Steve reports that he and Beth are enjoying the Great Britain and beyond.
Rained in Belfast in the am yesterday, but cleared up in afternoon. We visited a living history exhibit that is trying to preserve some of the buildings they are clearing for new development. They have done a nice job and you get a feel for the small quarters they have lived in during different eras. I haven't downloaded the pictures from Belfast yet but here is a picture of Beth and I on the little train we road in Wales. Very green and lush vegatation.
Will you be in Cardigan, Wales? This is the birthplace of Beth's maternal ascendants Frances (or Philip Francis) Davis, whose three sons born in Cardigan Gideon (1615), Philip (1617), and Francis (1626) set out for America. Philip and Frances made safe voyage to America likely when Philip was 21 years old making it 1637.
ReplyDeleteBoth Philip and Francis, the immigrants, said that their father was of Scottish and Welsh extraction. One tradition says that their grandfather was John Davis of the Grampian Hills of Scotland, born 1538. John Davis fled religious persecution in Scotland about 1560; married a Welsh woman and Francis or Philip Francis was born in about 1590.
This information is from Genealogy of the Ancestry and Descendants of Captain Francis Davis Dayton, Ohio, the Otterbein Press, 1910.