Item List (14)

  • Type is exactly "Plaque"

Saint Helen's Church, Austerfield
William Bradford, the second (and arguably most famous) governor of the Plymouth Colony, was born in Austerfield and baptised in this small Norman-origins church in 1589. By the final decade of the nineteenth century, when interest in the Pilgrim…

Type: Plaque

St Wilfrid's, Scrooby.
The Pilgrim Father William Brewster was baptised in this parish church (built in the 15th century and restored in the Victorian period). In 1955, a special return pilgrimage of 104 American Pilgrim descendants (plus 48 guests) toured Holland and…

Type: Plaque

'Church of St. Peter de Witton, Droitwich' (2013).
Edward Winslow, arguably one of the most important Pilgrim Fathers, was born in Droitwich in 1595 and baptised in St Peter’s. In October 1945, the 350th anniversary of his birth, a plaque to his memory was unveiled in the church. Commemorating…

Type: Plaque

St Mary's, Redenhall.
St Mary’s Church in Redenhall, Norfolk, is a Grade I listed Anglican place of worship dating to the 14th century (with additions in the late 15th and early 16th century). Edward and Samuel Fuller, two brothers who were baptised in the church, were a…

Type: Plaque

David Purchase, St Mary's Henlow.
John Tilley and Joan Hurst married in this church, and their daughter, Elizabeth, was also baptised there along with John’s nephew Henry Sampson; all journeyed on the Mayflower, but only Elizabeth and Henry survived the first harsh winter. In 1989,…

Type: Plaque

Scrooby Manor (2017)
Scrooby, in Nottinghamshire, is famous today for its associations with the Pilgrims as the home of William Brewster and a meeting place for the Brownist congregation led by John Robinson and Richard Clyfton. It was not until the late 1840s, however,…

Type: Plaque

'St. James Church in Shipton' (2011)
This plaque, put up in 1996 the year after the 375th anniversary of the voyage, commemorates the sad story of four young passengers: the More children from Shipton in Shropshire. Samuel More had apparently believed that the children were not his but…

Type: Plaque

William Mullins Home (2017)
William Mullins was a Mayflower passenger who died in the first harsh winter in the new colony; his daughter, Priscilla, went on to marry John Alden (now immortalised in Henry Wadsworth Longfellow’s fantastically popular poem The Courtship of Miles…

Type: Plaque

Christopher Jones house plaque, Harwich (2017).
Harwich has a claim to fame in the story of the Pilgrim Fathers; the captain of the ship, Christopher Jones, at one time lived and married in the town, and the ship itself – according to the best guesses of some historians - was possibly even built…

Type: Plaque

Dartmouth plaque (2017)
Dartmouth had an unanticipated role in the Mayflower story: as described briefly by William Bradford in his history of the voyage and the colony, the Mayflower and Speedwell had to dock in the town’s harbour after the latter sprung a leak shortly…

Type: Plaque