The Family Tree
Thirteen documented family lines across nine hundred and sixty years — from the Battle of Hastings (1066) through Nantucket founding (1659), the American Revolution, and the Irish immigration of the 1890s, converging in the marriage of Carol Perry and John Patrick Long.
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Confidence Tiers
🟢VerifiedDatabase + primary-source documented.
🟢Inherited EvidenceDocumented via inherited physical artifact.
🟡DocumentedInstitutionally attested — published genealogies.
🔴TraditionalOral tradition or speculative; research ongoing.
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Cape Cod & The Islands
7 lines▾Nantucket 1659 → Falmouth → the founders who crossed from Devon, England.
Coffin of Nantucket🟢 Verified
Devon, England → Nantucket, MA
▸ 8 generations
Folger — Peter Folger & Benjamin Franklin🟢 Verified
Norfolk → Nantucket, MA
▸ 7 generations
Mary Morrell Folger🟡 Documented
England → Nantucket (indentured)
▸ 4 generations
Macy — Founder of Macy’s🟢 Verified
Nantucket founder → Manhattan
▸ 4 generations
Perry / Gumbleton🟢 Verified
Ireland → Cape Cod, MA
▸ 6 generations
Swift of Falmouth🟢 Verified
Sandwich → Falmouth, MA
▸ 9 generations
Jenkins of Falmouth🟢 Verified
Falmouth, Barnstable Co., MA
▸ 5 generations
Fall River & New Bedford
8 lines▾The Irish and American lines that converged in southeastern Massachusetts.
Winter of Fall River🟡 Documented
Fall River → New Bedford, MA
▸ 3 generations
Warren🟡 Documented
SE Massachusetts
▸ 1 generation
Arden🟡 Documented
Fall River / New Bedford
▸ 1 generation
Wall Family🟢 Verified
Ireland → Massachusetts
▸ 5 generations
Long Family🟢 Verified
Cork, Ireland → Fall River, MA
▸ 6 generations
Sullivan🟢 Verified
Munster (Cork/Kerry), Ireland → Fall River, MA
▸ 3 generations
Coogan🟢 Verified
Connacht, Ireland → Warwick, RI → Fall River, MA
▸ 5 generations
Manion🟢 Verified
Connacht, Ireland → Warwick, RI
▸ 4 generations
The Mayflower
1 line▾Plymouth, 1620 — passengers whose descendants married into the line.
Mayflower Passengers🟢 Verified
Leiden → Plymouth Colony, 1620
▸ 4 generations
French-Canadian
1 line▾France → New France (Quebec) → the textile mills of Fall River.
Pelletier / Harpin🟢 Verified
France → New France (Quebec) → Fall River, MA
▸ 7 generations
Medieval & Early Modern
3 lines▾The Battle of Hastings, Portledge Manor, and the older British chains behind it all.
Portledge — The Medieval Coffin Chain🟡 Documented
Devon, England | 1066–1620
▸ 7 generations
British, Scottish & Welsh Gentry🟡 Documented
British Isles | Medieval to Tudor
▸ 4 generations
Green🟢 Verified
Massachusetts
▸ 3 generations
The Convergence
These lines — Coffin, Folger, Macy, Perry, Swift, Jenkins, Winter, Warren, Arden, Wall, Long, Sullivan, Coogan, Manion, Pelletier, Green, the Portledge medieval chain, the British gentry, and the Mayflower passengers — converge through marriages across nine centuries. From Devon to Nantucket, from Fall River to Falmouth, from Connacht to Quebec, strands of lineage meet in the marriage of Carol Perry and John Patrick Long.
“Many many years ago when I was very little.”