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,...
17,000 in the UK (most numerous in Yorkshire) 24,000 in America (most numerous in California) 12,000 elsewhere (most numerous in Australia)Norton and Like SurnamesThe Anglo-Saxon word tun meaning “settlement” gave rise to many place-names with the suffix “-ton.” And the place-name ...
d. Les Fleurs de L’Orient.[5]This richly documented website which is dedicated to the Farhi family history has also a genealogy section with thousands of surnames and has also an advanced search option by birth and death place. e. The Circumcisions Register of Maatuk Dabby.[6] Maatuk D...
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...
reasons, such as to signal family connectedness (to show marital union/commitment and family solidarity and/or to mark the beginning of a new stage of life) or as a pragmatic means of avoiding confusion over disparate surnames within a family unit (for the UK, see Thwaites 2013; Wilson ...
The world was beginning to regard this victim of maternal heartlessness with a more favorable eye when the accident occurred which put not only his reputation but his life itself into jeopardy. He – together with James Gregory and William Merchant – was indicted at the Old Bailey for the ...
In the next century there is a succession of records of Shakespeares in Wroxall, beginning with Isabella Shakespeare who was Prioress until about 1507. Later, Richard Shakespeare was the Bailiff of Wroxall and his sister Joan the Sub-Prioress there. Other members of the family settled in Rowing...
Underwoods in Pickering and Egton in Yorkshire.From the beginning of the surviving parish registers in 1559 there were Underwoods recorded in Pickering parish in north Yorkshire. Although a viable tree can be constructed for the early family, some of the critical links are missing. The James Und...
Beginning in 1852, their Lansdowne plantation was part suburban Natchez estate and part cotton plantation. They replaced the original house with a finer one. Many of the twenty two slaves there would have worked to support the house, a butler, a cook, house maid, nurse for the children, ...
It was from a junior line beginning with Walter de Treworgy, a third son, that the Pelyn line began. Pelyn was a woodland estate west of Lostwithiel in Cornwall owned by the Kendall family for over 400 years. The Grade II house, built in 1601 with subsequent 18th century and ...