Our Family's Christmas Photos: 1945 - 1960

Riddle: What did the salt say to the pepper?

Olden Times
Grampy and I have all the photos from our parents, also all those of his Grandmother Pike and my Grandmother Trout.

Grampy says:
There are no Christmas photos in my family, and no traditions that I can recall. I remember great presents one year, 1952, when I was a 5th grader living at 48 North St. in Portland ME. I got an erector set, a chemistry set and ice skates. Dad must have had a really good year.
When I was 13 and living in the country in Gorham, ME I went in the woods behind our house and cut a Christmas tree, then made popcorn strings and construction paper chains to decorate it.

Grammy says:
Neither of my parents had any Christmas photos of them as children, and the few from my childhood were taken by an uncle and aunt if they came by on Christmas Day. They had no children, but had a good camera and used expensive color film.

Traditions I remember:
-singing carols with my grandmother at the piano

-opening one present on Christmas Eve

-decorating the tree and the living room with much red and green construction paper and crayon artwork

-getting a Christmas doll (even though I never cared for dolls after I learned to read, and they stayed untouched until next Christmas when they were carted up to the attic, then replaced).

-a new book from my grandmother. Her favorites were nature or animal books such as Thornton Burgess, Walter Farley's Black Stallion or Island Stallion series, Albert Terhune dog books, or the Lucy Fitch Perkins twins series, Augusta Stevenson's childhood of famous Americans series, or Gene Stratton Porter. My parents didn't allow Bobbsey Twins or Nancy Drew (they weren't in the library, either), and no interesting books that I knew of were being written for girls. Of course I read all of Laura Ingalls Wilder many times from the library.


Photo: 1955
Another few years and that stocking will touch the floor!
Notice the red and green construction paper Christmas banner with cut-out letters.

-my Christmas Stocking was a major present. It was one of my long tan ribbed lisle (cotton given a silky texture by mercerizing) stockings, held up with that instrument of torture, a garter belt, which I wore nearly all year long. Schools didn't allow girls to wear pants back then, even though boys wore flannel lined corduroy, thick knee socks and gum boots (greenish rubber knee-high boots that laced at the top) to school in winter. I walked to school, so my legs froze all the time, as these stockings weren't very thick or warm. They were, however, very stretchy, which made a great Christmas stocking. The same stocking was used each year, since it never recovered its shape after the first year's load of goodies.

Santa, a.k.a. my grandmother, always filled my stocking by spending money she couldn't afford from her tiny WW I soldier's widow's pension. The stocking was so long it would have cost a fortune to fill, so she improvised. Since it was thumb-tacked to the fireplace mantle, to make it appear full after it was filled she turned over a cuff at the top to whatever length was needed before re-tacking it. It always had new shiny pennies and a huge navel orange in the toe, hard candy, ribbon candy, peach blossom candy (peanut butter filling in a thin crunchy hard candy shell), a roll of Life-Savers, a popcorn ball, homemade cookies, gold-colored foil-covered chocolate coins in a little gold-colored mesh bag, a new pencil and walnuts in the shell.

You may think this was a lot of candy, but remember, it was only twice a year that I had any candy at all, at Christmas and Easter, since I couldn't go trick-or-treating. Also, one of my parents' rules was that I could only eat one piece a day, and the candy cane had to be broken up into several day's worth. Sticking out of the top of the stocking was a candy cane and best of all - a rolled up comic book!

My parents didn't allow 'funny books' (as comic books were called back then) in the house, or even for me to read them, but each Christmas a miracle occurred and they were overcome by the power of Santa. Apparently they felt that one "Little Lulu" a year wouldn't rot my mind too badly. I could happily have read one a day (or one an hour) for my entire childhood.

My best childhood memories are from my grandmother's kind, loving heart - not only on Christmas but every day that she lived.








1945
Dad and I on my new sled in the dooryard.


















1946
Same sled, same coat, different snow.








1948 My grandmother and I (age 6, 1st grade). Mom got her first pressure cooker, later to blow its top and peel the paint off the ceiling over the stove, throwing a thin layer of food in all directions.





1949
I'm 7, in 2nd grade. Note my trusty steed Silver in the background, also the Buckaroo board game.




















1950
I'm 8 years old, in 3rd grade.
















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1951
This year's doll, "Bonnie Braids", is Dick Tracy's baby in the newspaper comic strip ('the funnies' or 'funny papers' as we called them), the only doll I asked for. Also a toy typewriter and "Go to the Head of the Class", a great board game. I loved playing it with Ruth, my favorite cousin.




