Descent from John Robinson, the Pilgrims' Pastor
Mayflower Passengers’ Preacher Never Reached Plymouth
Apr 4, 2009
Pastor Robinson (1576-1625) saw the Mayflower pilgrims off in 1620, then stayed behind with the part of the flock remaining at Leyden, Holland, probably thinking he would come with them on a future voyage.
In 1629, 35 members of Rev. Robinson’s former Leyden congregation made the trip to Plymouth Colony, but the pastor who had joined them in 1606 at William Brewster’s Scrooby, England, home had died. Another group of the Leyden pilgrims crossed the Atlantic in 1630.
The Robinson Family in Massachusetts
The much-loved Pastor Robinson’s wife and children arrived at Plymouth with one of these later groups and established the Robinson family in New England. Son Isaac Robinson settled in Scituate, Massachusetts. He later fell out of favor for sympathizing with the Quakers and moved first to Barnstable, then to Falmouth. His brother John settled in the Cape Ann area.
Descent from Rev. John Robinson
The following lineage was provided to this author in the 1970s by Mrs. Gail Howard of Machiasport, Maine. It was researched by one of her correspondents, Clifford Austin Bourne. Some of the information is from a manuscript by the grandson of Charles L. Bourne, whose family genealogy was published in book form in the late 19th century.
- Rev. John Robinson, pastor to the pilgrims, married Bridget White on Feb. 15, 1603 at St. Andrew’s Church, Norwich, England, where he was then the curate.
- Isaac Robinson (1610-1704), born in Leyden, Holland; married 1) Margaret Hanford and 2) Mary _(?)_.
- John Robinson, b. 1640; married Elizabeth Weeks in 1667.
- Isaac Robinson (1670-1741); married 1) Hannah Harper and 2) Alice Dexter. (His brother, Timothy Robinson, born 1671, wed in 1699, Mehitable Weeks and they were parents of Rebecca Robinson; see next generation.)
- John Robinson, born in 1699, married 1) Rebecca Robinson, his first cousin, in 1727, and 2) Jane Gifford in 1740.
- Ezekiel Robinson (1731-1805), descended from the Rev. John Robinson through both his father and mother, married Hannah Gifford in 1748.
- Seth Robinson (1770-1836) married Esther Freeman in 1793.
- Mary B. Robinson (1811-1895) in 1834 married Timothy Hatch (1811-1891).
- Annie Thatcher Hatch, born in 1841, married in 1865 Charles Long Bourne (1840-1920).
- Orrin Chase Bourne (1873-1964) wed Margaret M. Smith in 1905.
- Merton Field Bourne (twin) was born in 1914 at Melrose, Massachusetts, where in 1939 he married Bertha M. Bierweilier, born in 1916 at Stoneham, Massachusetts, to William and Frances (Lowe) Bierweilier.
- Clifford Austin Bourne, born 1945, Stoneham, Massachusetts, married in 1971 at Allston, Massachusetts, Muriel Ruth Jensen, born in 1946 at Waltham, Massachusetts. They had sons Matthew Richard Bourne and Craig Austin Bourne and were living in Scarboro, Maine, in the 1970s.
(Companion articles tell more about the Rev. John Robinson and give resources for researching the Robinson family)
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