Mapping The Mayflower Passengers

Nearly 400 years agone 102 passengers in addition to well-nigh thirty crew members ready canvas from Plymouth, on a shipping called the Mayflower, to laid about a novel life inwards the novel world.

The Mayflower 400 map shows the places of root (where known) of the Mayflower's passengers in addition to crew. You tin terminate click on the markers on the map to acquire to a greater extent than well-nigh each individual, including the house & engagement of their nascency & death. The colors of the markers dot whether the private shown was a religious Pilgrim, a paying rider or a fellow member of the crew.

There doesn't look to last anything specially interesting inwards the geographical distribution of the birthplaces of the passengers in addition to crew. One affair noticeable is that none of them were from the far due north or the south-west of England.

It would likewise last actually interesting to persuasion a map showing where the descendants of the Mayflower Pilgrims straightaway live. According to Wikipedia 31 of the passengers are known to accept descendants. The Mayflower Society claim that those 31 straightaway they accept over x i 1000 1000 descendants.