First English Charter for American Colonization1606
10 April 1606 King James I of England chartered two Virginia Companies, headquartered in different cities in England, to establish colonies along the coast [...]
Another Lesson From Mama Nature
Another Lesson From Mama Nature On my birthday every year for the past forty years or so, the Louisiana Iris bloom here at Earthsprings, the [...]
Wild Iris and Other Blooming Memories
Here are pictures of some of the flowers I mentioned in today's podcast "Seventy Four Years Ago." Louisiana Iris, photo by Glenda Taylor, Earthsprings [...]
Poem: First Flowers
First Flowers The first flowers I remember (though there were earlier others, to be sure, as pictures exist of me, in my Sunday best, [...]
Ancestry–Baker Surname in Virginia 1620–1640
Ancestry, Baker Surname in Virginia 1620-1640 Note that this information refers to Baker, not Barker; see Barker in another post on this website. 1609 [...]
Ancestry: Stockdell–Stockstill–Stockdale–Stockden in Virginia 1623-1640
Stockstill/ Stockdell/Stocksdale/Stockden/Stockton in Virginia 1623-1640 Research by Glenda Taylor The pronunciation of this name undoubtedly was the cause of so many variations in spelling in [...]
A Gift of Wonder
Today is my grandson Jacob’s birthday, and I am pondering some of the ways he has taught me about the mysterious miracles of life. I [...]
Ancestry: Burges in England Prior to American Colonization, Part 2
At the end of the previous segment of this manuscript, as is usual when making genealogical connections, we leaped ahead of ourselves to bring in [...]
Ancestry: Some Burges In England Prior to American Colonization, by Glenda Taylor
Burges in England prior to colonization in the Americas. Burges in England prior to North American colonization include knights, barons, land holders, ordinary husbandmen, distinguished [...]
Ancestry: Burge, Burgh, Burges, Burgess in England and America
Burge, Burges, Burgess, Burgh, Burgeis, Burgis, Burgeys Burges (by any of these names) were among the earliest arrivals in the American colonies. (Spelling in the colonial [...]