{"id":101126,"date":"2024-11-20T09:47:46","date_gmt":"2024-11-20T14:47:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.genealogybank.com\/?p=101126"},"modified":"2024-11-20T09:48:11","modified_gmt":"2024-11-20T14:48:11","slug":"pilgrim-related-events-and-families-part-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/blog\/pilgrim-related-events-and-families-part-1.html","title":{"rendered":"Pilgrim-Related Events and Families (part 1)"},"content":{"rendered":"

Introduction:<\/em><\/strong> In this article, Melissa Davenport Berry shares stories and photos of events and families related to the Mayflower Pilgrims. Melissa is a genealogist who has a website, americana-archives.com<\/a>, and a Facebook group, New England Family Genealogy and History<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n

It is almost Thanksgiving and this year I serve up some clippings about Pilgrim-related events and families, from the old newspaper archives via GenealogyBank<\/a> and the Provincetown (Massachusetts) History Project. May you find this dish fun and filling.<\/p>\n

\"Illustration:
Illustration: Pilgrims celebrating. Credit: Melissa Davenport Berry.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

1945: Prepping for the Annual Beachcomber\u2019s Ball<\/strong><\/p>\n

In this photo, we see: World War II vet Frank Hale Gardner (1920-2004), son of Samuel Asa and Marjorie (Hale) Gardner; and his wife Eloise Cleveland \u201cWeezie\u201d (Woodward) Gardner (1924-2021), daughter of Cleveland Landon and Emily Proctor (Crosby) Woodward. The couple are performing a test run in their 1910 Ford Model T, which will motor them to the annual Beachcomber\u2019s Costume Ball the following evening, 16 August 1945.<\/p>\n

\"Photo:
Photo: Frank and Eloise Gardner. Credit: Provincetown History Project.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Frank is wearing his grandfather\u2019s \u201ctails,\u201d and Eloise is sporting her grandmother\u2019s wedding gown. The theme that year was anything trending in the 1910-1916 period.<\/p>\n

The Beachcomber Club formed in 1918 in Provincetown, two years after the founding of the Provincetown Art Association, by a group of men, mostly artists, who met the summer of 1916 in a small building on what was then Knowles Wharf. It is a popular social club and still exists.<\/p>\n

Eloise is the granddaughter of Ralph Worthington Crosby (1875-1943), who designed and built the Crosby Catboat, and a direct descendant of Mayflower<\/em> passengers Edward Fuller, John Howland and Elizabeth Tilley.<\/p>\n

The Crosby clan were shipbuilders in Barnstable County, Massachusetts, going back to the late 18th century, starting with Jesse Crosby<\/a> (1732-1804), son of Daniel and Ruth (Cole) Crosby. Jesse married Ruth Goodspeed, daughter of Moses and Hannah (Allen) Goodspeed.<\/p>\n

Other families associated in the shipbuilding trade with the Crosby\u2019s are the Hinckley and Crocker lines, starting with Olive Hinckley<\/a> (1792-1888), son of Prince and Eunice (Goodspeed) Hinckley. Olive married Louisa Crocker, daughter of Reuben and Mary Ann (Bassett) Crocker. (See links posted at the end of this story to learn more about these family lines.)<\/p>\n

Below is a photo of Eloise\u2019s great grandfather Cornelius Worthington Crosby and some of his crew (many were kinfolk, including Eliose\u2019s grandfather) outside the Crosby boat shop in Osterville, Massachusetts, around 1890.<\/p>\n

\"Photo:
Photo: Crosby boat shop crew. Credit: Osterville Historical Museum.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The photograph is labeled as follows.<\/p>\n