Doctor Grandma

These are the origins of surnames found in my family tree, as of today. I did not know how heavily ENGLISH I was until doing this research, which I’ve been working on for many years, probably nearly 20 years now. This is actual research and not my DNA report. The DNA report is similar, but not this heavily British. What this means is, with having such heavily Western European, particularly ENGLISH heritage, my ancestors settled parts of Jamestown, VA; were one of the first 3 families to settle the area of Connecticut; and lived in Goochland VA, Henrico County VA, and other such places. NO ONE in South Carolina, but all those back into the 1600s in the north also owned slaves and dealt harshly with Native peoples. I will continue to study them, have only touched the surface, really, of those stories.

names

THE WINNER: England: 46     (3- Isle of Wight, VA).  Adams, Alsop, Aylet, Bird, Brigham, Butterworth, Bybee, Cary, Chalfont, Chesebrough, Cox (Cocke), Craddock, Denison, Easum, Edwards, Farrar, Hawkes, Hill, Jacquelin, King, Lorde (from Wikitree!); Marsead, Marshall, Mason, Matthew, Montague, Moore, Perrin, Reynolds, Richardson, Richford, Rushall, Stanton, Stevenson, Strowder, Taylor, Thompson, Towne, Turner, Wade, Walker, Walton, Whitehead.    

2nd place: Scotland:         16                    Agnew, Alexander, Barnett, Bryson, Cardie, Cunningham, Henderson, Henry, Hunter, Lackey, Lemonds, McKean, McKenzie, Mitchell, Reade. 

3rd: Ireland:            15                    Barnett, Beckett, Buchanon, Caldwell, Edminston, Glass, Loftis, Martin, McCann, Phillips, Reid, Riley, Ryan, Seafoam, Thomas.

4th: Germany:          7                    Bruner, Gah, Klinck, Ribelin (Reiblin, Ribley), Shelling, Smith, Sturm

Honorable mention:

Wales:             4                      Owen, Owens, Verch Rhys, Williams  

Sweden           3                      Laicans, Larsdotter, Svensson 

France:            1                    Brashear

Separately, we go to bed,
you 500 miles away,
while summer insects trill and sing,
dogs bark at the night.
It’s 1am, we both will sleep,
tomorrow you come home;
it’s always hard to turn out the light
and go to bed alone.

cfblack, 6-18-2024

Two different families, OWEN and OWENS. With further research, who knows, they may be related, but here is what I found:

Sarah Sally Owen married Thomas Reid. Sarah Sally Owen’s ancestor from Wales, Harry Thomas Owen, came from Llanfyllin, which is in Montgomery County, a mid-section of Wales but still nearer to the northern part than southern. Llanfyllin is the name of a “hundred” which is like a township of that county.

Thomas Reid’s GRANDSON was my great-grandfather, Alexander Reid. Their son, Charles, marries Cora Belle Owens, whose ancestor from Wales was named Owen Thomas Owens, b.1746 in Pentraeth, Wales. Pentraeth is off the NW coast of Wales on a large island of Anglesey.

where the places are:

Pentraeth upper NW:

Llanfyllin, Montgomeryshire is in the upper part of the red county below: