Her only daughter, Joanna Mendall, my 7th great grandmother, married William Green (my ancestor) and Daniel Butler.  

My STANDLAKE genealogy:

Generation 1:  Daniel Standlake, died May 1638 in Scituate, Massachusetts; married to Jane Unknown.  Three children.

Generation 2:   Richard Standlake, born about 1636, died 14 May 1691 in Scituate; married first to Unknown and had five children; married second  to Lydia Unknown, widow of Jeremiah Barstow.

Generation 3:  Joanna Standlake, born about 1661 in Scitutate, and died 5 June 1738 in Rochester, Massachusetts; married about 1687 in Scituate to John Mendall, so of John Mendall.  He was born 15 December 1663 in Marshfield, and died before 14 July 1743 in Rochester.  Three children.

Generation 4. Joanna Mendall m. William Green
Generation 5:  Tabitha Green m. Jabez Robinson
Generation 6:  Elizabeth Robinson m. Ebenezer Crosby
Generation 7: Rebecca Crosby m. Comfort Haley
Generation 8:  Joseph Edwin Healy m. Matilda Weston
Generation 9:  Mary Etta Healey m. Peter Hoogerzeil
Generation 10:  Florence Etta Hoogerzeil m. Arthur Treadewll Hitchings
Generation 11:  Gertrude Matilda Hitchings m. Stanley Elmer Allen (my grandparents)

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Heather Wilkinson Rojo, “Surname Saturday ~ STANDLAKE of Scituate, Massachusetts”, Nutfield Genealogy, posted August 11, 2018, ( https://nutfieldgenealogy.blogspot.com/2018/08/surname-saturday-standlake-of-scituate.html: accessed [access date]). 

Saturday, August 4, 2018

Surname Saturday ~ MENDALL of Marshfield and Rochester, Massachusetts



MENDALL /  MENDELL

John Mendall, my 9th great grandfather, came late to New England, perhaps in the 1650s.  He married the widow of Jeremiah Burroughs.  She came with four small children, and her name is unknown.  Together they had five children with the surname Mendall, one son and four daughters, all born in Marshfield, Massachusetts and listed in the town records.   John Mendall’s birth, origins and exact death date are all unknown.

John Mendall’s will was dated 11 May 1711 and proved 8 February 1720.  His wife was not mentioned in the will, so she must have predeceased him sometime before 1711.  The will mentions his son, John; his grandson-in-law, Francis Crooker; his daughters Mercy Tinkham, Sarah Torry, Hannah Tilden and Ruth Doty; and his son-in-law Thomas Tilden.    This family is of great interest to Mayflower researchers because two of John Mendall’s daughters married grandsons of Mayflower Passengers.  Mercy married Peter Tinkham, grandson of passenger Peter Brown; and daughter Ruth married Theophilus Doty, the grandson of passenger Edward Doty (also my 10th great grandfather). 

The will of John Mendall:

In The Name of God, Amen. The tenth day of May in the year of our Lord 1711, I John Mendall of Marshfield in the county of Plimoth in New England, being aged & weak in body, but of perfect mind and memory thanks be given to God; therefore calling my mortality of my body to mind and knowing that it is appointed for men once to dye Doe make and ordain this my Last Will & Testament, that is to say, principally & first of all I give & recommend my soul into the hands of God that Gave it, & my body to be buried at the discretion of my Executor hereafter named & as touching such worldly Estate wherewith it hath pleased God to bless me in this life, I Give devise & dispose of the same in the following manner & form: That is to say ; First, I will that all those debts & duties as I do owe in Right or Conscience to any manner of person or persons whatsoever, Shall be well & truly contented and paid; or ordained to be paid in Convenient time after my decease, by my Executor hereafter named.
    Item: I give & bequesth to my well beloved son John Mendall, one shilling.
    Item: I give & bequeth to my well loved grandson-in-law, Francis Crooker, all my ropemaking tools that I doe use in or about the makeing of rope, after I have done useing them myself.
    Item: I give & bequeth all the rest of my estate of what kind or nature soever to my well beloved daughters, Mercy Tinckum & Sarah Torry & Hannah Tilden & Ruth Doty. I likewise constitute make and ordain my son-in-law Thomas Tilden to be my only & sole executor of my Last Will & Testament & I do hereby utterly Disalow, Revoke, and disannul all & every other former Testaments, Wills, & Legacies, Bequests & Executors by me before this time in anyways Named, Willed & Bequesthed, Ratifieing & Confirming this & no other to be my Last Will & Testament In Witness whereof I have hereunto sett my hand & seal this day and year above written.
      Signed Sealed Published Pronounced & Declared by the sd John Mendall as his Last Will & Testament in the presence of us the subscribers (viz) the words (my son-in-law Thomas Tilden to be) were Enterlined before the Ensealing & Delivery of these presents between eighteenth & ninteenth lines.
    The Mark of John X Mendall
    John Jones (signed)
    John Little (signed)
    Isaac Little (signed)

