Individual Details

I have six Mayflower ancestors, but Richard More is not among them. He is a near miss, having married the sister of my 9 x great-grandmother. Nevertheless, he has a great back-story that is certainly worth telling, even if it isn't properly mine.
Six-year-old Richard More, a noble child descended from Edward I, found himself on the Mayflower as a servant of William and Mary Brewster. His three siblings had similar roles with other families on the ship. How did that happen?
Richard's legal parents, Samuel More and Katharine More, cousins, had married to ensure that the large property holdings of the More family would remain together. This was not unusual at the time, but certainly suggests that they may not have been a willing or loving couple.
In the course of some later legal proceedings, Katharine admitted that she had been unfaithful with Jacob Blakeway, a tenant farmer on the More estate. Her defense was that she had a "pre-contract" with Blakeway. In medieval ecclesiastical courts, a pre-contract is a contract that precedes a later similar contract, hence invalidating it. In the case of marriage, a pre-contract would render a later marriage to another person invalid and any children of that marriage would be rendered illegitimate.
Katharine claimed that the children were not Blakeway's but Samuel decided they didn't look like him. As their legal father, he could remedy this situation as he pleased, wanting to punish his wife but not the children. He learned of the planned voyage of the Separatists (we call them the Pilgrims) and decided to place the children as servants of well-regarded Separatist families, paying 80 pounds, twice the childrens' fare, to make sure that the four would receive their share of land in the New World.
Richard continued living with the Brewsters until 1627. His siblings, less fortunate, had died in that first terrible winter in Plymouth. In 1635, he sailed back to England, probably seeking answers to why his life had been so radically altered. But he was back in New England by 1636, became the master of a ship, and married Christian Hunt (or Hunter). In 1637, he moved to Salem and eventually married his second wife, Jane Crumton in 1678, and died there about 1695.
As a ship's master, though, he had additional opportunities; records show that "Richard Moore of Salem in New England Maryner" married Elizabeth Woolno at St. Dunstan's, Stepney, Middlesex in 1645. Nevertheless, he and Christian had seven children, born before and after his Stepney marriage, leading to a sizable number of descendants who can now celebrate the unusual circumstances of their Mayflower ancestor.
"The More Family," The Mayflower Society, https://themayflowersociety.org/passenger-profile/passenger-profiles/the-more-family .
"Pre-Contract," Wikipedia, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Precontract .

Birth	Say 1614
Baptism	13 Nov 1614	Shipton, Shropshire, England
Arrival	Nov 1620	aboard the Mayflower as a servant of the Brewster family - Cape Cod, British America
Miscellaneous	Aft 1627	left the Brewster family (He was still with them during the 1627 cattle division.)
Departure	1635	aboard a ship to England - Duxbury, Plymouth, British America
Arrival	1636	Duxbury, Plymouth, British America
Marriage	20 Oct 1636	Plymouth, Plymouth Colony - Christian HUNTER
Removed	1637	Salem, Massachusetts Bay, British America
Marriage	23 Oct 1645	St Dunstan's, Stepney, Middlesex, England - Elizabeth WOOLNO
Marriage	Bef Prob 23 May 1678	Salem, Essex, Massachusetts Bay, British America - Jane CRUMTON
Death	Bet 19 Mar 1693/94 and 20 Apr 1696
Miscellaneous		and his three siblings are the only Mayflower passengers with known royal ancestry, descending from kings David I and Edward I of England.
Occupation		a mariner and a ship's master

Spouse

Christian HUNTER (1615 - 1676)

Spouse

Jane CRUMTON ( - )

Spouse

Elizabeth WOOLNO ( - )

Father	Samuel MORE ( - )
Mother	Katharine MORE ( - )