Help Me Shake My Family Tree

I have known for a long time that much of my family history goes back to England.  My Great-grandfather James Homer Ray came from Ireland, but I am unable to find his parents or any of his ancestry.  I have suspected that the Goodman family (my mother’s maiden name) had its origin in Germany, but I cannot prove it.  While doing family history research I’ve discovered that I have a great deal of ancestry from Norway, Sweden, Finland, and Denmark.  In fact, I’ve been able to track some of my Norwegian ancestry to 215 AD, thanks to being able to tie into royalty.  Yes, I have the blood of kings and queens, princes, princesses, dukes, and ditches running through my veins.

The problem is that once you get past the fourth or fifth generation back, that pedigree chart gets kinda messy and while you may be able to find a line that goes back to 215 AD, you also end up with hundreds of lines that go nowhere.

I would like to do something just for fun.  What follows is a list of surnames that are in my family history dating back to the 1700s.  Please take a look at it and see if you have any of the same surnames in your genealogy.  If you find a surname in common it doesn’t necessarily mean that we are related, but it would be fun to see if we are.

 I would ask you to take a look at the list on my blog and let me know if we have any surnames in common.  And, who knows! We might be related. (Gasp!)

Agnarsson

Aldrich

Bagot

Bamforth

Barker

Barnes

Bayeux (895 AD)

Baynton

Berenger

Borrell (1002 – 1077)

Bosco

Bostwick

Burton

Childers

Childress

Clarke

Claxton

Conyers (Esquire of Horndon)

Cooper

Cornwall

d’Aunou (1012 - )

D’Retford

Dagsdsdr (772 – 866 AD – Norway)

Darcy

De Bohun

de Cavalcamp (890 AD)

de Clare

de Flanders (850 AD)

de Grey

de Rolleston

De Segrave

de Vere

Debosco

DePercy

Descales

Donne

Dotson

Eistein

Elsabethe (Lady Elsabethe)

Emerson

Eriksdotter

Estania (970 AD)

Evans

Eysteinsdatter

Eysteinsdoittir

Eysteinsson (845 AD – Norway)

Farmer

Ferree (NY)

Firth

Fitton

FitzAlan

FitzHugh

Fry

Germonde

Goodman

Grey

Halfdansson

Hamilton

Harbottle

Havers

Hawley

Hedworth

Hildebrante

Holland

Holliday

Honeychurch

Howard

Hrolfsdatter (850 – 892)

Huddleston

Hughes

Hutton

Hvibein

Jackson

Kilrington

King

King Eystein Haldanarsson

King Olaf Gunrodsson

Knyvett

Kuykendall

Kymball

Lewis

Lumley

Mangopeesomon (Wales – 1625 – 1720)

Marmion

Meadows

Milde

Miller

Moleyns

More (830 – 890, Norway)

Mowbray

Myers

Nefia

Norris

Olafsson

Patterson

Perkins

Perkins

Pickering

Pollard

Pool

Porter

Pulleyn

Pulliam

Quiney

Quinton

Ragnvaldsdottir

Ramsden

Ratcliffe

Ray

Reynolds

Rice

Rolleston (Lady Ellen, Baroness

Royal

Sammois

Sanders

Seville

Sexton

Sherringham

Sigtrygsson

Sigurdsdottir

Smith

Stafford

Stafford

Stapilton

Steward

Street

Stumpe

Tendring

Thayer

Theaxton

Thornton

Thorpe

Tilney

Toeni (1030 – 1078)

Townsend

Trussell

Vermandois

Vest

Vestfold

Walkelyn

Webster

Wells

Westmare

Whalesborough

Whittel

Wichingham (1290 – England)

Wickenden

Wilkinson

Williams

Woden (215 AD)

Wright

Wrymundsdottir