Allerton (mtDNA)
Contents
Status summary
As of November 25, 2020:
- Little opportunity for mtDNA testing
- Low priority
Paper Trail
Sarah Allerton was likely born at East Bergholt, Sussex the daughter of Bartholomew Allerton and Mary (Unknown).[1] She was the sister (eldest?) of Isaac Allerton. Sarah married three times: first (likely in England) John Vincent, second, Leiden 4 Nov 1611 and last, Leiden 13 Nov 1621 to Godbert Godbertson (aka Cuthbert Cuthbertson). Both Sarah and Godbert died between Jul - Oct 1633 in Plymouth.
Sarah is not known to have had any children by her first husband. By her second husband (Degory Priest) she had two daughters: Mary & Sarah. By her last husband she had one son Samuel.
Second Generation
Mary Priest was born about 1612[2] She married about 1630 Phineas Pratt. They had eight children: Mary, John, Samuel, Daniel, Peter, Mercy, Joseph and Aaron.
Sarah Priest was born about 1615[3] She married about 1632 to John Coombs. They had two sons: John and Francis.
Third Generation
Mary Pratt was born in Plymouth about 1633[4] and died in Cambridge 11 Feb 1701/2. She married John Swann 2 Mar 1655/6. They had eight children: Samuel, Mary, Elizabeth, Lydia, John, Hannah, Mercy and Ebenezer
Mercy Pratt was born in Plymouth about 1642. She married Jeremiah Holman and had: Jeremiah, Abraham, Abigail, Deborah, Mehitable and Sarah (died young).
Summary of findings
- ↑ NEHGR 173(2019):203
- ↑ Estimate, based on oldest child and date of parents marriage
- ↑ Estimate, based on younger child.
- ↑ gravestone has died "in ye 70th year of her age.
External links and references
- Townsend, Mrs. Charles D., Robert S. Wakefield and Margaret H. Stover, ed. by Margaret H. Stover, Mayflower Families through Five Generations: vol. 8: Priest General Society of Mayflower Descendants, 2008
- Roser, Susan E. Mayflower Passenger References (from Contemporary Records and Scholarly Journals) Stewart Publishing Co., Canada, 2nd ed. 2015, pp. 312-15
- Anderson, Robert Charles, The Mayflower Migration: Immigrants to Plymouth, 1620 New England Historic Genealogical Society, Boston, MA 2020, pp. 141-43
