Sunday, December 28, 2003


Jacques Bainville

Bainville/Stanley
Stanley Houses

Stanley, Earls of Derby

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The History of Lathom House

Records indicate the construction of the original house on the site in the 12th century as principal residence of the Lathom family. In the early 15th century the Lathom and Stanley families were joined by the marriage of Isabel de Lathom and Sir John Stanley, the younger son of Thomas the first Earl of Stanley, later to be made Earl of Derby following the battle of Bosworth in 1485. In 1496 the house was substantially remodelled into a substantial fortress by the Earl in preparation for a visit by his father-in-law King Henry VII.

Stanley, John Saunders, Shenstone etc

Judge Littleton
...one of the famous founders of English law.




Matthew Griswold of Kenilworth, UK

The Wolcotts

The Wolcotts

Tolland, CT
Windsor, CT

Descendants of David Lloyd

David Lloyd of Mathavarn, Merioneth, Wales. Born about 1402.

It is conjecture that the David Lloyd who had son Evan also had son John who married Mallt, d. of Hugh ap Ievan. It is likely that these David's are a good 40 years apart in age. If they are one and the same person however, David probably married Damasen d.of Thomas Ireland, late in life and it is likely that there was a large discrepancy in their age, she being very young. (Conjectured from C-437, p. 575 & 579)
It is the father of Evan ap David LLoyd that the rest of this information applies. David's full name was David Lloyd ap Llewelyn. He was from Mathavarn and had an extensive estate on both sides of the Dyvi above Machynlleth. He was a voluminous poet, a Barrd, a Brudiwr (a Prophet) with numerous enigmatical predictions to his credit. He is said to have been the "Esq'r of the body of Henry VII."
Several of his writings are still in existence. When Richmond won Bosworth, the Welsh bards celebrated the victory in their addresses to Henry VII. David's poem of this follows: "King Harry hath fought, and bravely done, Our friend the golden crown hath won; The bards resume a cheerful strain; For the good of the world little R. was slain. That straddling letter, pale and sad, In England's realm no honour had; For ne'er could R. in place of Iowerth (Edward), Rule England's people loyally; Nor stem the foe with puissant hand, Nor on the breach like Edward stand. How odious the vile cur to spy, With withered shank for brawny thigh, Partake the banquet's circling cheer, Where Gloucester's cunning cheats the ear." (C-437, p. 579)


Source: Robert Jesse Harry, The Ancestors and Descendants of Hugh Harry and Elizabeth Brinton.


Found this fascinating tidbit about Mathavarn:

They live in caves, secret regions of the mountains & forests. Their homes are hidden from mortal vision. They are called knockers because they knock where there is ore. Their other name is “goat head” [gobhar + ceann]. They were created by the Fomorian giants in year 225 of the Second Age of the Sun. One of their strongholds is Beacon Mountain in Wales. In Germany they guard the salt mines which are the burial places of the dead. They are the servants of the goddess Nessa, The Loch Ness Monster. When seen above ground they dance the Morris dance in circles. The Bogle has the 29th of March as a celebration day in Scotland. The Dancing Place of the Goblin is at Ffridd y Ywen: The Forest of Yew at Mathavarn, Llanwrin, Wales. A magical yew-tree grows exactly in the middle of the forest.
http://www.tartanplace.com/faery/gobln.html

Ynyswen - Llanegwad

Tuesday, November 18, 2003

Abraham Lincoln Family

http://www.geocities.com/marianapolis99/lincoln.htm
Including:
Ancestry of Abraham Lincoln
Descendants of Abraham Lincoln
Ideas of the Past
How You Can Help

Nancy Hanks related websites:
Ancestors of Abraham Lincoln
Descendants of Abraham Lincoln
Joseph Hanks, Ancestor of a President

