Family of Philippe * DELANO and Hester * DEWSBURY

Husband:	Philippe * DELANO (1602-1681)
Wife:	Hester * DEWSBURY (1613-1657)
Children:	Mary DELANO (1635- )
	Phillip DELANO (1637- )
	Hester DELANO (1640- )
	Thomas * DELANO (1642-1723)
	John DELANO (1644- )
	Jonathan DELANO (1647- )
Marriage	19 Dec 1634	Duxbury, Plymouth, MA, US1,2,3,4

Husband: Philippe * DELANO

Wife: Hester * DEWSBURY

Name:	Hester * DEWSBURY
Sex:	Female
Father:	-
Mother:	-
Birth	1613
Death	1657 (age 43-44)	Duxbury, Plymouth, MA, US10

Child 1: Mary DELANO

Name:	Mary DELANO
Sex:	Female
Birth	1635

Child 2: Phillip DELANO

Name:	Phillip DELANO
Sex:	Male
Birth	1637

Child 3: Hester DELANO

Name:	Hester DELANO
Sex:	Female
Birth	1640

Child 4: Thomas * DELANO

Child 5: John DELANO

Name:	John DELANO
Sex:	Male
Birth	1644

Child 6: Jonathan DELANO

Name:	Jonathan DELANO
Sex:	Male
Birth	1647

Note on Husband: Philippe * DELANO

The progenitor of the Delano family in the Americas was Philippe de Lannoy (1602–1681)[1] (also Philippe de La Noy) whose family name was anglicized to Delano (his father's last name was recorded in the Netherlands as Lano) . The 19-year-old Pilgrim of Flemish descent arrived at Plymouth, Massachusetts on November 9, 1621 on the second Pilgrim ship, Fortune. His descendants include Philip Delano Jr., Frederic Adrian Delano, Jonathan Delano and Franklin Delano Roosevelt, Ulysses S. Grant, Calvin Coolidge, Laura Ingalls Wilder, Robert Redfield, Captain Paul Delano, and Alan B. Shepard. Delano family forebears include the Pilgrim who chartered the Mayflower, seven of its passengers and three signers of the Mayflower Compact.[2]

Contents

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1 Delano (De Lannoy) Family in Europe

1.1 Journey to America

1.2 Life in America

2 Descendants

3 References

4 Sources

5 External links

 

[edit] Delano (De Lannoy) Family in Europe

 

Philippe de Lannoy was born in Leiden on December 7, 1602 of religious refugee parents Jan Lano, born Jean de Lannoy in 1575 at Tourcoing, and Marie Mahieu of Lille, Spanish Netherlands, both now in northern France. His parents were betrothed in the Leiden Walloon Church on January 13, 1596. His father died in 1604 at Leiden. Philippe's grandfather, Guilbert de Lannoy of Tourcoing, was born Catholic but apparently became an early Protestant. He left the mainland with his family for England probably in the late 1570s and then, in 1591, moved to Leiden, a safe harbor for religious dissidents. The Mahieu family arrived in Leiden around the same time, having earlier been at Armentières, near Lille. The family name de Lannoy probably derives from the town of Lannoy (a name derived from the Latin alnetum and French “l’aulnaie” meaning “alder plantation”), also near Lille.

[edit] Journey to America

 

Philippe de Lannoy's family was affiliated to the Leiden Walloon Church, indicating they were probably Francophones or speakers of one of the northern French dialects. While the timing and extent of his contact with the John Robinson Pilgrim congregation in Leiden is unknown, Philippe eventually joined their voyage to the American continent.

 

The Leiden Pilgrims bought the Speedwell. Although his name is not on the passenger list, Philippe is believed by Mayflower scholar Jeremy Bangs to have joined his maternal uncle Francis Cooke (husband of his mother's sister, Hester Mahieu) and young cousin John Cooke on the first stage of the voyage from Delfshaven to Southampton to meet the Mayflower. They gathered in England with other Pilgrims and hireling colonizers to stage the onward voyage with the two ships. Barely into the Atlantic crossing, the Speedwell began to leak. This leakage forced the convoy to abort the voyage and return to England twice. After the second return, Mayflower proceeded alone. Speedwell was sold. Ten of its passengers, among them Francis and John Cooke, joined the Mayflower. The remaining Speedwell passengers remained behind. Philippe joined a replacement ship, the "Fortune (ship)", which sailed for Plymouth Colony in early July 1621, arriving on November 9. It is possible that Philippe went separately to England rather than on Speedwell.

