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There are several theories regarding Alden's ancestry.

According to William Bradford ’ s Of Plimoth Plantation, he was hired as a cooper in Southampton, England, just before the voyage to America.

In The English Ancestry and Homes of the Pilgrim Fathers, Charles Edward Banks suggested that John was the son of George and Jane Alden and grandson of Richard and Avys Alden of Southampton.

However, there are no further occurrences of the names George, Richard, and Avys in his family which would have been unusual in the seventeenth century.