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  Southsea - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
A prominent architect during this period was Thomas Ellis Owen who built properties in Kent Road, Queen’s Terrace, Sussex Terrace and Portland Terrace.
Much of Southsea was designed by the architect Thomas Ellis Owen.
The majority of Owen's Southsea is now protected by a number of Conservation Areas or by being Listed Buildings.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Southsea   (1065 words)

  
 St. Clair County Biographies
THOMAS ROBERTS was born in Rutherford County, Tennessee, in 1841, and was the son of Jesse Roberts, originally of South Carolina, born in 1778.
Owen Snuffer, to whom we are indebted for this sketch, has written several articles for the press, and among these contributions are "The Early Settlers of the County" and "The Sacking and Burning of Osceola by Jim Lane." "The Battle of Lone Jack," written by him, is acknowledged to be a fair and impartial history.
THOMAS TERRY, the son of James and Nancy P. Terry, was born in King William County, Virginia, on the 25th of December, 1817.
www.looktothepast.com /stclairbios3.html   (22169 words)

  
 THOMAS ELLIS SCHOOL WEB SITE
Thomas Briscoe was respected by everyone and his kindness knew no bounds.
Owen R. Ellis was succeeded by Evan Jones in 1881, and Gertrude Seed succeeded Nancy Rimmer in 1891.
Ellis Caswallon Willimas was appointed the fist headmaster of the amalgamated National School in 1947m and together with Ellen E. Morgan Jones, guided the school through the last 7 years of it's life in the old buildings.
www.holyhead.com /thomasellis/page4.html   (424 words)

  
 THOMAS ELLIS SCHOOL WEB SITE
THOMAS ELLIS was born in 1711/12, the second son of Edward Ellis Galltfelyd in Fflintshire.
The welfare of the poor people in the parish was of great concern to Thomas Ellis, so much so that he distributed alms to the needy, sick and to large families.
Ellis had a profound effect on the lives of the people.
www.holyhead.com /thomasellis   (311 words)

  
 Rocky Road: Sir Richard Owen
Sir Richard Owen's boyhood tutor once described him as "lazy and impudent" and predicted he would "come to a bad end." He obviously outgrew his laziness, but "impudent" was putting it mildly.
Owen himself was initially skeptical.) His exceptional ability also enabled Owen to expose the occasional fraud, such as Albert Koch's "sea monster" really pieced together from fossil whales.
Owen's best known contribution to science, however, was likely his combination of two Greek words: deinos ("terrible") and sauros ("lizard") in the early 1840s.
www.strangescience.net /owen.htm   (939 words)

  
 Descendants of Thomas Wilkes
Thomas Wilkes was imported by Fernando Austin into Charles City Co., VA on 25 Feb 1653, for which a headright was claimed totaling 1200 acres.
Thomas Wilkes was sued on 14 June 1684 over land in Rappahannoc Co., VA in which he was in possession.
Robert Beckingham and Thomas Wilkes, and was claimed in behalf of Giles Cale, deceased, who proported to own it, and to have it given as a legacy to Nathaniel Cale, son and heir.
www.infomrt.com /familyhistory/wilkes_cf/descends.html   (7856 words)

  
 Amazon.com: American Sphinx: The Character of Thomas Jefferson (Vintage): Books: Joseph J. Ellis   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
Ellis breaks down five periods of Jefferson's life: (1) the period around the writing of the Declaration, (2) the years in Paris as American envoy, (3) the years in semi-seclusion during the second Washington administration, (4) his first Presidential term, (5) and his years in retirement the decade prior to his death.
Ellis not afraid to stay away from the more controversial aspects of Jefferson's thinking - his views on slavery vs. his prose in the Declaration that "all men are created equal" and his affair with Sally Hemmings.
Ellis' objective is to steer that honorable course in an attempt to understand and appreciate the "true Jefferson," which the third president tended to hide from everyone, including (and above all) himself.
www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0679764410?v=glance   (3762 words)

  
 Portsmouth-UK - Southsea History
Thomas Ellis saw the potential for developing the farmland near the sea.
Thomas Ellis Owen served as Mayor of Portsmouth and was a prime mover in the coming of the railways to Portsmouth and the development of the Camber Docks.
Owen's very early use of cavity wall construction, with bridging 'great bricks' was discovered when the basements were excavated.
www.portsmouth-uk.com /southsea_history.htm   (1653 words)