EXTERNAL LINKS:Abraham Lincoln Online,Austin Genealogical Database,Bob Lincoln's Home Page,The First Ladies,Freeman Family Lines,The History Place Presents Abraham Lincoln,Mary Todd Lincoln,IMC's Genealogical On~Ramp Main Menu,Monticello, Home of Thomas Jefferson,The Presidents of the United States,Robert Todd Lincoln's Hildene,Royal and Noble Genealogical Data on the Web,Scott McGee's GenWeb Databases,United States Vital Records Information,


SAMPLES
http://www.geocities.com/marianapolis99/ideas.htm
http://www.geocities.com/marianapolis99/verduin.htm
http://www.geocities.com/marianapolis99/verduinl.htm
The result of these plotting is as follows: a constellation of points is formed which composes a rough circle around what was in 1777 a triangular, 151-acre parcel of land. The tract was one of two almost-touching but distinct parcels purchases on December 23 of that year by Griffin Murdock Fauntleroy-the same well-bred planter who was one of Joseph Hanks' employers in 1781. The road for which Joseph Hanks was surveyor (i.e., maintenance inspector) nearly touched this tract of land at the tract's northwestern corner. What is more, the lands owned or leased by the other four court appointees who lived in the neighborhood effectively box in the 151-acre Fauntleroy tract on two of its three sides. Fauntleroy himself, it has been learned, lived on the other of two tracts he purchased in North Farnham Parish in 1777-the one just a little to the east, which bordered on Farnham Creek and Richard Beale's plantation. The 151-acre piece was a less desirable, rather swampy, and largely wooded property.
Teh writer concludes that it is likely-but not certain-that Joseph Hanks and his family resided in the central or western portion of this 151-acre tract of land owned by Hanks' co-employer Griffin Murdock Fauntleroy. But it is certain, in his judgement, taht they lived within half a mile of a point in the north-central portion of that tract. The location is within three miles of the Rappahannock River and the modern community of Sharps. The tract adjoined or was near the back boundaries of several of the grand Rappahannock riverfront plantations of the era: Woodford, Woodberry, Milden Hall, Riverdale, and Hornby Manor-as they were called at that time, or a little later.


Winders and Windor's

Winders and Windor's

On 2 August 1727 at Richmond Co., Virginia, was recorded in the court records "Joseph Bragg is appointed surveyor of the highways for this ensuing year from Rappahannock Bridge to Colls Carter's Mill and from the upper bridge by John Metcalfe's Mill into Westmoreland County and from the main road by Leonard Dozier's to Duke Beckwith's Mill and from the said road by John ___ plantation to Pantill run and from Michael Windor's ___ field along the Howling road to Lisson's Landing and ordered that he forewith clear all the said roads according to law.

See Omohundro Millpond, which is, I think, nearby.

"1730 Dec 27 Richmond County. Articles of Agreement between Marmaduke
BECKWITH and John MOZINGO. MOZINGO leased BECKWITH’s water grist mill
on Pantico Run with a small house and two acres on each side of the mill
for seven years
."


Warwick CAMMOCK appears in numerous Virginia records over the next ten years, but "mysteriously" disappears after 28 Feb 1679/80 when "Warwick CAMMOCK and Bethridge (her mark) HENSLE make a sworn statement concerning Mr. Fran: DOUGHTY delivering a cow to Adam WOFENDALE for the use of Thom: WINDOR. (Old Rappahannock Co., Va. Deeds & Wills 1677-1682:Part II:262, Old Rappa. VA Records, Ruth & Sam Sparacio, Antient Press, McLean, VA)
http://www.combs-families.org/combs/assoc/cammock.htm

