WDYTYA, the Ancestry.com sponsored program, had a segment last night on Cindy Crawford, it seems that one of her ancestors, a Trowbridge, actually did return to England from Mass., after losing his property and family, remarried, and wound up being a Capt in the Parliamentarian Army, defending the city of Taunton.
The English civil war disrupted transoceanic commerce, and he never returned to Massachussetts
I am amazed at how much and how far our ancestors traveled in the days of sailing ships, horses and foot.
What we consider an unbearable burden or labor, they took for granted as a fact of life.
I know of a young man who walked 100 miles in North Carolina, to marry his cousin.
Think of those young men from Pennsylvania, New York and Mass, who marched up and down the Upper Road, Virginia to South Carolina under the command of Gen Nathaniel Greene and Gen Daniel Morgan.
Today, the Marines and special operations units use a forced 20 mile march as a graduation test, then it would have been a days work.
My ancestor Wm Farrar sailed back to England with his family, in 1631, to sell his inheritance to his brothers, and then retuned to Virginia.
In England he would have been a little fish in a big pond, in Virginia he was a big fish in a little pond.
Point being, that the voyage to America was not necessarily a one way trip, many early immigrants returned to England, for various reasons.
