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LANCELOT BATHURST OF VIRGINIA REVEALED

Posted on November 7, 2016 by genealogy1066

  HOTHORPE HILLS As the Norse Sagas of old, a certain caution must be attached to the writings of bygone genealogists, who tended to copy the works of each other. One of their genre, Mr. Collins, sent letters to the … Continue reading →

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COUNCIL/COUNSELL OF VIRGINIA

Posted on November 1, 2016 by genealogy1066

The Hodges and Lancasters were wealthy and armigerous families, and the aim of their tenants was an intermarriage with them. A route to this would be to intermarry with such as the Counsells. The Harris family were yeomen tenants of … Continue reading →

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VIRGINIA COLONISATION AND BARRIERS OF LANGUAGE

Posted on October 29, 2016 by genealogy1066

James Jennings (Observations on some of the dialects in the west of England, 1827) made the point that the spoken English of Chaucer treated syllables in the same way as occured in the Somerset dialect north east of the River … Continue reading →

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DARWIN HARRIS

Posted on October 28, 2016 by genealogy1066

Although the determinants of family alliances in the 17th century appear to the continuing intermarriages within kinship groups; the desire to intermarry into families of a higher social strata (very often, the squirearchy); and the attraction of alliances with the … Continue reading →

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BLOOD FROM MONEY – HARRIS OF HANOVER

Posted on October 15, 2016 by genealogy1066

One of the great difficulties in tracing ancestries with the commercial hub of 17th century Southwark is seperating the components of ‘blood’ from ‘money’, that is, people who shared a surname and not ancestry would often be associated with the … Continue reading →

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WALL AND ROWE IN KINSHIP CONTEXT

Posted on October 10, 2016 by genealogy1066

Bath is abt. 25 mls fr. Wedmore/Cheddar, where the Hickes interm. with the likes of the Cowncell family, and were, thus, of some status. The Chapmans were an influential and long established family of Bath. (See Transcript of indenture of … Continue reading →

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WALTONS OF BRUNSWICK COUNTY

Posted on October 9, 2016 by genealogy1066

The Walton family of Brunswick County, Virginia, resided in the Glastonbury area of Somerset, England. They took their name from the village of Walton, which is 3¼ miles (N. W. by W.) from Glastonbury. Immediately west of Glastonbury are the … Continue reading →

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DUCHESS GUNNOR

Posted on October 6, 2016 by genealogy1066

  1. Sigfrid – alias Sigurd, the nephew of Godefrid, King of the Danes, or, perhaps more accurately, as ruler in Hedeby, a modern spelling of the runic Heiðabý(r), which was an important trading settlement in the Danish-German borderland, located … Continue reading →

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NATHAN HARRIS OF GREENVILLE – HIS ASSOCIATIONS

Posted on October 5, 2016 by genealogy1066

Will of Nathan Harris; Will Book 1, pages 236-238, Greenville County, Virginia: “In the name of God, Amen, I, Nathan Harris of the County of Greenville, in the State of Virginia, etc. First: It is my will and desire my … Continue reading →

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HORNER/SYMES

Posted on October 4, 2016 by genealogy1066

1. … 1.1. Sir Thomas Horner, purchased the manor of Mells in 1544. 1.2. John Horner, gent., of Stoke St Michael, Somerset. The Horners were landlords of the Peace family: (1. … Peace. 1.1. John Peace, bur. 19 Oct. 1677. … Continue reading →

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HICKES/HIX – SOMERSET TO BRUNSWICK CO.

Posted on September 28, 2016 by genealogy1066

    Bath is abt. 25 mls fr. Wedmore/Cheddar, where the Hickes interm. with the likes of the Cowncell family, and were, thus, of some status. The Chapmans were an influential and long established family of Bath. (See Transcript of … Continue reading →

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CHILDREN OF THE SOMERSET MARSH

Posted on September 26, 2016 by genealogy1066

HOUSE i. 1. Thomas Howse, m. ‘Susana Hixe‘, 28 May 1638, in Compton Martin, Somerset (St Michael the Archangel). 1.1. Thomas House, m. Francis Millard on 29 May 1664, in Compton Martin, she bapt. 10 June 1628, da. of Henry … Continue reading →

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A DUKE FAMILY OF VIRGINIA

Posted on September 16, 2016 by genealogy1066

There were obviously as many families of Duke/Ducke of Virginia as there were of Harris, and the tendency to seek a common ancestor is fanciful. However, concerning the origins of a Ducke family connected to those of Parker and Merrit, … Continue reading →

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SOMERSET FAMILIES IN VIRGINIA

Posted on September 13, 2016 by genealogy1066

Some intermarried families of Somerset, England, settled in Virginia, where their kinship ties are very evident. They came from small villages that bordered marshes. Some, such as the Hodges and Lancasters, were of the class of squires; others, such as … Continue reading →

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HAMILTON FAIRY TALES

Posted on September 1, 2016 by genealogy1066

  One of the earliest genealogical fairy tales was repeated by John Eaton Reid in 1864, who made the grandiose claim that ‘The Scotch Hamiltons are descended from the Hamiltons of Leicestershire, a branch from the stock of the illustrious … Continue reading →

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HODGES, RODNEY, AND TURNER

Posted on August 29, 2016 by genealogy1066

I. … Hodges. 1.1. Thomas Hodges. 1.1.1. Thomas Hodges.* The Will of Giles Hodges, of Middle Chinnocke, Somerset, gent, was proved Aug. 7, 1591, by Alice the relict. (61 Barber). ‘My friend Henry Compton,of Wigbeere, South Petherton. My son in … Continue reading →

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HARRIS, KITTERELL, PARKER

Posted on August 29, 2016 by genealogy1066

They circled the Bennetts: 1. Robert Bennett, a tanner, of Wivelscombe, Somerset, m. Elizabeth Edney. (1.  John Hutchins. Yeo v Hutchins. Plaintiffs: John Yeo. Defendants: John Hutchins and Mary (probably Lawrence) Hutchins his wife. Subject: property in Wiveliscombe, Somerset. (Nat. … Continue reading →

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COLVILLE, COMYN, HAMILTON, AND UMFRAMVILLE

Posted on August 28, 2016 by genealogy1066

    It would be a remarkable occurrence by the kinship system operating at the time if Walter FitzGilbert de Hamilton was not a son of Gilbert de Colville, shown in the Writs of Military Service of 1292 as Gilbertus … Continue reading →

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JOHN WHITE OF CORDICALL PLANTATION

Posted on August 22, 2016 by genealogy1066

ST PETER AND SAINT PAUL, LITTLE GADDESDEN 1. William White: Feoffment, 10 March, 3 Edw.IV. (1) William Hodenale of Little Gaddesdan. (2) William Billyngdon of Hudnall. Three acres of arable land in the fields of Hudnall, viz One acre in … Continue reading →

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VERY CONNECTED HISTORIES

Posted on August 16, 2016 by genealogy1066

ALLERTON CHURCH COBB/BOND/COUNCIL/LAWRENCE/TOOKE 1. Nicholas Cobb, mariner, m. Susanna Byrd. William Tooke assigned 900 acres of land to Nicholas Cobb on 3 Jan. 1661. 1.1. Edward Cobb, d. 1731, aged 67, m. (1687) Dorothy Bond, dau. of John Bond, son … Continue reading →

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