{"id":102976,"date":"2025-05-30T11:14:13","date_gmt":"2025-05-30T15:14:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.genealogybank.com\/?p=102976"},"modified":"2025-05-30T11:14:42","modified_gmt":"2025-05-30T15:14:42","slug":"mayflower-descendants-whos-who-part-46-part-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/blog\/mayflower-descendants-whos-who-part-46-part-1.html","title":{"rendered":"Mayflower Descendants: Who\u2019s Who, Part 46 (part 1)"},"content":{"rendered":"

Introduction:<\/em><\/strong> In this article, Melissa Davenport Berry continues her series on Mayflower descendants, focusing on Charles Hinckley, the smallest lighthouse keeper in the world and a descendant of John Howland and Elizabeth Tilley. 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

Here is a photo of the replacement John Howland gravestone that includes the correction that Howland \u201cmarried Elizabeth, daughter of John Tilley.\u201d<\/p>\n

\"Photo:
Photo: John Howland\u2019s gravestone. Credit: Leon H. Abdalian, photographer; Boston Public Library, courtesy of Digital Commonwealth.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Today I continue my series on \u201cMayflower Descendants: Who\u2019s Who,\u201d featuring Captain Charles Henry Hinckley (1849-1931), of Barnstable, Massachusetts. He was a sailor and lighthouse keeper, the 8th lineal descendant of Mayflower<\/em> passengers John Howland and Elizabeth Tilley.<\/p>\n

\"Photo:
Photo: Charles Henry Hinckley. Credit: Margaret Hinckley.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Captain Hinckley married and left descendants. My next article will cover his family and allied lines which include Crocker. Baxter, Dean, Perry and others.<\/p>\n

\u00a0Lineage:<\/strong><\/p>\n