1952
You can see how thrilled I am to get 3 dolls this year. The tiny one is from the "Dolls of All Nations" monthly series at the A & P Supermarket.















1952
I'm in 5th grade. The fireplace mantel was always a catch-all. Mail, pipe tobacco, knick-knacks, one mitten or glove, seasonal decorations, etc. The picture and motto were brought by my grandmother from New Jersey when she bought the house in 1937.












1953
I'm a 6th grader, holding a new camera instead of a doll!






1953
Click on this photo to enlarge it, and see Foley's Ice Cream Stand out of the window, a Route One landmark for many years.
On top of the piano is a stack of 78 rpm record albums and my View-Master.
My new board game Edu-Quiz was battery powered - when the wire was touched to the right answer, a tiny red light bulb lit up.







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1954
I'm a 7th grader. The top of the piano was as much of a catch-all as the fireplace mantle!















1955
Mom wearing a fancy "dress-up" or "company" apron, which was put on after the cooking was done in a work apron.



















1955
I'm in 8th grade.

















1955
The only photo of my Grandmother Trout with her grandchildren.















1956
Notice the Hews Body Co. calendar on the wall. Dad worked there for several years. It was on St. John St. in Portland, between the rotary at the end of the bridge into Portland and Union (train) Station.









1956
I'm a 14-year-old freshman, (9th grade) going to a Christmas school dance. My dress had a shiny gold medallion pattern all over and a gold plastic belt.
We've only had a television set for a year and a half.














1958
Rob rented a dinner jacket for the school Christmas formal - the Snow Ball.

















1959
Back in the days of 'going steady,' his and hers shirts were sold. These had a modern paisley print.

















1959
I crocheted these mittens, labeled His, Hers and Ours (a large one with no thumbs and 2 cuffs).

















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Riddle answer: Season's Greetings

1947: We Started Kindergarten 61 Years Ago

Riddle: Which building is the tallest?

1947 was a very important and interesting year. World War II was now over for a year and a half, and prosperity was returning. The shortages of the war years were slowly ending - meat, butter, cheese, sugar, rubber and gasoline, to name a few. U.S. sugar rationing ended in June, but Pres. Truman still urged meatless and eggless days to save grain for hungry Western Europe, now helped by the Marshall Plan, a US recovery act giving aid to those war-torn countries.

After the war, American factories quickly returned to producing consumer goods, and scarcity was replaced by a boom in consumer spending. This year had some of the most significant inventions for many years to come, including the transistor and the mobile phone.

61 years ago in early September, just south of Portland, Maine, a 5 year-old girl and boy walked to school for the first time. Little did they know that on the first day of school 10 years later they would meet and be together for the rest of their lives. She lived in Scarborough, and he in South Portland, a city next to Scarborough.

Grammy says:
I was very quiet, shy, often sick, and never around any other children. I wasn't taken shopping or to visit relatives, since my grandmother lived with us and my parents left me home with her. She often took me to the Portland Public Library on the bus, and read hundreds of books to me. I learned to read by following along as she read. She had been a schoolteacher, and also taught me colors, numbers and printing before I started school.

Each year the school wanted me to skip a grade, but my parents always said no, what would she do if she graduated at 16? This worked out for the best, as I found school easy and had lots of time to be out sick. When I went back I was always ahead in my classwork, since the school let my grandmother keep my schoolbooks at home, and she taught me at my pace. We finished the year's work about mid-winter, and just reviewed for the rest of the year. I'm sure my hand was up in class more often than Hermione Granger's.

We lived about a block from the school I attended for 5 years, and it was almost in sight. My grandmother crossed me over the busy 4-lane highway in front of our house, and waited by our mailbox until I walked into the schoolyard and out of sight. I always turned and waved to her, and she was always there waving back.

Grampy says:
I walked to school quite a distance alone every day that year. I usually took the long way home, stopping at the playground near my house, or squeezing through a broken board in the fence around the sandpit (the fence that was meant to keep kids out).

In school, I had a seat next to the window with wonderful sunshine. I liked the bright daylight and especially looking out like Calvin in the Calvin and Hobbes comic strip. It reminds me of the song "The Kid":

I'm the kid who always looked out the window
Failing tests in geography.
But I've seen things
Far beyond just the schoolyard
Distant shores of exotic lands.

