Showing posts with label griswold. Show all posts
Showing posts with label griswold. Show all posts

Friday, February 27, 2004

Connecticut Sons of the American Revolution, 1892-1903 Yearbooks

Connecticut Sons of the American Revolution, 1892-1903 Yearbooks:
Beckwith, Cyrus Grosvenor
Beckwith, Oliver Russell

Including other names I am researching:

Forbes, Winthrop, Pelton, Beckwith, Hart, Snow, Atwater, Barnes, Abell, Aiken, Albee, Andrews, Avery, Baldwin, Banks, Barber, Bosworth, Brainerd, Brewster, Brooks, Burnham, Burroughs, Burrows, Burton, Burwell, Butler, Chandler, Clapp, Cole, Comstock, Conant, Cone, Cook, Copley, Corbin, Curtis, Dudley, Edwards, Farnham, Foote, Frost, Fuller, Goodwin, Griswold, Greene, Heaton, Hotchkiss, Howard, Hungerford, Hunt, Huntington, Huntingdon, Hunter, Ives, Jackson, Jennings, Jewell, Johnson, Jones, Judd, Judson, Knight, Lathrop, Leach, Learned, Lee, Lewis, Lincoln, Maltby, Manwaring, Maples, Martin, Mason, Maxwell, Miles, Monroe, Montgomery, Moses, Palmer, Pardee, Parker, Payne, Peck, Perkins, Pierpont, Plimpton, Rogers, Seymore, Sheffield, Smith, Spencer, Stanley, Taylor, Todd, Tucker, Turner, Warren, Wells, Williams, Wright...


Friday, January 16, 2004

Griswold Shakespeare and Becket

Griswold Shakespeare and Becket

FROM HARPER'S 1876 via PioneerPictures.com:

† The Griswolds and Wolcotts were of the old English gentry. Matthew Griswold, the first magistrate of the Saybrook colony, married Annah, the daughter of Henry Wolcott. Matthew Griswold was a descendant of Sir Humphrey Griswold, whose seat was at Malvern Hall.


Malvern Hall

Henry Wolcott was the son and heir of John Wolcott, of Golden Manor. The manor-house is still standing, an immense castle of great antiquity, designed for the purposes of defense against the excesses of a lawless age, as well as for a permanent family residence. It is richly ornamented with carved work, and upon the walls may be seen the motto of the family arms, "Nullius addictus jurare in verba magistri" --inclined to swear in the words of no master. It was in keeping with the independent spirit of an English gentleman of the Middle Ages, and with that of a Puritan of a later date, who spurned the dictation of ecclesiastical wisdom. Wolcott sold a portion of his estate before he left England. He was a magistrate in the Connecticut colony, and his descendants in the direct line were magistrates, judges, and Governors for a period of over one hundred and eighty successive years.


Wolcott-Griswold family of Connecticut
Griswold Heritage Tour
Another Griswold Family Heritage Tour
Shakespeare and Griswold


St Thomas à Becket's Chapel, Solihull Parish

In the stonework behind the reredos can be seen the tower buttress on to which the wall of the north transept was built. In the angle between the buttress and the archway, later blocked, was the original chapel of St. Thomas à Becket. The builders of the first church would have shared the popular reverence for the martyred Archbishop who was murdered in 1170 and canonised in 1173.
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The pediment contains the shield of Henry Greswold Lewis of Malvern Hall and was part of the screen to the family pew. On the south wall of the chapel is a Jacobean monument containing a brass, dated 1610, to William and Ursula Hawes, the builders of Hillfield Hall. Below it in a modern window opening is a stained glass panel from Hillfield Hall, containing the coats of arms of Fielding, Greswold and Aston. Opposite, in the north wall, is a dramatic portrayal of the martyrdom of Thomas à Becket.


Extra Credit: What is the connection between Becket and Beckwith?


Thursday, January 01, 2004

Places and Names

UK:
Acaster Malbis Aketon Aldborough Appleton Roebuck Ashby Parva Averham
Barwick-in-Elmet Beckwith Beckwithshaw Beningborough Bexhill Bolton Percy
Bramhope Bridlington Burton Agnes
Cambridge Castleford Clifton Clint Coxwold
Dacre Deighton Durham Easingwold
Farnham Featherstone Filey
Galphay Gilling East Glastonbury Grafton Great Barugh Guiseley
Harrogate Herrington Isle of Iona
Kenilworth Kilburn Knaresborough
Leeds Lichfield Little Gidding London
Masham Muston Old Bramhope Otley
Pannal Ash Pickering Pontefract Ripon
Scriven Scrooby Sheffield Skelton Solihull Stanley Sutton-on-Trent
Tamworth Thirsk Thorpe Thurcroft Trimdon
Ugglebarnby Warsop West Bromwich Wheldrake Wighill York




SURNAMES

Anjou Aragon Arden Audley Bainville Baldwin Ball Balliol Barcelona Barnes Baruch Baskerville Beauchamp Beaufort Beaumont Beckwith Beckwourth Berenger Berkeley Borrel Borthwick Bosworth Braiose Brakenbury Bresch Brewster Brugge Brychan Brooks Brockenbrough Bruce Burgundy Burton Butler Capet Carcassonne Carter Cary Castile Champaign Chaworth Chatworth Clare Cole Collins Cologne Cone Comyn Corbin Cornwall Courteney Council Crawford Crophull Curzon Dammartin Danby Deinnes Deiville Devereaux Digby Despencer Dorset Douglas Drummond Dyneley Dudley Fairfax Fauntleroy Faust Ferrars Ferrers Fiennes Finn Fitzalan Fitzpatrick Fitzwilliam Flanders Forrester Gascoigne Gaunt Gifford Goodwin Griswold Hackney Hainault Hampden Hardy Hepburn Heton Holland Hulse Hungerford Hunter Hotchkiss Huntingdon Huntington Ives James Jennings Latham LaZouche Lascelles Lee Lincoln Lorraine Luxembourg Malbisse Manly Marshall Mason Massey Mather Miles Montagu Montgomery Mortimer Morton Muir Navarre Neville Normandy Oldham Parker Paynel Pearce Peck Pember Percy Plantagenet Plumpton Ponthieu Pope Radcliff Raleigh Randolph Rennes Rich Ruffin Salisbury Sanchez Saunders Seton Shakespeare Shepard Skipwith Simpson Smith Sparrow Stapleton Stringfield Stockbridge Stafford Sutherland Stanley Stuart Sutton Tayloe Taylor Toulouse Tucker Turner Vavasour Venables Von Brunswick Walker Warner Warrenne Washington Wentworth Whalesborough Windsor Wood Wolfe Wyvill Yale Yates ...

Saturday, September 20, 2003

Yankee Magazine - Yankee Extras for October



Florence Griswold Museum
Old Lyme, Ct
(From Yankee Magazine)

The Flo Gris has a new riverfront gallery to display the 200 paintings it received from the Hartford Steam Boiler Company, securing the museum's place as "the home of American Impressionism" with the country's largest collection.