{"id":102302,"date":"2018-11-16T17:26:23","date_gmt":"2018-11-17T00:26:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.geni.com\/blog\/?p=102302"},"modified":"2024-11-27T15:07:49","modified_gmt":"2024-11-27T23:07:49","slug":"notable-mayflower-descendants","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.geni.com\/blog\/notable-mayflower-descendants-102302.html","title":{"rendered":"Notable Mayflower Descendants"},"content":{"rendered":"

Do you have any ancestors who were on the Mayflower? In 1620, 102 passengers arrived to the New World aboard the\u00a0Mayflower\u00a0and established the Plymouth Colony. Today,\u00a0millions of people can trace their ancestry back to these early settlers.<\/p>\n

\"Notable<\/a><\/p>\n

Image: Wikimedia Commons<\/em><\/p>\n

Here’s a look at a few notable Mayflower descendants in Geni’s World Family Tree<\/a>:<\/p>\n

George Eastman<\/strong><\/p>\n

\"Notable<\/a><\/p>\n

George Eastman<\/a>\u00a0was the\u00a0founder of the Eastman Kodak Company. He\u00a0helped bring photography to mainstream audiences with the introduction of the roll film camera. Eastman is also a descendant of William Bradford<\/a>, a signer of the Mayflower Compact and governor of the Plymouth Colony intermittently for about 30 years. Bradford is Eastman’s 6th great grandfather<\/a>!<\/p>\n

Sally Field<\/strong><\/p>\n

\"Notable<\/a><\/p>\n

Actress Sally Field<\/a> is best known for her Oscar-winning role in\u00a0Norma Rae<\/em> and popular films such as\u00a0Forest Gump<\/em>\u00a0and\u00a0Mrs. Doubtfire<\/em>. Field is\u00a0descended\u00a0from William Bradford through her paternal grandfather. Bradford is Field’s 10th great grandfather<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Ralph Waldo Emerson<\/strong><\/p>\n

\"Notable<\/a><\/p>\n

Poet Ralph Waldo Emerson<\/a>\u00a0was from a prominent New England family. He was also a direct descendant of Mayflower passengers\u00a0John Howland<\/a>\u00a0and Elizabeth Tilly<\/a>. In fact, Emerson carried\u00a0Tilly’s mitochondrial DNA since he is descended from an entirely female line. Howland and Tilly were Emerson’s 5th great grandparents<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Humphrey Bogart<\/strong><\/p>\n

\"Notable<\/a><\/p>\n

The Howlands had many other notable\u00a0descendants,\u00a0including actor Humphrey Bogart<\/a>. John Howland is Bogart’s 7th great grandfather<\/a>.<\/p>\n

President Franklin D. Roosevelt<\/strong><\/p>\n

\"Notable<\/a><\/p>\n

President Franklin D. Roosevelt<\/a>\u00a0also descends directly from John Howland and\u00a0Elizabeth Tilly. Howland is Roosevelt’s 6th great grandfather<\/a>. Other U.S. presidents who can count themselves as\u00a0descendants are\u00a0George H.W. Bush<\/a> and George W. Bush<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Amelia Earhart<\/strong><\/p>\n

\"Notable<\/a><\/p>\n

Pioneering aviator Amelia Earhart<\/a>\u00a0is a descendant\u00a0of Mayflower passenger Richard Warren<\/a>, who is her\u00a08th great grandfather<\/a>.\u00a0Warren and his wife, Elizabeth Walker, had seven children and since all seven children survived into adulthood and\u00a0each had families of their own, the Warrens have a\u00a0great number of descendants today.<\/p>\n

Laure Ingalls WIlder<\/strong><\/p>\n

\"Notable<\/a><\/p>\n

Another notable Warren descendant is author Laura Ingalls Wilder<\/a>.\u00a0Warren is the 7th great grandfather<\/a> of the\u00a0Little House on the Prairie<\/em> author.<\/p>\n

Are you a Mayflower descendant? Explore the family trees of all the passengers of the Mayflower in the Great Migration: Passengers of the Mayflower, 1620 genealogy project<\/a> on Geni!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Do you have any ancestors who were on the Mayflower? In 1620, 102 passengers arrived to the New World aboard the\u00a0Mayflower\u00a0and established the Plymouth Colony. Today,\u00a0millions of people can trace their ancestry back to these early settlers. Image: Wikimedia Commons Here’s a look at a few notable Mayflower descendants in Geni’s World Family Tree: George Eastman George Eastman\u00a0was the\u00a0founder of the Eastman Kodak Company. He\u00a0helped bring photography to mainstream audiences with the introduction of the… Read the full story<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":81,"featured_media":102320,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3751],"tags":[5294,4586,5312,5901,6916,4568,4681,5200,6917,5646,5614],"class_list":["post-102302","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-fun-with-genealogy","tag-amelia-earhart","tag-franklin-d-roosevelt","tag-george-eastman","tag-humphrey-bogart","tag-john-howland","tag-laura-ingalls-wilder","tag-mayflower","tag-ralph-waldo-emerson","tag-richard-warren","tag-sally-field","tag-william-bradford"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.geni.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102302"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.geni.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.geni.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.geni.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/81"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.geni.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=102302"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/www.geni.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102302\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":111870,"href":"https:\/\/www.geni.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102302\/revisions\/111870"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.geni.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/102320"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.geni.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=102302"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.geni.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=102302"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.geni.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=102302"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}