Colonial Chesapeake Families: British Origins and Descendants Harrison Dwight Cavanagh
First edition awarded the Sumner A. Parker Prize by the Maryland Historical Society in 2014
The second edition of this work features all descendants of Thomas Gantt I (b. Bullwick, N. Hants; to Md. 1654; d. Calvert Co. 1692) and Ann Fielder (b. ca. 1662 Hants; d. PG Co. 1726) in the fi rst six to ten generations.
Ann Fielder is an important new addition to American colonial GATEWAY ancestors. Her parents, Capt. William Fielder (ca. 1620-1679) of Burrough Court Manor and Marjorie Cole (1628-1699) of Lyss Abbey, Hants, have proven multiple royal and magna carta ancestral lines; sixty extensive British pedigrees are documented in these volumes. The name Fielder has been inherited in multiple generations of the Beall, Belt, Berry, Bowie, Calvert, Clagett, Denwood, Dorsett, Gantt, Jones (Somerset Co.), Parker (Cal. Co.), Smallwood, Smith (Cal. Co.), andWight (White) Maryland families.
In addition, this second edition contains important new research findings on the British origins of the Hatton-Domville and Brooke-Darnall families, as well as revealing the two "lost" Ann Bradfords of PG Co.
Colonial Chesapeake Families details the pedigrees of 88 families; historical illustrations, portraits, documents, and coats-of-arms (where proven) are included.
Publication of these volumes has been subsidized to make them more widely available to the thousands of descendants listed in their pages. And, thanks to print-on-demand, Colonial Chesapeake Families will never go out of print.