Carver (Y-DNA)
Contents
Status summary
As of March 29, 2023:
- No straightforward opportunities for advanced Y-DNA testing
- Low priority
Summary of findings
The only proven child of Gov. John Carver apparently died young.
Paper Trail
For further information see Anderson, Robert Charles, The Mayflower Migration: Immigrants to Plymouth, 1620 New England Historic Genealogical Society, Boston, MA 2020, pp. 54-56.
First Generation
John Carver was baptized Great Bealings, Suffolk 12 Mar 1580/1 son of John Carver and Margaret _____. He died in Apr 1621 at the New Plimouth Colony. He married twice, first by 1603 Martha Rose and second, by 1609 Catherine WHITE Leggatt (no children). By his first wife he had a daughter Margaret (bp. 1603 likely died young). John moved from England to Leiden sometime between Apr 1608 (when he sold the last of his inherited property) and May 1615 (when he served as a witness to a marriage in Leiden).[1] Carver and Robert Cushman served as agents for the congregation to negotiate with the London "Adventurers" (investors who paid for the Mayflower voyage) to finance the voyage. Immediately prior to their voyage to their new colony Carver was appointed governor of the setters.
External links and references
- Allan, Sue, Caleb Johnson and Simon Neal, "The Probable Origin of Mayflower Passenger John Carver and the Minter Family in Suffolk", The New England Historical and Genealogical Register 174:5-20.
- 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. 163-72.
- Roser, Susan E., Mayflower Passenger References: from Contemporary Records and Scholarly Journals Stewart Publishing, Canada, 2nd ed. 2015, pp.
- Anderson, Robert Charles, The Mayflower Migration: Immigrants to Plymouth, 1620 New England Historic Genealogical Society, Boston, MA 2020, pp. 54-56
- Pilgrim Hall Museum biography of John and Catherine Carver.
- ↑ It is unknown whether John married his second wife in England or in Leiden. There is a burial record for a child of "Jan Carceer" at Leiden on 10 Jul 1609. It is currently uncertain whether this was John Carver or another individual.