I descend from John Mendall, Jr. (1663 – 1743), my 8th great grandfather, who was a Quaker who settled in nearby Rochester, Massachusetts.  He had three children, two boys and one girl, born in Rochester and recorded there.  His death date is unknown, but his will was proven on 14 July 1743.

For more MENDALL information:

Descendants of John Mendall, Sr., of Marshfield, Massachusetts. by Sidney D. Smith, Gateway Press, Baltimore, Md., 1984.  Available online at archive.org 

Records of the Colony of New Plymouth, In New England, Volume 7, page 199.

My MENDALL genealogy:

Generation 1:  John Mendall, born about 1638 probably in England, died about 1720 in Marshfield, Massachusetts; married to Unknown, widow of Jeremiah Burroughs, before 1663. Five children.

Generation 2:  John Mendall,born 15 December 1663 in Marshfield, Massachusetts; died before 14 July 1743 in Rochester, Massachusetts; married about 1687 in Scituate, Massachusetts to Joanna Standlake, daughter of Richard Standlake and Unknown. She was born about 1661 in Scituate, and died 5 June 1738 in Rochester.  Three children.

Generation 3:  Joanna Mendall, born 13 May 1690 in Rochester, died before 3 May 1773 in Falmouth, Massachusetts; married first on 17 July 1707 in Rochester to Daniel Butler (five Butler children); married second on 16 May 1726 in Falmouth to William Green, son of Isaac Green and Unknown.  He was born 20 November 1696 in Malden, Massachusetts and died about 1773 in Falmouth.  Five more Green children.

Generation 4:  Tabitha Green m. Jabez Robinson
Generation 5:  Elizabeth Robinson m. Ebenezer Crosby
Generation 6:  Rebecca Crosby m. Comfort Haley
Generation 7:  Joseph Edwin Healy m. Matilda Weston
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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Heather Wilkinson Rojo, “Surname Saturday ~ MENDALL of Marshfield, Massachusetts”, Nutfield Genealogy, posted August 4, 2018, ( https://nutfieldgenealogy.blogspot.com/2018/08/surname-saturday-mendall-of-marshfield.html: accessed [access date]).

Saturday, July 28, 2018

Surname Saturday ~ WHEELER of Charlestown, Massachusetts



WHEELER

John Wheeler, my 11th great grandfather, was born about 1575 and died 1644.  He had eleven children baptized at Cranfield, England, including Isaac, baptized 13 September 1607 (my 10th great grandfather), and his brother Obadiah, baptized on 10 December 1609, who settled in Concord.  It is unknown if more siblings came to the New World.

Isaac was in Charlestown, Massachusetts as early as 1639, and was admitted as a member of the first church there on 30 September 1642.   He lived in the part of Charlestown that became the town of Malden.  His wife was Frances, her maiden name is still unknown  When Isaac died in 1643, she remarried to  Richard Cook, and then toThomas Green, the father of two of her sons-in-law.   Her daughter Elizabeth, born 8 July 1641 married William Green (my 9th great grandparents), and daughter Sarah, born 16 March 1643, married John Green.  Two Green brothers married two Wheeler sisters.  The boys’ father married their wives’ mother.

