{genealogy} My Mayflower Ancestor - George Soule

Edited August 14, 2016: the 2nd line is NOT CORRECT. Lydia Berry's father is Elisha Berry, not Elijah Berry. The interwebs commonly reports that these 2 gentlemen are the same person. They are not. There were 2 brothers, one named Elisha and one named Elijah. To further confuse everyone, they both married wives named Dinah. BUT THEY ARE NOT THE SAME PERSON.

There's a Thanksgiving meme among genealogists, to post about their Mayflower ancestors on Thanksgiving, so I'm joining in.  Some people have a lot of Mayflower ancestors.  I think I only have one.  But I'm descended through 2 lines, so does he count twice?

Here is the first lineage from him to me (note that none of this research is my own, but calculated based on correspondence I had with the Mayflower Society in January 2014):

• George Soule (my 10th great-grandfather) (1593-1679/80) married about 1626 to Mary Bucket (1590-1676)
• John Soule (my 9th great-grandfather) married Rebecca Simmons
• Rebecca Soule (my 8th great-grandmother) married Edmund Weston
• Rebecca Weston (my 7th great-grandmother) married Thomas Darling
• Joanna Darling (my 6th great-grandmother) married Bani Teague (who, incidentally, is one of my DAR Patriots)
• Judah Teague (my 5th great-grandfather) married Eleanor Knight
• Richard Teague (my 4th great-grandfather) married Lydia Lombard
• Judah Dana Teague (my 3rd great-grandfather) married Eveline Morse
• Clara Teague (my 2nd great-grandmother) married Rousseau Burch
• Winifred Burch (my great-grandmother) married La Rue Royce
• My grandfather
• My mother
• Me

My 2nd lineage line:

• George Soule (my 11th great-grandfather) (1593-1679/80) married about 1626 to Mary Bucket (1590-1676)
• Susanna Soule (my 10th great-grandmother) married Francis West
• Martha West (my 9th great-grandmother) married Moses Barber
• Dinah Barber (my 8th great-grandmother) married Edward Wilcox
• Lydia Wilcox (my 7th great-grandmother) married Stephen Saunders
• Dinah Saunders (my 6th great-grandmother) married Elijah Berry
• Lydia Berry (my 5th great-grandmother) married George Champlin (also a DAR Patriot)
• Lydia Champlin (my 4th great-grandmother) married Jared Crandall
• Ann Eliza Crandall (my 3rd great-grandmother) married Edward Rose
• Elbert Lee Rose (my 2nd great-grandfather) married Catherine Rigoulot
• Grace Rose (my great-grandmother) married Earl Durham
• My grandmother
• My father
• Me

So this means that George Soule is both my 10th great-grandfather and my 11th great-grandfather.  And my parents are 10th cousins, once removed.

The Mayflower Society tells me that the first line (through my mom) is well-documented.  They said the 2nd line is less well-documented, though they seem to indicate that it wouldn't necessarily be too daunting for me to prove the relationships that need a little more proof.

I must have been busy in Seattle when I heard back from them in January, and I kind of forgot to follow up after that.

Well, more on that some other time.

Happy Thanksgiving!