Re: THOMAS RIX 1622 prob Salem, Mass
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Re: THOMAS RIX 1622 prob Salem, Mass
8/03/00
I wouldn't be too trusting of guy rix's book.Like much victorian geneological stuff, it suffers from alot of romantic imagination.Many of us have had the painful experience of travelling to Brancaster only to discover that there are no such parish records, no great chest in the parish church, no cliffs (any where on the Norfolk 'broads')upon which to build a castle and certainly no trace of a castle ever having been built!As an earlier respondent mentioned, there is no trace of rix's in historical documents being at the battle of Flodden Field, serving Henry the VIII, befriending the Boylens, losing heads, etc.I think Rix's book is a somewhat reliable source for American geneological info, but I would, because of experience, discount much of his other info as fabrication.The Canninghall of Rix's book, is, I think, Canning Hall in Essex (one more reason to think that Rix was using anecdotal family myth and had never actually visited Norfolk or Essex himself).Interestingly enough, a decade ago, my then girlfriend's parents were spending a sabbatical in a friends house in Brancaster.Their gardener's name was Rix!So perhaps there is a Brancaster connection, but thats a ways from Canning Hall.Still, such a migration is common place.
Edward Rix
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