Principally addresses the confusion regarding "two Joan Somerys, to half-brothers named John le Strange, two Joan Inghams, and two families of 'Le Strange of Walton' (i.e., one of co. Warw. and one of co. Norfolk), and to show that the former sprang from Le Strange of Knockin, Salop."--p. 1.

The English Strange families, who settled in Virginia. The Blisland Strange families arose from the third son of Alexander and Anne Strange, Alexander Strange, Jr. (1691-1745). The descendants in this book are through the twin sons of Alexander Strange, Jr., Joseph Strange, Sr. (1716-1749) and Benjamin Strange, Sr. (1716-1760). These families migrated westward into Kentucky and northwesterly into Indiana and several other states. Includes indices....

Begins with the knights of Hunstanton Hall, Norfolk, England, the baronets that followed them and the several lineages that arose from these families.

Dorothy Stapleton married Thomas Nelson 17 January 1626/7 in Yorkshire, England. They lived in Cottingham. Yorkshire. They had six children. Her husband and sons immigrated to Massachusetts after she died. Ancestors, descendants and relatives lived throughout Great Britain and Europe.

Newsletter for the interchange of genealogical data and history of the Strange (and variant spellings) families who came mainly from England, France, Germany, Ireland, Scotland, and Wales from the 1600-1800's. One early ancestor was Daniel de L'Estrange, a Huguenot immigrant from France (via London) who came to New York in 1688. Other progenitors also settled in New York, Rhode Island, and Virginia in the 1600's. In the 1700's, some also settled...