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William Adams came to Massachusetts in 1628 and settled at Ipswich
sometime before 1642. This extensive new edition examines ten
generations of his descendants and contains chapters on the
histories of each of the related Dickinson, Knowlton, Leach, Locke
The work at hand consists of abstracts of Prerogative Court of
Maryland records for the period 1658 to 1674. Author V.L. Skinner
has combed through administration bond, will, inventory,
administration account, and final balance entries to produce this
collection. The abstracts are arranged in chronological order by
court session, and in every instance they give the names of the
principals (testators, heirs, witnesses, administrators, and so
forth). In many cases we also learn the details of bequests, names
of slaves, appraisers, and more.
An expert's guide to tracing ancestry in the Caribbean islands By a
genealogist who has dedicated more than 11 years of his life to
uncovering the saga of his African slave ancestors comes a guide
for others to capitalise on his informed techniques and discover
just what it means to know where one is from. Offering
ground-breaking insights into how to delve into one's past, this
book is intended both for beginners, educationalists and
experienced researchers and provides inspiration to those who
believe that their search may be hampered by having mixed parentage
or a history of migration through the ages. An instructive guide
for those interested in finding out more about their family
connections with the Caribbean islands, it offers techniques and
approaches that can be applied to any one researching their
ancestors around the world.
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Generations
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Ralph Sanders, Ralph Sanders with Carole Sanders and Pe
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In general approach and content, this book resembles Alex Haley's
best-selling novel, Roots, except that this work contains no
fiction. It chronicles thirty generations and a thousand years of
Sanders (and Saunders) family evolution beginning before England's
earliest days and ending across the Atlantic in colonial Virginia
and eventually frontier and later Kentucky. Family figures are
portrayed in their own distinctive historical contexts and an
extensive genealogy focused on old world lineage is appended.
Nearly a thousand chapter notes on sources and names are furnished
to assist readers interested in discovering their own ancestry.
Robert of Torigni's chronicle is a foremost source of information
about one of the most famous centres of power in the entire Middle
Ages: the court of King Henry II, duke of Normandy and king of
England (1154-89), and his wife Queen Eleanor of Aquitaine (d.
1204). In addition, it includes commentary on many contemporaneous
issues and concerns, notably about elections, successions, and
deaths of bishops and abbots in Normandy and England, but also
about events in France, the Empire, and the crusader kingdom in
Palestine.
This book traces the history of the Fitzhugh Family of
Bedfordshire, England from the first Hugh and his wife Joyce, who
were living in 1223 and from whom the family name derives, down to
William Fitzhugh the Immigrant (1651-1701) who founded the Fitzhugh
Family of Virginia. For the first four centuries it draws upon the
work of the late Terrick V. H. FitzHugh, a noted genealogist. The
latter pages of the book continue from William's son John in an
unbroken line to the present author. There are 509 pages, 152,000
words, 778 footnotes and endnotes, a synoptic summary, 21 pages of
family trees, 14 maps, 16 illustrations, and 47 photographs. A
total of eleven Appendices discuss subjects such as the correct
Coat of Arms of the Family, the Fitzhugh China Pattern, family
sites in Bedfordshire, and the relationship of our Family to the
Barons FitzHugh, the Magna Carta, and other Fitzhugh families. A
full index is provided.
What do Winston Churchill, Bob Hope, George Washington, Joe Louis,
Robert Frost, and Mother Teresa have in common? They have all been
awarded the Congressional Gold Medal. Out of the many different
types of awards and recognitions Congress can bestow, the Gold
Medal is often considered the most prestigious. Each medal is
individually commissioned to be struck in gold, making the medals a
particularly special way for Congress to express public gratitude
and appreciation for distinguished service. Congress has adopted
legislation setting specific requirements for other awards, but the
Gold Medal is not constrained by any such provisions. Rather,
Congress has the freedom to determine whether an individual's
actions meet the Gold Medal standard on a case-by-case basis.
Although the Congressional Gold Medal represents intense national
gratitude and pride in those receiving it, many questions remain
about its history and general standards. To answer these questions,
this book analyses the process of awarding the Gold Medal,
including the casting of the medals themselves. Also presented is a
list of each recipient and the reasons for the award. Because
individuals in fields as wide apart as boxing and poetry can earn a
Congressional Gold Medal, the book on its unique nature presented
here makes for interesting and useful reading, as well as a 'must'
purchase for libraries.
Originally written for private distribution in 1954, this account
of the Closeburn Kirkpatricks was, the author says,"a story that
needed to be told." The Kirkpatricks of Closeburn, in
Dumfries-shire, Scotland, trace their family back to Ivone, who
witnessed a Charter for Robert Brus (or Bruce), first Lord of
Annandale.Roger 'mak siccar ' Kirkpatrick was a close associate of
the later Robert Bruce, who became King of Scotland.The family's
connections extend through the Isle of Wight to France and Spain.
