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Alterations to Revesby - buildings, furnishings, estate management
- and family business in Lincoln, London and elsewhere. Alterations
to Revesby - buildings, furnishings, estate management - and family
business in Lincoln, London and elsewhere.
Each entry in this volume gives the name of the bride and groom,
the date of the bond, and the name of the bondsman, who was often a
relative of the bride. A brides' index follows at the back of the
volume. All told, this work identifies the 3,500 oldest Loudoun
County marriage bonds known to exist.
This is the first volume in a new series of books by David Dobson
designed to identify the origins of Scottish Highlanders who
traveled to America prior to the Great Highland Migration that
began in the 1730s and intensified thereafter.The events leading to
the Highland exodus are worthy of mention. Much of this emigration
was directly related to a breakdown in social and economic
institutions. Under the pressures of the commercial and industrial
revolutions of the 17th and 18th centuries, Highland chieftains
abandoned their patriarchal role in favor of becoming capitalist
landlords. By raising farm rents to the breaking point, the chiefs
left the social fabric of the Scottish Highlands in tatters.
Accordingly, voluntary emigration by Gaelic-speaking Highlanders
began in the 1730s. The social breakdown was intensified by the
failure of the Jacobite cause in 1745, followed by the British
military occupation and repression that occurred in the Highlands
in the aftermath of the Battle of Culloden. In 1746, the British
government dispatched about 1,000 Highland Jacobite prisoners of
war to the colonies as indentured servants. Later, during the Seven
Years War of 1756-63, Highland regiments recruited in the service
of the British crown chose to settle in Canada and America rather
than return to Scotland.Once in North America, the Highlanders
tended to be clannish and moved in extended family groups, unlike
immigrants from the Lowlands who moved as individuals or in groups
of a few families. The Gaelic-speaking Highlanders tended to settle
on the North American frontier, whereas the Lowlanders merged with
the English on the coast. Highlanders seem to have established
"beachheads," and their kin subsequently followed. The best example
of this pattern is in North Carolina, where they first arrived in
1739 and moved to the Piedmont, to be followed by others for over a
century. Highlanders from particular counties in Scotland,
moreover, settled in particular areas in the colonies; for example,
those from Argyll tended to emigrate to North Carolina, to upper
New York, and later to the Canadian Maritimes. Another factor that
distinguishes research in Highland genealogy is the availability of
pertinent records. Scottish genealogical research is generally
based on the parish registers of the Church of Scotland, which
provide information on baptism and marriage. In the Scottish
Lowlands, such records can date back to the mid-16th century, but
in general Highland records start much later. Americans seeking
their Highland roots, therefore, face the problem that there are
few, if any, church records available that predate the American
Revolution. In the absence of Church of Scotland records, the
researcher must turn to a miscellany of other records, such as
court records, estate papers, sasines, gravestone inscriptions,
burgess rolls, port books, services of heirs, wills and testaments,
and especially rent rolls. (Some rent rolls even predate parish
registers.)Mr. Dobson's series, Scottish Highlanders on the Eve of
the Great Migration, 1725-1775, therefore, is designed to identify
the kinds of material that is available in the absence of parish
registers and to supplement the church registers when they are
available. Scottish Highlanders on the Eve the Great Migration,
1725-1775: The People of Argyll is the first volume in the series;
subsequent volumes will focus on Inverness and other Highland
districts. While the present volume is not a comprehensive
directory of all the people of Argyll during the mid-18th-century,
it does pull together references on nearly 3,000 18th-century
inhabitants. Coverage extends to all parishes within Argyll, with
the exception of the Isle of Jura, which has been dealt with
elsewhere in print. In all cases, Mr. Dobson gives each
Highlander's name, a place within Argyll (birth, residence,
employment, etc.), a date, and the source. In some cases, we also
learn the ide
The firearms produced at Harpers Ferry, the southern site for the
federal government's arsenal-armory established in 1794, were used
in the Lewis and Clark expedition, the War of 1812, the Mexican
War, and in virtually all of the battles of the Civil War. This
work is fully illustrated with photographs and drawings of all
models of firearms produced at Harpers Ferry, and documented by
weapons expert and genealogist Stuart Brown Jr.
This work is the result of Polly Mason's prodigious effort to
reconstruct the records of Gloucester County from other sources.
Volume I cites a variety of land ownership or tax lists relating to
Gloucester County, while the second volume focuses on the movement
of Gloucester residents into neighboring counties, as evidenced in
abstracts of deed books from those counties.
The book under consideration here marks the second in a series on
Scottish colonial soldiers compiled by emigration authority David
Dobson. (The first volume was published as two parts in one.)
Working from manuscripts in the Acts of the Privy Council and the
Calendar of British State Papers and published sources such as the
Aberdeen Journal, the Edinburgh Advertiser, and the Georgia
Gazette, the author has uncovered information on an additional 750
Scottish colonial solders not found in his earlier book. One such
soldier was "John Wright, born in High Calton, Edinburgh, during
1728, an army sergeant who fought in the French and Indian War and
in the American War of Independence, witnessed to death of Wolfe on
the Plains of Abraham, died in Joppa, Edinburgh, in 1838, father of
a Roman Catholic priest in Montreal."
Dr. Benjamin B. Weisiger, III (1924-1995) made an enduring
contribution to the study of colonial Henrico County records with
his meticulous abstracts and indices of county wills, 1677-1781,
and deeds, 1677-1750. To help fill the void in the colonial land
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.
This small book is intended to give other Wilkins family members a
sense of where our family fits into American history. In these
pages I've tried to draw our family's growth, from the early days
of colonization in Virginia to the 19th century. Each chapter
covers a certain period in Wilkins family history, and a specific
geographical region. I've tried to provide as many useful facts as
I can, in order to help other family historians carry the research
farther. To this end, I've added several appendices, each
containing much information. If you find this book readable,
informative, or useful for your research, it has served its
purpose.
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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.
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