Ancestry of
John Gorham

(1619/20–1675/76)

John Gorham

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• • 1st Generation
  • Ahnentafel No:
  • 1 
  • Father:
  • Ralph Gorham 
  • Mother:
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  • Birth Date:
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  • Christening Date:
  • 28 Jan 1619/1620 
  • Christening Location:
  • Benefield, Northamptonshire, England 
  • Death Date:
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  • Burial Date:
  • 5 Feb 1675/1676 
  • Burial Location:
  • Swansea, Bristol, Massachusetts 

• Marriages for John Gorham

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  • Spouse:
  • Desire Howland
  • Marriage Date:
  • ABT 1643

• Sources for John Gorham

  • ¹ History of North Carolina, Vol. 6: North Carolina Biography, Chicago and New York: The Lewis Publishing Company (1919), 290.
  • ² New England Historical and Genealogical Register, 1898, Vol. 52, p. 358.
  • ³ New England Historical and Genealogical Register, 1900, Vol. 54, p. 168.
  • ⁴ Anderson, Robert Charles, The Great Migration Begins: Immigrants to New England 1620-1633, Vol. 2, G-O, Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society (1995), 1022.
  • ⁵ Anderson, Robert Charles, The Great Migration: Immigrants to New England 1634-1635, Vol. III, G-H, Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society (2003), 249.
  • ⁶ Anderson, Robert Charles, The Great Migration: Immigrants to New England 1634-1635, Vol. VI, R-S, Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society (2009), 591.
  • ⁷ Nantucket Historical Association, Proceedings of the Nantucket Historical Association, Twelfth Annual Meeting, July 18, 1906, Waltham, Massachusetts: Waltham Publishing Co., Printers (1906), 35.
  • ⁸ Parsons, Gerald James and Louis William Hagen, The Gorham Family: Ancestors and Descendants of Ephraim Gorham (1753-1830): Revolutionary Soldier of . . ., Rochester, New York: Unknown (1955), 3-15.
  • ⁹ Roberts, Gary Boyd, "#78 Royal Descents, Notable Kin, and Printed Sources: Ten Further Hollywood Figures (or Groups Thereof)", (accessed 10/06/2014).
  • ¹⁰ Roberts, Gary Boyd, Notable Kin, Volume 1, Santa Clarita, California: Carl Boyer, 3rd (1998), 148, 183.
  • ¹¹ Roberts, Gary Boyd, The Mayflower 500: Five Hundred Notable Descendants of the Founding Families on the Mayflower, Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society (2020), 16, 27, 34, 40, 66, 84, 90, 96, 122, 127, 129, 132, 136, 140, 147, 153, 157, 160, et. al.
  • ¹² Roberts, Gary Boyd, The Royal Descents of 600 Immigrants to the American Colonies or the United States (2 vols.), Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Co. (2008), 423.
  • ¹³ Roberts, Gary Boyd, comp., Ancestors of American Presidents, 2009 Edition, Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society (2009), 616.
  • ¹⁴ Roberts, Gary Boyd, comp., Genealogies of Mayflower Families: From the New England Historical and Genealogical Register, Vol. 2, Gibbs-Parker, Baltimore, Maryland: Genealogical Publishing Co., Inc. (1985), 90-91.
  • ¹⁵ Roser, Susan E., Mayflower Increasings, 2nd Edition, Baltimore, Maryland: Genealogical Publishing Company (1997), 68.
  • ¹⁶ Wakefield, Robert S. and Ann Smith Lainhart, Mayflower Families Through Five Generations: Vol. 23, Part 1, John Howland, Plymouth, Massachusetts: General Society of Mayflower Descendants (2006), 2.
  • ¹⁷ Wheeler, Richard Anson, History of the Town of Stonington, County of New London, Connecticut, From its First Settlement in 1649 to 1900, New London, Connecticut: Press of the Day Publishing Company (1900), 340.
  • ¹⁸ White, Elizabeth Pearson, John Howland of the Mayflower, Vol. 1, Camden, Maine: Picton Press (1990, 7th printing 2014), 9-12.
  • ¹⁹ White, Elizabeth Pearson, John Howland of the Mayflower, Vol. 2, Camden, Maine: Picton Press (1993, 4th printing 2008), 408, corrects John's baptismal year to 1619/20.