General Notes

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2  SOUR S332582
3  DATA
4  TEXT Date of Import: 14 Jan 2004


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DATE 19 JUN 2000

OCCU of Normandy ...
SOUR Royalty for Commoners, Roderick W. Stuart, p. 79 says CIR 928, Normandy,
France; members.aol.com/sargen3 says ABT 900; HAWKINS.GED says ABT 920;
gendex.com/users/daver/rigney/D0001 says 929, Normandy, France
SOUR COMYN4.GED (Compuserve), #29; www.teleport.com/ddonahue/donahue ;
COMYNI.GED (Compuserve), #1163;
Royalty for Commoners, Roderick W. Stuart, p. 79
PARENTS BERNARD HARCOURT AND SPROTE DE BOURGOYNE NOT PROVEN.  NO KNOWN SURNAME
- HAWKINS.GED

_MED website
ABBR Enf-Bry
TITL http://www.gendex.com/users/Enf_Bry/Enf_Bry/index.html

DATE 8 SEP 1999

Torf wandered to the country of Greenland. "In 1007 a rich Greenlander, Torfin, determined to emigrate to Vinland, [now New England]. His followers numbered 60, and he was accompanied by his wife, Gudrida, the widow of a previous explorer. Five other women were on board, and the ships were freighted with all kinds of domestic animals, tools and provisions for a permanent colony. Gudrida had been the first female to see the new world, having accompanied her former husband the previous year. The Expedition prospered. The natives came in great numbers and trafficked in furs and produce.
Gudrida bore a son, Snorro, the first birth of European parentage in America, who is said to have been an ancestor of the sculptor Thorwaldson. The family remained three years in the colony, but ultimately returned, and Thorfin settled and died in Iceland. The widow made a pilgramage to Rome in her bereavement, and died in a cloister founded by her son in Iceland. Other chiefs went to Vinland, but their history throws no further light upon the colony. They, however, discovered land extending far away to the south-west and inhabited by natives of different caste, of darker color and more vigorous frame. The colony perished at last, destroyed probably like that of Greenland. Traces of it were found by Jesuit missionaries among the Indians Gaspe at the mouth of the St. Lawrence, a tribe which revered the cross before the arrival of the missionaries. Pysical constitution and peculiarities of manners and custom are also cited in confirmation of European descent. Father Charlevoix adds that 'many marks distinguishing them from other American Indians go far to make me believe that they are a colony of Europeans degenerated into savages through destitution.'"