Bogus Royal Lines For Gateway Ancestors From Whom I Descend

1. WILLIAM BARSHAM of Watertown, Massachusetts.  His parentage remains unknown.  Best research remains: Robert Charles Anderson, The Great Migration Begins; Immigrants to New England 1620-1633 (NEHGS, Boston, 1995) 1:108-111.  BOGUS LINE: parents given as William Barsham and Ann Yelverton, she the daughter of Henry and Bridget (Drury) Yelverton (see PA3, p. 791 for this last couple).  See http://homepage.mac.com/billwesco/WC05/WC05_126.HTML.  A google search of Barsham andYelverton brings up over 2,000 hits.
2. GILES CROMWELL of Newbury and Salem, Massachusetts.  His first marriage record from Eling, Hampshire, England reads: Giles Cromwell, of Southton (sic for Southampton), miller m. Alice Weeks of Eling, spinster. [Hampshire Marriage Licences 1607-1640 by Church of England Diocese of Winchester by Arthur James Willis (1960), p. 68].  His parentage is unknown and he is certainly not the son of Sir Oliver Cromwell, uncle to the Lord Protector.  Knights do not have sons who are millers. 
3. JOHN DRAKE of Windsor, CT.  John Drake’s parentage remains unknown but he clearly hails from Arden, England, where he marries in 1616.  Best research is:  unpublished material by Douglas Richardson; TAG 65 (1990):87—8 and TAG 63 (1988):193-206.  For years confused with another John Drake, the son of William Drake and Philippa Dennys.
4. WILLIAM DUDLEY of Guildford, Connecticut.  See The English Origins of William Dudley of Guilford, Connecticut, The American Genealogist 82 (2007):63-75. BOGUS LINE:  parents generally given as David and Joanne (Arnold) Dudley, grandfather as a Thomas Dudley with various ties to the baronial Dudley/Sutton family.  Example: http://www.geocities.com/bjcarrington/dudley.html.
5. EDWARD GRISWOLD of Killingworth, Connecticut.  His parentage is given as George and Dousabel (Leigh) Griswold, but nothing further is known.  Best research: The Griswold Family: The first Five Generations in America by Esther G. French and Robert L. French (Griswold Family Association, Wethersfield, CT); and Mary Walton Ferris, Dawes-Gates Ancestral Lines (n.p. 1931, 1943).
6. VINCENT MEIGS of Killingworth, Connecticut, whose parentage remains unknown, but certainly hails from in or about Chardstock, Dorset, England where he married about 1609.  Best research is: http://www.meigs.org/ and Search for the Passengers of the Mary & John 1630 Vol. 25, p. 47-8.  See the aforementioned webpage for the BOGUS LINE.  Father given as Lawrence Meigs/Meggs, son of Nicholas and Jane (Peverel) Meggs.  Lawrence’s wife is given as Anne Woods, a descendant of the St. Leger family.
7. GEORGE MORTON of Plymouth, Massachusetts.  Parentage uncertain.  See: Dictionary of American Biography ed. by Dumas Malone (Scribner's, New York, 1932) Vol. 13:254; The Scott Genealogy by Mary Lovering Holman (1919); Robert Charles Anderson, The Great Migration Begins; Immigrants to New England 1620-1633  (NEHGS, Boston, 1995) 2:1296-7; The Ancestry of Eva Belle Kempton 1878-1908: Part I, The Ancestry of Warren Francis Kempton 1817-1879 by Dean Crawford Smith (Boston, NEHGS, 1996); and The Ancestry of Thomas Chalmers Brainerd by Thomas C. Brainerd; edited by Donald Lines Jacobus (Montreal, 1948).  BOGUS LINE:  Father or grandfather given as Anthony Morton whose wife is Mary Plumpton.  Anthony Morton’s mother is given as  Markham and there are various ties to the Constable, Wentworth and Skipwith families.  See http://homepages.rootsweb.com/~pmcbride/rfc/gw55.htm among other places.
8. THOMAS ROBERTS of Dover, New Hampshire.  The son of John Roberts of Wollaston, England, but his wife and his mother’s identities uncertain and unproven.  Any link to the Hilton family is complete conjecture at present.  Best research: Genealogical Dictionary of ME and NH by Sybil Noyes, Charles Thornton Libby, and Walter Goodwin Davis (Portland, 1939, reprinted Baltimore, 1988).
9. ROBERT WHITE of Messing, Essex, England who married Bridget Allgar and whose descendants immigrate to Connecticut.  His parentage remains unknown.  Best research remains: The Ancestry of Thomas Chalmers Brainerd by Thomas C. Brainerd; edited by Donald Lines Jacobus (Montreal, 1948); Mary Walton Ferris, Dawes-Gates Ancestral Lines 2 vols. (n.p., 1943 and 1931); Genealogical Notes on the Founding of New England by Ernest Flagg (1926, reprint 1973) and “The Children of Robert White of Messing . . “ NEHGR 55 (1901):22-31.
10. THE WINSLOW BROTHERS of early Plymouth, Mass.  Sons of Edward and Magdalene (Oliver)  Winslow both of whose ancestry is debated and tenuous. See The Winslow Families of Worcestershire 1400-1700 by Brandon Fradd (Boston, Mass.: Newbury Street Press, 2009) and earlier articles: "Clues to the Ancestry of Winslow of Droitwich" TAG 41(1965 ):168-175; "Governor Edward Winslow's Mother's Family: The Olivers" TAG 42 (1966):52-55; "Mayflower Winslows: Yeomen or Gentlemen" by John G. Hunt NEHGR 121 (1967):25-9 and NEHGR 122 (1968):175-8 and 124 (1970):182-3; “The `Loving Cosens:’ Herbert Pelham, Sir Arthur Hesilrige, and Gov. Edward Winslow” by Kenneth W. Kirkpatrick, NEHGR 154 (2000):78-108.

Comments

[Diana Thornton]

So glad that you point out the bogus connection of William Barsham. I can't believe how many people have copied it, not realizing that they have a son born six months after his father, also.