Mann[e]ring = Mainwaring or Manwaring
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In reply to:
Re: Samuel Carey 1752-1823 Gravesite
8/19/00
Carol:
If you are checking out Mannring or Manring, make sure to go to MAINWARING or MANWARING which are the original surnames (according to most researchers). The 'w' had become silent long ago. It is said the name came from the "man o' war" ships of many centuries ago or perhaps from the act of waging war on "the bounding main". In any case it seems the name is connected way back with sailors and people who waged war at sea in some way or another.
This family has lots of ROYAL ties in England. In America, they settled at first in CT and Long Island, NY.
By the way, the following is a 'word of warning' if you get deeply involved in MAINWARING research:
- http://www.dcs.hull.ac.uk/public/genealogy/royal/http://www.dcs.hull.ac.uk/public/genealogy/royal/ - Website for the University of Hull (U.K.) Royal Family Lineage. The Abell and Mainwaring family lines supposedly link through Cicely Mainwaring. **NOTE: The Hull database is notoriously faulty and contains numerous errors. A number of qualified individuals have submitted corrections (with documentation), only to be informed that there is no intention of correcting any mistakes. So "caveat lector".
This does not mean that the Mainwaring data is faulty, but there are corrections which have been made in recent years which are probably not found in their database. For the Abell and Oliver Mainwaring of New London, CT Royal descents, please see either Gary Boyd Roberts' "The Royal Descent of 500 Immigrants" (under revision in 2000) or the newly published "Plantagenet Ancestry of Seventeenth Century Colonists: Second Edition" by David Faris. Dr. Faris, along with Douglas Richardson, issued a new book on Magna Carta Ancestry from the New England Historic Genealogical Society (NEHGS) late in 2000.