George Soule & Mary Bucket/Becket-11th Great Grandparents-Mayflower Passengers

Family History Research
August 2018

George Soule (c. 1600 – between 20 September 1677 and 22 January 1679) was a colonist who was one of the indentured servants on the Mayflower and helped establish Plymouth Colony in 1620.
He was one of the signers of the Mayflower Compact.
George Soule was also my 11th Great Grandfather.

As I continue my research into my mother, Marlene Deitz Repinski's family lines that I discovered a little more than 2 years ago, I am learning so much and continue to be awe struck by my family history through her father and his ancestors.

I still get tears in my eyes each time I find another of my ancestors that she should have known about.
How her parents and the rest of my family on her side never knew of these awesome lines back in history, I will never be able to fathom.

I am so happy that I was the one who finally "rediscovered" all of these amazing ancestors and my goal in my lifetime is to reacquaint my family and my friends with them so they will never ever be forgotten again.

In the last two years I have discovered at least 250 ancestral great grandparents and each week I find at least 2 more to add to that growing list.
Some of them gained fame like George did by being part of   the written history of our planet and being part of some pretty remarkable events and others passed their lives with barely a mention in a newspaper or a family bible if even.
None of them are more important than the other in my eyes and I endeavor to put "a face and flesh and bones" to each of them that I discover.

The history of one of my ancestral great grandparents who lived their entire lives without ever venturing out of their birth town is just as wondrous to me as the one who donated land for a village church or the one who came over on a great ship or the one who fought in the American Revolutionary War or the one who owned slaves or the one who created the first Baptist church in America or the ones who were descended from Kings and Queens of Europe.

I have all of the above in my history and amazingly I have some of these ancestors on both sides of my tree which means that most of my family does as well.
Case in point, I just discovered about a year ago that my father, Maurice Repinski, descends from one of the royal houses of Poland and that his family's ancestors were instrumental in the founding of the village of Rzepin in Poland.

Come along and meet my 11th Great Grandfather and Grandmother, George Soule and Mary Bucket/Beckett Soule. George and Mary were true pioneers and were the progenitors of an American legacy of many human beings, myself and my siblings and their children included.....