During the Spring of 2017 I did considerable research on my ancestry, using Ancestry.com as my primary source and data repository.  I confirmed much of what my parents knew, corrected some “alternative facts”, and added a great deal of new information.  Overall, I found 1,120 names with  no fewer than 290 ancestors who individually came over by ship.  None after 1855.  Mostly English/Scot/Irish/Welsh.  Also Dutch, German, French, Genovese.  DNA indicates Norwegian, but I believe it detects Viking blood which festered for centuries in England, so I choose to ignore it all.

I haven’t yet compiled a list of my mother’s significant ancestry.  But certainly my father had the richer list of ancestors:

Significant Ancestry of Donald Austin

This contains links to web sites that tells the stories of some of Donald Austin’s direct ancestors.  The list is nearly exclusively made up of those who first came to America.  A few other significant ancestors are also noted.

Ancestors on the Mayflower:

• John Howland (Married Elizabeth Tilley)
• John and Joan Tilley and daughter Elizabeth (Both parents died first winter)
• Edward and Agnes Tilley (Aunt and Uncle of Elizabeth Tilley. Both died first winter)
• Edward and Mrs. [Unknown] Fuller, and son Samuel (Both parents died first winter)
• Samuel Fuller (Uncle of Samuel Fuller)
• Note: Edward Fuller and Mrs. Fuller had another child (Matthew) who arrived later (1640). His daughter married Samuel Fuller’s son.

http://mayflowerhistory.com contains additional information.

The source is Wikipedia if no other is listed. There is no particular order for the names:

Robert the Bruce, King of Scots – (This is a flight of some fancy.  As Mark Twain wrote: It might be true, it might not be true.  But it COULD be true. We are almost certainly related to Thomas Bruce, 1st Baron of Clackmannan, which is only one generation removed.  There’s theory, but no proof.)

John Field (proto-Copernican)

Adrian Scrope [Hanged, drawn and quartered]

Dr. Samuel Fuller, Mayflower (Not directly related; uncle)

Edward Fuller, Mayflower

Samuel Fuller [The Younger] : http://mayflowerhistory.com/fuller-samuel2/

John Howland (The date of birth listed in Wiki is almost certainly wrong.  1599 is a better guess.) Wiki and http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/24727078-the-boy-who-fell-off-the-mayflower-or-john-howland-s-good-fortune

Elizabeth Tilley

John Lothropp (Note: Daughter Jane married E Fuller’s son Samuel)

Roger Conant (Note: GGranddaughter Lydia married E Fuller’s GGGrandson Samuel)

Jonathan Rudd and Mary Metcalf: https://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=141766832 and http://www.hhhistory.com/2014/01/the-bride-of-bride-brook.html

Gregory Dexter (Included description: “He was considered to be very pious, seldom smiling, and in social interaction was always ready to engage his company with a sermon.”)

Anne Hutchinson

William Hutchinson

Susanna Cole : Wiki and http://www.wittmeyerfamily.com/new/indian-captive-susanna-hutchinson-b-1633

Samuel Cole : Wiki and http://www.history1700s.com/index.php/articles/25-society-and-culture/1423-samuel-cole-s-inn.html

Peter Bulkley

Edward Bulkeley : https://www.geni.com/people/Rev-Edward-Bulkeley/6000000002422798744

John Coggeshall

John Whipple

Thomas Angell

Roger Williams

Philip Sherman

Thomas Parker (deacon)

Deacon Thomas Lynde (Nothing special, but interesting will.) http://www.kristinhall.org/fambly/Lynde/ThomasLynde1.html

Peter Tufts [Accuser of Witches]

Benjamin Harrington : https://familysearch.org/photos/artifacts/10718990

Pardon Tillinghast

Captain Thomas Eldred (Two ancestors by this name: Wiki and : http://www.wittmeyerfamily.com/capt-thomas-eldred-1595.html

John Brown : https://familysearch.org/photos/artifacts/10674827

Willaim Cheney : http://familypedia.wikia.com/wiki/William_Cheney_(1603-1667)

Thomas Cheney : http://familypedia.wikia.com/wiki/Thomas_Cheney_(1630-1695)

Zaccheus Gould : http://www.angelfire.com/journal2/n_woodhead/Zaccheus_Gould_1.html

Sarah Wildes (Hanged for witchcraft: Not related, but a wife of ancestor William Wildes)

Jeremiah Meacham (and Isaac)  https://familysearch.org/photos/artifacts/3507856

Joseph Clarke : https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Clarke-39

John Clarke (brother of ancestor Joseph Clarke)

Richard Kimball : https://familysearch.org/photos/artifacts/9309160

Deacon Thomas Kendall House : Wiki and https://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=21229725

Rebecca Paine : http://ancestorbios.blogspot.com/2012/03/mother-kendalls-skillet-rebecca-paine.html

Cary Latham : Simply put: A ferry boat operator.  In 1655 he became the first permanent English settler on the east bank of the Thames River when it was part of the Pequot Colony, later to become New London.

Nathaniel Dickinson

John Dickinson https://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=37289815

John Ayer

George Bruce of Carnock

Rehoboth Carpenter Family  (William Carpenter Generation 2)

John Kingsley : https://familysearch.org/photos/artifacts/9149441

Roger Mowry Tavern

James and Hugh Cole : http://www.arq.net/~ljacobs/cole.html

New Haven Colony (John Taylor, Ancestor, sailed away on The Phantom Ship)

Nathaniel Farmer [Wounded at Lexington April 19, 1775) : http://amarch.lib.niu.edu/islandora/object/niu-amarch%3A88188  and http://www.lexingtonminutemen.com/captain-parkers-company-of-militia.html