I'm the kid who has this habit of dreaming
Sometimes gets me in trouble too.
But the truth is
I could no more stop dreaming
Than I could make them all come true.

Here are our first report cards: S. P. stands for Sub Primary, which is what Kindergarten was called back then. X stands for 'not taught', and was not a failing mark.
































































































































































1947 Timeline:
Feb - Edwin Land demonstrates the first "instant camera", the Polaroid Land Camera, giving photos in 60 seconds.
April - Jackie Robinson, signed by the Brooklyn Dodgers, becomes the first African American in major league baseball. They play the Yankees this year in the first televised World Series.
July - A downed UFO is allegedly found in Roswell, New Mexico.
July - After being shut off in 1946, ENIAC, one of the world's first digital computers, is turned on after a memory upgrade. It remains in continuous operation until October, 1955.
July - President Truman gives a short speech at the Lincoln Memorial, risking his political future by declaring forcefully that the Constitution guarantees equal rights for blacks.
September - The National Security Act creates the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA).
October - American test pilot Chuck Yeager flies a Bell X-1 faster than the speed of sound, the first man to do so in level flight.
November - The United Nations partitions Palestine between Arabs and Jews, resulting in the creation of Israel.
December - The first practical transistor is demonstrated. Made from a paper clip, two slivers of gold foil, and a piece of germanium (soon changed to silicon) on a crystal plate, it will replace bulky glass vacuum tubes that overheat and break down. This tiny but rugged semiconductor permits miniaturization of electronics such as computers, radios and TV sets.
Also in 1947:
-Cambridge, the second-oldest university in the English-speaking world, begins to admit women as full students.
-The first jet fighter plane sets a speed record of 670.9 miles per hour.
-Raytheon Co. of Waltham, MA sells the first commercial microwave oven, the $3,000 Radarange. It weighs 750 lb, is 5 ft 6 in. tall, and intended for restaurant use.
-In a cave on the shore of the Dead Sea, a pottery jar containing parchment scrolls is discovered, now known as the Dead Sea scrolls.
-50 separate forest fires in Maine and surrounding states destroy more than 200,000 acres.
-Everglades National Park, a 1.4-million-acre reserve of subtropical Florida wilderness, is dedicated by Pres. Truman.
-First tubeless tires introduced - sealing themselves when punctured.
-The first 33 1/3 rpm LP records are produced.
-The hologram (3-dimensional photography based on an interference pattern of 2 light beams on film) and the Slinky are invented.
-Radioactive carbon-14 dating, to determine the age of ancient materials, is discovered.
-Reddi-Wip whipped cream - first major U.S. aerosol food product.
-The first streamlined car, the Studebaker, introduced in the U.S. Not a great success (there are jokes about not being able to tell the front from the rear), it influences all future automobile design.
-Harley-Davidson Motor Co. begins selling the black leather motorcycle jacket that will become a classic.
-The "New Look" in fashion lowers skirt lengths to 12" above the floor, pads brassieres, unpads shoulders, adds hats, making women's present wardrobes obsolete. U.S. women adopt not only long, full skirts, V-necks, curving waists, sloping shoulders, and frothy blouses, but also clogs, espadrilles, spike-heeled "naked" sandals, and fezzes.
-The Diary of Anne Frank is published.
-TV show Howdy Doody starts, with Clarabell the Clown played by 20-year-old Bob Keeshan (a generation later he was Captain Kangaroo, and had his own show).
-The minimum wage is 40¢ an hour, the average yearly wage is $2,500. New cars (the first manufactured since the beginning of World War II) sell for less than $2,000, gas is 15 cents a gallon, bread is 13 cents a loaf, and milk is 20¢ a quart.

Riddle answer: the library, because it has the most stories.

Finding Our Family History: 50 Years and Counting

Riddle: What runs around all day and lies under the bed at night with its tongue hanging out?

It All Started with a Book of Remembrance

When I first started going with Grampy to church in Portland, Maine in 1958, I saw an ad in a church magazine and sent away for a “Book of Remembrance.” It was a long, heavy, expandable rectangular binder, with 2 posts onto which the top cover clamped. Part scrapbook, part personal history, mostly family history, the only genealogy pages I knew about fit in it. I bought some from an elderly lady at church (the only people interested in genealogy then were older ladies, and even they were few and far between) and interviewed my grandmothers. Little did I know that I was off and running in a race that never ends - pursuing ancestors.


