with letters between A and K. Thus the American president and vice-president have surnames starting with B and C respectively; and 26 of George Bush’s predecessors (including his father) had surnames in the first half of the alphabet against just 16 in the second half. Even more striking,...
Ireland.There were early reports of the Noble name in Dublin in the 14th century. However, the main sightings, starting in the early 1700’s, have been in Fermanagh. There have been three possibly four Noble family lines in Fermanagh – at Glassdrummond, Lisnaskea, and Donagh. James Noble...
A Murdoch family from Dalbeattie in Galloway, starting with James and following with Samuel, were sea captains in the 19th century. As death was a constant risk at sea, it became a family rule that at least one of the men should take a trade ashore. The last of these mariners was Willi...
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Twelve years later he received a conditional pardon in Sydney and, starting with the gift of a cow, developed a herd of cattle and extensive grazing lands. On his death in 1848 his son Obed West expanded the family’s sizeable land holdings in NSW. Kanye West’s Family Ancestry The ...
John Flynn from Mayo arrived in America with the British army around the year 1748. Starting in 1753 he ran a hotel near Waterford in Saratoga county, New York that came to be known as Flynn farm. This Flynn farm is still owned by the family. ...
“Frank had made the migration to California, starting out in a wagon train that included the ill-fated Donner party. When the Donners and a few others decided to try a “new shortcut” to California, Kellogg elected to stay with the main party. He arrived in northern California in time...
After their association ended, Klinger produced Get Carter (1971) starring Michael Caine and Gold (1974) with Roger Moore in the lead. Michael’s son Tony has also been a film producer.Klinger NamesPhilip Klinger was a pioneer settler in the Mahantongo mountains of western Pennsylvania in the...
Potterton therefore had had potters. It also had the surname Potter in parish records, starting with Thomas Potter, a husbandman who died in 1574, and Richard Potter, a yeoman who died in 1638. Maybe their forebears were potters. But there were no potters left in the village by their tim...
privateerJoelBarlowthat had captured a British vessel. He became its Prize Master and successfully brought the ship to New London, Connecticut with its valuable salt cargo. Later he embarked by ship for California at the time of the Gold Rush. But he didn’t stay there long and returned to...