Dec 16, 2020

McMillan/McGuffin Mayflower Ancestors - Stephen and Constance Hopkins

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This is a quick place holder for a blog post that I will flesh out in the next few weeks with more details, for McMillan/McGuffin Cousins (Johnsons, Olsons if related to Grace McGuffin, Etc.)

Here's a basic list of your lineage back to Stephen Hopkins, starting with my grandmother. As mentioned in previous recent posts, I will come back and add more words to this once I finish this current set of Mayflower Videos.

How certain am I about this lineage? From Stephen Hopkins through Hannah Ransom is well documented. I need more documentation showing that David Hammond is Hanna Ransom's son. Then from David through Grace is also very well documented. David Hammond is our weak link right now. Altogether, I do think the lineage is quite likely (4 stars out of 5.)

Stephen Hopkins 1582-1644

Constance Hopkins 1606-1644, Daughter of Stephen Hopkins

Mark Snow 1628-1695, Son of Constance Hopkins

Nicholas Snow 1663-1754, Son of Mark Snow

Thankful Snow 1702-1755, Daughter of Nicholas Snow

Hannah Burgess 1726-1785, Daughter of Thankful Snow

Hannah Ransom 1744-1816, Daughter of Hannah Burgess

David Hammond 1773-1842, Son of Hannah Ransom

Esther Hammond 1809-1882, Daughter of David Hammond

Sophia Travis 1832-1890, Daughter of Esther Hammond

Mary Esther McMillan 1853-1932, Daughter of Sophia Travis

Grace Sophia McGuffin 1891-1935, Daughter of Mary Esther McMillan


Dec 3, 2020

Carver Mayflower Ancestors - James & Mrs Chilton and daughter Mary

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Placeholder post to give Carver cousins the basics of their likely relationship with Mayflower passengers James & Mrs Chilton and their daughter Mary.

How sure am I of this relationship? It's well documented, but there isn't solid proof that Mary Washburn is daughter of Josiah Washburn and Hannah Latham. There are multiple Mary Washburns, and many trees get them confused. This Mary is presumed to belong to Josiah and Hannah by process of elimination. There are no other documented Washburns in the area at the time who might be her parents.

Hubbard Mayflower Ancestors - Chilton/Winslow

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This is a quick place holder for a blog post that I will flesh out in the next few weeks with more details. Hubbard cousins, you are probably not a blood relative of Mary Chilton, but you are probably related to her husband, John Winslow. This means that John's brothers Edward and Gilbert Winslow, who both came on the Mayflower, are your great uncles. (8th great if you are in my generation.)

What is my certainty level? I'd say 4 out of 5, where 1 is "No way" and 5 is "very likely."

We have Ancestry DNA links via the "thrulines" feature up to John Thacher (1703-1787) and Content Norton (1713-1773). Is this proof that we are related? No. It is more of a pointer. You might say we are definitely related to other people who all think they are related to John and Content.

We also have good research at least partway up the line through the writings of our great great grandfather, Robert Parks, husband of Lucy Brookins, who wrote some family histories in his book, cowritten with Hyland Paul: History of Wells, Vermont, for the First Century After Its Settlement.

From John Thacher back, the line is reasonably well documented in published family histories. 

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