For the next 20 years I traced Grampy's ancestors (and half of mine) locally, getting them out of the Maine woods and back into Colonial Massachusetts and New Hampshire.


We had moved to MA in 1961, and three area libraries within a short driving distance had good Local History Rooms for the few hours I had available for research - Lynn, Lynnfield and Wakefield. By now my ancestors, except for the Nickerson family (which the Cape Cod-based Nickerson Family Association had published), had disappeared into the wilds of New Brunswick, Nova Scotia, England, Scotland and Ireland, never to be seen again (so I thought). Grampy’s many Essex County, MA ancestors, his several Mayflower lines and the discovery of a birth line for his adopted grandmother kept me going. If I was doing only my ancestors I’d have stopped long ago, but then whatever would I have done with all that time and money?

So I wrote, telephoned, joined societies and once in awhile was able to get to the Maine Historical Society in Portland or the Maine State Library, Archives and Vital Records in Augusta. I read everything I could, but libraries and bookstores had no “how-to” books. The only dealer I knew was Everton Publishers who sold only their own publications, which seemed to be for people who had been doing genealogy for generations.

In 1970 we drove to Salt Lake City for the first time and visited the famous Genealogical Library, as it was called then. In a storefront on Main St, it was as busy then as it is today, with a massive card catalog covering one wall. I never dreamed that I would be back a dozen times, doing research in two other locations as the Library moved to ever larger quarters, which became more crowded with each move.

I was able to get to the New England Historic Genealogical Society in Boston once in awhile when I could arrange to be away from children and work. I drove to Revere and took the “T” (subway) - Blue Line to Government Center, Green Line to Copley Square - at the special fare of 10 cents after 10 a.m. I made hundreds of photocopies, as Rob’s ancestors filled many books. Just pick one of his family names and a book - or books - tracing them back to a colonial MA immigrant and into England (often nobility) had been written. I thought research was easy and that finding time to do it was the hard part. Little did I know that there was a lot more to it, and no such thing as enough time.

Riddle answer: your shoe

Our Family: Thanksgiving Day And The Pilgrims

Riddle: If April showers bring May flowers, what do May flowers bring?

Today we are thankful for the Pilgrims who landed in the Mayflower at Plymouth, MA in 1620. There were 102 passengers, but only 53 lived through that year to celebrate the first Thanksgiving. Our family is especially thankful to them, for of the 26 families who left descendants, 10 of them are our ancestors. We descend from some of them twice, and son-in-law D also has Howland and Tilley.


Note: This is my own research, and not done to Mayflower Society standards. Our family includes adopted lines.

Photo: Plymouth Rock





PHOTO: Cole's Hill is the burial place of the Pilgrims who died in the first winter (1620-21). It rises above Plymouth Bay, on Carver St. in Plymouth, MA near the foot of Leyden St., the first street laid out in the original settlement.

Grampy's Mayflower ancestors are: John Alden, Francis Cooke, Stephen Hopkins, John Howland, William Mullins, Thomas Rogers, Myles Standish, John Tilley and Richard Warren. Grammy's Mayflower ancestor is Edward Fuller.
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Mayflower Ancestry - ALDEN (3 lines)
1. JOHN ALDEN, Mayflower passenger m PRISCILLA MULLINS, Mayflower passenger
2. REBECCA ALDEN m Thomas Delano
ELIZABETH ALDEN m William Pabodie
SARAH ALDEN m Alexander Standish (desc. Standish)
3. DEBORAH DELANO m John Weston
MERCY PEABODY m John Simmons
LYDIA STANDISH m Isaac Sampson
4. JONATHAN WESTON m Mercy Rickard
ISAAC SIMMONS m Martha Chandler
PELEG SAMPSON m Mary Ring
5. JOHN WESTON m Mercy Sampson (Mullins, Alden, Standish)
ISAAC SIMMONS m Rachel Cudworth
MERCY SAMPSON m John Weston
6. CELIA WESTON m Dudley Pike
LEAH SIMMONS m John Mansell
CELIA WESTON m Dudley Pike (same as Celia above)
7. JOHN PIKE m Mercy Jordan
ANN MANSELL m Emerson Orcutt
8. NOAH PIKE m Sophia Wilson
SETH ORCUTT m Anna Fletcher
9. EDWARD PIKE m Martha Curry
WILLIAM ORCUTT m Sarah Day
10. EBEN PIKE m Alice Berry
MATILDA ORCUTT m Mark Frost
11. FRANCES PIKE m Merrill Frost
IRVING FROST m Inez Dunham
12. GRAMPY m Grammy
MERRILL FROST m Frances Pike
13. L married B; R married D
GRAMPY m Grammy
14. S, R, B, C, L, A
L married B; R married D
15. L married B; R married D
S, R, B, C, L, A


