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You may have clarified this via Richard per a second message, but what your friend said is distorted quite a bit from the original source. Here's the opening paragraph from my database's notes re George Walkup of Framingham, the first Walkup we know of there. Aside from the story echoed below, note that George was born 40-50 years AFTER the 1620 Mayflower voyage and definitely wasn't a passenger on that particular ship. Here's the story as it came from a county history as noted in my db:
"George is the earliest ancestor known in our American Walkup line. I have found no evidence to show whether he was American-born or an immigrant. An 1847 history of Framingham, Massachusetts, states no earlier member of the family was known then. This history comments that the Walkups are '...said to be of Scotch extraction...'. A footnote adds the following intriguing story: 'A tradition exists, that the progenitors of this and the Winch family, came over by mistake. Having visited a ship in which their friends had embarked, during a night passed on board, the ship sailed with them, and the morning found them on their way to N.E.'. Both the 1847 history and a later 1887 history describe the Walkup line."
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