William Mullins

Bef 1572 - 1621  (> 49 years)

• Name	William Mullins
  Birth	Bef 1572  [1]
  Gender	Male
  Alternate birth	Abt 1572  [2, 3, 4]
  Death	21 Feb 1621	Plymouth, Plymouth, Massachusetts   [1, 2, 3, 4]
  Person ID	I1882	Ancestry of PNH, TNH, and others | Ancestor of GFS, Ancestor of JTS, Ancestor of LD, Ancestor of LDN, Ancestor of TNH, Ancestor of TSW
  Last Modified	27 Sep 2020

  
  

  Father	John Mullyns,   b. Abt 1546, of Dorking, Surrey, England d. Bef 4 Feb 1584 (Age ~ 38 years)
  Mother	Joane Bridger,   b. Abt 1548   d. Bef 5 Feb 1609 (Age ~ 61 years)
  Marriage	8 Jul 1571	Dorking, Surrey, England   [4]
  Family ID	F309	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	Alice   d. Aft 2 Apr 1621, Plymouth, Plymouth, Massachusetts
  Marriage	Bef 1593  [1, 3]
  Children	+ 1. William Mullins   d. 12 Feb 1673, Braintree, Norfolk, Massachusetts + 2. Priscilla Mullins,   b. Abt 1602   d. Aft 1651 (Age ~ 50 years)
  Family ID	F201	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	10 Nov 2020

  
  

• Notes

  Emigrated on the Mayflower, 1620. Died in the first winter. He was a shoemaker. From "The Probable English Origin of Mayflower passenger Peter Browne, and His Association with Mayflower Passenger William Mullins," by Caleb Johnson, The American Genealogist 79:3, July 2004: "The parentage and ancestry of William Mullins have not been conclusively proven. The Mullins family may have been living in Dorking for a considerable period of time prior to William Mullins himself, as the Dorking manor court rolls between 1454 and 1458 mention a Peter and Isabel Moleyn on several occasions. The Dorking parish registers are unfortunately defective for the years 1572 through 1578 -- the time period in which we would expect William to have been baptized. However, there was only one Mullins family in Dorking that was having children during this time period: the John Mullins who married Joan Bridger there on 8 July 1571. Most of their children would have fallen into the 'black hole' in the registers. On 23 September 1582, we see the baptism of their last child, Edward Mullins. On 4 February 1583/4, a Mullins (no Christian name given) was buried. Wc can reasonably assume this burial record was for John Mullins the father, because the next Mullins burial record in the registers, on 8 July 1584, was recorded as the 'son of widow Mullins.' And since son Edward Mullins appears in no subsequent Dorking records, we can speculate that this was the unnamed son who was buried. The following year, on 1 November 1585, the widow Joane Mullins was remarried to Vyncent Benham. "Two Mullinses appear in later Dorking records; they are assumed to be unrecorded children of John and Joan (Bridger) Mullins. They are the Mayflower passenger, William Mullins, and John Mullins."

  
  

• Sources

  [S4249] The Mayflower Migration: Immigrants to Plymouth, 1620 by Robert Charles Anderson. Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2020. [S637] Mayflower Families Through Five Generations: Volume 16, Part 1, Family of John Alden by Esther Littleford Woodworth-Barnes. Plymouth, Massachusetts: General Society of Mayflower Descendants, 1999. [S1647] The Pilgrim Migration: Immigrants to Plymouth Colony 1620-1633, by Robert Charles Anderson. Boston: New York Historic Genealogical Society, 2004. [S3582] Caleb H. Johnson, "Further Traces of the Mullins Family of Dorking, Co. Surrey, England." The Mayflower Descendant 61:17, Spring 2012.