Sunday, November 16, 2003

Finnegans Wake
Bygmester Finnegan, of the Stuttering Hand, freemen's mau-
rer, lived in the broadest way immarginable in his rushlit toofar-
back for messuages before joshuan judges had given us numbers
or Helviticus committed deuteronomy (one yeastyday he sternely
struxk his tete in a tub for to watsch the future of his fates but ere
he swiftly stook it out again, by the might of moses, the very wat-
er was eviparated and all the guenneses had met their exodus so
that ought to show you what a pentschanjeuchy chap he was!)
and during mighty odd years this man of hod, cement and edi-
fices in Toper's Thorp piled buildung supra buildung pon the
banks for the livers by the Soangso. He addle liddle phifie Annie
ugged the little craythur. Wither hayre in honds tuck up your part
inher. Oftwhile balbulous, mithre ahead, with goodly trowel in
grasp and ivoroiled overalls which he habitacularly fondseed, like
Haroun Childeric Eggeberth he would caligulate by multiplicab-
les the alltitude and malltitude until he seesaw by neatlight of the
liquor wheretwin 'twas born, his roundhead staple of other days
to rise in undress maisonry upstanded (joygrantit!), a waalworth
of a skyerscape of most eyeful hoyth entowerly, erigenating from
next to nothing and celescalating the himals and all, hierarchitec-
titiptitoploftical, with a burning bush abob off its baubletop and
with larrons o'toolers clittering up and tombles a'buckets clotter-
ing down.
Of the first was he to bare arms and a name: Wassaily Boos-
laeugh of Riesengeborg. His crest of huroldry, in vert with
ancillars, troublant, argent, a hegoak, poursuivant, horrid, horned.
His scutschum fessed, with archers strung, helio, of the second.
Hootch is for husbandman handling his hoe. Hohohoho, Mister
Finn, you're going to be Mister Finnagain! Comeday morm and,
O, you're vine! Sendday's eve and, ah, you're vinegar! Hahahaha,
Mister Funn, you're going to be fined again!

Walburn Hall

Walburn Hall

Vavasour & Hazelwood Castle

Vavasour
Beckwith, Gascoigne, Percy, Plumpton, Mowbray, Fitzhugh, Skipwith, Middleton, Everingham, Fairfax, Peck, Mauleverer, Scrope, Bainbridge, Pulleyn, Spaldington, Windsor, Gates, Dudley, Dodge, Hazelwood, Hilton, etc...

Hazelwood Castle

Castle Leavington

Castle Leavington

Robin Hood

Roger Beckwith and Family
See also: Masham Church, Acton (Aketon), Clint, Aldborough, Scruton Co. YKS, Cold Ingleby, Jenings (Jennings), Bolton, Swale (Swaile)

Beckwith of Acton

Beckwith, Fairfax, Inman

The tithes, which had belonged to the living in Saxon times, were taken possession of by Ralph de Paganell, one of William the Conqueror's barons, who handed them over to the Abbey of Marmontre, in Touraine, and this church was thenceforth served by the canons of the priory of Holy Trinity, York, which was a cell to that abbey. At the Dissolution these tithes were granted to Sir Leonard Beckwith, and were ultimately bought, in 1556, by Sir William Fairfax, Knight, of Steeton. In this family they remained as private property till they came into the hands of the great Lord Fairfax, who gave them to his domestic chaplain, Thomas Strellon - a non-conforming minister - on condition of his finding "a preaching minister to officiate at Bilbrough." Lord Fairfax, by his will, left these tithes in trust for ever with his family for a preaching minister.

Thomas Beckwith family

Thomas Beckwith family
Birth: 24 Jan 1840 in Missouri
Death: About 1916 in Missouri
Sex: M
Father: Quiros Elmo Beckwith b. 15 Sep 1801 in Fairfax Court House, Fairfax County, VA
Mother: Susan Johnston b. 31 Oct 1813 in Nashville TN

Vanished Architecture of the Old Dominion

Vanished Architecture of the Old Dominion

Dover
Dover was built for James Morson, a lawyer from Fredericksburg who was married to Ellen Bruce. She was raised at Berry Hill; her father, James Coles Bruce was one of the wealthiest men in the nation. Dover's interior was a sumptuous display of classical detailing.

Mannsfield
The measurements of the main house at Mannsfield, 69 by 51 feet, were almost exactly those of Mount Airy. Mann Page III, the builder of Mannsfield, was married to Mary Tayloe of Mount Airy.


