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in our Database | |  | | |  | | Birth Date | 1556 | | Death Date | 1620 | | Father | Lyonell Chilton | Born: 1530 Canterbury, Kent, England | Died: 1583 | | Mother | Edith | Born: 1535 | Died: 1579 | | James Chilton
Notes: | James Chilton was the oldest passenger on the Mayflower. He was probably born about 1555,[1] in Kent, England, to Lyonell Chilton (1530-1582)[2] and probably Edith.[3] The surname Chilton appears in Kent as early as 1339. For Jamess ancestry see The Mayflower Quarterly, August, 1977, pp. 81ff. He became a tailor, and was made a freeman of Canterbury in 1583.[4] Around 1600, he moved to Sandwich, Kent. By 1615 he was in Leyden, with some of his children. On April 28, 1619, James and his daughter Isabel were caught in an anti-Arminian riot and James was hit in the head with a large stone and required the services of the town surgeon, Jacob Hey. The name of Jamess wife has not been found. The baptisms of his children are recorded in the registers of St. Pauls, and later St Martins, in Canterbury, and then at Sandwich, but their mother is never named. The suggestion by John G. Hunt in The American Genealogist 38:244-245 that his wife was possibly Susanna Furner has been recently disproven on the basis of the discovery of Susanna Furners baptism record, which indicates she was far too young (only 12) to be married and having children in 1586. On September 6, 1620, the Mayflower left Plymouth, England. On board were James, his wife, and their daughter Mary, 13. James Chilton signed the Mayflower Compact 11 Nov 1620.[5] Both James and his wife died on the ship before the winter was out.[6] Mary is traditionally said to have been the first female to step ashore at Plymouth, and is assumed to have joined the Myles Standish household. She later married John Winslow, who arrived on the "Fortune". His descendants for five generations are given in Mayflower Families through Five Generations (Plymouth, MA: General Society of Mayflower Descendants, Vol. II) A memorial erected in Provincetown, Massachusetts in 1920 mentions Chilton and others who died aboard the Mayflower after it arrived in Provincetown harbou
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Ancestors Chart | Parents 2 | 4 persons | 8 persons | 16 persons | 32 persons | 64 persons | 128 persons | 256 persons | 512 persons | 1024 persons | - | Lyonell Chilton
b.1530 Canterbury, Kent, England
d.1583 | M.P.
Richard Chilton
b.1505
d.1549 | Rychard Chilton
b.1479
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Isabell
b.1509
d.1549 | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Parents 2 | 4 persons | 8 persons | 16 persons | 32 persons | 64 persons | 128 persons | 256 persons | 512 persons | 1024-persons | - | Edith
b.1535
d.1579
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