Jan Sol

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• https://soulekindred.org/resources/Documents/Newsletters/PDF-Newsle... (see pages 11-12 (numbered "9" and "10"))
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Soule_(Mayflower_passenger)#Ea...

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Surname has also been reported to be:

• Sols
• Soltz

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It appears that George Soule's parents were Jan Sol and his wife Mayken Labis, who are identified by their marriage as Protestant refugees in London, England, in 1586 and by the baptisms of their children before 1600 in Haarlem, Holland.[9]

Their eldest known son Johannes Sol is identified by his baptism in 1591, as well as by his permissions in both Haarlem and Leyden to marry in Leyden. Johannes Sol, a printer in Leyden with one known publication, died suddenly, probably while helping William Brewster in the presswork for the Perth Assembly.

From https://soulekindred.org/resources/Documents/Newsletters/PDF-Newsle... Page 9 - 10

3. LEIDEN PRINTER, JOHANNES SOL

Baptismal records in Haarlem, about 12 miles north ofLeiden, give the family of]an Sols. This Jan Sols/Soltz, possibly born about 1565, was consistently "of Brussel" in the baptismal records of his children. Brussel(s) is now the de facto capital city of the European Union, and also the capital of Belgium, of Flanders, and of munity of Belgium. This Jan apparently married about 1589 Mayken Labis/Labus/Lapres/ Laber. Both are named parents in the baptismal records of Haarlem's Gereform Gemeente Kerk for all seven children:73

• 1. Geertrude, hap. 25 Feb. 1590
• 2. Johannes, hap. 6 Oct. 1591
• 3. Sara, hap. 5 Sept. 1593
• 4. Maria, hap. 28 Mar. 1596
• 5. Johanna, hap. 19 Mar. 1597
• 6. Pieter, apparently twin with Susanna, hap. 17 Jan. 1599
• 7. Susanna, apparently twin with Pieter, hap. 17 Jan. 1599

4. POSSIBLE PARENTS OF GEORGE SOULE: Jan and Mayken (Labis) Sol, of Haarlem

It would not be outside the realm of possibility for Johannes Sol to have a younger brother George, whose Dutch name would have been Joris [also Goris/Jurgen/Jurian/Jurn/Jury] Jansz. Sol. In his will made 11 Aug. 1677,95 "GorgeSoulesenir"wrotehisfirstnamewithoneone'e;perhapsaDutchspelling.Bornabout1601 in the range ofNov. 1599- Nov. 1602 [see Section 9, later], George 'Soule/Sol' would have been old enough to be useful in a printer's establishment about 1617-1619, perhaps helping with the printing of [brother?] Johannes Sol's book in 1616-1617, and then, with that experience under his belt, perhaps moving into William Brewster's household after April1618.

Family

From http://www.genealogywise.com/m/group?id=3463583%3AGroup%3A20948&max...

The family of Jan and Mayken (Labis/Labus) Sol were:

1. Geertude bap. 1590
2. Johannes bap. 1591
3. Sara bap 1593
4. Maria bap. 1596
5. Johanna bap. 1597
6. Pieter (twin?) bap. 1599
7. Susanna (twin?) bap. 1599
8. Gorg/George?? b. ca 1601??
9. another son ?? b. ca 1603??

Origins

It is likely that George's presumed father Jan Sol, who married as a refugee in 1586 in London, was the grandson of Jan van Sol. This Jan van Sol was a zealous opponent of Anabaptism, which he saw in 1550 as divided into three movements: the Melchiorites (the peaceful Mennonite group), the Davidites, and the Batenburgers.[18] Jan van Sol was born at Dordrecht, in South Holland, but left the Netherlands in 1530 because of debts (he kept an inn there) and went east to Danzig. There he was known as Johann/Jan Solius (the Latin version of his name). In 1536 he bought the "Robitten" estate near Bardeyn in East Prussia. He returned in 1550 to Brussels but may have spent his last years, until about 1556, in the territory of Preussisch-Holland. A presumed son born about 1525, and by naming patterns was probably named Georg, would have married about 1555 perhaps in Brussels, and thus would have been the father of Jan Sol of the 1586 marriage record in London. This Jan Sol and wife Maecken had seven children baptized in the Dutch Reformed Church of Haarlem in 1590-99.[19]

The new findings are, of course, still under investigation but it does appear that a definitive connection to any English family has been ruled out and no concrete documentation exists suggesting an English connection.

References

There is now new DNA evidence to prove the ancestry of George Soule. Which is amazing as there has been so much conjecture over the past 400 years. It has been determined that George Soule is of Dutch Ancestry and his parents are very likely to have been as shown in this article. The two major references are these:

• 1) Record of the Celebration of the Tercentenary of the Introduction of the Art of Printing into Aberdeen by Edward Raban in the Year 1622" (Aberdeen, Scotland: The Master Printers' Guild, 1922) p. 42
• 2) Louise Walsh Throop, "William Brewster's Subterfuge" Mayflower Descendant Volume 66, Number 1 (Winter 2018) pp. 14-22
• 3) A L E Verheyden, "Anabaptism in Flanders 1530-1650" (1946, reprinted 1961) p. 31
• Louise Walsh Throop, "Further Searching for the Origins of Mayflower Passenger George Soule: Printer's Devil in Leiden?" Soule Kindred Newsletter Volume 43 No. 4 p. 10 (Autumn 2009) link https://soulekindred.org/resources/Documents/Newsletters/PDF-Newsle...
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Soule_(Mayflower_passenger)_