| 1. | == Biography ==John Meyrick, also a minister, was born in 1579. He married Dorothy, daughter of Mathew and Elizabeth (Young) Bishop. They had four sons: William, John, James, and Thomas, whose destiny was to be in the settlement of Plymouth and Massachusetts Bay Colonies and whose descendants contributed remarkably in the development of two nations. === Name === : Rev. John Meyrick === Birth === :: 1 JAN 1578/9 Pembroke, Wales === Marriage === :: ABT 1602 St. David's, Pembrokeshire, Wales ::: Wife: [[Bishop-985|Dorothy Bishop]] ::: Child: [[Meyrick-5|Thomas Meyrick]] ::: Child: [[Meyrick-6|Janet Meyrick]] ::: Child: [[Merrick-89|William Merrick]] ::: Child: [[Meyrick-7|William Meyrick]] ::: Child: [[Merrick-90|John Merrick]] ::: Child: [[Merrick-91|James Merrick]] ::: Child: [[Merrick-92|Thomas Merrick]] ::: Child: [[Meyrick-8|William Meyrick]] ::: Child: [[Meyrick-9|James Meyrick]] ::: Child: [[Merrick-79|John Merrick]] ::: Child: [[Myrick-42|John Myrick]] ::: Child: [[Meyrick-10|Thomas Meyrick]] ::: Child: [[Mirick or Merrick-1|Sarah Mirick or Merrick]] === Arrival === :: 1641 Charlestown, Massachusetts == Sources == <references />* <span id='BRCR'></span>''[[Space:Boston Records Commissioners Reports|Boston Records Commissioners Reports]]'' (Rockwell and Churchill, Boston, 1875) Vol. 6.::* [https://archive.org/details/recordsrelatingt06bost/page/174 Page174]: Roxbury Church Records. "1650 Month 6 day 25 Widdow Morrick dyed." * Ancestral File (TM) The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints* Hills, Leon Clark,. History and genealogy of the Mayflower plantersand first comers to ye olde colonie. Washington, D.C.: Hills Pub. Co., c1936-c1941.* Curfman, Robert Joseph,. The Paddock genealogy : descendants of Robert Paddock of Plymouth Colony, blacksmith and constable, 1646. Fort Collins, Colo.: Curfman, 1986.* Merrick, George Byron,. Genealogy of the Merrick-Mirick-Myrick family of Massachusetts, 1636-1902. Madison, Wis.: Tracy, Gibbs, & Co., 1902.* <span id='Filby'></span>Filby, P. William, ed. ''[[Space:Passenger and Immigration Lists Index, 1500s-1900s|Passenger and Immigration Lists Index, 1500s-1900s]]'' (Gale Research, Farmington Hills, MI, USA, 2012) |