OUR ANCESTORS A Personal History [LDS Family History]

By V Thomas W. Baine

This book is about the known ancestry of Thomas, Dustin, and Darin Baine of Jacksonville, Florida. It is the culmination of more than fifteen years of painstaking, frustrating, and at times exhilarating research, labor, travel, and expense. The book focuses on the last 500 years of our family history, although parts of it reach back more than a thousand years. It tells a story of courage, faith, and the pursuit of happiness in the face of overwhelming odds, despair, and loneliness. It is a story of a group of people, starting over in a new land. These are our people. Families included are: Adamson, Anderson, Baine, Barker, Brazell, Brooke, Burke, Chase, Clayton, Collins, Constable, Cook, Cornwallis, de Vere, Decker, DeLoach, Dorsey, Douglas, Downing, Drury, Focell, Gosnold, Greenberry, Grimm, Guest, Guildford, Haas, Hay, Henderson, Hiers, Hinkel, Howard, Howell, Hunter, Jerningham, Joyce, Keene, Kight, Kytson, Lee, Matlock, McKinnon, Mohr, Morrow, Naunton, Norwood, Odum, Oliver, O?Steen, Philbrick, Polk, Porter, Rich, Robinson, Rocker, Smith, Spake, Stafford, Tilton, Tudor, Turner, Tyrell, Wall, Weeks, Weiskopf, White, Wilson, Wingfield, Wyatt, and many others. Geographical areas included are: In Europe, it focuses on the whole of England and Scotland, Ireland, Normandy, France, southwestern Germany. In the United States, it focuses on the northeast around Massachusetts and New York; the eastern seaboard from Massachusetts to northern Florida; Maryland; Virginia; the Carolinas; south Georgia; north Florida; New Orleans, Louisiana; southern Illinois; southern Indiana; Tennessee; and Kentucky. Well known persons or families in the book include: George Washington; Rev. John Robinson, pastor of the Pilgrims; the Lees of Virginia; Colonel Nicholas Greenberry, Governor of Maryland; the Barker family, printers of the original King James bible; the de Vere earls of Oxford; the Howard dukes of Norfolk; King Henry VII of England and his Tudor ancestry; King Henry VIII; the Stafford earls of Stafford and dukes of Buckingham; the Gosnold family of Suffolk, and their famous son, Bartholomew, the explorer; Sir Richard Rich of Leez, lawyer to Henry VIII; the Wingfield family of Suffolk, including Sir Anthony Wingfield, courtier to Henry VIII; the d?Arcy family of Essex; the Kytson family of Lancashire, London, and Suffolk; the Douglas, ?red earls? of Angus; the Wyatt family of Kent, courtiers of King Henry VIII; the Polk family of Tennessee, including President James K. Polk; the Cornwallis family of Suffolk; and many others.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1427618933
• ISBN13: 9781427618931
• Release Date: July 2008
• Publisher: Bainethorpe
• Length: 484 Pages