Although this is a rather old post I thought I would reply so other Tyzzer family members can benefit. The information in the previous post is correct. The Tyzzer family did not come over on the Mayflower. However, one branch of the Tyzzer family has an ancestor that did. The lineage is traced from Steven Hopkins thru his daughter and continued up to and thru until 1950 when Virgina Tapley Scott married Howard Josiah Tyzzer Jr and started a family. (I am Howard Josiah Tyzzer III)
Stephen Hopkins (He is on the Mayflower roster) was not a pilgrim in the fullest sense of the word and had visited the “new world” before the mayflower trip however he did settle down at the colony at Plymouth with his second wife and children. He was a merchant,an ambassador to the local Indian tribes and was known to be quite a partier (which got him in trouble a few times). He was good friends with Myles Standish. He was a signer of the Mayflower Compact. There is much written about Hopkins and can be found easily via a web search.
If anyone would like more information please contact me at
jtyzzer@yahoo.com