TheMontague name was brought to England by the Normans, the first name-bearer said to have been a follower of William the Conqueror who was granted lands in England. There was a place-name in Normandy called Montagu, so called from the Old Frenchmontmeaning “hill” andagu, “pointed” –...
Newtons from Virginia were 18th and 19th century landowners in Maryland (initally Dorchester county), starting with Nimrod Newton who died in 1792. More Newtons fought on the Union side than on the Confederate side during the Civil War: John Newton was a Union general from Norfolk, Virginia. ...
George Kendall, War Correspondent and Rancher.George Wilkins Kendall, born in Mont Vernon, New Hampshire, in 1809, learned the printer’s trade with Horace Greeley while still a boy and used this as a means of making his livelihood. Kendall co-founded theNew Orleans Picayunenewspaper in Louisia...