Chat
|
Daily Search
|
My GenForum
|
Community Standards
|
Terms of Service
|
|
|
Jasper Amor came to The United States of America and settled in Lafayette County, Missouri, from England in 1872. His spouse Hannah Wicks, came from Bromham, Wiltshire, England the same place that Jasper was born and raised as well. They came with the hope of finding wealth, health and freedom from the class system that held them back in England. Jasper and Hannah had followed the eldest Amor brother Alfred and his wife Susanna Weston who had come to Missouri some 2 years before and who loved it very much. Both families grew to be large and now their descendaThe Amor family is a very old English family, that I have been able to trace in Bromham, Wiltshire, England back to the 1300’s and have found that the roots go back to Norfolk County, England to the mid-1200’s when a Spanish Marquise took up land ownership there. I have been able to trace his name to be of the family Amor De Soria from the region of Soria in Spain. The family has a coat of arms with the motto “AMOR EI FIDE” or “LOVE AND FAITH.” This coat of arms comes from Spain and was lost to those many generations of Amor’s that were to become the “salt of the earth” and whom we are most closely to commemorate as ours. Yet we have many members of our family who have honored us with their success in life as educated and intelligent people, who trained as professionals in government, trade, and in the military as well in many other fields.
Our family in Wiltshire was most closely involved for many generations in the weaving trade and wove woolen cloth for hundreds of years in Bromham and in other small villages in Wiltshire and Somerset, County. We find our Ancestor Thomas Amor of Bromham, in 1824 a weaver with pauper children of the chapelery or parish of Southbroom under his care, or St. James’s Devizes, then in the parish of Bishops Cannings, who were apprenticed by the overseers. The Amor’s were for the most part “Broad Weavers” but they were also what was called “Sergemakers,” an “Scribbler” and “Shearman” among them. The weaver’s cottage that had been the home of the Amors for many generations at Loophill on the west side of Bromham still stands and I have been there on two occasions to see and photograph this the birth place of both Jasper and Alfred Amor.
Both Jasper and Alfred were market gardeners when they came to Missouri as the weaving industry in England had moved to Northern England in the fifty years or so before they left for their new homes. The tradition of the family is that the family still had connections to the cloth industry when they came to Missouri and that the Weston families were cloth merchants in London and in Devizes, Wiltshire. We know that Jasper had a farm in Lafayette, County, Missouri near Odessa and that he grew tomatoes, strawberries and many other vegetables for the cannery there. At the time the two families came to Missouri it was a state unsurpassed by any other in the Union for soil and an abundant harvest. The soil was rich at the time the Amor’s settled, the richness was the result of millions of years of organic build up and the deposits from the mighty glacier age that left many feet of rich black top soil when they retreated. The American Indian of the region had enjoyed the fruits of this soil for thousands of years before growing corn, pumpkins, beans, potatoes and many more important plants for food and health.
nts number a few thousand mainly located in the USA
Notify Administrator about this message?
Followups:No followups yet |
| http://genforum.genealogy.com/amer/messages/102.html | ||
 |
Link to GenForum Add Forum |
|