May(es) (Y-DNA)

Status summary

Still to do of December 28, 2022:

• Unknown if any surviving patrilineal (Y-DNA) descendants of Edward May.

Biography

First Generation

Edward May was born circa 1645 and died Plymouth (now Halifax) 10 Aug 1691. He married twice, first abt 1670 Hannah King (not descended from a Mayflower passenger) and second, abt 1683 Dorcas Billington. Edward had four children, but their births are unrecorded, thus identifying their mother is problematic. A 2013 Mayflower Descendant article by Christopher Child claimed where Dorcas was only the mother of one of his children: Israel (c1684).

Second Generation

Israel May was born Plymouth (now Halifax) about 1694 and died Halifax aft 26 Jun 1743. He married Plympton (now Halifax) 5 Feb 1707/8 Elizabeth Barber and they had five children (Plympton, now Halifax): Moses (1708 n.f.r.), Edward (1711/2), Elizabeth (1714/5), Marcy (1717) and Sarah (1720).

Third Generation

Edward Maye was born Plympton (now Halifax) 22 Mar 1711/2 and died Cornwall, CT 1790. He married Plympton 27 Sep 1739 Ann Parris and they had six children: Edward (1740-1747), Mercy (1742), Bette (1743/4), Mary (1746), Hannah (1748) and William (1750 n.f.r.)

References and External Links=

• Child, Christopher Challender, "The Maternity of the Children of Edward May of Plymouth, Husband of Hannah King and Dorcas³ Billington", Mayflower Descendant 62:42ff.