Gentlemen of Courage-forward- A History of the Standish Family, Lancashire, from the Norman Conquest in 1066 AD, Within the Context of English History to the Stuart Period
A history and a genealogy of the Standish family in England whose dynasty lasted nearly a thousand years and whose most famous son was an American. Central to this history of the Standish family is the 350 year old mystery of the ancestry of Myles Standish (1584-1656) who sailed with the Pilgrim Fathers on the "Mayflower" in 1620.