Robinson Genealogy

 Nadene Goldfoot                                             

Our DNA connects us to a Robinson line with us both coming from Meppershall, Bedforshire, England.  Meppershall is a hilltop village in Bedfordshire near Shefford, Campton, Shillington, Stondon and surrounded by farmland. The village and the manor house are mentioned in the Domesday Book in 1086 - with the entry reading: Malpertesselle/Maperteshale: Gilbert FitzSolomon. (Fitz (pronounced "fits") was a patronymic indicator used in Anglo-Norman England to help ... Thus fitz Bernard, would indicate the person so referred was "son of .Bernard;  ..  Irish families used this when anglicizing their Gaelic patronymic surnames.)

Actually, our Big Y DNA test shows we are connected to the Fitzpatricks of Ireland. Our Big Y DNA test shows my 1st cousin Robinson matching James V Dyer, A. Sullivan and D.L. Fitzpatrick.   Grandpa Robinson had told us that our ancestors were from Wales, however.  Well, at about age 16, he had left home and must have had a shaky knowledge of his family lore.  

Through a few samples of DNA of someone in the group saying they are on the genealogy of Isaac Robinson, this is not our Robinson line, but it is the line that my grandfather, Frank Hugh Robinson (6/21/1870-5/27/1952) thought we belonged to.  He had said that his ancestors came over not on the Mayflower but a ship after that.  He and I took for granted that he was talking about his Robinson line.  It could have been another.  He was not a Quaker, but a Methodist.  

In 1630 John Winthrop (1587-1649) organized a fleet of 11 ships to carry almost 1000 immigrants from England to America and founded the Massachusetts Bay Colony. Departing in two groups in April and May, they arrived at various dates in June and July.

A key catalyst for this big migration was the internal strife in England in the first half of the 17th Century.  The Stuart dynasty has just come to power and aligned itself with the Church of England (Anglican faith) and began intense persecution of those who practised Catholicism (the predecessor of Anglican church) and Puritans, which was the intended to be a even more "pure" form of Christian faith than either the Catholic or Anglican church.  There was also the rich acquiring up a lot of farmlands forcing the poor off their farms and into London.  Then the Thirty Years War started in 1618 that pitted England and other Protestant countries against the Catholic countries of Spain and Central Europe.

The Winthrop Fleet consisted of eleven ships sailing from Yarmouth, Isle of Wight to Salem. Some sailed April 8, arriving June 13, 1630 and the following days, the others to sail in May, arriving in July.

Winthrop Fleet Large list of names of passengers to New England 1630 on board the ships: The Ambrose; The Arabella; The Charles; The Hopewell; The Jewel; The Mayflower; The Success; The Talbot ; The Trial; The Whale; The William & Francis. This list is from the excellent book: _The Winthrop Fleet of 1630_: (An Account of the Vesselseake, Robert Fien English Homes from Original Authorities) by Charles Edward Banks. It is believed by Banks to be a complete list, gathered from many sources.

From another source: 

The Winthrop Fleet consisted of eleven ships sailing from Yarmouth, Isle of Wright to Salem. Some sailed April 8, arriving June 13, 1630 and the following days, the others to sail in May, arriving in July. The total count of passengers is believed to be about seven hundred, and presumed to have included the following people. Financing was by the Mass. Bay Company.

The ships were the 1.Arbella flagship with Capt Peter Milburne, the 2.Ambrose, the 3.Charles, the 4.Mayflower, the 5.Jewel, the 6.Hopewell, the 7.Success, the 8.Trial, the 9.Whale, the 10.Talbot and the 11.William and Francis.

Sailed April 8 1630: Ambrose, Arbella, Hopewell, Talbot, (arrived June 13)

Sailed May 1630: Charles, Jewel, Mayflower, Success, Trial, Whale, William and Francis (arrived in July).  

(Ships Lyon 1630 and Mary and John sailed in 1631.)

Winthrop wrote to his wife just before they set sail that there were seven hundred passengers.  Six months after their arrival, Thomas Dudley wrote to Bridget Fiennes, Countess of Lincoln and mother of Lady Arbella and Charles Fiennes, that over two hundred passengers had died between their landing April 30 and the following December, 1630.  That letter traveled via the Lyon April 1, 1631 and reached England four week later.

 In 1630, their population was significantly increased when the ship Mary and John arrived in New England carrying 140 passengers from the English West Country counties of Dorset, Somerset, Devon, and Cornwall. These included William Phelps along with Roger Ludlowe, John Mason, Rev. John Warham and John Maverick, Nicholas Upsall, Henry Wolcott and other men who would become prominent in the founding of a new nation. It was the first of eleven ships later called the Winthrop Fleet to land in Massachusetts. (none of my surnames)

Isaac Robinson, son of Pastor John Robinson, who sent the Pilgrims in Holland on the Mayflower in 1620,:  Isaac arrived Boston Harbor on ship Lyon. He had departed from Bristol on December 11, 1630 on a tempestuous 66-day journey..  That's 2 months on a ship with sails and no motor.  He arrived on February 5, 1631 in the Boston Harbor.  

Read more: http://rootingforancestors.blogspot.com/2018/12/2018-christy-k.html#ixzz7M6lLlRnx

Resource:

http://wwwrobinsongenealogy.blogspot.com/2019/07/first-robinsons-to-america-ships-first.html

https://familypedia.fandom.com/wiki/Immigrant_ships_to_America/First_Families/Winthrop_Fleet#:~:text=In%201630%20John%20Winthrop%20(1587,dates%20in%20June%20and%20July.

Frank Hugh Robinson's family story

They Came In Ships, by John P. Colletta, Ph.D.

https://www.packrat-pro.com/ships/winthrop.htm

Labels: 11 ships, Dyer, Isaac Robinson, shhip Lyon, ship Mary and John, Winthrop Fleet-1630

# posted by Nadene Goldfoot @ 7:12 AM