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EARLY HARRIS BAPTISMS, BIRTHS, AND MARRIAGES, SOUTHWARK LONDON

Posted on March 10, 2016 by genealogy1066

  ST SAVIOUR, SOUTHWARK There were two parishes of Southwark, London, that particularly represented families that settled in early Virginia, those being St Olave and St Saviour. The following is an account of the majority of the available birth, baptismal, … Continue reading →

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THOMAS GRENDON OF FOOTHERLY

Posted on March 8, 2016 by genealogy1066

THE OLD CHURCH OF  SHENSTONE The authentic ancestry of Colonel Thomas Grendon of Virginia is easily adduced, and the sparse number of genuine descendants of genuine ‘ancient palnters’ is lessened further: Manorial record: 1. Roland Frith v. John Silvester, Wm. … Continue reading →

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COLONEL THOMAS GRENDON OF VIRGINIA REVEALED

Posted on March 2, 2016 by genealogy1066

Abstract of the Will of Colonel Thomas Grendon, of Dukes Place, Citizen & Draper of London, dated December 15, 1678: ‘To Mr. John Harding Cittizen & Grocer of London and Mr. Robert Coe Cittizen & Goldsmith of London whome I … Continue reading →

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THOMAS GRENDON OF VIRGINIA

Posted on February 28, 2016 by genealogy1066

 FOOTPATH TO GRINDON, STAFFORDSHIRE  Sherton is also called Shenton in old texts (see Gregory King’s ‘Staffordshire Pedigrees’ – based on Dugdale’s ‘Visitation’, 1663/4), and was home to a family of Grindon/Grendon. Colonel Thomas Grendon’s will was probated in London, December … Continue reading →

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DOUSABELLA HARRIS

Posted on January 24, 2016 by genealogy1066

  Dousabella Harris is one of those from the distant past whose name, preserved on a grave-slab in St Olave’s, Hart Street, gives a nudge toward wanting to know more of her. She and her husband, John Beare, have been … Continue reading →

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HARRIS AND PAULET

Posted on January 18, 2016 by genealogy1066

    1. Hugh Peverel. 2. Lucia Peverel, m. Sir Alan Basset of Whitechapel, Tehidy & Trevalga. 3. Constance Peverel, m. Richard Vivian. 4. Joan Vyvian, m. John Heris. (See Visitations of Cornwall, Comprising the Heralds’ Visitations of 1530, 1573, … Continue reading →

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DODSON/HARRIS/HAYNIE

Posted on January 14, 2016 by genealogy1066

Although the study of English kinship groups recreating their English parishes in the New World has been touched upon, its depths have not been fully appreciated. Many English colonists and their near neighbours shared family associations that stretched back hundreds … Continue reading →

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GURGEYNEY

Posted on December 11, 2015 by genealogy1066

LONG CRENDON VILLAGE To a very great extent, the minor gentry of 16th century Buckinghamshire were connected by an intricate web of kinship and lordship ties. What is witnessed in early colonial Virginia, when Thomas Harris receives a bequest of … Continue reading →

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THE FAMILY OF CAPTAIN THOMAS HARRIS OF VIRGINIA

Posted on December 8, 2015 by genealogy1066

MAIDS’ MORTON Inquests and Indictments from the Late Fourteenth Century, Buckinghamshire, mention a John and William Harris performing jury service in 1377 and 1378. When Hugh de Aylesbury died, in 1423, his land at Broughton passed to his aunt, Eleanor, … Continue reading →

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IN SEARCH OF BARTHOLOMEW OWEN

Posted on December 3, 2015 by genealogy1066

      Sir John Owen, Royalist Commander There are two ‘associational’ suggestions which might point to the parentage of Bartholomew owen; the first of these being a close association to Perry, Lane & Co., the mecantile house much involved with … Continue reading →

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HARRIS AND DRIVER FAMILIES OF VIRGINIA

Posted on November 11, 2015 by genealogy1066

This refinement of the associations of the Harris cousins of Southwark, London, in all likelihood gives the lineage of Thomas Harris, d. 1672, and Thomas Harris, d. 1688. This branch of the family had intermarried with the Dryver family of … Continue reading →

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MAJOR WILLIAM HARRIS OF LUDLOW AND VIRGINIA

Posted on November 5, 2015 by genealogy1066

THE CHURCH OF ST LAWRENCE, LUDLOW Mary Harris, daughter of Captain Thomas Harris, found herself in an enclave in Virginia that was peopled by many families from the Malvern Hills area of England, that is, of the counties of Herefordshire, … Continue reading →

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