Love married Sarah Collier on 15 May 1634 in Plymouth, Plymouth, Massachusetts, United States. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Education: University of Cambridge, Oxford, Oxfordshire, England, United Kingdom; Hhe studied briefly at Cambridge, the only Pilgrim Father to have some university training.
• Occupation: Printer
• Occupation: Reverend Elder of the Pilgrim's church at Plymouth
• Immigration Information: Came over on the Mayflower
• Stories and Notes: Mayflower Passenger
• Stories and Notes: 12 Jun 1609, Leiden, , Zuid-Holland, Netherlands; See Notes

Notes:

Stories and Notes:
Came over on the Mayflower - Published many Religious pamplets which made him a fugitive from the King of England. Was the Oldest Mayflower Passenger to be at the First Thanksgiving, he was in his Fifies.
Was a leader of the PILGRIMS, who established Plymouth Colony.
A member of the local gentry in Scrooby, Yorkshire, he helped organize a separatist religious congregation in 1606 and financed its move to Holland in 1608. His influence was instrumental in winning the approval of the Virginia Company for the p roposal to resettle the congregation in America, and he was one of the few original Scrooby separatists who sailed on the Mayflower in 1620.
As the church's ruling elder in Leyden and then in Plymouth, Brewster shared with William Bradford and Edward Winslow in the leadership of the Pilgrim enterprise

Stories and Notes:
A Leyden record shows that William Brewster and Ann Peck gave power of attorney to Thomas Simkinson, merchant of Hull. Presumably Thomas Simkinson has some relation to Brewster's mother's first husband John Simkins

William married Mary Wentworth in 1592 in Scrooby, Nottingham, England, United Kingdom. Mary (daughter of Sir Thomas Wentworth) was born in 1565 in Scrooby, Nottingham, England, United Kingdom; died on 17 Apr 1627 in Plymouth, Plymouth, Massachusetts, United States; was buried in Burial Hill, Plymouth, Massachusetts, United States. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Immigration Information: Came over on the MayFlower with her husbsand

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Birth:
to 1569

Died:
Also stated as 17 April

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• Old Address: 1564, Scrooby, Nottingham, England, United Kingdom

William married Mary Smythe in 1560 in Scrooby, Nottingham, England, United Kingdom. Mary (daughter of William Smythe) was born in 1534 in Stainford, Hatfield, Yorkshire, England, United Kingdom; died in 1567 in Scrooby, Nottingham, England, United Kingdom. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Also Known As : Mary Simkinson

Notes:

The Mother of The Pilgrim Fathers.

In 1564, Mary (Smythe) Simkinson, daughter of William Smythe of Stainforth, Hatfield, England, and widow of John Simkinson of Doncaster, Yorkshire, England, was married to a certain William Brewster of Scrooby.
It is unclear as to where William and Mary went to live after their marriage, but it is generally thought that their first son, also called William was born in Scrooby in 1566/7.

The young William was to grow up and become one of the most well known figures in history, as the elder churchman who sailed to America aboard the Mayflower and led The Pilgrim Fathers in their journey from Leyden in Holland to Plymouth in New England.

William Brewster died 10 April 1644, in the colony he helped to build in Plymouth.