Comments on: Mayflower Wives https://howwisethen.com/mayflower-wives/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=mayflower-wives Stories of Good People Doing Great Things Wed, 12 Nov 2025 16:59:01 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 By: Kathryn Haueisen (Kathy) https://howwisethen.com/mayflower-wives/#comment-5766 Wed, 12 Nov 2025 16:59:01 +0000 https://howwisethen.com/?p=16130#comment-5766 In reply to Louise Throop.

This is amazing. I’ve spent years researching the Mayflower Brewsters and never came upon this information. The. more I learn the more I realize how much more there is to learn.

]]> By: Louise Throop https://howwisethen.com/mayflower-wives/#comment-5765 Wed, 12 Nov 2025 00:58:19 +0000 https://howwisethen.com/?p=16130#comment-5765 There is more to the Brewster story on the Mayflower. When elder Brewster transferred from the Speedwell to the Mayflower, he looked around and saw a mother with 5 youngsters (under 10 years). The family of 7 had qualified for a “cabin” on the Mayflower when they embarked in London area. As the mother was newly pregnant, some 2 years after the birth of her fifth daughter, she had qualified to be in a “cabin.” However, the two loops out to sea by the two ships had not gone well for her, so about August 1620 she had lost the early pregnancy. Elder Brewster saw her as “weak,” as physical illness was called then. So the Warren family of 6 females was convinced to return to London, leaving Richard Warren in his bunk. The Brewsters qualified to be in the “cabin” by adding the two More youngsters to their party. And so they moved into the cabin with Warren. I am descended from Warren through both my parents for a total of 3 lineages. See my summary of Brewster’s large family in the current issue of the California Mayflower Quarterly volume 49(4):30-31.

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