Is it Fate?

Okay, this is VERY interesting. Dave has been working on the genealogy of his family for several months now, then he switched gears and has been working on my genealogy the last few days and he discovered something fascinating this morning. It appears a relative of his and a relative of mine, both came over on the SAME ship a couple of years after the Mayflower.

Dave discovered he's 13 generations removed from William Brewster who came over on the Mayflower. William's daughters, Fear and Patience came over on the ship "ANNE" from England in the summer of 1623. Also on the ship "ANNE" was Stephen Tracy, his wife Tryphosa and their daughter Sarah. Stephen Tracy is back 11 generations on our Ethridge side of my family. It goes to the maternal side of two generations, but HOW COOL IS THAT??

He actually found a lot of history off the Ethridge line as far back as the 1400's in Wales england. When Dave went to England and Scotland 20+ years ago, he had a kind of "out-of-body" experience in a castle in England. It was in ruins and he was standing quite high up on the ruins and looking down over the great hall. He said he actually kind of zoned out for almost 30 minutes and he could actually hear people rustling, eating and talking and the hustle and bustle that would have taken place in the great hall of a castle back in the day. He said the fireplace was the biggest he had ever seen.

In looking at our heritage, my family actually had a relative who was born in that exact same castle or that town!! Again....how cool is that!! LOL Maybe we were supposed to be together. Pretty neat.