  
 Princeton University Senior Theses brief display
Atkinson, Helen Winthrop (1985): Thomas Merton: The Belly of a Paradox.
Harshman, Thomas Ringwood (1985): The Hamlets of Shakespeare and Ambroise Thomas.
Jacobsen, Jr., Owen Pardee (1955): The Exodus of the Tragic Hero from the Waste Lands of Thomas Stearns Eliot and Ernest Hemingway.
libweb5.princeton.edu /theses/thesesvw.asp?Lname=&Fname=&Submit=Search&Title1=thomas&department=&Class=&Adviser=   (4832 words)

  
 Ellis & Lydia (Lewis) GeorgeFamily
Ellis and Lydia George and perhaps others disenchanted with the expanding population and squabbles over land sales and boundary disputes, etc., migrated from the Welsh settlement called Merion, into Berks co., Pennsylvania.
Ellis and Lydia were not a members of the Soc.
She obtained information from a great-granddaughter of Ellis George, Leah Bales, from which she was able to compile a partial chart of the descendants of Ellis George and his wife Lydia.
www.the-roundup.com /quaker/george/geobarlup1.html   (2367 words)

  
 Thomas Preston ca.1722-1798   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
Thomas Preston b.ca.1722 d.1798, from Suffolk Co., England, settled in Augusta Co., VA in 1735, married Mary Walker 1726-xxxx.
Both Thomas and Mary are buried in the Preston Graveyard, near Monroe, Walton Co., Georgia.
Thomas Jr also served in the Revolutionary War in a Cavalry Co. of young men which constituted a body-guard for Gen. George Washington and was present at Yorktown at the time of the surrender of Cornwallis.
www.fortunecity.com /millenium/quarrybank/194/agthomas.htm   (1035 words)

  
 Regional Abstracts - MO   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
John Calvin Welch, collector of Dent County, and one of the prominent citizens of Spring Creek Township, is a native of Dent County, Mo., and was born November 8, 1840.
He is a son of Thomas and Eliza (Reddick) Welch, and grandson of John Welch, who was a native of North Carolina, and at an early date immigrated to Tennessee.
Thomas Welch was born in Tennessee in 1812, was married in
inman.surnameweb.org /abstracts/abs-mo.htm   (15706 words)

  
 Charlie Jensen's Manuscript Collection - English Manuscript Documents
The Last Will and Testament of Thomas Carter of Kennington in the County of Kent, Yeoman, dated 1701 during the reign of William III who is mentioned by name at the end of the Will.
Thomas Randall and Thomas Wheeler on June 11 (one of 4 bought together with 1733, 1811, 1845)..
Between Thomas Ellis Owen and Francis May and trustee (bought with group of 4 1725, 1733 and 1811) on January 31..
www.chazj.com /msdocengorder.php?varmsdocengorder=Year   (1922 words)

  
 Genealogy, Elmer Franklin Alexander and Lillie Mae Ellis
Thomas served with Colonel William Christian at the Battle of Point Pleasant,10 October 1774.
George Ellis married Elizabeth Williams, daughter of Elisha Williams, 9 April 1798 in Henrico County, Virginia.
Araiminta K. If, like me, you have trouble believing that Malinda was having children when she was over 50 years old, you may agree with me that Margret and Araiminta may be grandchildren living in her home in the 1880 census.
homepage.mac.com /johnalex1/genealogy.html   (973 words)

  
 Griffith Owen
19 Aug 1717), physician, colonist and statesman, was the son of Robert and Jane (Vaughn) Owen of Dolserey in the parish of Dolgellau (Merionethshire, Wales).
Griffith Owen’s interest in the school that the Friends in Philadelphia had established made it natural for them to appoint him to raise funds for their support and enlargement.
Thomas Janney had already been approved to go there on a visit to do some service, so they went together.
userpages.burgoyne.com /bdespain/famhis/bio00678.htm   (3156 words)

