John Moody, also from Suffolk, came to Roxbury, Massachusetts with his wife Sarah in 1633. They removed to Hartford, Connecticut around the year 1639. Later Moodys via his son Samuel, and these included the 19th century evangelist and revivalist preacher D.L. Moody, moved to Hadley and ...
The Scottish spelling of the name is Hutchison. Hutchinsons outnumber Hutchisons by two and a half times today.The personal name Hugh is itself Norman French in origin from the word hug meaning “heart or soul.” St. Hugh of Lincoln founded the first Carthusian monastery in England in the...
Shonyo Bernier | Metis, Mixed-heritage: Montagnais, Bisson, Besson | Metis, Cree Mixed-heritage, Blandion (Dion, Dionne) | Metis, Cree, Iroquois. Nevertheless, the exceptions to this rule are perhaps more interesting than those conforming to the norm. Louis Couc-Montour, (Fur Trader) m. ...
The Origins of Ireland’s Surnames It is easy to think that Irish surnames are all Gaelic in origin, but it’s far from the case. While the majority have Gealic roots, the various waves of settlers and conquerers that came to Ireland over the centuries brought their names with them and ...
Elsewhere in Lancashire, the Fletcher name appeared in Burnley records from the early 1600’s and in Rochdale and Bury records from the early-to-mid 1700’s. There were Fletchers in coal mining in Bolton (where their presence went back to the 16th century) and in Denton in south Lancashire...
In 1066 following the Battle of Hasting the Duke of Normandy, a region of north-west France, became King of England. For a time this had little effect in Ireland, but from the mid 12th century on, Norman-French invaders and their retinues began to arrive in Ireland. ...
Africa. The Sawyers have been a prominent Americo-Liberian family in Liberia. Amos Sawyer from this family served as an interim President in the early 1990’s. Violence in the country has meant that many of these Sawyers now live in the US. ...
From the mid 1700’s for various reasons, there began a Scots Irish exodus to America. This included many Pollocks. A number had been in Ireland for generations, others – like John Pollock below – for a much shorter time. “Family tradition says that John Pollock eloped with the step-...
Struz or Struzeis the North German form of Strauss, as well as being the German for ostrich. A branch of the Grona family later built a keep at Strausberg near Sonderhausen in Thuringia.Some of the earliest Jewish bearers of the Strauss name hailed from the Judengasse in medieval ...
the Judengasse community of Frankfurt in the 17th century, as were other Jewish names such as Rothschild,SchiffandStrauss.The Stern banking family originated there with Samuel Hayum Stern in the 1780’s. Sterns also came from the old Austria-Hungary and the Russian empire in the 19th century....