Edward Winslow

- 1634

• Name	Edward Winslow  [1, 2, 3, 4]
  Birth	of Clifton-upon-Teme, Worcestershire, England   [5]
  Gender	Male
  Alternate birth	17 Oct 1560	Droitwich, Worcestershire, England   [6, 7]
  Alternate death	Bef 1631  [6]
  Death	Between 17 Jan 1634 and 19 Dec 1634	Londonderry, Londonderry, Ireland   [5]
  Person ID	I20319	Ancestry of PNH, TNH, and others | Ancestor of AW, Ancestor of JTS
  Last Modified	21 Nov 2024

  
  

  Family	Magdalen Oliver,   b. Bef 4 Aug 1566   d. Aft 1606 (Age > 41 years)
  Marriage	4 Nov 1594	St. Brides, Fleet Street, London, England   [5, 8]
  Children	1. Edward Winslow, Governor of the Plymouth Colony,   b. 18 Oct 1595, Droitwich, Worcestershire, England d. 8 May 1655, At sea, west of Hispaniola (Age 59 years) + 2. John Winslow,   b. 16 Apr 1597, Droitwich, Worcestershire, England d. Between 12 Mar 1674 and 21 May 1674, Boston, Suffolk, Massachusetts (Age 76 years) + 3. Kenelm Winslow,   b. 30 Apr 1599, Droitwich, Worcestershire, England d. Bef 13 Sep 1672 (Age < 73 years)   4. Gilbert Winslow,   b. 26 Oct 1600, Droitwich, Worcestershire, England d. Bef 11 Oct 1631 (Age < 30 years) + 5. Josiah Winslow,   b. 11 Feb 1606, Droitwich, Worcestershire, England d. Bef 1 Dec 1674 (Age < 68 years)
  Family ID	F12565	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	20 May 2024

  
  

• Notes

  He was an attorney, and an undersheriff of Worcestershire under Arnold Ligon from November 1608 to November 1609. Among his known legal clients was one Kenelm Winslow, who may have been (and has been identified by some as) his father, although what appears to be the will of this Kenelm Winslow does not mention him. He was not a "salt extractor" or "salt victualler" by trade; this idea appears to have stemmed from his ownership of a share in a Droitwich saltworks. He was churchwarden of St. Peter's in Droitwich in 1600, and was living there at least as late as 1609. He moved to Ireland before 1620 and was recorded as a sheriff in Londonderry on 17 Jan 1634, his last appearance in surviving records. As mentioned above, the identity of his parents is unknown, but much evidence exists suggesting that he was from a family inhabiting at least the lower reaches of the gentry. Brandon Fradd's 2009 book The Winslow Families of Worcestershire (citation details below) does a solid and readable job of summarizing the evidence for and against, including the gaps and absences that forstall a definitive answer to the question of Edward Winslow's origins. Fradd considers the following line to be "probable": Henry Neville (d. 1469) = Joan Bourgchier (d. 1470) Thomas Neville (1468-1545) = Lettice Harcourt (b. 1472) Ellen Neville = Kenelm Buck of Kempsey, Worcestershire Richard Buck (or his younger brother Roger Buck) (Unknown) Buck = Kenelm Winslow of Kerswell and Cilfton, Worcestershire Edward Winslow Henry Neville and Joan Bourgchier were both great-great grandchildren of Edward III, he through John of Gaunt and her through Thomas of Woodstock; if the model above is correct, Edward Winslow, father of five immigrants to New England, would be a 7XG-grandson of Edward III. Certainly the life story of his son Edward, a Mayflower passenger who served as the Plymouth colony's governor three times, contains many details that make a gentry ancestry at least plausible.

  
  

• Sources

  [S101] The Great Migration Begins: Immigrants to New England, 1620-1633, Volumes 1-3 and The Great Migration: Immigrants to New England, 1634-1635, Volumes 1-7, by Robert Charles Anderson. Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society, 1996-2011. [S1840] Lemuel Shattuck, "Genealogical Memoir of the Descendants of Edward Winslow, Governor of Plymouth Colony." The New England Historical and Genealogical Register 4:297, October 1850. [S1647] The Pilgrim Migration: Immigrants to Plymouth Colony 1620-1633, by Robert Charles Anderson. Boston: New York Historic Genealogical Society, 2004. [S7906] Caleb Johnson, Sue Allan, and Simon Neal, "The English Origin and Kinship of Mayflower Passengers William1 White and Dorothy1 (May) Bradford of Wisbech, Cambridgeshire." The American Genealogist 89:81, Apr 2017; 89:168, July 2017. [S6860] Jesse Tarbert, "Recent Winslow Gleanings: New Details About the Life and Career of EdwardA Winslow." Mayflower Descendant 71:5, Winter 2023. [S1528] Moore and Allied Families: The Ancestry of William Henry Moore by L. Effingham de Forest and Anne Lawrence de Forest. The de Forest Publishing Company: New York, 1938. [S6860] Jesse Tarbert, "Recent Winslow Gleanings: New Details About the Life and Career of EdwardA Winslow." Mayflower Descendant 71:5, Winter 2023., place only. [S7714] The Winslow Families of Worcestershire, 1400-1700 by Brandon Fradd. Boston: Newbury Street Press, 2009.