Posted on 08/30/2006 6:28:00 PM PDT by blam
Ping.
Heh heh, heh heh, he said 'Glasscock', heh heh.
A lot of Cornishmen came to California as well and could be found in mining towns such as Calico, now a ghost town near Barstow. They were known as "Cousin Jacks" because they all seemed to be related, and a good many were named Jack.
The Upper Midwest is largely populated by Germans and Scandinavians, mostly because the climate is similar to their homelands, and because so many of them were farmers and land was free for the homesteading in the latter 19th century.
I'm sure there are other ethnic pockets around the country that can tie their existence to some historical event. Large parts of the Dakotas, for example, are peopled by refugee Germans who had immigrated to South Russia under Catherine and were exempted from military service. Later, during the wars of empire that wracked Europe in the 19th century, the Czars reneged on their agreement and began to conscript these displaced Germans. They fled wholesale and tended to stick together in the New World.
It isn't Cock is it?
400 years ago(1588) : the battle of the spanish armada : England wrested control of the oceans from the spanish, portuguese, dutch, french(re-proven at trafalger, nelson's victory-in-death). Thus all the coasts of the world became british trade zones, the english language naturally followed. Thus ENGLISH is the world's language because of that long ago naval battle...it's a variation of the golden rule. In this case it was ownership of the oceans as the "gold" and he who owns the gold makes the rules...did you know the Union Jack is part of the Hawaiian State Flag?
Try playing with possible spellings. My mother's maiden name shows up with an alternate spelling.
I may be descended from some of these folks?
I knew a guy named Charley Salt once. He was the landlord of "The Black Bull," a John Smith's Magnet Ale pub very near to the main gate at Menwith Hill Station in Yorkshire, near Harrogate.
So do I....and their are pages and pages of people in the phone book with my name in Vancouver, BC......(I lived there for awhile). It's such a basic name I thought for sure it would be on one of those lists....
So true about Yorkshire. Husband (and therefore I as well) has a verrry British name, almost unheard of in the US.
But go to the West Riding of Yorkshire, you can't throw a brick without hitting someone with that name.
A great tool for genealogy.... Bookmarking it. Thank you so much Blam!!
I've managed to trace my surname back to the Alsace (now part of France, but THEN, a part of Germany) around 1690. There the trail ends.
What's interesting is that the very first one of "us" had the same name I now bear. How's that for a link to the past!
Reagan
You're welcome. You just 'mispelled' my surname a little when you wrote Blam, my surname is Lamb. Now, you know the origins of my screen name.
The Scots-Irish (lowland Scots who immigrated to the US from Northern Ireland) settled thickly in the South. Even Mississippi.
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