Sunday, July 22, 2018

Degory Priest, Mayflower Passenger--Related to Me?

From Wikimedia Commons: Pub. by Smith's Inc., Plymouth, Mass. Tichnor Bros. Inc., Boston, Mass. - Boston Public Library Tichnor Brothers collection #61532, Public Domain, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=46122563


Is it possible that I am descended from one of the 102 Mayflower passengers who sailed in 1620 from Plymouth, England to the shores of America? Perhaps, or perhaps not--but it's an intriguing thought.

WikiTree, a free online collaborative database for genealogists, has published a list of Mayflower passengers and a way to find their relationship with anyone else. Here are my results:

Degory Priest (c.1579-c.1621) is the 9th great grandfather of Clair (Uncertain)
1. Clair is the daughter of Elva (Crabtree) Rodriguez 
2. Elva is the daughter of David Jewett (Crabb) Crabtree Sr. 
3. David is the son of Sarah Ann Kinney 
4. Sarah is the daughter of John Shepherd Kinney 
5. John Shepherd is the son of Stephen Kinney 
6. Stephen is the son of Israel Kinney 
7. Israel is the son of Daniel Kenney 
8. Daniel is the son of Mary (Richards) Kinne 
9. Mary is the daughter of Susan Sarah (Pratt) Richards [uncertain] 
10. Susan is the daughter of Marah (Priest) Pratt [unknown confidence] 
11. Marah is the daughter of Degory Priest [unknown confidence] 
This makes Degory the ninth great grandfather of Clair.
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Why the uncertainty and "unknown confidence?" Since I haven't researched those relationships, which were supplied by the WikiTree database, I can't really say, but I am guessing that there is no clear documentation proving them. 
You must remember that according to Family History Daily there are probably 35 million living Mayflower descendants. Although I am honored to possibly be one of them, I have lots of company!

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