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unusual facts about The Mayflower



All Saints' Church, Babworth

Brewster and Bradford were both passengers aboard The Mayflower.

Mayflower High School

Mayflower High School, founded in 1966, and named after the Mayflower, is a coeducational, secondary school located in Billericay, Essex in the East of England in the United Kingdom.


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Avis Stearns Van Wagenen

In 1892, she became interested in the genealogy of the Stearns family through Dr. Bond's Genealogies and the History of Watertown and authored several books on the history of her family who were early settlers in the United States and arrived on the Mayflower.

Beulah Land

Edgar Page Stites was of English descent and was born at Cape May, New Jersey, where his ancestors had settled after coming over on the Mayflower.

Birth of the B-29

The manufacturing of Superfortresses in huge factories is then chronicled, as Americans from every walk of life, black, white, male and female, work together to assemble the giant airplanes, each one larger than the Mayflower.

Charles Brackett

Brackett married Elizabeth Barrows Fletcher, a descendant of Stephen Hopkins of the Mayflower, on June 2, 1919, in Indianapolis, Indiana.

Ellen Palmer Allerton

Her husband, born February 18, 1831, was native of Cuyahoga County, Ohio and a descendent of Isaac Allerton who, along with his wife and children, had made passage aboard the Mayflower on its maiden voyage to Plymouth Rock.

Ferdinand von Schirach

His American great-grandmother is a descendant of two signatories of the American Declaration of Independence, and descends from the Founding Fathers of the United States, the Mayflower pilgrims.

Geneva Bible

It was one of the Bibles taken to America on the Mayflower, it was used by many English Dissenters, and it was still respected by Oliver Cromwell's soldiers at the time of the English Civil War in the booklet Cromwell's Soldiers' Pocket Bible.

Happiness Is a Warm Blanket, Charlie Brown

Coincidentally, the first half of the film's original Fox broadcast in 2011 competed directly with a Peanuts special that aired at the same time on ABC ("The Mayflower Voyagers" from This Is America, Charlie Brown).

Helen Pitts Douglass

A descendant of John Alden and Priscilla Alden, who sailed to America on the Mayflower, Pitts graduated from Mount Holyoke College (then called the Mount Holyoke Female Seminary) in 1859.

Henry Burbeck

Lucy was a descendant of Gov. William Bradford (1590-1657) of the Mayflower and Jonathan Rudd who was married, in a legendary ceremony, at Bride Brook in what is now East Lyme, Connecticut in December 1646.

History of Hampshire

Southampton has been host to many famous ships, including the Mayflower and the Titanic, the latter being crewed largely by Hampshire natives.

History of the Puritans in North America

In 1620, after receiving a patent from the London Company, the Pilgrims left for New England on board the Mayflower, landing at Plymouth Rock.

Jacob Blakeway

After the Mayflower sailed, Katherine made another attempt to challenge the decision through the courts, and it was this legal action in early 1622 before Chief Justice James Ley which led to the statement from Samuel explaining where he sent the children and why, which provided the main historical evidence for the events.

Johnny Smith and Poker-Huntas

The real Captain Smith, who arrived in present-day Virginia in 1607, was totally disconnected with the Mayflower, which disembarked at Massachusetts Bay in 1620.

It stars Elmer Fudd's prototype Egghead as Johnny Smith, a caricature of the colonist Captain John Smith, who arrives on the Mayflower to be met by some sarcastic Native Americans as he makes his escape with Poker-Huntas, a caricature of Pocahontas, and makes off to England with her to raise a family.

Jordans, Buckinghamshire

In the 1920s antiquarian J. Rendel Harris concluded that the barn had been built with timbers from a ship called the "Mayflower" bought from a shipbreaker's yard in Rotherhithe and that this was the Mayflower which carried the Pilgrim Fathers from Plymouth to New England.

Josiah Symon

In 1907 he visited the Public Record Office in London while on a holiday, and campaigned for the logs of Captain James Cook's ships HM Bark Endeavour and HMS Resolution to be brought to Australia, in the same way that the log of the Mayflower had been taken to Boston in the United States.

Mayflower Compact signatories

Per author Caleb Johnson, the original of the Mayflower Compact has long been lost, possibly during Revolutionary War looting.

He boarded the Mayflower with his wife and two servants, one of whom, Elias Story, died early along with an 8-year old girl in his care, Ellen More.

Minton Warren

Minton Warren (1850–1907), American classical scholar, was born at Pawtucket, Rhode Island, on 29 January 1850, a descendant of Richard Warren, who sailed on the Mayflower in 1620.

More Light Presbyterians

In 1646, governor Edward Winslow recalled Robinson's farewell to the pilgrims as they set sail on the Mayflower.

Moss Kent Dickinson

A descendent of the Mayflower Pilgrams, the Dickinson family had been settled in the United States for generations.

Octavius Winslow

He was a direct descendant of John Winslow and Mary Chilton who braved the Atlantic to travel to America on the Mayflower in 1620.

Oliver La Farge

He was a descendant of Gov. Thomas Prence (1599 - March 29, 1673) a co-founder of Eastham, Massachusetts, a political leader in both the Plymouth and Massachusetts Bay colonies, and governor of Plymouth (1634, 1638, and 1657–1673); and Elder William Brewster (pilgrim), (c. 1567 - April 10, 1644), the Pilgrim leader and spiritual elder of the Plymouth Colony and a passenger on the Mayflower.

Princess Helga-Lee of Schaumburg-Lippe

Her mother was Claude Lennox Miller (daughter of Admiral and Governor Miller), a descendant of Edward Winslow, one of the founding fathers of the colonies in North America, who came on the Mayflower.

Resplendent

After 25,000 years have passed, the Mayflower is contacted by Pirius and Torec (protagonists of Exultant), former soldiers of the Coalition, which is revealed to have fallen.

Samuel More

Samuel More, under his father Richard's direction, removed the four children from their home, and four years later, without their mother's knowledge, they were transported to the New World on board the Pilgrim Fathers' ship the Mayflower.

Selah B. Strong

She was also a descendant of Elder William Brewster, (c. 1567 – April 10, 1644), the Pilgrim leader and spiritual elder of the Plymouth Colony and a passenger on the Mayflower, through his son Jonathan Brewster.

Sherman S. Rogers

He was the son of Gustavus Adolphus Rogers and Susan Ann (Campbell) Rogers; and a descendant of Thomas Rogers, a passenger on the Mayflower in 1620.

St Wilfrid's Church, Scrooby

Scrooby harboured a Separatist Puritan group, 1606-8, which fled to Holland in 1608 and then in 1620 sailed to America in the Mayflower.

The Mayflower Trilogy

The Mayflower Trilogy is the series of three novels begun in 1994 by Orson Scott Card & Kathryn H. Kidd.

Triumph Mayflower

The Mayflower is the subject of a well-known painting by Australian artist John BrackThe Car.