Quayles either set off in groups with other Manxmen or they went by themselves.England. A number of Quayles left the island for the work opportunities that nearby Lancashire on the English mainland provided.Perhaps the earliest record was that of Philip Quayle who married an Ann Bell at St....
A list of Irish surnames beginning with Mac (or Mc), from McCann to McSweeney. MacAuley Variants: McCauley, McAwley, Cawley,Magawley. In Irish: Mac Amhalghaidh Found in: Cork, Fermanagh, Westmeath. Origin: Gaelic Mac Amhalghaidh means “son of Auley”, once important Gaelic Lords. Mac...
beginning with Thomas Robins in the mid-16th century. They tended to be seamen or rope makers.The earliest well-documented ancestor was William Robins who died in 1844 and whose headstone still stands in the graveyard of St. Peter’s parish church. Charles Robins of this family departed for ...
Lang(ue)do(e) = Lanctt In French. Comment by Sheryl Ann Wilson | I expect to be using mostly mtDNA Confirmations from Mothers of Acadia and from Quebec mtDNA. Perr(e)ault = Perro Shequin = Chicoine Bruneau, Bruno | Cree, Metis, Mixed-heritage: Cree, Chipewyan, Cameron | Metis, BC ...
for the English victories at Crecy in 1346 and at Agincourt in 1415 and fletchers were kept busy with the supply of arrows for the Hundred Years War in France and the Wars of the Roses in England. By the time of Henry VIII the Fletchers Company had a hall in St. Mary Axe in ...
All names beginning in Fitz –Fitzgerald,Fitzpatrick, Fitzsimonsand so on, are of Norman origin. The Fitz is simply a mispronunciation of the French “fils”, meaning “son of”, and its use implies a family with an aristocratic background. ActorBarry Fitzgerald(left)was of Norman-Irish sto...
As a kind of phenomenon peculiar to human beings, it bears strong relationship with society and culture. Based on the full name of peoples as the beginning of the article, the author analyzes the origin and structure of surname and name respectively revealing their cultural connotation and ...
At the beginning of his first mayoralty of Norwich in 1786, there were two ex-mayors of the name of Jeremiah Ives then living. In documents they and he were distinguished thus: Jeremiah Ives the elder (mayor in 1756), Jeremiah Ives of St. Clement’s (mayor in 1769), and Jeremiah ...
St. Edith’s at Monks Kirby in Warwickshire was formerly a priory church and was built to a huge scale. The aisled nave and chancel form one vessel with no structural division – all built of rich red sandstone except for the later upper part of the tower, giving it a distinctive two-...
English Vincents came to Newfoundland. John Vincent from Devon, the captain of theRachel, was recorded as a fisherman at St. John’s in 1739; while John and Joseph Vincent were fishermen later at Twillingate and Fogo. Then, beginning around 1810, came the Vincents, brothers John and George,...