View source for Elinor (Unknown) (mtDNA)

==Status summary==
As of November 25, 2020:
* No opportunities for mtDNA testing
* Low priority

==Paper Trail==
For more information see: Hodge, Harriet Woodbury, rev. by Robert S. Wakefield, ''Mayflower Families through Five Generations vol. 21 Billington''

[https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Unknown-422814 Elinor]<ref>[https://historyofmassachusetts.org/john-billington-mayflower-pilgrim-executed-for-murder/ History of Massachusetts biography of John Billington] states (without any reference) where the wife of John Billington was Elinor Lockwood.</ref> was born about 1582<ref>Estimate, based on first child born about 1604.</ref> presumably in England and died aft 2 Mar 1642/3.<ref>Mentioned in a deed PCR 12:93-4,</ref> She married twice, first by 1604<ref>First child's estimated birth.</ref> to [[Billington (Y-DNA) |John Billington]], then between 14-21 Sep 1638 to George Armstrong.<ref>PCR 12:33,37</ref>

By her first husband, Elinor and John Billington only had two sons: John & Francis. Elinor did not have any children by her second husband, Gregory Armstrong.

==Summary of findings==
It would appear that there are no known direct matrilineal descendants of Elinor, wife of John Billington. Since we do not even know her maiden name, there is no way to conduct mtDNA testing currently.

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==To do==
* Identify maiden name of Elinor and her origins. 

==External links and references==
* Hodge, Harriet Woodbury, rev. by Robert S. Wakefield, ''Mayflower Families through Five Generations vol. 21: Billington'' General Society of Mayflower Descendants, Plymouth, MA 2001
* Kindy, David, ''Mayflower Quarterly'' 71(Jun 2005):157-60, '"The Billingtons: Fractious First Family"
* Roser, Susan E., ''Mayflower Increasings From the Files of George Ernest Bowman at the Massachusetts Society of Mayflower Descendants'', Genealogical Publishing Co., Baltimore, MD, Second edition 1995, 1996. pp. 16-18
* Roser, Susan E. ''Mayflower Passenger References (from Contemporary Records and Scholarly Journals)'' Stewart Publishing Co., Canada, 2nd ed. 2015, pp. 77-89
* Anderson, Robert Charles, ''The Mayflower Migration: Immigrants to Plymouth, 1620'' New England Historic Genealogical Society, Boston, MA 2020, pp. 31-34
* [https://themayflowersociety.org/passenger-profile/passenger-profiles/the-billington-family/ The Billington Family - The Mayflower Society]


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