Not only is her marriage to Thomas Green interesting, but Frances had a fourth marriage to Joseph Wheeler, the first cousin to her first husband, John Wheeler!

Some WHEELER resources:

The Genealogies and Estates of Charlestown, by Thomas Bellows Wyman, page 1012
Homer W. Brainard, “Captain Thomas Wheeler and Some of his Descendants”, The American Genealogist, Volume 12, page 6

The Genealogical and Encyclopedic History of the Wheeler Family in America, by Albert Gallatin Wheeler, 1914, see pages 513 – 516 (available online at Archive.org)

The New England Historic Genealogical Register, Volume 4, page 270

MY WHEELER genealogy:

Generation 1:  Isaac Wheeler, son of John Wheeler and Elizabeth Unknown, was baptized on 13 September 1607 in Cranfield, Bedfordshire, England, died 1645 in Charlestown, Massachusetts; married on 9 April 1635 in Cranfield to Frances, the widow of Richard Cook.  Four children.

Generation 2:  Elizabeth Wheeler, born 8 July 1641 in Malden, Massachusetts; married on 13 March 1659 in Malden to William Green, son of Thomas Green and Elizabeth Lynde, as his first wife.  He was born in 1635 and died 30 December 1705 in Malden.  Six children.

Generation 3:  Isaac Green m. Sarah Unknown

Lineage A
Generation 4A: William Green m. Joanna Mendall
Generation 5A: Tabitha Green m. Jabez Robinson
Generation 6A: Elizabeth Robinson m. Ebenezer Crosby
Generation 7A: Rebecca Crosby m. Comfort Haley
Generation 8A: Joseph Edwin Healy m. Matilda Weston
Generation 9A: Mary Etta Healey m. Peter Hoogerzeil
Generation 10A: Florence Etta Hoogerzeil m. Arthur Treadwell Hitchings
Generation 11A:  Gertrude Matilda Hitchings m. Stanley Elmer Allen (my grandparents)

Lineage B
Generation 4B: Martha Green m. Peter Robinson
Generation 5B: Jabez Robinson m. Tabitha Green (see above)

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Heather Wilkinson Rojo, “Surname Saturday ~ WHEELER of Concord and Charlestown, Massachusetts”,  Nutfield Genealogy, posted July 28, 2018, ( https://nutfieldgenealogy.blogspot.com/2018/07/surname-saturday-wheeler-of-charlestown.html: accessed [access date]). 

Saturday, July 21, 2018

Surname Saturday ~ GREEN of Malden, Massachusetts


GREEN / GREENE /  GRENE

I have another GREEN ancestor I have already featured at this blog, Bartholomew Green (about 1590 – 1636) of Cambridge, Massachusetts.  They do not appear to be kin.

Thomas Green, my 9th great grandfather, arrived in Massachusetts aboard the ship Planter in 1635/6.  In 1646 he was living at Lady Deborah Moody’s farm in Lynn, Massachusetts, and by 1650 he was a resident of Malden.  He had a 63 acre farm located in what is now the Melrose and Wakefield border.  He was a farmer, and was elected a selectman in 1658, and a juror several times for Middlesex County.

There were two Thomas Greens living in Malden at this time.  This Thomas Green is called “senior” and his son is “Thomas Green junior”.  The other Thomas Green had no suffix after his name.  My ancestor Thomas Green left a will dated 12 November 1667, proven on 15 January 1667/8.  It doesn’t name his wife, but it names all his children.

