Monthly Archives: July 2025

HARRIS OF VIRGINIA – expanded account

Posted on July 25, 2025 by genealogy1066

This article precedes one that consider the probable association of Stepney mariners (Barker, Harris, and Nicholson), which the Bennett/Bland tobacco cartel would have almost certainly used their ships to conduct England-Virginia trade. A Nicholson family of Stepney may have been … Continue reading →

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A PROPOSED ENGLISH ANCESTRY OF VINSON AND DUKE FAMILIES OF VIRGINIA – part 2.

Posted on July 12, 2025 by genealogy1066

HAWKHURST CHURCH In introducing the habitation of a family of Duke, perhaps no better can be done than the following précis , taken from T.D.W. Dearn’s “Account of the Weald of Kent”, pp. 110/11, 1814. Hawkhurst, situated on the south … Continue reading →

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A PROPOSED ENGLISH ANCESTRY OF VINSON AND DUKE FAMILIES OF VIRGINIA – part 1.

Posted on July 12, 2025 by genealogy1066

INTRODUCTION Many Virginia connections of the Harris family of Wiveliscombe, Somerset, came about as a direct consequence of an association to the Barham family of Kent, who were associated with Thomas Duke, and, in a wider manner, associated with the … Continue reading →

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