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Great Migration: Passengers of the James from Bristol, 1635 From The James left King's Road in Bristol on 23 May 1635 with her master, John Taylor, along with the Angel Gabriel, the Elizabeth (the Bess), the Mary and the Diligence. The James and the Angel Gabriel stayed together while the three faster and smaller boats went on to Newfoundland. The Angel was wrecked off the coast of Maine, but...
Bring your ancestor profiles on over. Must be set to public. ==John & Dorothy of Ispwich and The Rose of Yarmouth, 1637==A REGISTER of PERSONS ABOUT TO PASS INTO FORRAIGNE PARTS. A.D. 1637. 13 Chas. 1.> THESE people went to New England with WILLIAM ANDREWS, of Ipswich, Mr. of the JOHN AND DOROTHY of Ipswich, and with WILLIAM ANDREWS, his son, Mr. of the ROSE, of Yarmouth. * from small parchment...
Ship Mary and John Passenger List for 1634 The Passenger Ship Roster is Only Partly Accurate The second trip of the Mary and John to colonial America began shortly after March 24, 1633/4, in London. The master was Robert Sayres (or Sayers). It is not possible to construct a fully accurate passenger ship roster for the Mary and John, as no contemporaneous records have been found. Subsequ...
Please add Geni profiles to the ship projects found in the "related" projects on the right and also listed below. The Great Puritan Migration From The Great Migration of Picky Puritans, 1620-40 New England Historical Society When the Pilgrims landed in Plimoth Plantation in 1620, they began what was called the Great Migration – great not because of the numbers of people who arrived, but beca...
In Māori tradition, Mātaatua was one of the great voyaging canoes by which Polynesians migrated to New Zealand. Māori traditions say that the Mātaatua was initially sent from Hawaiki to bring supplies of kūmara to Māori settlements in New Zealand. The Mātaatua was captained by Toroa, accompanied by his brother, Puhi; his sister, Muriwai; his son, Ruaihona; and daughter, Wairaka.His half-brother...
The Takitimu waka is known as Te Waka Tapu O Takitimu, the sacred canoe Takitimu. It was captained on its journey from Hawaiki by Tamatea-Ariki-Nui, high chief and priest, and carried a number of tohunga or priests. After its arrival in Aotearoa it made many travels. At about 1350AD it called at Waimarama, a coastal settlement in Hawke's Bay, and it was there that it left two rollers and two an...
In Māori tradition, Aotea is one of the canoes by which Māori migrated to New Zealand; it is particularly associated with the tribes of Taranaki and Whanganui, including Ngāti Ruanui and other tribal groups. Aotea was a double canoe built by Toto from half of a great tree from Hawaiki, the other half being used for the canoe Matahourua. Toto gave Aotea to his daughter Rongorongo, who was marrie...
In Māori tradition, Māmari was one of the great ocean-going, voyaging canoes that was used in the migrations that settled New Zealand.Mamari was the third waka to arrive with the tangata Ruanui. The traditions of the Aotea, Horotua and Mamari waka mention that kiore (rats) were passengers on their voyages to New Zealand. Carvings on a window frame of Te Ohaki Marae in Ahipara depict the story o...
The Kentucky Migration Note: This project is intended for anyone that moved to Kentucky during this period. If you have more info on why these families migrated, please feel free to add it here, or on their profiles. The first serious explorations of the Kentucky territory by English colonists had begun around 1750, and it was found that the area was not generally inhabited by Indians, but wa...
Britain's Child Migration - ==OrganisersThe practice of sending poor or orphaned children to British colonies, to help alleviate the shortage of labour, began in England in 1618, with the rounding-up and transportation of 100 vagrant children to the Virginia Colony.Before the second half of the twentieth century, the Home Children programme was seen as a way to move impoverished children to a "...
British Migration - Main Page The object of this project is to provide an index to the numerous projects dealing with this subject and also to give an overview of migration to and from Britain. The aim is also to provide links to resources and further reading available to researchers; contributions are very welcome! Please add projects to the relevant Sections and help researchers by adding lin...
Te Arawa and its crew left Hawaiki after a conflict over food resources involving Houmaitawhiti and his sons Tamatekapua (Tama) and Whakatūria against the chiefs Toi and Uenuku. Tama took up the challenge laid down by his father to seek a peaceful new home in the islands of New Zealand. Over 30 Ngāti Ohomairangi tribe members accompanied Tama. Among them were Tama’s uncles, Tia and Hei, the t...