Two of his children are my ancestors. His son William, my 8th great grandfather, was born in 1625 and settled in Malden.  He was a freeman in 1668, selectman in 1678, 1683, and 1702.  His son, Isaac Green, my 7th great grandfather, left Malden and settled in Falmouth, on Cape Cod, where he is buried. I descend from his daughter, Martha, born in 1705, my 6th great grandmother who married Peter Robinson, the great great grandson of Rev. John Robinson, pastor to the pilgrims.

Thomas’s daughter, Hannah Green (1647 – 1721) is also my 8th great great grandmother. She married Joseph Richardson and removed to the town of Woburn, which was settled by Malden and Charlestown residents.    Joseph Richardson was a member of Major Samuel Appleton’s militia and was engaged in the Great Swamp Fight on 19 December 1675.  They had five children.

Some GREEN resources:

The New England Historic Genealogical Register, Volume 16, page 74  and also Volume 61, page 65

The Payne-Joynce Genealogy website:  https://mathcs.clarku.edu/~djoyce/gen/  

Descendants of Thomas Green of Malden, Massachusetts by Samuel S. Green, 1858

The Greenes of Rhode Island with Historical Records of England Ancestors, by Louise Brownell Clarke, 1903.

My GREEN genealogy:

Generation 1: Thomas Green, born in England, died 19 December 1667 in Malden, Massachusetts; married on 26 June 1627 in Malden to Elizabeth Unknown.  She had ten children.  He married second Frances Watson, the widow of Isaac Wheeler and Richard Cook. 

Lineage A:

Generation 2A:  William Green, born 15 December 1635 in England; died 30 December 1705 in Malden; married on 13 March 1659 in Malden to Elizabeth Wheeler as his first wife (the daughter of Isaac Wheeler and Frances Watson, she had six children); married second on 6 February 1695 to Isabel Farmer, daughter of John Farmer and Isabella Burbage (she had no children).

Generation 3A: Isaac Green, born about 1666 in Malden, died 4 January 1739/40 in Falmouth, Massachusetts; married about 1693 to Sarah Unknown as his first wife (six children); married second on 6 August 1716 in Falmouth to Judith Betell. 

Lineage A1:

Generation 4A1:  William Green, born 20 November 1696 in Malden, died about 1773 in Falmouth; married 26 May 1726 in Falmouth to Joanna Mendall, daughter of John Mendall and Joanna Standike.  She was born 13 May 1690 in Rochester, Massachusetts; and died before 3 May 1773. 

Generation 5A1:  Tabitha Green, born 18 December 1726 in Falmouth; married on 7 January 1748 to Jabez Robinson, son of Peter Robinson and Martha Green (see below).  He was born 9 June 1726 in Falmouth.  Five children.

Generation 6A1:  Elizabeth Robinson m. Ebenezer Crosby
Generation 7A1:  Rebecca Crosby m. Comfort Haley
Generation 8A1:  Joseph Edwin Healy m. Matilda Weston
Generation 9A1:  Mary Etta Healey m. Peter Hoogerzeil
Generation 10A1: Florence Etta Hoogerzeil m. Arthur Hitchings
Generation 11A1:  Gertrude Matilda Hitchings m. Stanley Elmer Allen (my grandparents)

Lineage A2:

Generation 4A2:  Martha Green, born 28 October 1705 in Falmouth; married on 18 July 1724 in Falmouth to Peter Robinson, son Of Isaac Robinson and Hannah Harper. He was born 15 December 1701 in Falmouth, and died after 1772.  Seven children.

Generation 5A2:  Jabez Robinson m. Tabitha Green (see above)

Lineage B:

Generation B2:  Hannah Green, born 7 February 1647 in Woburn, Massachusetts, and died 20 May 1721 in Norwich, Connecticut; married on 5 November 1666 in Woburn to Joseph Richardson, son of Samuel Richardson and Joanna Thake.  He was born 27 July 1643 in Woburn, and died 5 March 1718 in Woburn.  Five children.

