Ancestry of
Myles Standish

(c1584 - 1656)
Mayflower passenger 1620

Myles Standish

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• • 1st Generation
  • Ahnentafel No:
  • 1 
  • Father:
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  • Birth Date:
  • ABT 1584 
  • Birth Location:
  • prob. The Isle of Man 
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  • Death Date:
  • 3 Oct 1656 
  • Death Location:
  • Duxbury, Plymouth, Massachusetts 
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  • Notes: 

  • Mayflower passenger

    Myles Standish's given name is also seen as Miles.

    There is much debate about whether or not Myles Standish was from Isle of Man, or from Duxbury Hall in Lancashire, England.

    No evidence has been found to support claims that Thomas Standish of Wethersfield, Connecticut, was a son of Myles Standish. Thomas did not appear in the will of Myles.

• Marriages for Myles Standish

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  • Marriage Date:
  • from 01 JUL 1623 to 24 MAR 1623/1624
  • Marriage Location:
  • Plymouth, Plymouth Co., Massachusetts

• Sources for Myles Standish

  • ¹ Anderson, Robert Charles, The Great Migration Begins: Immigrants to New England 1620-1633, Vol. 1, A-F, Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society (1995), 575.
  • ² Anderson, Robert Charles, The Great Migration Directory: Immigrants to New England, 1620-1640, A Concise Compendium, Boston, Massachusetts: New England Historic Genealogical Society (2015), 317.
  • ³ Hill, Peter B., Mayflower Families Through Five Generations: Vol. 11, Part 2, Edward Doty, Plymouth, Massachusetts: General Society of Mayflower Descendants (1996), 9.
  • ⁴ Roberts, Gary Boyd, The Mayflower 500: Five Hundred Notable Descendants of the Founding Families on the Mayflower, Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society (2020), 29, 57, 69, 114, 125, 308, 346, 365, 404, 456, 473, 530, 542, 555, 581, 686, 743, 755, 777.
  • ⁵ Roser, Susan E., Mayflower Increasings, 2nd Edition, Baltimore, Maryland: Genealogical Publishing Company (1997), 106.
  • ⁶ Sherman, Robert Moody et. al., Mayflower Families Through Five Generations: Vol. 15, James Chilton-Richard More, Plymouth, Massachusetts: General Society of Mayflower Descendants (2013), 15.
  • ⁷ Sprague, Waldo Chamberlain, Genealogies of the Families of Braintree, Mass., 1640-1850: Including the modern towns of Randolph . . ., Boston, Masssachusetts: New England Historic Genealogical Society (2001), 60.
  • ⁸ Wakefield, Robert S. and Russell L. Warner, Mayflower Families Through Five Generations: Vol. 14, Family of Myles Standish, Plymouth, Massachusetts: General Society of Mayflower Descendants (2007), 1-3.
  • ⁹ Wakefield, Robert S., ed., Mayflower Families Through Five Generations: Vol. 20, Part 1, Henry Samson, Plymouth, Massachusetts: General Society of Mayflower Descendants (2000), 9.
  • ¹⁰ Williams, Alicia Crane, ed., Mayflower Families Through Five Generations: Vol. 16, Part 1, Family of John Alden, Plymouth, Massachusetts: General Society of Mayflower Descendants (1999), 39.