Re: William Ijams' ancestors? Proof??
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Re: William Ijams' ancestors? Proof??
Dina Spence 2/09/01
Dianne,I, too, believe there is no connection between William Ijams and the Innes family.I suspect the confusion arises from the names and military positions of two members of Elizabeth I's court.Sir Robert I'Ans served Her Majesty as Master of Ordnance;Sir Robert Innes seems to have been Quartermaster General.I checked Burke's General Armory for coats of arms, and there is no similarity between the two (thus, one is not a variant of the other):I'Ans is a red shield with a silver bar, and on the bar are 3 Cornish choughs (blackbirds) walking right to left;Innes is a silver shield with 3 5-pointed blue stars across the top, surmounted by a crest of an armored right arm cut off at the elbow and holding a broadsword vertically, and the shield is supported by a pair of silver greyhounds standing on their rear feet (various branches of the Innes clan added different symbols and mottoes to this basic design).The I'Ans family was from Devonshire or Cornwall (Ilfracombe, Bideford, Bude and Barum/Barnstaple), and the Innes clan from Scotland - this shows in the symbols in their coats of arms.I have a copy of Lois Ijams Hartman's little book about the origins of the family, and while she is more narrative than I wish, she does mention sources and places that could be checked out, and addresses the changes in spelling that metamorphosed I'Ans to Iiams, Ijams and other variants, quoting Neuman's "Ann Arundel Gentry."(My personal speculation is that copyists, seeing I'Ans handwritten, mistook the apostrophe for the dot over a missing i or j, and so added the letter and altered the spelling.Both Iiams and Ijams appear in records of the first generation born on American soil.)I can copy information from Mrs. Hartman's book for you if you desire - you may be in a better position to research some of these records than I.Rosemary Imes Frey.(Our branch of the family spelled our surname Iams until about 1850, then changed to the current spelling due to the excessive number of Iams families in thie area of Ohio.)
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