Generation B3:  Mary Richardson m. James Fowle
Generation B4:  Mary Fowle m. James Simonds, Jr.
Generation B5:  Caleb Simonds m. Susanna Converse
Generation B6:  Ruth Simonds m. Andrew Munroe
Generation B7:  Luther Simonds Munroe m. Olive Flint
Generation B8:  Phebe Cross Munroe m. Robert Wilson Wilkinson
Generation B9:  Albert Munroe Wilkinson m. Isabella Lyons Bill
Generation B10:   Donald Munroe Wilkinson m. Bertha Louise Roberts (my grandparents)

See this link for my ROBINSON lineage back to Rev. John Robinson, pastor to the Pilgrims:

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Heather Wilkinson Rojo, “Surname Saturday ~ GREEN of Charlestown and Malden, Massachusetts”, Nutfield Genealogy, posted July 21, 2018, ( https://nutfieldgenealogy.blogspot.com/2018/07/surname-saturday-green-of-malden.html: accessed [access date]). 

Saturday, July 14, 2018

Surname Saturday ~ HARPER of Sandwich, Massachusetts


HARPER

Robert Harper (about 1630 – about 1704), my 9th great grandfather, was an early Quaker.  His name can be found in the Falmouth, Massachusetts Friend’s Monthly Meeting records.   Because of his faith (not attending church), and he refused to take the oath of Fidelity, he lost much of his personal property and was heavily fined. Perhaps that’s why he left no will or tombstone (Quakers were buried together in unmarked graves). 

As a Quaker, in 1660 Robert Harper was sentenced to be whipped, and he and his wife, Deborah, were sent to the prison in Boston.   In 1661 Harper “stood under the scaffold and caught in his arms the body of his friend William Leddra, the martyr preacher” on Boston Common.  For this act of kindness, Harper and his wife were banished again.

I descend from Robert Harper and his second wife, Prudence Butler, through their daughter Hannah (b. 1670) who married Isaac Robinson.  She is my 8th great grandmother. Isaac was another Quaker who was heavily prosecuted by the Puritan authorities. They had ten children. Isaac Robinson was a great grandson of the Reverend John Robinson, pastor to the Pilgrims.

Some HARPER resources:

MacLean W. McLean, "Robert Harper of Sandwich, Mass., and his Son Stephen of Falmouth." The American Genealogist, Volume 48, page 215, October 1972

History of Cape Cod by Frederick Freeman, 1862

Sandwich and Bourne Town Records

The Genealogical Dictionary of New England, by Savage

The History of the Society of Friends in America, Volume 1

My HARPER genealogy:

Generation 1:  Robert Harper, born about 1630 in England, died about 1704 in Sandwich, Massachusetts; married first to Deborah Perry May 1654; married second to Prudence Butler, daughter of Thomas Butler, 22 June 1666 in Sandwich.  Four children.

Generation 2:  Hannah Harper, born May 1670 in Sandwich; married 1 March 1690 in Barnstable to Isaac Robinson, great grandson of Rev. John Robinson, pastor to the Pilgrims, son of John Robinson and Elizabeth Weeks.  Ten children.

Generation 3:  Peter Robinson m. Martha Green
Generation 4:  Jabez Robinson m. Tabitha Green
Generation 5: Elizabeth Robinson m. Ebenezer Crosby
Generation 6:  Rebecca Crosby m. Comfort Haley
Generation 7:  Joseph Edwin Healy m. Matilda Weston
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)

See this interesting blog post by Christy K. Robinson about Robert Harper:

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Heather Wilkinson Rojo, “Surname Saturday ~ HARPER of Sandwich, Massachusetts”, Nutfield Genealogy, posted July 14, 2018, ( https://nutfieldgenealogy.blogspot.com/2018/07/surname-saturday-harper-of-sandwich.html:  accessed [access date]). 

Wednesday, April 25, 2018

Where did Watson and Crick hang out when not working on DNA?

April 25th is National DNA Day!


