Monthly Archives: December 2019

The most difficult thing in determining the lineage of any Virginia settler of English stock is to disambiguate their family from that of their relatives; albeit distant cousins, made close by both divides of their family marrying into the same … Continue reading →

1. … 2. John Harris, m. Jone … Jone Harrys of Badgworth. Will dated May, 10, 1541. Bur. in churchyard of Bagworth: Izabell Stebbes a cow, my second kyrtell, my best neck kerchyff, a wovyng (woven) apron. Thomas Stebbis her … Continue reading →

The surname Kinchen hardly appears in any English legal or church documentation from 1500-1700, the reason being it is a corruption of of Kitchen/Kichen/Kytchen, the e being also an i in some cases. A Kitchen family of South Somerset intermarried … Continue reading →

1. Charlemagne, m. Hildegard of Vinzgouw. 2. Louis I., m. (2) Judith of Bavaria, dau. of Welf I, count in Swabia, and Hedwig, a member of the Saxon nobility, the dau. of Count Isambart (“Isambard the Saxon”). 3. Charles II., … Continue reading →