Quote Originally Posted by Dall_Piobaire View Post
Hi Joshua.

Been where you are, fun and frustratiing isnt it.

You cite leiden, in your line, pilgrim connection, my I ask to whom you are related. On my paternal side I am 12th generation direct from Henry Samson, one of only two teenagers on the Mayflower. Irish married in.
Now Mum's side, greatgrandfather direct from Scotland-Ulster to NS, finally MA, looking for work as a carpenter.

Though blood may be thicker than water, the feeling and connection you have at heart may be thicker even than blood.

Haven't found an actual Mayflower connection, however I have found a Jamestown connection - through my adoptive grandmother's family line... so while not a blood relation, it is a soul relation (I have started another tree tracking down my father's real parents, which is where I found the Urquhart connection).

One mister William Thomas Hancock, killed in 1622 at the Jamestown massacre. His grandson married the grandaughter of another Jamestown massacre victim, a Reverend John Bailey (or Bayley, depending on the record you are reading). Both men were mentioned in the 1607 Jamestown census. John Bailey's daughter was born in Holland, which is why I mention the Puritans. The paper trail takes him from London, to Holland, then to the Americas.

I will also mention, thus far I am amazed by the amount of genealogical information stuffed away in the English records.