German. Rider has been the more common spelling in Pennsylvania. Many of these have been of German origin. Here the early spelling was Reider or Reiter, as with Heinrich Reiter who came to Pennsylvania from Germany in 1732. Later Riders farmed in Columbia county. Lloyd Rider was a veteran ...
Jacob Haight Morrison was born in upstate New York, but moved south at some stage, married well, and acquired the Brunswick sugar plantation in Pointe Coupee parish, Louisiana in 1856. This plantation was to stay with his family until the 1930’s. Later Morrisons of the family were to be ...
acadian metis surnames 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, ...
The same may be said about the “Central Archive for the History of the Jewish People”(http://cahjp.nli.org.il/content/egypt) in Jerusalem which is in possession of the same kind of materials. The main problem with those materials is that they deal mainly with the community’s dignitari...
This is an organization of previous school students in Alexandria living abroad many of them Jewish who studied in non-Jewish schools. Their vast collection includes a lot of class photos with most of the pupils on them identified by given name and surname. This collection helps picking up sur...
David Sassoon and the Opium Trade.David Sassoon was 40 years old when he came to Bombay in 1832. Initially he operated as a middleman for the British East India Company, using his contacts in the Middle East. In 1842 the British signed the Treaty of Nanking with the Chinese Emperor, openi...
This would have meant about 210 acres of arable land together with rights of meadowing and pasturage, perhaps the manor as a whole, under this form.” From Matthew came the very prominent Holland medieval family. Holland or van Holland can also be a Dutch surname. The name here is said ...
while Hilda Stern was transported with her family from Frankfurt in 1941 and ended up in the Auschwitz concentration camp. She miraculously survived. She left Germany for New York in 1946. Canada.Harry Stern, a Reform rabbi, had left Lithuania with his parents as a young boy in 1906, settli...
He settled with his wife and eight children in the Lower Haight/Hayes Valley area of San Francisco. Although he didn’t literally strike gold, he did amass a huge fortune by buying up properties and turning them over for profit years later. He was a San Francisco alderman and was credited...
The 19th century saw more Reese Welsh immigration. This time many of them were coal miners – as part of the 80,000 or so Welsh miners who migrated to the NE Pennsylvania coal mines between 1860 and 1910: John Rees had arrived in 1866 with his wife Sarah and settled in Scranton. ...