Grandma chimes in
Sep. 9th, 2003 12:38 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
dragonlady7Here's an email from my grandma about the genealogical stuff I've been working on-- in response to an email I sent, which is here.
"Loved your long letter and all the things you have been tracing. One of the things I discovered is how the Denisons and Zehs are connected through the Gallup family.
Really came aware of it when I discovered both families in a cemetery up out of Altamont. The DENISON GENEOLOGY gives the ancestry of the Gallups who also descend from Charlemagne and Hildegarde through Kings Louis I and II and Charles II and III of France and then down. The ancestry of Bridget Thompson comes from Clovis the Riparian and in 14 generations to Charlemagne and Hildegarde but then Pepin 773-810, King of Italy.
When they get on to the Denisons, because the surname means son of Denis, it suggests that, since Denis was the patron saint of France, that the first English Denison landed with William the Conqueror. However the name Denisca, signifying Danish, appears in the old Ango-Saxon Hundred Rolls so possibly the first Denison came ashore from a Viking longship.
However George Denison was born in Stortford, England, son of William, described as a man of "goodly estate." George's three older brothers went to Cambridge. George came to America on the LION a boy of 13, with his parents and two older brothers. The eldest son, a clergyman, remained in England. During the 1 month's passage across the Atlantic, the father got Rev. John Eliot, the future missionary to the Indians, to tutor the boy and the education was continued in Roxbury (MA) where they settled. He was 23 when his wife died, leaving him with two children. He ran out of the churchyard, galloped off to Boston and sailed on the first ship to England. He enlisted in Cromwell's forces and was commissioned a captain of cavalry. During the battle of Naseby he was taken prisoner, but escaped and at Marston Moor he was severely wounded. For his recovery he went to Cork (near his cousin John) and stayed in the home of a well-to-do leather merchant, John Borodell, and fell in love with his nurse, the daugher Ann. They returned to Roxbury where they were gladly welcomed. "His bride charmed everyone. She was tall with brown hair and blue eyes, very pretty. But she was so kindly and gracious, so true a gentlewoman that the neighbors called her 'Lady Ann'." Despite his military record and experience he was not elected captain of the local militia company, so he moved to Conecticut with his wife, two new children and two girls by his first wife. There he immediately became involved in the colony's activites, being captan of the militia, census taker, tax assessor, inspector of the port and deputy to General Court of Hartford,. For services to the community he received a land grant of 200 acres. In the mean-time others had moved nearer the coast - Thomas Stanton, official interpreter of the colony; William Chesebrough and his friend, Walter Palmer; Palmer's son-in-law Thomas Miner, and between George and the Mystic River, 300 acres granted to Captain John Gallup Jr. This made up the settlement of Stonington.
The Denison homestead was built in 1717 on the site of the original homestead which had burned. It stayed in the family continuously until the occupant, Ann Borodell Denison Gates, the 8th generation, in 1930 invited Denison descendants to her home and the Denison Society was formed. When she died in 1941 the home was left to the Society. The surrounding 150 acres were designated the Pequotsepos Wildlife Sanctuary.
Guess that's enough for now. "
Edited for a couple of confusing typos-- her typing is great but her vision isn't so great.
Isn't my grandma great?
"Loved your long letter and all the things you have been tracing. One of the things I discovered is how the Denisons and Zehs are connected through the Gallup family.
Really came aware of it when I discovered both families in a cemetery up out of Altamont. The DENISON GENEOLOGY gives the ancestry of the Gallups who also descend from Charlemagne and Hildegarde through Kings Louis I and II and Charles II and III of France and then down. The ancestry of Bridget Thompson comes from Clovis the Riparian and in 14 generations to Charlemagne and Hildegarde but then Pepin 773-810, King of Italy.
When they get on to the Denisons, because the surname means son of Denis, it suggests that, since Denis was the patron saint of France, that the first English Denison landed with William the Conqueror. However the name Denisca, signifying Danish, appears in the old Ango-Saxon Hundred Rolls so possibly the first Denison came ashore from a Viking longship.
However George Denison was born in Stortford, England, son of William, described as a man of "goodly estate." George's three older brothers went to Cambridge. George came to America on the LION a boy of 13, with his parents and two older brothers. The eldest son, a clergyman, remained in England. During the 1 month's passage across the Atlantic, the father got Rev. John Eliot, the future missionary to the Indians, to tutor the boy and the education was continued in Roxbury (MA) where they settled. He was 23 when his wife died, leaving him with two children. He ran out of the churchyard, galloped off to Boston and sailed on the first ship to England. He enlisted in Cromwell's forces and was commissioned a captain of cavalry. During the battle of Naseby he was taken prisoner, but escaped and at Marston Moor he was severely wounded. For his recovery he went to Cork (near his cousin John) and stayed in the home of a well-to-do leather merchant, John Borodell, and fell in love with his nurse, the daugher Ann. They returned to Roxbury where they were gladly welcomed. "His bride charmed everyone. She was tall with brown hair and blue eyes, very pretty. But she was so kindly and gracious, so true a gentlewoman that the neighbors called her 'Lady Ann'." Despite his military record and experience he was not elected captain of the local militia company, so he moved to Conecticut with his wife, two new children and two girls by his first wife. There he immediately became involved in the colony's activites, being captan of the militia, census taker, tax assessor, inspector of the port and deputy to General Court of Hartford,. For services to the community he received a land grant of 200 acres. In the mean-time others had moved nearer the coast - Thomas Stanton, official interpreter of the colony; William Chesebrough and his friend, Walter Palmer; Palmer's son-in-law Thomas Miner, and between George and the Mystic River, 300 acres granted to Captain John Gallup Jr. This made up the settlement of Stonington.
The Denison homestead was built in 1717 on the site of the original homestead which had burned. It stayed in the family continuously until the occupant, Ann Borodell Denison Gates, the 8th generation, in 1930 invited Denison descendants to her home and the Denison Society was formed. When she died in 1941 the home was left to the Society. The surrounding 150 acres were designated the Pequotsepos Wildlife Sanctuary.
Guess that's enough for now. "
Edited for a couple of confusing typos-- her typing is great but her vision isn't so great.
Isn't my grandma great?