John Alden was born in England in 1598. He was a cooper by trade and hired as a Mayflower crew member. In 1622 he married Priscilla Mullins, a Mayflower passenger whose parents died the first winter at Plymouth. About 1632 they moved to Duxbury. He served as assistant to the Governor and twice as Deputy Governor.
John and Priscilla had 11 children. Priscilla died in 1685. John died in 1687, the last of the 41 signers of the historic Mayflower Compact.




PHOTO: John Alden born 1598 Essex, England, died Sep 12, 1687, South Duxbury, MA.
Burial: Miles Standish Burial Ground, South Duxbury, MA.










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Mayflower Ancestry - COOKE
1. FRANCIS COOKE Mayflower passenger m Hester Mahieu
2. JACOB COOKE m Damaris Hopkins (desc. of Hopkins)
3. MARY COOKE m John Rickard
4. JOANNA RICKARD m Israel Dunham
5. SYLVANUS DUNHAM m Rebecca Crocker (Tilley, Howland)
6. ISRAEL DUNHAM m Hannah Whiting
7. Joseph DUNHAM m Abigail Bates
8. HOSEA DUNHAM m Nancy Kinney
9. SILAS DUNHAM m Eliza Murch
10. J G DUNHAM m Mary Richardson
11. INEZ DUNHAM m Irving Frost (desc. of Hopkins, Rogers)
12. MERRILL FROST m Frances Pike (desc of Tilley, Howland, Hopkins, Mullins Alden, Standish)
13. GRAMPY m Grammy
14. L married B; R married D
15. S, R, B, C, L, A

Francis Cooke married Hester Mahieu (from Canterbury, England) at Leyden, Holland in 1603. He was one of the Pilgrim group that left Holland on the Speedwell and transferred to the Mayflower at Southampton. He left his wife and children Jane, Jacob, and Hester, but took his eldest son, John. His wife and other children came over on the Anne in 1623. He died at Plymouth 7 April 1663.
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Mayflower Ancestry - EDWARD FULLER
1. EDWARD FULLER Mayflower passenger
2. SAMUEL FULLER Mayflower passenger m Jane Lothrop
3. HANNAH FULLER m Nicholas Bonham
4. HEZEKIAH BONHAM m Mary Dunn
5. HANNAH BONHAM m Benjamin Stout
6. BENJAMIN STOUT m Rebecca Doolhagan/Dulhangel
7. SAMUEL STOUT m Margaret Jones Brown
8. ANNA STOUT m Peter Adam Apgar
9. HARRISON APGAR m Emily Adeline Lance
10. LYDIA APGAR m Sylvester Hall
11. EMILY HALL m F. Leroy Trout
12. DOROTHY TROUT m George Nickerson
13. GRAMMY married Grampy
14. L married B; R married D
15. S, R, B, C, L, A

Edward Fuller was born in England. He, his family and his brother Samuel Fuller lived in Leiden, Holland. He crossed the Atlantic on the Mayflower with his wife, his 12 year old son Samuel, and his brother Dr. Samuel Fuller. Both Edward Fuller and his wife died during the first winter in Plymouth Colony. Samuel survived and lived with his uncle. He married Jane Lothrop in Scituate Apr 5, 1635, and had 9 children. They moved to Barnstable in 1641, where he died in 1683.
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Mayflower Ancestry - HOPKINS (three lines)
1. STEPHEN HOPKINS m ELIZABETH FISHER, both Mayflower passengers
2. DAMARIS HOPKINS m Jacob Cooke (desc. Cooke)
DEBORAH HOPKINS m Andrew Ring
CONSTANCE HOPKINS m Nicholas Snow
3. MARY COOKE m John Rickard
ELEAZER RING m Mary Shaw
MARY SNOW m Thomas Paine
4. JOANNA RICARD m Israel Dunham
MARY RING m Peleg Sampson
MARY PAINE m James Rogers (desc. of Rogers)
5. SYLVANUS DUNHAM m Rebecca Crocker
MERCY SAMPSON m John Weston
ABIGAIL ROGERS m John Yates
6. ELEAZER DUNHAM m Jane Bryant
CELIA WESTON m Dudley Pike
Hannah YATES m Ebenezer Higgins
7. ZILPHA DUNHAM m Nathan Marshall
JOHN PIKE m Mercy Jordan
ELKANAH HIGGINS m Jemima Cole
8. MARY HANNAH MARSHALL m George W. Berry
NOAH PIKE m Sophia Wilson
ELIZABETH HIGGINS m John Foss
9. EDWIN BERRY m Cora Childs
EDWARD PIKE m Martha (Curry) Swan
MARY/POLLY FOSS m Joseph Frost
10. ALICE BERRY m Eben Pike (also desc. of Hopkins)
EBEN PIKE m Alice Berry (also desc. of Hopkins)
MARK FROST m Matilda Orcutt
11. IRVING FROST m Inez Dunham
11. FRANCES PIKE m Merrill Frost (desc. of Hopkins, Rogers, Warren)
12. MERRILL FROST m Frances Pike
12. GRAMPY m Grammy (descendant, see Edward Fuller)
13. L married B; R married D
14. S, R, B, C, L, A

