Philip Delano

Philip Delano (c. 1603 – c. 1681-82) was a passenger on the Fortune and an early citizen of Plymouth Colony. He is best known as the progenitor of the Delano family in the Americas. Life Early years Philippe de Lannoy, later Philip Delano, was baptized in the Vrouwekerk, the Protestant Walloon church of Leiden, Holland on December 7, 1603. His parents, Jan (Jean) de Lannoy of Tourcoing and Marie Mahieu of Lille (Rijsel) in Flanders, at that time in the Spanish Netherlands, were betrothed on January 13, 1596 in the same church. The Walloons were the French-speaking natives of the ancient region of Wallonia, now in today's Belgium, to the east of Flanders. Both parents made their way with their families to Leiden via Canterbury, England, having fled religious persecution from Flanders around 1579. Jean's father was Gysbert (Guilbert) de Lannoy, the earliest known de Lannoy ancestor. 8 places where the de Lannoys and Mahieus lived are known, more than for any Mayflower passenger. Philip's father died within a year or two of his son's birth, and Philip's mother married Robert Mannoo, a woolcomber from the city of Namur, on March 6, 1605. Philip grew up in Leiden, but further details are unknown.