-
Recent Posts
- Priscilla Carter Burnett’s Boys and Saunders’ Y-DNA Inheritance
- “Smoking Gun”: Williamson Burnett Sues Julius Saunders For “Ravishing” Priscilla Carter Burnett for Over Five Years
- Sorting the Saunders by First Name: Lemuel
- Elizabeth Ellyson (1701/6-?) New Kent, Hanover Counties, VA
- My German-Swiss Ancestors who settled Orangeburg, South Carolina
Recent Comments
Archives
- July 2021
- May 2019
- May 2018
- March 2018
- September 2017
- September 2016
- August 2016
- June 2016
- September 2015
- July 2015
- May 2015
- April 2015
- March 2015
- February 2015
- November 2014
- October 2014
- September 2014
- August 2014
- July 2014
- June 2014
- October 2013
- September 2013
- August 2013
- July 2013
- June 2013
- May 2013
- April 2013
- March 2013
- February 2013
- January 2013
- November 2012
- May 2012
- April 2012
- March 2012
- February 2012
- January 2012
- December 2011
Categories
Meta
Monthly Archives: March 2012
Winchcombe and the Benefactors of Henry VIII’s Dissolution of the Monasteries
Clues exist that suggest Henry VIII’s Dissolution of the Monasteries came to be of importance to the Gloucestershire families of whom I believe I am descended. I am interested in several family surnames, such as Carter, Tracy, Stratford, Laurence, Saunders, … Continue reading
Posted in GLOUCESTERSHIRE DOCUMENTS
Comments Off on Winchcombe and the Benefactors of Henry VIII’s Dissolution of the Monasteries
Winchcombe, Bristol, and 17th Century Virginia and Gloucestershire Tobacco Policy
In 1619, a London merchant with Gloucestershire ties, John Stratford, bought land around Winchcombe in Gloucestershire to plant tobacco. In the same year, Parliament passed a law prohibiting the cultivation of tobacco in England. An illicit tobacco growing trade evolved … Continue reading
Posted in GLOUCESTERSHIRE DOCUMENTS
Comments Off on Winchcombe, Bristol, and 17th Century Virginia and Gloucestershire Tobacco Policy
“Albion’s Seed”, Y-Chromosome “MRCAs”, and Clues Found in Gloucestershire
In David Hackett Fischer’s seminal work, Albion’s Seed: Four British Folkways in America, Oxford University Press, 1989, p.236. he makes the following observations: “Virginia’s Great Migration: Regional Origins: “[A] majority of Virginia’s indentured servants hailed from sixteen counties in the … Continue reading
Posted in GLOUCESTERSHIRE DOCUMENTS
Comments Off on “Albion’s Seed”, Y-Chromosome “MRCAs”, and Clues Found in Gloucestershire
The Carters, Goodloes and Ammons in Middlesex and Spotsylvania Counties, VA 1710-1750
In my post dedicated to JOSEPH CARTER, born 1704 in Christ Church Parish in Middlesex County, VA, son of WILLIAM CARTER and MARY GOODLOE, I noted a dispute as to whether he was the same JOSEPH CARTER who appears in … Continue reading
Joseph Carter (1704-1751), Middlesex and Spotsylvania Counties, VA
WILLIAM CARTER [William Carter (1660-1711) Middlesex County, Virginia] and MARY GOODLOE had six children: 3-1 George Carter (born 1692) – listed as a grandson in the will of Mary’s father [George Goodloe (1637-1710), Middlesex County, Virginia] 3-2 Philip … Continue reading
Posted in CARTER
Comments Off on Joseph Carter (1704-1751), Middlesex and Spotsylvania Counties, VA