James Chilton

Abt 1556 - 1620  (64 years)

• Name	James Chilton  [1, 2, 3]
  Birth	Abt 1556	Canterbury, Kent, England   [4, 5, 6]
  Gender	Male
  Alternate birth	Bef 1563	Canterbury, Kent, England   [7]
  Death	8 Dec 1620	off Cape Cod   [4, 6, 7]
  Person ID	I38382	Ancestry of PNH, TNH, and others
  Last Modified	1 Jul 2026

  
  

  Father	Lionel Chilton,   b. Bef 1528   d. Between 7 Sep 1582 and 25 Jan 1583 (Age > 54 years)
  Mother	Edith   d. Bef 25 Nov 1579
  Marriage	Abt 1550  [5]
  Family ID	F22544	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	(Unknown wife of James Chilton)   d. Aft 11 Jan 1621, Plymouth, Plymouth Colony
  Marriage	Bef 1584  [6]
  Children	+ 1. Isabel Chilton,   b. Bef 15 Jan 1587 + 2. Mary Chilton,   b. Bef 31 May 1607   d. Between 31 Jul 1676 and 1 May 1679, Boston, Suffolk, Massachusetts (Age > 69 years)
  Family ID	F22543	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	30 Sep 2025

  
  

• Notes

  He was a tailor. He and his wife, whose name is unknown, came on the Mayflower, and both died in the first winter.

  
  

• Sources

  [S8720] Helen Schatvet Ullman, "Which Nathan Perkins Married Elizabeth Fisher of Norton?" Mayflower Descendant 59:105, 2010. [S360] Sue Allan and Caleb Johnson, “The English Origin of Roger1 Chandler of Plymouth and Duxbury, Massachusetts, with New Details on the Mayflower Crackstone, Allerton, Clarke, and Ely Families in Essex.” The New England Historical and Genealogical Register 179:333, Fall 2025. [S8725] Mayflower Families Through Five Generations: Volume 15, James Chilton and Richard More. Chilton section original compiled by Robert Moody Sherman and Verne Delano Vincent, revised by Robert S. Wakefield. More section compiled by Robert Moody Sherman, Robert S. Wakefield, and Lydia Dow Finley. Plymouth, Massachusetts: General Society of Mayflower Descendants, 1997. [S1647] The Pilgrim Migration: Immigrants to Plymouth Colony 1620-1633, by Robert Charles Anderson. Boston: New York Historic Genealogical Society, 2004. [S8108] Sue Allan and Caleb Johnson, "New Records of James Chilton, Mayflower Passenger from Canterbury and Sandwich, Kent." The New England Historical and Genealogical Register 179:22, Winter 2025. [S4249] The Mayflower Migration: Immigrants to Plymouth, 1620 by Robert Charles Anderson. Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2020. [S1739] Mayflower Increasings: From the Files of George Ernest Bowman at the Massachusetts Society of Mayflower Descendants by Susan E. Roser. 2nd edition. Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Company, 1995.