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Vital Statistics Docs & Other Primary Sources
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The first Gallup genealogy

A typical page from the 1893 Gallup Genealogy. Joshua and Anna were 2nd great grandparents of Winfield Gallup.

      One of the greater difficulties associated with proving a Mayflower line for Winfield Gallup surrounded the ancestry of Amos Gallup's second wife, Eliza. Here in the 1893 genealogy we find her named Eliza Dingman, and this is 100% correct. This spelling of her maiden name will quickly reward a researcher with the names of her parents, Henry Dingman and Rebecca Macy. Rebecca came from Nantucket and her ancestry goes all the way back in an easily proven line to Pilgrim John Howland.
     The 1893 genealogy is the primary source document for all Gallup ancestries but there were not many printed. Consequently it is the 1966 Gallup genealogy by Darwin C. Gallup which is commonly used because it transcribed the 1893 genealogy, greatly expanded upon it and was widely available. Unfortunately, an error was created by Darwin when he transcribed Eliza's maiden name as "Dingham", a surname which leads nowhere.
     This tiny error resulted in my having to re-prove Eliza's maiden name; that is, before the Mayflower Society would accept my application I had to prove that Darwin Gallup had made a mistake and not an intentional correction (a somewhat audacious thing for me, a genealogy nobody, to attempt with a work which is generally believed to be error free). Among the following documents are those I used as a basis for proving my contention that Eliza was a Dingman and not a Dingham.

Here in the Nantucket Vital Records we find the key links tracing Winfield Gallup back to the Mayflower passenger, John Howland; it shows that a Rebecca Macy was a child of Samuel Macy and Lydia Folger, that she married a Henry Dingman and they had a daughter named Eliza.

Here we establish for certain that Samuel Macy and Lydia (Folger) actually married.
[Though it does not show it, this page is one of several Macy pages in the records.]

The next link from the Nantucket vital records taking Winfield back to Pilgrim John Howland shows that the Samuel Macy who married
Lydia Folger was a child of Jonathan Macy and Lois Gorham. The rest of Winfield's line to John Howland is proven in the book by
E.P. White which develops the first five generations from John Howland.

Here in a death certificate we find the proof that Eliza Gallup was a daughter of Henry Dingman and Rebecca Macy.

Eli was the brother of Elam D. Gallup (father of Winfield D. Gallup).
Because a marriage record for Amos and Eliza could not be found, this document is particularly important for primary proof that they
were a married couple. It also reinforces the contention that the maiden name of Eliza was Dingman not "Dingham".

Here we establish that Elam D. Gallup was a son of Amos Gallup.

This document is final recognition that Winfield D. Gallup was descended from Pilgrim John Howland.
( Click to return to the Mayflower Descendant page if you came from there) ===>>

This is the first record found (by Lynn & Carol) at the start of the Gallup genealogy project.

Here we find where Elam D. Gallup and his family lived in Binghamton, NY

Eugene Bouton's Dingman Family papers, acquired from the Albany New York Library, were
very helpful in the development and corroboration of that family line. They are too
extensive to present here but a sample page is shown below.