[edit] Life in America

 

Philippe de Lannoy joined and resided with his uncle Francis Cooke and cousin John who had arrived on the Mayflower the year before. In 1623, he received a land grant in Plymouth but sold this property in 1627 and moved to Duxborough. In 1634, at Plymouth, MA he married Hester Dewsbury. Their children were: 1. Mary Delano, b. Abt 1635; 2. Philip Delano, b. Abt 1637; 3. Hester or Esther Delano, b. Abt 1640; 4. Thomas Delano, b. 21 Mar 1642; 5. John Delano, b. 1644; 6. Jonathan Delano, b. 1647-1648, prob. Duxbury, MA. Delano prospered and was part of the group who organized the construction of highways and bridges around the village. Hester died after 1648. Before 1653, he married the widowed Mary Pontus Glass, b. Abt 1625 by whom he had three children: 1. Jane Delano; 2. Rebecca Delano; 3. Samuel Delano.

 

He served in the Pequot War of 1637 as a volunteer. In 1652 he joined with 35 other colonists to purchase with trading goods what was then called Dartmouth Township from Massasoit, the leader of the Wampanoag who drew the boundaries. It was sold to the Religious Society of Friends or Quakers, who wished to live outside the stringent religious laws of the Puritans. Philippe gave his portion of the acquisition, amounting to 800 acres (3.2 km²), to his son Jonathan Delano. He died on August 22, 1681 in Bridgewater, Massachusetts. A great many of his offspring would become prominent mariners, whalers, and shipbuilders. The later commercial success of some Delanos was such that they would become part of the Massachusetts aristocracy, sometimes referred to as one of the Boston Brahmins (the "First Families of Boston").

[edit] Descendants

 

His son Jonathan married Mercy Warren, granddaughter of Mayflower passenger Richard Warren; among their direct descendants are the author Laura Ingalls Wilder, President Ulysses S. Grant, President Calvin Coolidge, anthropologist Robert Redfield, astronaut Alan B. Shepard, and the poet Conrad Potter Aiken.

 

Over time, family members migrated to other states including Michigan, Maine, New York, Ohio, Oklahoma, Virginia, Vermont and as far away as Chile where today descendants of Captain Paul Delano are numerous and prominent. From the New York clan, Sara Delano married James Roosevelt and their only child, Franklin Delano Roosevelt became President of the United States.

 

The Delano name is also found across America where several places have been named in honor of a family member:

 

Delano, California named for Columbus Delano

Delano, Minnesota named for Francis R. Delano

Delano, Pennsylvania and Delano Township, Schuylkill County, Pennsylvania named for Warren Delano II

Delano District of Wichita, Kansas Half of Wichita which is on the west side of the Arkansas River.

 

Some notable members of the Delano family in America:

 

Columbus Delano (1809–1896), statesman

Diane Delano, (born 1957), actress

Francis R. Delano, (1842–1892), banker, railroad executive

Frederic Adrian Delano, (1863–1953), civil engineer, member of the Commercial Club of Chicago

Jane Arminda Delano, (1862–1919) prominent nurse

Paul Delano, (1775–1842), Commander of the Chilean Department of the Navy

Warren Delano II, (1809–1898), merchant of the clipper ship period

Franklin Delano Roosevelt, (1882–1945), President of the United States

William Adams Delano (1874–1960), architect

Mary Gray-Reeves (Daughter of Florence Delano Gray) (born 1962), First woman bishop in California in the Episcopal church

James Whitlow Delano (1960), street photographer

 

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Son of Philippe & Hester (Dewsbury) Delano. Husband to Mercy (Warren) Delano and father to eleven children; Jonathan, Jabez, Sarah, Mercy, Nathan, Bethiah, Susanna, Nathaniel, Esther, Jethro and Thomas. Served in the King Phillip Indian War of 1675/76. Commisioned a lieutenant by Massachusetts governor in 1689. One of the founders of the town of Dartmouth, Massachusetts. Inscription: "Here lieth ye Body of Lieut. Jonathan Delano died December ye 28th 1720 In ye 73rd year of his age" Information provided by C. Rasmussen on www.findagrave.com on 15 March 2008.

Sources

1	"Family Data Collection - Marriages".

2	William M. Clemens, "American Marriages before 1699" (Pompton Lakes, NJ Biblio Co, 1926).

3	"US New England Marriages prior to 1700".

4	"The Great Migration, Immigrants to New England 1634-1635".

5	George English, "Ancestry and History of Philip Delano, born Philippe de Lannoy, Mayflower Descendent".

6	Joel Andrew and Mortimor Delano, "The Genealogy, History and Alliances of the American House of Delano, 1621-1899".

7	Muriel Curtis Cushing, "Philip Delano of the Fortune 1621 and his Descendents of Four Generations" (General Society of Mayflower Descendents 1999).

8	"Passenger and Immigrations Lists Index 1500-1900".

9	"MA Census, 1790-1890".

10	Edmund West, "Family Data Collection - Death" (Generations Network, Inc 2001).