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People Connected to Somerset
Historical County of England
See also
Somerset - Main Page
Historic Buildings of Somerset
Somerset Monumental Inscriptions, Cemeteries & Graveyards
Somerset Genealogical Resources - to come
- Genuki Somerset Page
- Somerset Online Parish Clerks
- Somerset & Dorset Family History Society
- The visitation of the county of Somerset in the year 1623 (1876)
- Abstracts of Somersetshire Wills, Etc: 1st Series
- Abstracts of Somersetshire wills, etc. (1887) 2nd Series
- Abstracts of Somersetshire wills, etc: 3rd Series
- Abstracts of Somersetshire Wills, Etc: 4th Series
- Abstracts of Somersetshire Wills, Etc: 5th Series
- Abstracts of Somersetshire Wills, Etc: 6th Series
- The History and Antiquities of Somersetshire; Vol. 1 parts 3-6
- The visitation of the county of Somerset in the year 1623
How to use this Page
- Please link any GENI Profiles with links to Somerset to this project.
- You can ALSO add the earliest heads of families to the list of Somerset Families on Geni below (don't forget to link their profiles to the project as well). These would usually be male! Please restrict people added to the list to the earliest head of family!
Note People with links to Somerset can be linked to the project but not necessarily added to the list below.
People connected to Somerset can also be linked to the following projects.
Historical and Political people
- accommodated by the project Historical Somerset which covers the History of Somerset and historical/political people. Some of these are also listed in the Famous people category.
Famous or Notable People
Those people of note with connections to the county are listed below. Some of these connections are a little tenuous - counties like to lay claim to people of renown! Please visit Somerset - Famous People and add them to the listing there.
Emigrants
People from Somerset who went to the "New world" and were early progenitors in those countries. Where the earliest ancestor is known please add them to the list of "Somerset families on Geni" below if that was their roots, or to the appropriate county project.
Where the earliest known ancestor is the emigrant add them to the list below. In some cases if there is a project that covers them in detail please link the project.
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Heads of Somerset Families on Geni
Names with Bold links are to Geni profiles. Other links take you to external biographical web pages.
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- Elizabeth Torrey (Frye) born and married Capt William Torrey in Combe St. Nicholas; emigrated to Weymouth and bore their 10 children.
- George Frye accompanied his sister and the Torrey family that settled in Weymouth MA)
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- Hugh de Hull 1457-1379)
- William Hussey (c.1030-1086) from Normandy, died in Somerset. It is presumed that he accompanied William the Conqueror in his invasion of England and participated in the Battle of Hastings in 1066. It is suggested that he held land in Somersetshire, probably Sanford Manor, as his portion of the spoils of conquest. He and his brother, Walter Hussey were listed as residents of Somersetshire in 1080 living in the vicinity of Bath, according to "Doomesday Book".
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- Isaac Knight (c1559-1634)
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- Phillip Torrey b. abt 1580 d. before 27 Jun 1621. A sheep rancher and part of the burgeoning raw wool industry in England in the 17th Century.
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Emigrants from Somerset
Please add the names of people from Somerset who settled in the "New World"
Americas
South America
United States
- Henry Adams
- Walter Knight (1586 Staplegrove - 1634 Massachusetts)
- William Phelps of Windsor, CT
- Great Migration: Passengers of the Mary & John, 1630 "Nearly all of the Mary and John 1630 passengers came from the West Country counties of Somerset, Dorset , Devon, and West Country towns of Dorchester, Bridport, Crewkerne and Exeter."
- Capt William Torrey of Weymouth MA 1640)
- Lieut James Torrey of Scituate, Plymouth Colony
- Phillip Torrey Roxbury (witihn present Boston), Suffolk County, Massachusetts Bay Colony
- Joseph Torrey Newport, (Present Newport County), Colony of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations, Colonial America
Australia
Canada
Portugal
South Africa
1820 British Settlers in South Africa
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