Rose Samsel's Mayflower Ancestory

Rose Anna Samsel Meinhard’s Mayflower Ancestry

This is a brief summary of the part of Rose’s ancestry that leads back to the Mayflower.

The Mayflower passengers that comprise a part of her ancestry were John Howland, Elizabeth Tilley, and Elizabeth’s parents, John Tilley and Joan(Hurst) Rogers Tilley. John and Joan Tilley, like a majority of the Mayflower passengers, died during that first hard winter of 1620/1621. John Howland, who was about 18 in 1620, was employed by Governor Bradford. When Elizabeth Tilley’s parents died she was also taken into the household of Governor Bradford. Elizabeth was 13 in 1620. John and Elizabeth were married 25 March 1623 at Plymouth. One of their children was Lydia Howland who later married James Brown.

The descendancy from there is:

Lydia Howland + James Brown

James Brown + Mary Denison

Mary Brown + John Thurber

Ann Thurber + James Bowen

James Bowen + Chloe Thayer

Amasa Bowen + Amanda Johnson

“Polly” Maria Bowen + Alanson Soloman Spencer

Abigail Ann Spencer + Theodore Carlton Samsel

Herman Americus Samsel + Jennie Floy Miller

Rose Anna Samsel

George J Farris

18 June 2020