Upon discovering the presence of Drakes in Dawn’s family tree, my mind immediately turned to the renowned Sir Francis Drake, the English...

I stumbled onto the story of Uncle Owen Fitzpen and thought I would tell it to the family in the context of the Phippen/Fitzpen family. I...

This story begins in France, like several other of the Cook-Maine family’s ancestors. Nicholas Gaylord was from the House of Gaillard,...

Edward Rainsford/Raynesford was the third son of Robert and Mary (Kirton) Rainsford, Esquire, of Staverton, in Northampton County,...