The first of a four-volume Ordinary covering the period before
1530, an invaluable reference for historians, antiquaries,
archaeologists, genealogists and those dealing in and collecting
medieval objects. Listed in this volume areentries from Anchor to
Bend. This book is designed to enable those with a working
knowledge of heraldry to identify medieval British coats of arms.
An Ordinary, in this context, is a collection of arms arranged
alphabetically according to their designs, as opposed to an armory
which is arranged alphabetically by surname. Listed in this volume
are entries from Anchor to Bend. This present work is the first of
a four-volume Ordinary covering the period before 1530, which is
the point at which heraldic visitations for the purpose of
collecting information about arms began, and which marks the
appearance of the modern heraldic system. Its publication will mean
that the wide range of people interested in medieval arms -
historians, antiquaries, archaeologists, genealogist and those
dealing in and collecting medieval objects - will be able to
identify accurately the arms that occur in a medieval context. Arms
were widely displayed in the middle ages and can be found not only
on tombs, monuments and seals, but also on textiles, manuscripts,
metalwork, glass, wall paintings and other medieval artefacts. The
index acts as an armory, and allows the reader to discover the
blazons of arms recorded for particular surnames in the medieval
period. It will thus be a key tool for anyone researching medieval
families and their history, and represents a remarkable achievement
on the part of the manyexperts who have contributed to it.
The Alberta Order of Excellence is the highest honour the Province
of Alberta can bestow on a citizen. Members of The Alberta Order of
Excellence come from all walks of life. Their careers range from
medicine, science, engineering, law, and business to politics,
education, agriculture, and the arts. The one thing all members
have in common is that they have made an outstanding provincial,
national, or international service contribution.
This collection of essays commemorates the Parnells of Avondale and
simultaneously uses the theme of commemoration to provide an
insight into the shifting relationship between history and memory
in the case of Charles Stewart Parnell and his family. The essays
by two leading Irish historians have an elegiac tone. The authors
show an elegant and sympathetic appreciation of Parnell's career
and of how he has been viewed in Irish history since his death in
1891. Parnell's nationalism is explored and his political speeches,
the significance of his sojourn in Kilmainham, his American
connections, his funeral and the rise and decline of 'Ivy day' and
other commemorations after his death. The authors also look at the
careers of the Parnell women: his mother Delia and his sisters Anna
and Fanny who were both political activists and involved in the
Ladies' Land League; and his relationship with Katharine O'Shea,
later his wife. There is also an essay on his brother and
biographer, John Howard Parnell. The essays throw new light on the
Parnell family and their place in Irish history. They will be
valuable reading for students of nineteenth-century Ireland, the
Parnell family and the debate on 'commemoration history'.
This unusual book stands out in a crowded field. â It provides
practical, expert, insider-knowledge. It includes a full guide to
current websites. It offers many tips, short-cuts and helps to
access the evidence you need. And to understandings of what this
means. It is rooted in the many years of day-to-day enquiries in
family history by the noted international expert Lady Teviot. It
will be invaluable to the beginner and of great value to the more
knowledgeable. It will help you rapidly to become `street-wise' in
what will be a complex but fascinating personal endeavour.
Annette Kuhn has a reputation as a theorist of culture, dissecting
film and other images in books like "Women's Pictures" and "The
Power of the Image". In this book, she turns her attention to the
deconstruction of pictures closer to home - photographs from her
own childhood and images from her shared ethnographic past - to
trace a trajectory from personal to collective acts of memory. This
new edition features a new introduction and an additional chapter.
Illustrated guide to Scottish medieval heraldry, the first to link
heraldry to major events in Scottish history and to the families
that took part in them. Winner of the Saltire Society's 2007
History Book Award Scottish heraldry can be said to begin in the
mid-twelfth century, when material of Scottish interest first
appears in a number of English and Continental rolls-of-arms, and
as the years passed it developed an increasing complexity and
sophistication, establishing itself as a subject in its own right
in the seventeenth century with the appearance of the Lyon
register. This volume is the first to link heraldry to major events
in Scottish history and to the families that took part in them. It
uses a wide range of sources to chart its growth, some of which
have been rarely explored previously, thus bringing much new
material into the corpus of Scottish heraldry. It also covers the
major families and clans - Stewarts, Douglas, Murrays, Hamiltons,
Gordons and MacDonalds - and examines a host of other issues, both
technical and historical. Throughout it is richly illustrated with
some two hundred chart pedigrees and fully-coloured coats-of-arms.
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