My Dunscomb Family Line from Missouri to England

I. Laura Mae Dunscomb [Laura Mae’s Senior Picture – about 1944] Born December 6, 1926 Married Henry Albert [Hank, H.A. Baker] Born April 5, 1921 Died February 2, 2013 II. William Elmer Dunscomb Born August  8, 1898 Died October 7, 1972 Married August 11, 1920 Married Henrietta James Born June 2, 1900 Died December 13,…

Sir John Seymour, Wolf Hall, and Sister to the Queen

Dorothy Seymour was the sister of Jane Seymour, who was one of the wives of Henry VIII. She was born at Wolf Hall in Wiltshire, England. Although this is the same Wolf Hall that was made famous by the series of the same name, it was actually a Seymour family property. Several hundred years ago,…

Religious Persecution Drove Much of the European Migration to America

Persecution of the Protestant French Huguenots The Bartholomew’s Day Massacre “The St. Bartholomew’s Day massacre (French: Massacre de la Saint-Barthélemy) in 1572 was a targeted group of assassinations and a wave of Catholic mob violence, directed against the Huguenots (French Calvinist Protestants) during the French Wars of Religion. Traditionally believed to have been instigated by…

My Claiborne Family Line from England to Virginia to Southeast Missouri

I. Rowland Cleburne [Cliburn] Born about 1364 He married Katherine de Lancaster Born 1415 II. John Cleburne Born about 1445 – 1487 He married Elizabeth Curwen| Born 1445 – 1489  III. Thomas De Cleburne Born about 1471 – 1573 He married Joan Sanford Born 1447  IV. Sir Robert John Cleburne Born about 1471 – 1553 He married Emmotte KirkbrideAnn Layton Born 1465 – 1535 V….

William Claiborne Who Surveyed Virginia for the King of England

“William Claiborne served as a member of the governor’s Council (1623–1637; 1642–1661) and as secretary of the colony (1626–1634). Born in England and educated at Cambridge, Claiborne came to Virginia in 1621 as surveyor of the colony and by 1623 was a member of the Council.” Encyclopedia of Virginia “Contributor: Warren M. Billings Contributor: the…