England itinerary -Ancestry trip family Mayflower passengers

As Mayflower relatives, you should also include lovely Leiden, Holland where the Pilgrims lived for ten years, escaping persecution, and where they departed from Europe for the New World via the Mayflower.

Thank you for info. Will add to my list to research.

If you want to visit Islay, you'll take the ferry from a dock located a mile or two west of Tarbert in Argyll, at the head of the Kintyre peninsula. I can recommend the Stonefield Castle Hotel if you need a place to stay overnight before/after taking the ferry. (Actually should post this on the Scotland forum, but I'll put it here for now.)

thank you- I also put it on Scotland

Hello! You won’t want to miss a visit to Rotherhithe (very close to central London). This is where the Mayflower started and ended it’s journeys. Captain Jones is buried in the church nearby the Mayflower pub.

https://www.mayflowerpub.co.uk/history

This site also includes details about how your family could sign the Mayflower descendants book, which I would think would be quite thrilling!

I guess we’re cousins 😀😀😀

In a classic question to Paul Lynde on Hollywood Squares, it was said that John Alden and Priscilla had over 15 million descendents. To which Paul quipped “I guess Priscilla really did come across on the Mayflower”

guess we’re cousins 😀😀😀
My sister was a member of the Alden Kindred but I have not joined. I do enjoy keeping up with them on facebook.

Don't know if you'd be interested in this. Anglotopia Magazine has put together a tour of Mayflower sites in England. Check out the link here:
https://reformationtours.com/package/anglotopiamayflowertour/
"On this special 12 day tour, you’ll explore the places the Pilgrims touched and learn about their journey to the New World."

Highlights include:

Windsor Castle
Southampton
Dartmouth
Glastonbury Abbey
Winslow Memorial
Lincoln Castle and the Magna Carta Exhibition
Lincoln Cathedral
Gainsborough Old Hall
Babworth Church
Scrooby Manor House
St. Helena’s Church, Austerfield
Boston Stump
Boston Guildhall
Harwich
Mayflower Pub, Rotherhithe

Should be a fun tour. You could do a few things before or after the tour.
Their website has all the details.
This tour is planned for 2019, but will repeat in 2020.

Even if you don't want to join the tour, maybe their itinerary will give you some destinations to add to your trip.

https://www.encyclopedia.com/history/united-states-and-canada/us-history/pilgrims

https://www.tripadvisor.ca/Attraction_Review-g188632-d4056085-Reviews-De_Pelgrim_Brewery-Rotterdam_South_Holland_Province.html

In Rotterdam the very pleasant brewpub Pelgrim is a neighbour of the church where the Dutch branch of the sect is said to have departed en route to England before the Atlantic crossing.

This small area is one of the few in the huge Rotterdam port that was not flattened by the Second World War. Rotterdam is well worth a visit to see modernist architecture in full garish display rebuilding the city.

I am struck by your comments about your collective interests and further by your appropriate advance planning . There are a number of books I would recommend before you go , as well as several places to visit in the States , Where are you geographically located ?

Where are you geographically located ?

We are from Indiana

Sorry , we got in late , I'll be back tomorrow with some suggestions .

Since you have adequate time for planning , A visit to Plymouth Massachusetts before going abroad would be well worthwhile . Plimoth Plantation , the recreation of the original settlement is fascinating and provides a fairly accurate picture of life in the original colony . A full day here is well worth the time . https://www.plimoth.org/ . Also , the reproduction of the Mayflower , built by The British in the 1950's , as a gift to the United States , is normally berthed here . Currently , the ship is at Mystic Seaport Museum , where it is undergoing a major restoration , and can be visited while work is in progress - https://www.mysticseaport.org/ You can easily visit the Seaport on the way to Plymouth , and depending on your time frame , the work on the ship may be complete , and could be back in Plymouth . Mystic is , in any event a great place and well worth a visit . It's about a two to three hour drive between the two sites - https://www.mysticseaport.org/category/mayflower-ii-restoration/ . Two books for starters - Nathaniel Philbrick's " Mayflower " an extensive history of the settlement , and the initial decades of the push westward in the seventeeth century - https://www.amazon.com/Mayflower-Story-Courage-Community-War/dp/0143111973/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1534187884&sr=8-1&keywords=mayflower+nathaniel+philbrick&dpID=51uCjF8-H1L&preST=_SY344_BO1,204,203,200_QL70_&dpSrc=srch and on your way to Scotland , a visit to Shropshire will be well in formed by this wonderful biography - https://www.amazon.com/Housman-Country-Into-Heart-England/dp/0374173044/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1534188037&sr=8-1&keywords=housman+country&dpID=51J8E1aFnPL&preST=_SY344_BO1,204,203,200_QL70_&dpSrc=srch I hope this helps !

travison:

Nothing to add other than to say "Hi!" fellow Mayflower descendant here. All I can say is thank goodness they managed to fish John Howland out of the drink, or I wouldn't be here today!