While we were on our trip to England with the Mayflower Society Historic Sites tour, we went to Cambridgeshire, home of passenger John Howland, who was born in Fenstanton.  Nearby was Cambridge University.  Did you know that passenger William Brewster attended Peterhouse College at Cambridge?  The pastor to the pilgrims, Rev. John Robinson, also received a Bachelor of Arts degree in 1596 from Corpus Christi College, and in 1599 he earned a Master of Arts.  Robinson is my 11th great grandfather on both my maternal and paternal sides of the family tree. 


The Eagle pub is owned by Corpus Christi College.  In the rear of this building is the RAF bar, where pilots used to hang out during World War II.  It is covered with military insignia and graffiti from the era.  Do you know who used to hang out here after the war?  Francis Crick and James Watson used to have lunch here, and on 28 February 1953 they stood up in the bar and announced their discovery!  We celebrate DNA Day as April 25 because on that day in 1953 they published their discovery in the journal Nature.  I rather like the pub story better!



And so, because Vincent is an Aero Space engineer, and because I'm a genealogist, we decided to have lunch at the Eagle pub, too.  Here are the photos of our visit.  Happy DNA Day! 




A special beer on tap in the RAF bar


This plaque marks the table where Watson and Crick used to sit:

The Eagle Cambridge
Discovery of DNA
On this spot, on February 28, 1953, Francis Crick
and James Watson made the first public
announcement of the discovery of DNA with the
words "We have discovered the secret of life".
Throughout their early partnership Watson & Crick
dined in this room on six days every week.





We enjoyed a pint or two of the DNA ale!

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Heather Wilkinson Rojo, "Where did Watson and Crick hang out when not working on DNA?", Nutfield Genealogy, posted April 25, 2018,  ( https://nutfieldgenealogy.blogspot.com/2018/04/where-did-watson-and-crick-hang-out.html: accessed [access date]).

Monday, November 27, 2017

Along the Pilgrim Trail ~ St. Pieterskerk in Leiden, Holland, near where the Pilgrims worshiped

The 2017 GSMD Historic Sites Tour in front of St. Pieterskerk, Leiden, The Netherlands

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 a few more times in the next week or so.



We spent a long day in Leiden seeing the sites where the Pilgrims lived, worked, and worshiped .  Our group took a long walk through the university, where William Bradford taught English, and where John Robinson studied. It was very quiet on a Sunday morning!  We had to wait a while for the St. Pieterskerk to open, since the access to the building was through a small pub!  The church was deconsecrated in 1971 and is now run as a museum, and an event and concert venue.

The church building was started in 1390, and finished in the 1570s.  According to Wikipedia “On 7 July 1572 the church was closed for services.  It reopened on 5 October of the same year for the first protestant service.”  This was not long before the Scrooby congregation headed by Reverend John Robinson arrived in 1609.  The Separatists and John Robinson lived across the street from the church at the former almshouse and in apartments around a small courtyard. This alley or court still exists, but it is privately owned and photography was not allowed inside, although we were allowed to peek inside.


"Almshouse, founded in 1655 for the benefit of poor people.
Until 1625 John Robinson lived in this place.
His followers set sail from Leiden to America as
the Pilgrim Fathers in 1620." 

The Separatists worshiped here together at John Robinson's house across from St. Pieterskerk.  In 1620, when a large group of them (“the Pilgrims”) left Leiden via Delfshaven on board the ship The Speedwell to join the Mayflower for the New World. Rev. John Robinson stayed behind with the rest of his flock, intending to join them in the New World, but he died in Leiden and was buried under the floor of St. Pieterskerk.  There is a plaque listing the names of the Separatists and their children who were at one time buried under the floor.  The graves have since been cleared out, and the church has been reconsecrated.  It is still a very solemn place to visit.  As a descendant of Rev. Robinson, I had been looking forward to this for a long time!

