Saturday 12 January 2008

SYMONDS PEDIGREE UPDATE

If you wish to view an update to the pedigree chart listed in the posting below, then please double click on the following link or on the alternative link listed at the right of this posting. I have added information obtained since Henry Symonds wrote his Narrative History, and several other items of interest.

http://wasfu-man-symondspedigreeupdate.blogspot.com/

Furthermore, being ever concious of the ever present crime of identity theft, I have deliberately stopped the tree at the offspring of the F generation in order to protect the identities of family still living.


You may also want to check out Henry Symonds' exploits in the Boer war at Kimberley. Click on the following link to see details of his Diary and other details:

http://wasfu-man-kimberleysiege.blogspot.com/

3 comments:

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NFallon said...

I have 54 coats of arms with the surname Simmons that can be found here:
https://coadb.com/surnames/simmons-arms.html

Unknown said...

I am seekingnninformation re Rebeccah, John and Thomas Symonds:

Col. Thomas Grendon left property and money to a grandchild in his will:
Rebeckah Symonds wife of John Symonds of London and to Thomas Symonds sonn of my said grandchild Rebeckah

Col. Thomas Grendon was a London member of Drapers Guild
He was also a business man to the early English Jamestown, Va. settlement. He shared his time in his business ventures between Jamestown and London.

Colonel Thomas Grendon's will was probated in London, December 15, 1678. He described himself as "of St. James Duke Place, London, citizen and draper", gave his grandson Thomas Grendon, "now in Virginia", lands in Shelton, County Stafford, and to his daughter Hannah Duke, "now in Virginia" certain property there. (Sherwood, American Colonists, p. 53) p. 152 of Weissinger abstracted Manuscript 2G 8654 a 1, Virginia Historical Society the will of Thomas Grendon of Westover Parish, Charles City Co., Tent. 23 Feb. 1683/4
Witnesses to this will wr. 23 Feb. 1683/4 were: Henry Harman, Richard Williamson, JOHN ROACH, Abel Gower

researcher: mdt421@aol.com

Margaret Louise Drody Thompson