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Kenelm Winslow
Edward's grandfather, who lived at Kerswell Green Farm and was a churchwarden in 1593.
Edward Winslow (Senior)
The pilgrim's father, and son of Kenelm, he moved to Droitwich, (a spa town north of Worcester), and became a salt merchant.
Edward Winslow (Junior) 1595-1655 (sailed on the Mayflower)
Educated at King's School, Worcester, apprenticed to London printer John Beadle in 1615. Posted to Lyden in Holland, where he assisted in printing Puritan leaflets. Set sail to Southampton 22 July 1620, and left Southampton on 5 August. The Mayflower arrived in Cape-in-Province town harbour, America, on 11 November.
Due to his education he was sent back to England as an agent of the colony. He returned to America in 1624. Governor in 1633, 1636, and 1644.
He became a commissioner for Cromwell, and died of a fever between Jamaica and Hispaniola in 1655, while on a Civil Commissioner's errand for Cromwell. He was buried at sea.
For more information on Edward Winslow, click here to go to a detailed site on the Mayflower, here to go to a passenger list, and here for detailed information on Edward Winslow, including his picture, genealogy, signature and will.
John Winslow
Churchwarden of Kempsey 1675-90.
Richard Winslow
Son of John, bishop's bailiff in Kempsey in 1701, and churchwarden 1703-5.
There are several bequests by members of the Winslow family in the bellringer's room in the church tower. Click here to go to the bequests page.
Extract from 'Edward Winslow of the Mayflower' by Rev. W. Sterry-Cooper (1953)
"Acknowledgements -
Lieutenant-Commander D. Kenelm Winslow, Royal Navy (Ret'd) has been a most enthusiastic collaborator both in matters relating to Winslow genealogy and in his drawings of the Winslow home, the lovely half-timbered farmhouse at Careswell - modern Kerswell - in Kempsey, near Worcester... Here Kenelm, the Pilgrim's grandfather was born, and where no doubt the Pilgrim Father went as a small boy."
(Page 28) "Another (good) reason was that Mr. Winslow was a member of a family of very good standing in the county, and came from Kempsey, where his family resided for probably 300 years or even longer. The head of the family lived at Draycott Manor, and was a wealthy landowner. Edward's father, Kenelm, owned Careswell, or Kerswell in Kempsey parish, and there Edward, the father of the Pilgrim, was born." "...the old family farmhouse where Kenelm, the Pilgrim's grandfather, lived from 1560 to 1605, when he sold it to Sir John Buck. This was the old and beloved family home of the Droitwich Winslows and it was in memory of the days of his boyhood that when the Pilgrim Father made his estate just north of Plymouth in New England he called it "Cereswell"."
(Page 30) "It was somewhere about the time when the younger Edward left the King's School in 1611 that Edward, his father, with the family removed from Droitwich back to the Kempsey district, whence he came prior to 1594."
"The Pilgrim's grandfather, Kenelm Winslow, died in 1607, two years after he had sold Kerswell to Sir John Buck. It is clear from his will that he owned land at Kempsey, and that he had two houses which he let on lease when he went to reside with his wife Katherine in Worcester. The rent of the smaller house was 23/8 per annum, and the other, which must have been a good large house, where Kenelm had formerly lived, produced a rental of £13, a very good sum in those days. It is probable that the larger house was in the little hamlet of Clifton which lies between Kempsey and Severn Stoke, because the next certain date we possess at the moment is 1613. This date enables us to get a fairly realistic picture of what happened. Young Edward Winslow left the King's School in April 1611 at the age of 16 years. With farming in his blood the fact that he became a deadshot with a gun, and possessed an amazing knowledge of country life, point to his having spent 16 months on the land. Whether with his father or richer relatives at Draycott Manor we know not."
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