Edward had inherited this manor upon the death of his father in 1625 and he was part of the local landed gentry in Buckinghamshire.However in 1639, at the age of 55, he decided to give up his presence there, sell the manor, and embark for the New World. He had received from Charles...
Elsewhere. Samuel Spencer, a descendant of a Spencer immigrant into Talbot, Maryland in 1670, grew up on a cotton plantation near Columbus, Georgia. He later became one of the country’s most powerful railroad tycoons, best known as the father of the Southern Railway system. His career was ...
our left arm was hurting w/ whatever ulnar issue we're halving (a few weeks ago when we were transcribing these, but feels bedder now after 2 weeks of running + hiking in Oregon + California) so we tried using voice-recognition software (built-in to Mac), but ain't so sure it saves...
Northern England. Shepherds have been more numerous in northern England, although there has been less record of them. The earliest sightings were probably in Westmorland. One Shepherd family, dating back to the 1500’s, became landed gentry from their home at Shaw End near Kendal. Arthur Shepher...
America. At the age of 10 John Chandler sailed from England on theHerculesand landed in 1610 at what became known as Jamestown. He was later described as “an ancient planter,” one who had arrived in the colony before 1616. There are now thousands of people who trace their ancestry back...
David Zimmerman, for instance, was an immigrant from Switzerland who had arrived in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania around 1830. There he and his family met up with Dr. William Kiel, a German mystic planning his own religious communities. The Zimmermans followed him in 1842 first to Bethel, Missouri ...
and Roger’s son Laurence, born in Ireland, who was to find literary fame in the 1760’s as the author ofTristram Shandy. The Sterne name, later becoming Stearns, was also to be found in Nayland parish, Suffolk in the mid-1500’s. Isaac Stearns, an early immigrant to America, is th...
South Africa.Thomas Bowman from Dundee in Scotland came as an assisted immigrant to South Africa in 1859, settling in Simon’s Town. He was a stone mason and worked on the construction of the Roman Rock lighthouse off Simon’s Town. He later ran his own construction company and built the...
A.M. Klein, born in Poland in 1909, came to Montreal as an infant with his immigrant parents and grew up in the Jewish quarter there. He is widely considered the founding father of Canadian Jewish literature. Klein Surname Miscellany
to Ireland (Ulster), America, Caribs (Grenada), Canada, Australia and New Zealand Scotland.One Hamilton family became one of the most important of the Scottish Lowland families. The Hamilton Family.Walter fitz Gilbert or Walter de Hameldone was the progenitor of this family. He was in the ea...