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Mayflower High School, founded in 1965, and named after the Mayflower ship, is a coeducational, secondary school located in Billericay, Essex in the East of England in the United Kingdom. The school has a mixed intake of pupils aged 11–18 (School years 7 to 13) and is an academy .
Billericay (/ b ɪ l ə ˈ r ɪ k iː / ⓘ BIL-ə-RIK-ee) is a town and civil parish in the Borough of Basildon in Essex, England.It lies within the London Basin, 23 miles (37 km) east of the City of London.
In 1920, at the 300th anniversary of the Mayflower sailing, a plaque was unveiled in the United Reformed Church in Billericay, Essex, England, to commemorate the Martin family, Mayflower emigrants from that town. The plaque names Christopher Martin, Marie Martin, Solomon Prower and John Langerman. [28]
Mayflower in Plymouth Harbor, painting by William Halsall (1882). This is a list of the passengers on board the Mayflower during its trans-Atlantic voyage of September 6 – November 9, 1620, the majority of them becoming the settlers of Plymouth Colony in Massachusetts.
Mayflower was an English sailing ship that transported a group of English families, known today as the Pilgrims, from England to the New World in 1620. After 10 weeks at sea, Mayflower, with 102 passengers and a crew of about 30, reached what is today the United States, dropping anchor near the tip of Cape Cod, Massachusetts, on November 21 [O.S. November 11], 1620.
The 102 passengers and approximately 30 crew of the Mayflower, who came from England and the Netherlands, set sail Sept. 16, 1620, and have commonly been portrayed as pilgrims seeking religious ...
Mayflower church window. Billericay's best-known resident, Christopher Martin, was born around 1575. A prosperous merchant, Martin was churchwarden of St Mary Magdalene in 1611–1612. He became a Puritan, and was investigated by the church for misusing church funds at Ingatestone Hall.
Signing the Mayflower Compact 1620, a painting by Jean Leon Gerome Ferris 1899. The relationship between Peter Browne and the Mullins family in Dorking did seem quite close. As a single man of about age twenty-five, and possibly coming from an apprenticeship, he boarded the Mayflower in the company of the Mullins family. But these ties were to ...