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Scrooby Separatists Parent Artlcle for this category: They were a mixed congregation of early English Protestants / non-conformists founding living in the border region of of South Yorkshire, Lincolnshire and Nottinghamshire. They were called "Separatists" because of their rebellion against the religious authority of the Church of England, the official state religion. In 1607/8 the Congregation emigrated to Netherlands in search of the freedom to worship as they chose. Shortly after that they were the basis of the group to sail in the Mayflower to the New World.

This category is restricted only those to who participated in the non-conformists activities in England before moving to join the Pilgrim group in Leiden.

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