Greenway Court
At Greenway Court, in what was then the backwoods, Thomas, sixth Baron Fairfax of Cameron, positioned himself to administer effectively the rent and sale of his five-million-acre inheritance, the Northern Neck proprietary. He changed to frontier garb and became a recluse.

Monday, November 10, 2003

Beckwith Collection brings Indian Culture to Life

Beckwith Collection brings Indian Culture to Life


FROM THE ARTICLE:
When Jim Phillips leads tours of schoolchildren through display cases filled with bowls and other artifacts from the University Museum's Beckwith Collection, he points out that the things in their own cupboards at home could end up in a museum in a thousand years.

"We want to get them thinking that this is not a dead people," the curator of the Beckwith Collection said. "These are things they used every day."


The Collection is a product of the work and collections of Thomas Beckwith, and is located in Missouri. This is from the university:

The Museum's archaeological display features representative artifacts from the Thomas Beckwith Collection, which contains nine hundred whole ceramic vessels and effigy fragments plus approximately two thousand lithics. Most of the objects in the collection were excavated by Thomas Beckwith at the end of the 19th and beginning of the 20th centuries from mounds on his property in southeast Missouri. In 1913, Beckwith donated his collection to the Third District Normal School, the predecessor to Southeast Missouri State University. Since 1976, the Collection has been housed in the Southeast Missouri Regional Museum. Today the Collection provides unique insights into the culture and lives of prehistoric Native peoples of this region.

Jim Beckwourth: The play

Jim Beckwourth: The play

Friday, October 17, 2003

Bend it like Beckwith

Bend it like Beckwith

Move over, David Beckham! You've got some competition, but I tend to think cooperation would be a better ticket. Maybe you and Jennifer Beckwith can go on tour. You've still got time to realize that it's called "soccer", not "football". Football is a rather clumsy sport. At least around here...

Anyway, here is what is being said about Jennifer Beckwith:

Beckwith is famous for her ability to "flip throw" the ball back in bounds. With her amazing flexibility and experience with gymnastics, she pushes her body forward and does a handstand on the ball, then flips over and launches the soccer ball into play.


Can you do that? Case closed.

Here are some other quotes:

Stormy weather was expected Friday, Sept. 26, but the only thing "raining" down at The Cage was the field crossing throw-ins from freshman forward, Jennifer Beckwith.
...
Beckwith's throw-ins must be seen to be believed. As she runs up the line, she performs a front flip. Just as she comes to her feet, she launches the ball over 40 yards.
Beckwith provided three scoring chances in the first half using her flipping throw-ins, or, as she calls them "flip throws."






Kudos to you both! Do, and be, your best...

Monday, October 06, 2003

Genealogical Googlism

Googlism

Fun with Goolism...

What is it?
From the website:

Who You should try searching for your name, friends names or celebrities.
Joe, Martin, Bill Gates, Brooke Burke, Who Googlisms
What Select "What" and then search for products, brands, objects or verbs.
Kazaa, Coke, Sony, Poker, What Googlisms
When In this section you can search dates, days or events.
Tuesday, September 11, Christmas, February 14, When Googlisms
Where The where section is for locations or places.
Las Vegas, Australia, Bedroom, Kitchen, Where Googlisms
Cool Other really cool sites on the web.
Nahh Directory, Google Search



