Did any of your ancesters come over on the Mayflower?

Question

Did any of your grandparents come west in covered wagons and name the town where they stopped and the name is the same today?

Answer 1

My Great Great Great Great Great Great Grandfather came from England to the Upper Parish, Nansemond, Virginia in 1749 to be the Ministor

My Great Great Great Great Grandfather moved his family from Norfork, Virginia to Jameston Twp., Martin County, North Carolina in 1765

My Great Great Great moved his family from Halifax Co, North Carolina to Dooly Co. Georgia in 1801

My Great Great Grandfather moved his family from Dooly Co, Georgia to Jim Fork, Sebastian, Arkansas in 1900

My Great Grandfather moved his family Jim Fork, Sebastian, Arkansas to Burton, McIntosh, Oklahoma in 1919

My mother came to California during the deprestion from Oklahoma in a wagon. They started in Boswell, Choctaw, Oklahoma and ended up in Tipton, Tulare, California. One of the horses were named Dixie.

Answer 2

I had 2 ancestors on the Mayflower. We only discovered that recently through geneological research my niece is doing. What has always been known in our family lore is that we are descended from the one of the original families who settled Nantucket Island (the Coffin family). My maternal grandmother was a Coffin. Having been born and raised in the West, I didn't feel much connection to that history until recently. We visited the Boston area and while on Nantucket, we visited the Jethro Coffin house which is also known as the oldest home on the island. It was very moving to stand in the very place where my family huddled in front of the fireplace in the 1600's.

My grandparents came out West in the first few years of the 1900's and settled in Silverdale, Washington. There are no stories of covered wagons, so I imagine they came by train. They were very early settlers in the Silverdale area. My grandfather cleared virgin timber to establish their chicken ranch. My mother was born in 1919 when there was still no electricity or indoor plumbing at their home. Now there is a freeway to Bremerton within sight of the property. My mother remembered when the only way to get to Bremerton (a dozen miles away) was by ferry. And later there was a dirt road that took them to Bremerton by horse and buggy. Taking the ferry to Seattle was a very big event! When I was a child in the 50's, taking the ferry between Seattle and Bremerton was still a big event for me. Older people from the Seattle area will fondly remember riding the Kalakala.

Answer 3

None of my ancestors came over on the Mayflower and none of my grandparents went West in covered wagons. They came in the 1800's and moved to Chicago after Ellis Island.

Answer 4

Actually mind came over on viking ships and were here long before the Mayflower was even built. Landed in Iceland and actually lived there for a year or two, had children, before the Indians slaughtered them.

You Mayflower people are late comers :-) What took you so long?

Answer 5

My great maternal ancestor beat the Mayflower by a few years. He landed at Lans Aux Meadows, Newfoundland about 840 A.D. His name was Lief Eriksen.
The family didn't return to North America until 1912.

Answer 6

First question is no. However my wife is registered as a Mayflower descendant.
Second question not in America. But in France an entire Provence is named for my ancestors.

Answer 7

My ancestors came over on the second ship. They had sent the servants ahead on the Mayflower!

Answer 8

My family tree says my ancesters were the Indians {already here} That was my Mothers side of the family and then my father was german. and all his family came over in the covered wagons ,,and boats {ships}

Answer 9

Nope. My great-great....whatever-grandfather came over before the Mayflower, to Virginia. And he left behind the 'town' (if you can call it that) named after him in England.

Peace to you.

Answer 10

On Both sides they came through Ellis Island. On one side in the 1870's and the other in 1923.