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‘The Mayflower’ pub in Rotherhithe commemorates the supposed mooring of the ship nearby before it travelled to Southampton in 1620 to pick up the Pilgrims. The captain of the voyage in 1620, Christopher Jones, also lived in the neighbourhood and is…

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…

Captain Christopher Jones was based in Rotherhithe, on the Thames, with the Mayflower; he was buried in the grounds of St Mary’s Church in 1622 (though the grave is now lost). A blue plaque on the church states ‘In 1620 the Mayflower sailed from…