Googlism for: mr. beckwith

http://www.googlism.com/index.htm?ism=Mr.+Beckwith&type=1

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mr. beckwith is the editor of hymn tunes and oratorio and cantata excerpts of the cmh series
mr. beckwith is trying to do is pretty distasteful
mr. beckwith is a partner in the law firm of baker & hostetler
mr. beckwith is also chairman of the premier club
mr. beckwith is buried in hartford in cedar hill cemetery on fairfield avenue
mr. beckwith is very good
mr. beckwith is a private matter and that the city does not enforce
mr. beckwith is probably the most famous defendant to fall victim to a calculated prosecution delay in regards to an antiquated so
mr. beckwith is opposed to the application because of the surrounding residential area
mr. beckwith is a private matter and that the city does not enforce deed restrictions or
mr. beckwith is a justice of the peace
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mr. beckwith is survived by his wife
mr. beckwith is chief of the office of light rail for the wisconsin department of transportation and project manager of the light rail study in milwaukee
mr. beckwith is a graduate of the dental department of the university of michigan
mr. beckwith is hereby directed to make arrangements as are necessary to have the barn enclosed and floored immediately
mr. beckwith is the tinis manager and should be able to answer most questions concerning
mr. beckwith is a chartered accountant with many years of experience as a partner of international firms in australia
mr. beckwith is now

Googlism for: dr. beckwith

dr. beckwith is encouraging and assisting faculty members to apply for research funding from the three canadian granting councils
dr. beckwith is married
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dr. beckwith is especially pleased that peter
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dr. beckwith is responsible for the original clinical description of beckwith
dr. beckwith is an accomplished scholar at princeton university
dr. beckwith is a visiting lecturer for ses and associate professor of church
dr. beckwith is one of the metaphysical movement’s most influential visionaries
dr. beckwith is the president of btg composites as well as the international technical director of sampe
dr. beckwith is the author of what i consider to be one of the best christian resources responding to the pro
dr. beckwith is a member of the civil rights practice group
dr. beckwith is assistant professor of
dr. beckwith is assistant professor of philosophy at whittier college and a nevada policy research institute senior research fellow
dr. beckwith is a fellow of the discovery institute
dr. beckwith is a good surgeon it seems like
dr. beckwith is a linguist who works primarily on ancient indo
dr. beckwith is known as an extraordinary teacher and educational leader
dr. beckwith is an engaging
dr. beckwith is well known as one of canada’s most distinguished composers and leading music educators
dr. beckwith is a native of louisiana and holds an undergraduate degree in music
dr. beckwith is a member of the national academy of sciences and has received several awards including the 1993 genetics society of america medal for his
dr. beckwith is not a creationism advocate at all
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dr. beckwith is the executive director of the tennessee micro
dr. beckwith is an elder and director of adult education in an independent evangelical church
dr. beckwith is the senior research policy analyst with tra and has a long
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dr. beckwith is an assistant professor in the department of
dr. beckwith is a scholar in residence at princeton university



John Lennon's classic Working Class Hero sung by Silas Beckwith

One of my favorites of John. I could not resist linking this...

John Lennon's classic Working Class Hero sung by Silas Beckwith

Sunday, October 05, 2003

Peyton Randolph family (including Jennings)

Peyton Randolph family (including Jennings)

Descendants of JOHN JENNINGS

Including etymology of the name, Jennings.

EXCERPT:

John, meaning the "Lord's grace," is the source of many patronymics-Jennings among them. The evolution is something like this: John, Jons, Johnson, Janson, Jennings. Other variations of the name are Jinnins, Jennins, Jenyns, Jenynges, Jannings, and Jenning, with Jennins, and Jennyns being found in the colonial records Gennequin is the French form and Gening is old German of the eighth century. In this connection it is interesting to note that Hanson and Hancock are from Hans, the Flemish nickname of John or Johannes.

The family of Jennings is of very ancient origin and its history of interest to the families of that name in the United States. They seem to have settled in England before the Norman Conquest, being of Danish extraction, altho some say that the family originated in Carnarvonshire, Wales, from whence it spread over England following the eleventh century, and later into Ireland, France and Germany.

The first member who settled in the Kingdom of Great Britain appears to have been a Danish captain, brought into England between 1017 and 1025 by Canute. King of Denmark. Here Captain Jennings was baptised into the Christian faith, and was given certain manors lying upon the seacoast near Harwich by Canute as a reward for his former services for his father, Sweyne, King of Denmark.

Another interesting member of the family seems to have been another Captain Jennens, who, we are told, had the honor of bringing the body of Richard Coeur de Lion back to England.