According to some genealogists, more than 25 percent of the English population is also distantly related to him, as are countless Americans with British ancestry. 10. He’s responsible for scores of British Wills. William, an Old French name composed of Germanic elements (“wil,” meaning ...
it broke into pieces. This was a warning to the king that he would be crushed. In the bishop’s presence, too, the pyx above the altar, which contained the Lord’s Body, fell, its chain having snapped off. This was a sign of the king’s downfall....
“The Twinings of Twining belonged to the race which was English before William the Conqueror arrived, and the home from which they sprang is in the county of Gloucester. Prior to the Saxon Invasion under Cuthwrin, in577, there is no mention of the name, the origin of the patronymic ori...
In 1766, William and John Minor removed to the Mouth of Big Whiteley Creek, Monongahela, PA, across from today’s Masontown. The steam in the photo is from Hatfield’s Ferry Coal Power Plant’s 700 foot high smokestack. It looks like there’s an industrial holding pond on the Minor’s...