  
 Thomas ELLIS\Prudence WILLIAMS (MRIN:217)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
Thomas ELLIS (RIN: 0807), son of Eleanor HARVEY, was born abt.
Prudence WILLIAMS (RIN: 0808), daughter of Thomas WILLIAMS and Anne THOMAS, was born abt.
Thomas was listed on the marriage certificate as desceased before 1839.
members.dodo.net.au /owen/html/fam217.html   (173 words)

  
 Diary Griffith Thomas 1937
W J Thomas stops his watch at 9 and Daniel starts his then.
Spoke with Thomas Berch from the post told him that the funeral was tomorrow.
Paid W Thomas, Eifion for 4 bags of cement and 2 bags of lime £1.4/0d and 13/- to John Talafon for sand.
www.rhiw.com /pobol/diares_rhiw/griffith_thomas/1937e.htm   (3114 words)

  
 Owen   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
I am looking for Margaret OWEN of Amlwch Anglesey Wales whom I believe married Thomas MOSSES of Liverpool in 1872 in Liverpool.
Their son married in Montreal in 1906, so it is possible that they emigrated from England with him.
My ancestor Michael Owens was born in Amlwch in 1768, the son of John Owens and his wife Margaret (nee Parry) of Bodhunod Blas, and christened April 29.
www.amlwchdata.co.uk /familytrees/Owen.htm   (410 words)

  
 THOMAS   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
RESIDED:ONEIDA COUNTY NY She was married to THOMAS E GREENMAN (son of GEORGE N GREENMAN and ELIZABETH SAUNDERS) on OCT 13 1860 in BERLIN, RENSSELAER, NY.
THOMAS E GREENMAN was born on MAY 24 1837 in BERLIN, RENSSELAER, NY.
She was married to L CASS THOMAS on MAR 11 1887 in BOLIVAR, ALLEGANY, NY.
www.crlive.com /roots/thomas.htm   (16680 words)

  
 Poet: Wilfred Owen - All poems of Wilfred Owen
Wilfred Owen was born near Oswestry, Shropshire, where his father worked on the railway.
Wilfred Owen was born the 18th of March 1893 in Oswestry (United Kingdom).
Wilfred Edward Salter Owen was born on March 18, 1893.
www.poemhunter.com /wilfred-owen/poet-3129   (451 words)

  
 Ruby's Home Book - HARRY/HARRIS PAGE   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
HarryA Thomas Owen, weaver and father of the immigrant, made his first appearance on the scene on 12 October 1663 when he was presented for not attending church services.
HarryA Thomas Owen's purported father, Thomas Owen of Llunllo in Machynlleth, was the eldest s/o Rowland Owen, Sheriff of county Montgomery in 1611 and at least twice mayor of Machynlleth (Mont.Coll., 6[1873]: 37-39), and his wife Elizabeth Pugh.
It would appear that Glenn, or someone who furnished the Owen famiy pedigree, simply decided (a) that the father of Harry Thomas Owen must have been named Thomas Owen and (b) since Harry Thomas Owen lived in Machynlleth, his father must have been the Anglican magistrate and landownere Thoams owen of that borough.
home.comcast.net /~rubymc/harry.htm   (775 words)

  
 Miscellaneous Kaufman County, TX, Obituaries
Thomas Rudolph Owen was born in Wills Point, Texas, on May 10, 1949, to Chester and Lottie Ellis Owen.
Thomas passed away in a Dallas hospital on Dec. 30, 2002.
Thomas was a member of Kaufman Church of Christ.
www.obitcentral.com /obitsearch/obits/tx/tx-kaufman1.htm   (2865 words)

  
 Highland Road Cemetery   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
Thomas Ellis Owen sold the land to the Burial Board for the first phase of the cemetery and when the original architect failed to produce plans, he designed his own and built the lodge, chapels and wall.
It is thought that the lodge is a smaller version of his home, Dovercourt, and the Anglican chapel is a smaller version of St. Jude's Church.
Buried in this cemetery are eight servicemen, all recipients of this highest award during Victoria's reign, the first three being decorated at the first investiture by the Queen herself in Hyde Park, June 1857.
www.portsmouth.gov.uk /visiting/971.asp   (1002 words)