Stephen Hopkins was born in England. As a young man, a weaver, he married his first wife, Constance Dudley. They had 3 children. In 1608 the family moved to London. Stephen decided to go to Jamestown, Virginia to start a new life for himself and, later, for his family. Three ships left England, but two sank in a hurricane. The third, on which Stephen sailed, became stuck on a coral reef off Bermuda. The passengers went ashore and in the following nine and a half months built two smaller ships to continue the trip to Jamestown. After a few months in Jamestown Stephen returned to England to find his wife, baby, and son, William, had died. Stephen moved to London and became a merchant.
In the spring of 1618 Stephen married his second wife, Elizabeth Fisher. They had one daughter. A son, Oceanus, was born on the Mayflower before landing at Plymouth. Both Damaris and Oceanus died young. Five more children were born at Plymouth. Stephen served as Assistant Governor 1629-32 and 1633-35. He died in 1644. His wife died between 1640 and 1644.


PHOTO: Constance Hopkins Snow Born May 11, 1608 Hampshire, England, died Nov. 25, 1677 Eastham, MA, wife of Nicholas Snow. Burial: Cove Burying Ground, Eastham, MA.

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Mayflower Ancestry - HOWLAND
1. JOHN HOWLAND m ELIZABETH TILLEY, both Mayflower passengers (son-in-law D's line is through son Joseph)
2. HOPE HOWLAND m John Chipman
3. RUTH CHIPMAN m Eleazer Crocker
4. ABEL CROCKER m Mary Isum/Isham
5. REBECCA CROCKER m Sylvanus Dunham (desc. of Hopkins)
6. ELEAZER DUNHAM m Jane Bryant
7. ZILPHA DUNHAM m Nathan Marshall
8. MARY HANNAH MARSHALL m George W. Berry
9. EDWIN BERRY m Cora Childs
10. ALICE BERRY m Eben Pike (Hopkins, Mullins, Standish, Alden)
11. FRANCES PIKE m Merrill Frost (desc. of Hopkins, Rogers)
13. GRAMPY m Grammy (Mayflower desc. of Edward Fuller)
13. L married B; R married D
14. S, R, B, C, L, A
John Howland was born in 1592. On the Mayflower he was listed as a servant to John Carver. In mid-Atlantic during a storm, he was swept overboard, but caught a halyard which hung over the side and was hauled back on board. In 1623 he married Elizabeth Tilley, also a Mayflower passenger, whose parents died during the first winter at Plymouth. They had 10 children. He was prominent in public affairs in the Colony, serving as Assistant Governor, and in 1634 was in command of the Pilgrims' trading post on the Kennebec River in ME. He died in 1673 in Plymouth, MA. Elizabeth died in 1687 in Swansea, MA.





PHOTO: John Howland born 1591, died Feb. 23, 1673 Burial: Burial Hill Plymouth, MA.





