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Aug 18, 2011 •
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I thought the journal written about genealogy was excellent
The maoris use to take a very brilliant young child and place him with a master who taught hm all he had been taught about the ancestry ...
Aug 16, 2011 •
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Bernard Brocas
(1330-1395)
Born: 1330, probably at Clewer, Berkshire
Died: 1395, probably at Clewer, Berkshire
Bernard Brocas, Master of the Horse to King Edward Ill, was the third son of Sir Jo...
Aug 16, 2011 •
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Peter Des Roches
(died 1238)
Bishop of Winchester
Died: 9th June 1238
Peter Des Roches was born of a knightly family in Poitou, of which province he became archdeacon and treasurer. He was conse...
Aug 16, 2011 •
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source:English made easy
Having chosen English as the preferred language in the EEC (now officially the European Union, or EU), the European Parliament has commissioned a feasibility study in ways of...
Aug 16, 2011 •
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The Erskines
The Erskine family, which has produced a remarkable number of eminent men in every department of public life, derived their designation from the barony of Erskine in Renfrewshire, situ...
Aug 16, 2011 •
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The Drummonds
THE founder of the Drummond family was long believed to have been ‘a Hungarian gentleman,’ named MAURICE, who was said by Lord Strathallan, in his history of the family, to have pilot...
Aug 16, 2011 •
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The Johnstones of Annandale
THE Johnstones were at one time among the most powerful, as they are one of the most ancient, of the Border septs. The ‘rough-footed clan,’ as they were termed, with the...
Aug 16, 2011 •
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The Marchmont Humes
THE Marchmont Humes are cadets of the great family of the Homes, who once held paramount authority on the Eastern Borders. A junior branch of the house settled at Wedderburn in ...
Aug 16, 2011 •
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Aherne
The Dal gCais were the great clan of Thomond, or North Munster, an area more especially associated with County Clare (excluding the Burren and Corcomroe on the northwest corner) and adjacent p...
Aug 15, 2011 •
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William Elphinstone
source: the university of Aberdeen
ELPHINSTON, WILLIAM, a celebrated Scottish prelate, and founder of the university of Aberdeen, was born in the city of Glasgow in the year 1...
Aug 14, 2011 •
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CABAZIÉ, PIERRE, court officer, jail-keeper, acting king’s attorney and judge, clerk in the court registry, and notary; b. c. 1641 in the region of Toulouse, son of Pierre Cabazié, royal notary, and D...
Aug 14, 2011 •
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BABEL, LOUIS (named at birth Louis-François), priest, Oblate of Mary Immaculate, missionary, linguist, geographer, and explorer; b. 23 June 1826 in Veyrier, Switzerland, son of Joseph Babel, a postili...
Aug 14, 2011 •
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BABBITT, JOHN, jeweller, watchmaker, and scientist; b. 15 Oct. 1845 at Fredericton, N.B., son of Samuel Wellington Babbitt and Frances Maria Nealon; m. 9 June 1874 Margaret Turnbull (d. 1882), and the...
Aug 13, 2011 •
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ACQUIN (Atwin, Decoine, Dequine, Equin, Echkewen), GABRIEL (Kobleah, Gobliel) (known as Chief or Sachem Gabe; also Noel Gabriel and Noel Gable; perhaps Newel Gabriel and Newell Gov’-leet), Maliseet hu...
Aug 13, 2011 •
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ADHÉMAR, JEAN-BAPTISTE, clerk of court, court officer, royal notary; baptized 16 March 1689 in Montreal, son of Antoine Adhémar* de Saint-Martin and Michelle Cusson; d. 19 Dec. 1754 in Montreal.
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Aug 13, 2011 •
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ADDISON, ROBERT, Church of England clergyman; b. 6 June 1754 in Heversham, England, son of John Addison and Ellinor Parkinson; m. 24 Oct. 1780 Mary Atkinson in Cambridge, England, and they had four ch...
Aug 13, 2011 •
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ADAMS (Adems; after 1727 he used the spelling Adames), JOSEPH, Hudson’s Bay Company employee; b. c. 1700; d. 1737.
One of several children born to William, a labourer, and Katherine Adams, ...
Aug 13, 2011 •
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Aug 12, 2011 •
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BABIE (in later generations spelled “Bâby,” and in Michigan historical collections “Baubee”), JACQUES, soldier, farmer, and fur-trader, founder of the distinguished Canadian family of this name, son o...
Aug 11, 2011 •
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The Lauderdale Maitlands
FEW of the great old houses of Scotland have, throughout the long period of six centuries, produced such a brilliant succession of statesmen, warriors, poets, and lawyers, as...