Comments on: Elder William and Mary Brewster https://howwisethen.com/elder-william-and-mary-brewster/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=elder-william-and-mary-brewster Stories of Good People Doing Great Things Sun, 30 Nov 2025 15:35:15 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 By: Kathryn Haueisen (Kathy) https://howwisethen.com/elder-william-and-mary-brewster/#comment-5769 Sun, 30 Nov 2025 15:35:15 +0000 https://howwisethen.com/?p=4785#comment-5769 In reply to Louise Throop.

Hello Louise — I would love to see your articles in the California Mayflower Quarterly. Any chance you could send me a copy of it? Please use my direct e-mail at kathrynhaueisen@gmail.com to continue this conversation. Thank you.

]]> By: Kathryn Haueisen (Kathy) https://howwisethen.com/elder-william-and-mary-brewster/#comment-5768 Sun, 30 Nov 2025 15:31:27 +0000 https://howwisethen.com/?p=4785#comment-5768 In reply to Tina Smith Grabert.

Hello Tina – I’m glad you found the information helpful. There is an Elder William Brewster newsletter that comesout twice a year. You may want to subscribe to that. I think you could find a way to do so through the Facebook Elder William Brewster group. For your information, you may need to have another source of information in addition to Ancestry.com to document your connection to the Mayflower Brewsters. There is likely a Mayflower Society group near wherever you live that could help you with that. As for Thomas Bates, I now need to go learn more about him. The research never ends!

]]> By: Tina Smith Grabert https://howwisethen.com/elder-william-and-mary-brewster/#comment-5767 Wed, 26 Nov 2025 05:41:44 +0000 https://howwisethen.com/?p=4785#comment-5767 Thank you so much for the incredible information. Ancestry.com says William Brewster is my 13th grandfather.
I have another relative Thomas Bates who tried to overthrow the King and Parliament. Wow they really wanted to get away from there. I need to read more about why it was worth risking their lives for. Was it that bad? Bates was hanged drawn and quartered. Terrible!

]]> By: Louise Throop https://howwisethen.com/elder-william-and-mary-brewster/#comment-5764 Tue, 11 Nov 2025 06:48:02 +0000 https://howwisethen.com/?p=4785#comment-5764 I was delighted to find I have 3 lineages back to Richard Warren, who started out on the Mayflower in 1620 with his pregnant wife and 5 daughters. Then when his wife lost the pregnancy, Brewster when he came onto the Mayflower in Plymouth harbor, England, deemed her “weak” and also saw she had more than the 3 youngsters allowed on board. As Bradford related, under the veil of secrecy around Brewster so no names are mentioned, some persons were deemed not fit for the trials in the new colony and burdened by caring for many children. So the Warren females returned to London on the Speedwell. And they left 3 bunks free for the 4 Brewsters who acquired the 2 More children so they qualified to be in one of the 8 “cabins” on the Mayflower. I figure Warren could not move as the ship was overcrowded, so he stayed in the cabin with the Brewsters. Brewster was described by Bradford as empathetic, especially to anyone who had lost lands or status. I would hope you can read my two articles on Brewster: in the last two issues of the California Mayflower Quarterly. I also have another matter regarding Brewster’s house in Scrooby that I want to tell you about. Reach me at: lwthroop@aol.com

]]> By: Kathryn Haueisen (Kathy) https://howwisethen.com/elder-william-and-mary-brewster/#comment-5717 Mon, 22 Jan 2024 01:07:52 +0000 https://howwisethen.com/?p=4785#comment-5717 In reply to Virginia M Finsterwald.

Hello Virginia – I’m so pleased you found the book helpful in rekindling your interest in learning more about our amazing very great grandmother. Be sure to stop by Pilgrim Hall in Plymouth, and if you have time, Plymoth Patuxet. Both are goldmines of interesting information about that chapter of history and our mutual ancestor.

]]> By: Virginia M Finsterwald https://howwisethen.com/elder-william-and-mary-brewster/#comment-5716 Sun, 21 Jan 2024 18:14:50 +0000 https://howwisethen.com/?p=4785#comment-5716 Just finished the Mary Brewster book and it has renewed my interest in my genealogy (also a Brewster descendant) and really has me looking forward to my upcoming visit to Plymouth with my cousin (also a Brewster descendant) this August. Thank you for such an enjoyable read based on real lives.

]]> By: Kathryn Haueisen (Kathy) https://howwisethen.com/elder-william-and-mary-brewster/#comment-5703 Sun, 22 Oct 2023 19:09:12 +0000 https://howwisethen.com/?p=4785#comment-5703 In reply to Ella.

People like you keep me researching and writing. Thanks for commenting.

]]> By: Ella https://howwisethen.com/elder-william-and-mary-brewster/#comment-5702 Sun, 22 Oct 2023 14:50:09 +0000 https://howwisethen.com/?p=4785#comment-5702 Hello, Kathy!! Thank you for your extensive work on your book “The tale of Two Cultures”. I would like info. to buy it. l am 11x granddaughter to William and Mary Brewster through Jonathan and Lucretia!!! I only learned of this a year ago, so still learning more each day!! I am fascinated with Mary being only 1 of the 4 women who survived the 1st winter in Plimoth!!!! So excited to read your new book about Mary when it’s published!! Thank you for all you do, dear cousin!!!

]]> By: Kathryn Haueisen (Kathy) https://howwisethen.com/elder-william-and-mary-brewster/#comment-5629 Sat, 26 Nov 2022 19:01:37 +0000 https://howwisethen.com/?p=4785#comment-5629 In reply to Garrison Lawton.

Hello Garrison – Welcome to the very large Brewster family. And the Hopkins crew. His biography is amazing.

]]> By: Garrison Lawton https://howwisethen.com/elder-william-and-mary-brewster/#comment-5628 Thu, 24 Nov 2022 16:18:39 +0000 https://howwisethen.com/?p=4785#comment-5628 wow recently received a copy of family tree I never knew existed(im57) Floored was my reaction.Im 13x PATIENCE Brewster Prence and 13x fellow pilgrim Stephen Hopkins daughter Constance

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