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Mayflower Ancestry - MULLINS
1. WILLIAM MULLINS m Alice Atwood, both Mayflower ancestors
2. PRISCILLA MULLINS m JOHN ALDEN, both Mayflower passengers
3. SARAH ALDEN m Alexander Standish (desc. of Standish)
4. LYDIA STANDISH m Isaac Sampson
5. PELEG SAMPSON m Mary Ring (desc. of Hopkins)
6. MERCY SAMPSON m John Weston
7. CELIA WESTON m Dudley Pike
8. JOHN PIKE m Mercy Jordan
9. NOAH PIKE m Sophia Wilson
10. EDWARD PIKE m Sophia Wilson
11. EBEN PIKE m Alice Berry
12. FRANCES PIKE m Merrill Frost (desc. of Hopkins, Rogers, Warren)
13. GRAMPY m Grammy (Mayflower desc. of Edward Fuller)
14. L married B; R married D
15. S, R, B, C, L, A

William Mullins was born in about 1578 in England. He married Alice Atwood, and both they and their son Joseph died the first winter at Plymouth. They had at least 4 children, 2 remaining in England.

Priscilla was born in England to William and Alice Mullins. She, her parents, and her brother Joseph came to Plymouth on the Mayflower. Her parents and brother died the first winter. In 1622 she married John Alden, the Mayflower's cooper. John and Priscilla had 11 children.

PHOTO: Priscilla Mullins Alden born 1602 Surrey, Eng., died 1685 So. Duxbury, MA.


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Mayflower Ancestry - ROGERS
1. THOMAS ROGERS, Mayflower passenger m Alice Cosford
2. JOSEPH ROGERS, Mayflower passenger m Hannah
3. JAMES ROGERS m Mary Paine (desc. Hopkins)
4. ABIGAIL ROGERS m John Yates
5. HANNAH YATES m Ebenezer Higgins
6. ELKANAH HIGGINS m Jemima Cole
7. ELIZABETH HIGGINS m John Foss
8. MARY/POLLY FOSS m Joseph Frost
9. MARK FROST m Matilda Orcutt
10. IRVING FROST m Inez Dunham
11. MERRILL FROST m Frances Pike
12. GRAMPY m Grammy
13. L married B; R married D
14. S, R, B, C, L, A

Thomas Rogers was born in England about 1587. He married Alice Cosford. They lived in Leyden, Holland as of 1618, and he sold his house in April 1620. Only Thomas and son Joseph came to Plymouth on the Mayflower. He died at Plymouth that first winter. His wife never came to Plymouth, but his other children did.

Joseph Rogers was born in England. At 17, he came to Plymouth with his father. He lived with Gov. Bradford for some years, married Hannah about 1632, and had 8 children. He moved to Duxbury, and on 2 Mar 1635/36, was given a permit to operate a ferry across the Jones River. He was also a constable at Duxbury. He moved to Eastham about 1646, and lived in Sandwich for a few years around 1650 before returning to Eastham. He died in Eastham, MA.




PHOTO: Joseph Rogers, born 1607, died 1678. Burial: Cove Burying Ground, Eastham, MA.





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Mayflower Ancestry - STANDISH
1. MYLES STANDISH Mayflower passenger m Barbara
2. ALEXANDER STANDISH m Sarah Alden (Alden and Mullins)
3. LYDIA STANDISH m Isaac Sampson
4. PELEG SAMPSON m Mary Ring (desc. of Hopkins)
5. MERCY SAMPSON m John Weston
6. CELIA WESTON m Dudley Pike
7. JOHN PIKE m Mercy Jordan
8. NOAH PIKE m Sophia Wilson
9. EDWARD PIKE m Sophia Wilson
10. EBEN PIKE m Alice Berry
11. FRANCES PIKE m Merrill Frost (desc. of Hopkins, Rogers, Warren)
12. GRAMPY m Grammy (Mayflower desc. of Edward Fuller)
13. L married B; R married D
14. S, R, B, C, L, A

Myles Standish was born in England about 1584. He served in Holland as an officer of the English Army. He joined the Pilgrims as a hired military commander when they sailed on the Mayflower. With him was his wife, Rose, who died the first winter. He remarried about 1623/4 to Barbara, who came over on the Anne in 1623, and they had 7 children. He was the military leader of the Colony from 1620 until 1656. He was an Assistant Governor from 1631 to 1650, and Treasurer from 1644 to 1649. He moved to Duxbury about 1632 and died in 1656. Barbara died about 1660.



Photo: Myles Standish, born 1584, died Oct. 3, 1656. Burial: Miles Standish Burial Ground, South Duxbury, MA.







