Chilton (Y-DNA)
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Status summary
As of November 24, 2020:
- No straightforward opportunities for advanced Y-DNA testing
- Low priority
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Summary of findings
It would appear that there are no known direct patrilineal descendants of James Chilton, since he has no known living direct Y-DNA descendants.
Paper Trail
For more information see: herman, Robert M., and Verle D. Vincent, revised by Robert S. Wakefield, Mayflower Families through Five Generations vol. 15
First Generation
James Chilton was born in St. Paul's parish, Canterbury, Kent, England about 1556, son of Lyonell Chilton. He died aboard the Mayflower while it was docked at Cape Cod Harbour on 8 Dec 1620.[1] It is believed he was the oldest of the Mayflower passengers. He was married about 1583 to a woman whose given name may possibly have been Susanna. They had at least ten children: Joell (1584-1593), Isabella (1586/7), Jane (1589), Mary (d. 1593), Elizabeth (1594), James (1596-b1603), Ingle/Angel (1599), Christian (1601), James (1603) and Mary (1607).
To do
- Additional paper-trail research might allow additional Y-DNA testing candidates to be identified
External links and references
- Sherman, Robert M., and Verle D. Vincent, revised by Robert S. Wakefield, Mayflower Families through Five Generations vol. 15: Chilton General Society of Mayflower Descendants, Plymouth, MA 1997
- 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. 33-35.
- Roser, Susan E., Mayflower Passenger References (from Contemporary Records and Scholarly Journals) Stewart Publishing, Canada, 2nd ed. 2015, pp. 174-80
- Anderson, Robert Charles, The Mayflower Migration: Immigrants to Plymouth, 1620 New England Historic Genealogical Society, Boston, MA 2020, pp. 58-61
- The Chilton Family - The Mayflower Society
- Chilton Family in "Our Folks: Charts"
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