Redford Family Stories

Leavitt, Alberta

Leavitt, Alberta“Chief Mountain Country” pages 66 – 68 About six or seven miles west of Cardston along the No. 5 highway to Waterton Lakes is the little hamlet of Leavitt. It is nestled in a beautiful valley surrounded by rolling hills and backed by a skyline of rock mountains with...

Our Mayflower Ancestors

Ancestors on the maiden voyage of the Mayflower 1620. Taken from www.mayflowerhistory.com Francis Cooke BIRTH:  About 1583.MARRIAGE:  Hester le Mahieu, 20 July 1603 at Leiden, Holland.CHILDREN:  John, an unnamed child buried in Leiden, Jane, Elizabeth, Jacob, Hester, and Mary.DEATH:  7 April 1663 at Plymouth. Francis Cooke was born about 1583. His origins have not...

Deacon John Leavitt

A few highlights regarding our ancestor Deacon John Leavitt. In 1628, Four Brothers by the name of Leavitt fled from England on account of religious persecution. The story has been handed down that they came on the Mayflower which, eight years earlier, had brought the  “Pilgrim fathers” to Plymouth. the...