  
 Handbook of Texas Online:
Thomas I. (often J.) Smith, Texas Ranger and Indian agent, was born in Tennessee and immigrated to Texas in 1836 after the battle of San Jacinto
Later that year he moved to a farm on Chambers Creek in Ellis County.
From February 16 through December 16, 1845, a Thomas J. Smith served as lieutenant commanding the Robertson County Rangers.
www.tsha.utexas.edu /handbook/online/articles/SS/fsm43.html   (614 words)

  
 Amazon.com: Puritan Daily Devotional Chronicles: Books: Isaac David Ellis Thomas   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
I.D.E. Thomas is the author of a number of books, the most popular being "The Golden Treasury of Puritan Quotations" and "The Omega Conspiracy." He was reared and educated in Wales, United Kingdom.
Thomas quotes from authors all the way from Thomas Adams, Joseph Alleine, and Isaac Ambrose, down to Thomas Watson, John Wells, and George Whitlock.
The most famous of the authors were undoubtedly Richard Baxter, John Bunyan, John Milton, John Owen, Thomas Watson, William Gurnall, and Samuel Rutherford.
www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/1879366991?v=glance   (815 words)

  
 Puritans
Thomas Cartwright - the father of Puritanism - Part 1 - Part 2 by Alan Clifford
The Death of Thomas Bilney by J. Merle d'Aubigné.
Thomas Shepard's Account of His Preaching Taken from Thomas Brook's "Lives of the Puritans."
www.monergism.com /thethreshold/articles/topic/puritans.html   (1202 words)

  
 Obits of those born in Ireland
He is survived by his wife and six children-John, James, Thomas, William, Joseph and Mary-all resident of this city.
She was married to Thomas G. SMITH in September 1836.
Thomas Montgomery died at his home in Greene, Iowa, March 9th, 1906, aged 63 years, 10 months, and 10 days.
www.celticcousins.net /irishiniowa/irelandobits.htm   (7452 words)

  
 Portsmouth Society - Annual Report 2005
Thomas Ellis Owen, creator of Southsea's 'garden suburb' from 1830-1862, was justly celebrated in the very enjoyable festival in early July.
David Lloyd discussed whether Owen actually met John Nash, architect and developer of the processional way from Regents Park to Pall Mall and Park Villages West and East which he believes inspired Owen's designs for Southsea.
Owen's special design skill was the landscape and gardens, into which his villas were set.
www.portsmouthsociety.org.uk /docs2005/report2005.htm   (2646 words)

  
 Memorials and Monuments in St Judes Church, Portsmouth (Louisa Anne Byng)
Louisa Ann was the only child of Thomas Ellis and Catherine Owen.
Louisa Ann married the Reverend Thomas Richard Brownrigg, the first vicar of St Jude’s Church in Southsea.
She was remembered for rather ostentatiously handing out sweets to the children during sermons at St Jude’s “probably to keep them quiet”.
www.memorials.inportsmouth.co.uk /churches/st_judes/byng.htm   (207 words)

  
 Britten, Benjamin (1913 - 1976)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
The drama is set against the background of the sea, in various moods, summarised in the Four Sea Interludes that form an evocative part of concert repertoire.
The best known of all Britten's orchestral music must be the Variations and Fugue on a Theme of Purcell, more generally known under its popular title The Young Person's Guide to the Orchestra, a work that is both a tribute to the great 17th century English composer Henry Purcell and a useful teaching instrument.
Of his three numbered string quartets, Quartet No. 2 was written to mark the 250th anniversary of the death of Purcell, the quartet's inspiration.
www.naxos.com /composer/britten.htm   (457 words)

  
 Madaris Civil War
The field officers were Colonels Thomas J. Churchill, M. Galloway, Robert W. Harper, and Daniel H. Reynolds; Lieutenant Colonels George S. Laswell, Charles H. Matlock, Lee M. Ramsaur, and George W. Wells; and Major W. Campbell.
On December 10, 1922, the Ladies Memorial Association of Charleston, S.C., unveiled with appropriate exercise a granite monument to the memory of thirty six men of the Confederate Navy who lie buried in the Cemetery of the Charleston port Society on the Ashley River, Charleston.
Thomas shows as being in Company I, which was the old Company C of the Third Georgia.
www.mindspring.com /~kellcin/civilwar.htm   (7761 words)

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