Almost 1000 people completed this remarkable migration to New Zealand. They set about the task of establishing a close knit and highly successful Gaelic speaking community in Waipu. On leaving the Highlands of Scotland after the infamous Highland Clearances, the settlers first formed a community at St Ann’s in Nova Scotia. On this productive land the Scots built a strong community, despite cold...
Exodusters: Black Migration to Kansas after Reconstruction Exodusters: Black Migration to Kansas After Reconstruction The first major migration to the North of ex-slaves. "In 1879, fourteen years after the Emancipation Proclamation, thousands of blacks fled the South. They were headed for the homesteading lands of Kansas, the 'Garden Spot of the earth' and the 'quintessential Free State, the la...
Introduction and data entry by William Arthur Allen_ Genealogical Reference: Migration Project as a Special Collections Project: This project is designed to meet the criteria of a Geni Special Collections Project per .Purpose: The purpose of this project is to identify names of Potawatomi people who migrated from the USA to Canada shortly after the international boundary was established in acco...
Tradition of the Arai Te Uru My informant made a correction or two to what I wrote on this canoe and added further information. The sandbank at the mouth of the Waitaki river known as O-te-heni is not called after one of the crew of Arai-te-uru, but after a woman of comparatively modern times. A rock there, however, is called “Moko-tere-a-tarehu,” after one of the passengers on the Arai-te-uru,...
The Great Trek / Die Groot Trek - South Africa 1835 - 1845====The Boers Probe the Hinterland===Thus was Great Trek born. In secret, 'Commissie (Commission) Treks were established to explore the areas to the north and report back to the Boers. One went west to what is now Namibia and returned with a disappointing report, the others that assessed the Zoutpansberg (Salt Pan Mountains) mountains (i...
This project aims to chart out common ancestors through deliberation upon evidence, common or similar, found in the Vedas, Puranas, Shrutis, Smritis, Upanyas' and Upanishads of the Indian sub-continent, and the Bible, the Tanach / Mirqa and the Quran without bias.>>>> Project Photo *Discussions must be supported by evidence or quotes.=Preface=The Book of Genesis or B'reshiyth (בְּרֵאשִׁית) is t...
History of the amaXhosa The amaXhosa people are Bantu speakers living in south-east South Africa, and in the last two centuries throughout the southern and central-southern parts of the country. Xhosa people currently make up approximately 18% of the South African population. By number: in 2008: Botswana 9,900; Lesotho 22,000; South Africa 7,529,000; Zimbabwe 29,000 During the seventeenth cen...
For people who have tested and are assigned the maternal haplogroup U5b or who are believed to have had that maternal haplogroup based on descendants tested. Defining Mutations U5 has polymorphisms in 3197 9477 13617 16192 16270 U5b has polymorphisms in 150 7768 14182 Origin Among the oldest mtDNA haplogroups found in European remains of Homo sapiens is U5. The age of U5 is estim...
South Africa – Timeline=This timeline incorporates, amongst others, the timelines of general South African history from the website South African History Online . SA History Online and Hazel Crampton’s ‘The Sunburnt Queen’. (Johannesburg: Jacana. 2004) were especially helpful in recording events of the Nguni peoples.===The object of the project===... is to map the events that took place in Sout...
1700 Dlamini chiefdoms move south from Delagoa Bay and settle on land north of the Phongolo River; thereby forming the core of the future Swazi nation. 1767 The Cape frontier is pushed further eastward, beyond the Gamtoos River into the land of the AmaXhosa. Armed confrontations between the AmaXhosa and the Dutch colonists ensue. 1775 The death of Phalo increases the political tensions and st...
This project is for people who have tested and been assigned the paternal haplogroup R-U106 (Y-DNA) and also for people who are believed to have been this paternal haplogroup based on tests done on descendants. The current naming convention is to use the terminal SNP, so R1b, U106* Also known as R1b1b2a1a (S21+), previously known as R1b1b2a From The R1b1b2a1 (S21+) is a prominent R1b subclade...
Note: While using ANY genealogical website or program...please be informed that ANY possible family connections are NOT valid until they can be verified with documentation. This will - help connect other McKee ancestry to the Mckee project of 'McKee's of Virginia, Kentucky & Indiana PLEASE LETS - clean up the "Gedcom madness" of the early McKee's variously spelled - pleople have just gedcomed a...
The Benjamin Nye Homestead & Museum includes his home, the old grainger hall and mill site at Old Country Road, E. Sandwich, MA, USA 02537. Owned and maintained by the Nye Family of America Association, Inc. - www.nyefamily.org.No records exist of his birth in England, nor the ship he came to America in during the 1630's Great Migration.