My research on my Elliott family led me to making this my next book to read. The book received excellent reviews.
Earlier in the week, I sent the following information to our group that are matches on yDNA. We believe this to be the family group connected to John and Sarah Elliott who took a certificate with them to Nottingham MM in 1722 but were accepted by New Garden MM.
But the BIG thing is that when Jeff’s results came back as a match to us at 111 markers, I quit looking at much of what I had looked at and am now concentrating on the idea that the common ancestor for Jeff Houghton and for our Elliott line is a man who was living in the area of the North Midlands of England. The Book Albion’s seed says:
From Albion's Seed by David Hackett Fischer: (page 438)
"The Quaker founders of Pennsylvania and West Jersey came from every part of England. But one region stood out above the rest. The Friends' migration drew heavily upon the North Midlands, and especially the counties of Cheshire, Lancaster, Yorkshire, Derbyshire and Nottinghamshire. In a list of English immigrants who arrived at Philadelphia between the years 1682 and 1687, more than 80 percent came from these five contiguous counties."
and
"On both banks of the Delaware River, these Quaker immigrants distributed themselves in small settlements according to their places of origin in Britain. Country Quakers from Cheshire, Lancashire and Yorkshire settled mainly in Chester and Bucks Counties. "the farmers amoung them poverty stricken dalesmen from the moors of northern England." writes Frederick Tolles, "headed straight for the rich uplands of Bucks and Chester" The lands around Trenton were occupied by emigrants from the Peak District of Derbyshire and Nottinghamshire. London Quakers preferred the city and county of Philadelphia. Emigrants from Bristol founded a town of the same name on the Delaware River. Dublin Quakers occupied Newton, West Jersey. Emigrants from, Wales colonized the "Welsh Tract" west of the Schuylkill River"
So what led me to make this book my next read? It was Jeff's comment that I add below:
Now the shock horror news of the Elliot's, they are bad, bad Vikings who came over with William and maybe a connection to the Britons of old.(Brittany for 500 years. ) Right history lessons and NOT Scottish by origin LOL
and the link that he sent to read:
These put the idea that perhaps our Elliott line did indeed come with the Norman Invasion.
The author is telling the story of how Edward the confessor had come to power as King of England.
So the author is setting the scene and he says that the Anglo-Saxons had driven the Celts to the west and north, And they had founded the kingdoms shown below. The author does not mention Wales, so I am not clear about if this was an Anglo-Saxon area. But with the coming of the Vikings, First Northumbria fell to the viking and then Mercia and East Anglia. But the kingdom of Wessex remained and was ruled by Alfred the Great. And then later by son and grandson. They successfully fended against the Vikings. They began adding land to the north until they were successful in driving out the Vikings from North in York. Alfred did not set himself as a conqueror. He stressed their common chronicle. It was written in the every day language: Land of Angles....Engleland.
He was a direct descendant of Alfred the great. By the time of Edward's birth the Vikings had returned and harried, burned, slew as they moved into the area.
And the author explains that Normandy comes from the land of the North Men who moved into the area in:
The Normans (from the Latin Normanni and Old Norse for "north men") were ethnic Scandinavian Vikings who settled in northwest France in the early 9th century AD. They controlled the region known as Normandy until the mid 13th century.
