Monthly Archives: April 2016

GRINDALL AND GRENDON – A MODERN PROMETHEUS

Posted on April 30, 2016 by genealogy1066

  You can not always tell someone’s ancestry by looking at their coat; of arms, that is. Neither is ancestry revealed by assuming two people with similar names are synomous. An example of both mistakes is found in Virginia in … Continue reading →

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HOLLAND AND BASSANO – VIRGINIA LINKS

Posted on April 22, 2016 by genealogy1066

   Amelia These notes demonstrate a connection of Noel Bassano, who witnessed the Will of Thomas Grendon in Virginia, and the family of Michael Holland of Goochland; that is, they identify Noel Bassano as a cousin of the Whitton family, … Continue reading →

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HOLMANS OF VIRGINIA

Posted on April 18, 2016 by genealogy1066

Any Holmans of Virginia, connected to the Holmans of Southwark, London, would have been quite a specific family among many families so named. Their connections to the Harris family of St Saviour, Southwark, cousins of the Griffins and (probably) the … Continue reading →

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RICHARD PEW OF VIRGINIA

Posted on April 17, 2016 by genealogy1066

Peering into the dark of some early Virginia genealogies is like attempting to define shapes by the light of a small candle. We might think we see something, but are only imagining what we expect to see, which in most … Continue reading →

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CHILDREN OF THE MALVERN HILLS

Posted on April 14, 2016 by genealogy1066

The following notes concern the Baugh, Cocke, Harris, and Price families of Shropshire and Virginia. Although detail is also given of the Baugh family of Worcestershire, county demarcations of this time are quite meaningless. The families mentioned hereinafter can be … Continue reading →

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JOHN PRICE OF HENRICO

Posted on April 8, 2016 by genealogy1066

John Price and Richard Cocke of Henrico would have known each other very well. They were both of Shropshire, and a number of the various branches of the Cocke family resided in Ludlow, and were, with the families of Harris … Continue reading →

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THE CRISPINS AND DAMVILLE

Posted on April 5, 2016 by genealogy1066

par M. Ange Petit, 1859 … In the illiterate centuries, when a population centre was formed, usually many years went by before any monument, stone or parchment came to reveal its existence and preserve its memory; even the origin of … Continue reading →

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BEC/CRISPIN

Posted on April 4, 2016 by genealogy1066

 L’ EGLISE DAMVILLE The Bec/Crispin composite was popularised in the imaginative works of Mr. Grimaldi in 1832. He proposed that Ralf/Rollo/Rou de Bec was a brother of Gilbert Crispin I. It might be assumed that he based his supposition on … Continue reading →

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JOHN LANEY, ALDERMAN OF DUBLIN

Posted on April 1, 2016 by genealogy1066

John Laney, Alderman of Dublin; (High Sheriff of that City in 1606). Vis. Dublin, 1607, Or on a chev. eng. betw. three mullets, pierced az., as many torteaux. ‘In a note to an article on Manningford Bruce, published in your … Continue reading →

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