Item List (43)

In 1889, a huge Monument to the Forefathers was erected in Plymouth, Massachusetts, and interest in the Mayflower was hotting up on both sides of the Atlantic. Two years later in 1891 a delegation of American descendants and representatives made…

Deep in the countryside of Buckinghamshire, in the small Quaker village of Jordans, the ‘Mayflower Barn’ has been claimed since the early 20th century to be made out of timbers from the original ship. James Rendel Harris, a notable if eccentric…

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…

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…

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…

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…

St Bride’s Church on Fleet Street goes all the way back to a design of Christopher Wren in 1672, with churches on the site even dating many centuries previous. The history of the Church is intertwined with the USA: Virginia Dare, the first English…

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,…

Taking place indoors in the Southampton Guildhall in May 1947, the Southampton Quincentenary Pageant was staged as part of a larger celebration put on to acknowledge the anniversary of the granting of a County Town charter 1447.Historical pageants, a…

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,…