The great fens and watery flats of the Island, and broad sandy beaches. The big seaport where folk left for the colonies in New England was Ipswich.
Note: in looking up ancestors and following the lines of descent I decided to follow women's traces, although it was the men who often came over first and then married in the colonies.
The Gilmans
Rose Rysse (c.1500-1550) was from St Mary's and Bures, on the River Stour in Suffolk, and her mother Agnes Cacherode was from Caston, Norfolk. Her grandfather had emigrated from Ryssel, (Lille)Flanders. The Norfolk lands were held at this time by a French Conte (Berenger de Bayeux).
Rose was the mother of Robert and John Gilman- who were the first emigres of our Gilman family to come to Maine, New England (c.1610).
They met and married respectively Mary Clark, whose family had also come from Suffolk, and Elizabeth Treworge from Kittery Maine, whose father came from Brixham on the Devon coast(see earlier post).
The Gilman boys moved west and settled in Rockingham, and Exeter, NH. Some of their descendants would move back east to the coast of Maine at Yarmouth and Portland.
Voici the landscapes
tore of the River Stour above, and the mill at Bures below, a later building-probably same site.
Caston, Norfolk (below), another mill.
The coast
a painting by John Constable of this shore
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