Family Ties
Aug. 20th, 2006 09:08 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
ellyssianThe great thing about genealogy, is that you wind up making contact with distant - and not-so-distant - relatives that you had no idea even existed.
Case in point, after a few hours of work, I now have 2065 people in my family tree - and I still have several other branches of the Ingoldsby/Ingalsbe/Ingalsby/Engalsby lines to go, all because a relative in the Ingalsbe line saw my earlier post and made contact (Thanks Duffy!) I've been entering in data from 90-something pages of information, going all the way back to 1230 AD and Sir Roger Ingoldsby, Lord of the Manor Skynand and the Manor of Ingoldesby, England.
To clarify a bit of earlier speculation, Sir Richard Ingoldsby, forced by his cousin, Oliver Cromwell, to sign the death warrant of King Charles I and also the only Regicide to be pardoned in the Restoration - he was the brother of my direct ancestor John Ingoldsby, and son of Sir Richard Ingoldsby and Elizabeth Cromwell. Thus, the aforementioned Oliver Cromwell's grandfather Sir Henry Cromwell is also my 12-times-Great Grandfather.
Of course, you can also go back a bit further with the Ingoldsby line, to whit:
The name of "Ingoldsby" is an ancient one, formed by that of old Norse chieftain "Ingjald" a descendant of Aun, the old, and of the Yingling family, (or, according to the Patronymica Britannia, from the Scandinavian, 'Ingold,' 'Ingoll,' or 'Ingle,' a surname) in the possessive case, and the Danish termination "by," for village or town, meaning Ingold's town. "Ingjald" or "Ingold" may mean literally in gold or golden; I.e., wealthy; or, it may be a modification of "Angle," an ancient people of England; or, from "Ingol," meaning in trenched, or fortified, as Ingolstadt, a fortified city of Bavaria, The first is the probable derivation, as the Danish in their conquest more commonly named their settlements directly after individuals.
The Danes are responsible for the name of "Ingoldsby" for they bestowed it upon one of their villages in Lincolnshire, the birthplace of the INGOLDSBY race, when they invaded and settled in England under the chieftains Gothrun and Halfdene in the 9th century; or later, under Eric, Canute, or others, in the 10th or 11th centuries.
I knew I'd get back to some Viking heritage sooner or later - rumor has it that the Warren line started off in Normandy, and came from Viking descent there... but that's all speculation, and I'm still at Obediah in the mid-1700s with the Warren line. Although, curiously enough, the second wife of the aforementioned Sir Henry Cromwell was one Joan Warren... maybe a relation?
Still much more work to do - to get the rest of the Ingoldsby lines recorded, and to continue through the cubic foot or so of paperwork my dad left me. There's also a lot of interesting little bits of legend, story, and history around the ancestors in the Ingoldsby document and in my father's material - but that will be a second or third pass through the materials before I assimilate all of it into one place. As I said, much more work to do.
Oh, and![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
snowy_owlet? I've got that Sons of the American Revolution thing down and documented in a dozen or so places, if I want it. Now, do I actually want to go there? =)
Case in point, after a few hours of work, I now have 2065 people in my family tree - and I still have several other branches of the Ingoldsby/Ingalsbe/Ingalsby/Engalsby lines to go, all because a relative in the Ingalsbe line saw my earlier post and made contact (Thanks Duffy!) I've been entering in data from 90-something pages of information, going all the way back to 1230 AD and Sir Roger Ingoldsby, Lord of the Manor Skynand and the Manor of Ingoldesby, England.
To clarify a bit of earlier speculation, Sir Richard Ingoldsby, forced by his cousin, Oliver Cromwell, to sign the death warrant of King Charles I and also the only Regicide to be pardoned in the Restoration - he was the brother of my direct ancestor John Ingoldsby, and son of Sir Richard Ingoldsby and Elizabeth Cromwell. Thus, the aforementioned Oliver Cromwell's grandfather Sir Henry Cromwell is also my 12-times-Great Grandfather.
Of course, you can also go back a bit further with the Ingoldsby line, to whit:
The name of "Ingoldsby" is an ancient one, formed by that of old Norse chieftain "Ingjald" a descendant of Aun, the old, and of the Yingling family, (or, according to the Patronymica Britannia, from the Scandinavian, 'Ingold,' 'Ingoll,' or 'Ingle,' a surname) in the possessive case, and the Danish termination "by," for village or town, meaning Ingold's town. "Ingjald" or "Ingold" may mean literally in gold or golden; I.e., wealthy; or, it may be a modification of "Angle," an ancient people of England; or, from "Ingol," meaning in trenched, or fortified, as Ingolstadt, a fortified city of Bavaria, The first is the probable derivation, as the Danish in their conquest more commonly named their settlements directly after individuals.
The Danes are responsible for the name of "Ingoldsby" for they bestowed it upon one of their villages in Lincolnshire, the birthplace of the INGOLDSBY race, when they invaded and settled in England under the chieftains Gothrun and Halfdene in the 9th century; or later, under Eric, Canute, or others, in the 10th or 11th centuries.
I knew I'd get back to some Viking heritage sooner or later - rumor has it that the Warren line started off in Normandy, and came from Viking descent there... but that's all speculation, and I'm still at Obediah in the mid-1700s with the Warren line. Although, curiously enough, the second wife of the aforementioned Sir Henry Cromwell was one Joan Warren... maybe a relation?
Still much more work to do - to get the rest of the Ingoldsby lines recorded, and to continue through the cubic foot or so of paperwork my dad left me. There's also a lot of interesting little bits of legend, story, and history around the ancestors in the Ingoldsby document and in my father's material - but that will be a second or third pass through the materials before I assimilate all of it into one place. As I said, much more work to do.
Oh, and
snowy_owlet? I've got that Sons of the American Revolution thing down and documented in a dozen or so places, if I want it. Now, do I actually want to go there? =)