Capt. Myles Standish, "Mayflower" Passenger - Origins

That's a wonderful resource, Erica, thank you!

Googling his name brings up a few books he wrote on the subject, and some are freely available to read online. He is described as "an outstanding local historian the author of a number of invaluable local history books that made a significant historical assessment and evaluation of the localities of Standish –Duxbury – Chorley –Wigan in Lancashire England including the Gentry of those locations. Myles Standish by the Reverend Porteus is a book filled with factual documentation and a relevant appraisal of elements of that documentation, which argues well in favour of his proposition that Myles Standish was descended from the Ormskirk – Lancashire - England branch of the Standish Family who at the time of the birth of Myles (1584) resided on the Island of Man within the Irish Sea."

http://www.mylesstandish.info/Myles%20By%20Porteus.htm

https://books.google.com/books/about/Captain_Myles_Standish_His_Los...

https://archive.org/details/somerecentinvest00port/page/n10

https://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/details/r/64cf9220-e14f-4...

Thomas Cruddas Porteus