UPDATE:  (3:56 PM EST 27 November 2017)
A comment from Leiden historian Jeremy Bangs:
"The Pilgrims did not worship in the Pieterskerk. They met for many years across the street in John Robinson's large house. After a general rule against groups' gathering in private houses to discuss religious issues (a measure against the Remonstrants, having nothing to do with the Pilgrims), the Pilgrims were allowed to meet in a room in the former chapel that had become the university;s library. After the remnant of the Pilgrim congregation merged with the English Reformed Church whose minister was Hugh Goodyear, that room remained in use as the English Church until the early 19th century, The English Church / University Library was behind Robinson's house, and the walls still remain, although the interior has been drastically altered."

During the Pilgrim Fathers Leiden exile
more than thirty family members died.
Many were buried in the Pieterskerk along with
their Leiden neighbours.
"BUT NOW WE ARE ALL, IN ALL PLACES,
STRANGERS AND PILGRIMS, TRAVELERS
AND SOJOURNERS..."
Robert Cushman, Pilgrim Leader 1622
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Isaac Allerton's child - 1620
John Allerton's child - 1616
Thomas Blossom's children - 1617
Thomas Brewer's wife and children - 1617, 1618
William Britsman's child - 1612
Edmund Chandler's child - 1619
Robert Cushman's wife & children - 1616
Samuel Fuller's wife & child - 1615
Edmund Jessop's child - 1618
John Keble's child - 1614
Samuel Lee's child - 1619
Robert Peck's child - 1619
John Reynold's wife & child - 1619
John Robinson's children - 1618, 1621, 1623
John Robinson - 1625
John Spooner - 1628
John & Jane Spooner's child - 1630
Randall Thicken's child - 1615
The Mayflower 1620
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In Memory of
REV. JOHN ROBINSON, M.A.,
Pastor of the English church worshiping over against
this spot A.D. 1609 - 1625, when at his prompting
went forth
THE PILGRIM FATHERS
to settle New England
in 1620
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Buried under this house of worship, 4 Mar. 1625
AEt. XLIX years
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IN MEMORIA AETERNA ERIT JUSTUS
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Erected by the National Council of the Congregational
Churches of the United States of America
A.D. 1891


Inside the John Robinson chapel
inside St. Pieterskerk

"IN MEMORY OF
JOHN ROBINSON
PASTOR OF THE ENGLISH CHURCH IN LEYDEN
1609 - 1625
HIS BROADLY TOLERANT MID
GUIDED AND DEVELOPED THE RELIGIOUS LIFE OF
THE PILGRIMS OF THE MAYFLOWER
OF HIM THESE WALLS ENSHRINE ALL THAT WAS MORTAL
HIS UNDYING SPIRIT
STILL DOMINATES THE CONSCIENCES OF A MIGHTY NATION
IN THE LAND BEYOND THE SEAS

THIS TABLET WAS ERECTED BY THE GENERAL SOCIETY OF MAYFLOWER
DESCENDANTS IN THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA  A.D. 1928"
St. Pieterskerk from the narrow
streets of Leiden, The Netherland

I descend from Rev. John Robinson twice!  Click here to see my lineages:
https://nutfieldgenealogy.blogspot.com/2013/08/surname-saturday-robinson-of-england.html

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Part 1 of this series "Babworth, Nottinghamshire":

Part 2 of this series “Scrooby Manor, Nottinghamshire”:

Part 3 of this series "Gainsborough, Lincolnshire"

Part 4 of this series "Harwich, Essex, home of the Mayflower"

Part 5 of this series "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":

Part 14 of this series "Fishtoft, Lincolnshire where the Pilgrims were betrayed":
https://nutfieldgenealogy.blogspot.com/2017/11/along-pilgrim-trail-fishtoft.html

Part 15 of this series "Boston, Lincolnshire, where the Pilgrims were jailed":

Part 16 of this series "Immingham, Lincolnshire to Holland":

Part 17 of this series "Exile in Amsterdam, Holland in 1609":
https://nutfieldgenealogy.blogspot.com/2017/11/along-pilgrim-trail-in-exile-in.html   


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Heather Wilkinson Rojo, "Along the Pilgrim Trail ~ St. Pieterskerk in Leiden, Holland, near where the Pilgrims worshiped", Nutfield Genealogy, posted November 27, 2017, (  https://nutfieldgenealogy.blogspot.com/2017/11/along-pilgrim-trail-st-pieterskerk-in.html: accessed [access date]). 

