Eleanor Smith (mtDNA)
Contents
Status summary
As of March 29, 2023:
- No known opportunities for mtDNA testing
- Low priority
Paper Trail
For further information see 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.
First Generation
Eleanor Smith, daughter of William Smith and Katherine Porter is said to have been born Honington, Lincolnshire, England 1546[1] and died abt. 1599. She married about 1570 Alexander White and they had eight children: Katherine (c1574), Bridget (c1575), Charles (c1575), Roger (c1578), Thomas (c1581), Frances (c1585), Edward (c1587) and Jane (c1591).
Second Generation
Katherine White was born about 1574 and died New Plimouth about first of Jun 1621. She married twice, first George Leggett and second John Carver By her first husband she had a daughter Mary (under 10 in the 1599 will of her grandmother, Eleanor SMITH White). Katherine may have had a child by her second huband who was buried
Summary of findings
- ↑ She was called under age in her father's 1551 will.
To do
- Track down the further history of Marie Leggatt, daughter of Katherine WHITE Leggatt by her first husband.
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.
- Johnson, Caleb H., "Undiscovered Mayflower Lineages", American Ancestors Magazine 11.4 pp. 34-5.
- Roser, Susan E., Mayflower Passenger References: from Contemporary Records and Scholarly Journals Stewart Publishing, Canada, 2nd ed. 2015, pp. 163-72.
- 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.
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