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Mayflower Ancestry - TILLEY
1. JOHN TILLEY m JOAN HURST, both Mayflower passengers
2. ELIZABETH TILLEY m JOHN HOWLAND both Mayflower passengers
3. HOPE HOWLAND m John Chipman
4. RUTH CHIPMAN m Eleazer Crocker
5. ABEL CROCKER m Mary Isum/Isham
6. REBECCA CROCKER m Sylvanus Dunham (desc. of Hopkins)
7. ELEAZER DUNHAM m Jane Bryant
8. ZILPHA DUNHAM m Nathan Marshall
9. MARY HANNAH MARSHALL m George W. Berry
10. EDWIN BERRY m Cora Childs
11. ALICE BERRY m Eben Pike (Hopkins, Mullins, Standish, Alden)
12. FRANCES PIKE m Merrill Frost (desc. of Hopkins, Rogers)
13. GRAMPY m Grammy (desc. of Edward Fuller)
14. L married B; R married D
15. S, R, B, C, L, A

John Tilley was born in 1571 in England, and married the widow Joan (Hurst) Rogers in 1596 in England He, his wife Joan, and his youngest daughter Elizabeth all came on the Mayflower to Plymouth in 1620. John and his wife both died the first winter, leaving 13-year old Elizabeth Tilley alone in the New World.

Elizabeth Tilley was born about 1604 in England and died in 1687 in Swansea, MA, and was buried in Little Neck, Riverside, RI. Elizabeth married John Howland in 1623 in Plymouth, MA. He died in 1673 in Plymouth, MA.


PHOTO: Elizabeth Tilley Howland born Aug. 30, 1607, England, died Dec. 21, 1687 Swansea, Bristol, MA.
Burial: Ancient Little Neck Cemetery, East Providence, Rhode Island. Here ended the Pilgrimage of Elizabeth Tilley Howland who died December 1687 at the home of her daughter Lydia & husband James Brown in Swansea. Elizabeth married Pilgrim John Howland who came with her in the Mayflower Dec 1620. From them are descended a numerous posterity. Elizabeth's will says: "It is my will and charge to all my Children that they walk in ye Feare of ye Lord, and in Love and Peace towards each other."
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Mayflower Ancestry - WARREN
1. RICHARD WARREN, Mayflower passenger m Elizabeth Pratt
2. MARY WARREN m Robert Bartlett
3. JOSEPH BARTLETT m Hannah Pope
4. SARAH BARTLETT m Elisha Holmes
5. MERCY HOLMES m Joseph Silvester (also desc. of Warren)
6. JOSEPH SILVESTER m Susannah Cobb
7. JOSEPH SILVESTER m Margaret Winn
8. SARAH SYLVESTER m Jacob Frost
9. JOSEPH FROST m Mary/Polly Foss (desc. of Rogers)
10. MARK FROST m Matilda Orcutt
11. IRVING FROST m Inez Dunham (desc. of Cooke)
12. MERRILL FROST m Frances Pike Pike (desc. of Tilley, Howland, Hopkins, Mullins Alden, Standish)
13. GRAMPY m Grammy
14. L m B; R m D
15. S, R, B, C, L, A

Richard Warren was born in England and married Elizabeth before 1610. He sailed on the Mayflower leaving his wife and 5 daughters behind. They came to Plymouth on the Anne in 1623. Richard Warren died in 1628, and Elizabeth in 1673.

Riddle answer: Pilgrims

Our Family: Holiday Dinners Through The Years

Riddle: Why did the turkey cross the road?

Let's look at our family's Thanksgiving table in the past. All other celebration dinners during the year were also in the dining room at my parents' house at Oak Hill in Scarborough, ME.


1948 Christmas. Left to right: Dad, Aunt Donna Trout, her daughter R, my Grandmother Trout, my Grandmother Nickerson, me.









1956, Left to right: R, Aunt Donna, me, Uncle Larry, Mom.















1956, Left to right: my Grandmother Millie Trout, Uncle Al Trout, Aunt Kay.

















1957, Left to right: Mom, Aunt Donna, Dad.















1957, Clockwise from the left: Uncle Larry Trout, D, my Grandmother Millie Trout, R.











1960, at Donna and Larry's house. Left to right: R, D, me, Aunt Bee (my grandmother Trout's twin sister), Aunt Donna, Mom.











1962, L

















1969, Left to right: me, R, Dad.
















1969, Left to right: R, me, Dad, Mom, L.











1970, Left to right: Dad with a broken ankle, me holding a foster baby, R sitting on Mom's lap, the foster baby's sister, L.







1970 Christmas. Left to right: me, a foster child, the foster child's baby sister, Mom, Dad, R, L.



Riddle answer: To prove he wasn't chicken!