Friday, November 24, 2017

Along the Pilgrim Trail ~ In Exile in Amsterdam, Holland in 1609

Along the Pilgrim Trail, Part 17

The Engelse Kerk in the Begijnhof, Amsterdam

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.

The Scrooby Pilgrims spent a year in Amsterdam after leaving England.  They followed Rev. Clyfton, who was the pastor of the All Saint’s church in Babworth where Bradford and Brewster first heard him preach about Separatism.  Babworth preached at Amsterdam’s Zuiderkerk, and is buried here.  Several other Separatists, such as Rev. Smyth from Gainsborough, were in Amsterdam, too. 

There is a neighborhood called the Begijnhof, which was first a close for Catholic lay nuns (known as "Beguines"), and their church was given to the English Protestants in 1607.  This English Reformed church “Engelse Kerk”  was where the Scrooby Pilgrims worshipped until Reverend Robinson led them to Leiden.   It seems that several factions of English Protestants squabbled over theology, and so Robinson led his flock of Separatists to the calm of Leiden.

The Begijnhof is a lovely little neighborhood.  You can’t hear the street noise inside this courtyard, and it is like stepping back into time.  Perhaps it even looks like it did in the early 17th century when the Pilgrims lived nearby?  It’s fun to imagine!

In the next post I will show you all the sites where the Pilgrims lived and worshipped in Leiden.


The entrance to the Begijnhof

The Begijnhof is a quiet courtyard from the 16th century inside Amsterdam

TO THE GLORY OF GOD IN CHRIST JESUS
THIS TABLET IS PLACED HERE BY A COMPANY OF THE
CLERGY OF THE REFORMED CHURCH IN AMERICA,
A LINEAL DESCENDANT OF THE CHURCH OF HOLLAND,
AS A TRIBUTE TO
THE PILGRIM FATHERS
WHO SETTLED FIRST IN THE CITY OF AMSTERDAM
IN HOLLAND, THE COUNTRY OF THEIR ASYLUM,
A SHINING EXEMPLAR OF CIVIL AND RELIGIOUS
LIBERTY, MANY OF WHOSE INSTITUTIONS
TRANSMITTED TO AMERICA THROUGH THE
ENGLISH PILGRIMS AND THE DUTCH WHO
SETTLED IN NEW YORK, HAVE GIVEN TO THE
NEW WORLD A DISTINCTIVE CHARACTER.
ERECTED A.D. 1927

THIS CHURCH IS BELIEVED
TO HAVE BEEN BUILT IN 1392.
IN 1607 IT WAS GIVEN TO
ENGLISH-SPEAKING PRESBYTERIANS
LIVING IN AMSTERDAM.
IT WAS ENLARGED IN 1665.
AND EXTENSIVE RESTORATION
WAS COMPLETED IN 1975
------------
AN INTERNATIONAL CHRISTIAN
COMMUNITY CONTINUES
TO WORSHIP HERE.

Over the door of the Engelse Kerk


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":

Part 14 of this series "Fishtoft, Lincolnshire where the Pilgrims were betrayed":
https://nutfieldgenealogy.blogspot.com/2017/11/along-pilgrim-trail-fishtoft.html

Part 15 of this series "Boston, Lincolnshire, where the Pilgrims were jailed":

Part 16 of this series "Immingham, Lincolnshire to Holland":

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Heather Wilkinson Rojo, "Along the Pilgrim Trail ~ In Exile in Amsterdam, Holland in 1609”,  Nutfield Genealogy, posted November 24, 2017, (  https://nutfieldgenealogy.blogspot.com/2017/11/along-pilgrim-trail-in-exile-in.html: accessed [access date]).