Monthly Archives: July 2021

Some final medieval notes. “But who, then, was the first Hameldun or Hamelton who actually held lands and had thus settled in Scotland anterior to Walter FitzGilbert de Hameldun”? (John Riddell, Comments in refutation, p. 259, 1860). This was to … Continue reading →

The Ecclesiastical History of England and Normandy, vol. 3, trans. Thomas Forrester: A.D. 1101. CH. XVIII. In the year of our Lord 1101, great disturbances broke out in England and Normandy. The turbulent barons, dreading the firmness of King Henry, … Continue reading →

In genealogy, as in so many other spheres, ‘conventional wisdom’ is endlessly repeated, with few bothering to think outside the box it is wrapped in. More is the pity, for in many cases what is accepted as fact is of … Continue reading →

What is most evident in any study of a particular family of Harris of Somerset and Virginia is simlpy that – its various branches stemmed from one particular family. The shared associations of the families of Thomas Harris, d. 1672, … Continue reading →

What is seen between ca. 1630-1770 in Virginia and Carolina, etc., is colonisation by closely connected families from the same English regions. If a Somerset family of Harris, intermarried by the 1630’s with Blakes and Westbrookes (all of the same … Continue reading →

The following notes are in response to information recently given by Chris Womack, concerning the ancestry of one Isham Harris. I have appended this information to what I now consider to be the most likely ancestry of Thomas Harris, d. … Continue reading →