Re: Royal Ancestry of Percival Lowell
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Re: Royal Ancestry of Percival Lowell
Laurella 8/13/04
This is from the IGI.It seems probably correct and if so, I can make a tenative ID of these parents.What we are missing, however, among the many Gerrish wills in the same location at the same time is a bequest "to my son/grandson/cousin/brother/etc. in New England" that would truly identify our William Gerrish with a particular family.There were several related Gerrish families settled in the Somerset/Wiltshire area near Bath.There were in the clothing industry and by the early 1600's, a couple of them had aquired enough land to be considered gentry.No evidence that by the mid 1600's they had acquired a coat of arms, but I suspect some of them did later.