General Notes

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 KNOWNSURNAME
- HAWKINS.GED

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 KNOWNSURNAME
- HAWKINS.GED

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 KNOWNSURNAME
- HAWKINS.GED

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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]. Hisfollowers numbered 60, and he was accompanied by his wife,
Gudrida, the widow of a previous explorer. Five other women were onboard, 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 herformer husband the previous year. The Expedition prospered. The nativescame in great numbers and trafficked in furs and produce.
Gudrida bore a son, Snorro, the first birth of European parentage inAmerica, who is said to have been an ancestor of the sculptorThorwaldson. The family remained three years in the colony, but
ultimately returned, and Thorfin settled and died in Iceland. The widowmade a pilgramage to Rome in her bereavement, and died in a cloisterfounded 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 andinhabited by natives of different caste, of darker color
and more vigorous frame. The colony perished at last, destroyed probablylike that of Greenland. Traces of it were found by Jesuit missionariesamong the Indians Gaspe at the mouth of the St.
Lawrence, a tribe which revered the cross before the arrival of themissionaries. Pysical constitution and peculiarities of manners andcustom are also cited in confirmation of European descent.
Father Charlevoix adds that 'many marks distinguishing them from otherAmerican Indians go far to make me believe that they are a colony ofEuropeans degenerated into savages through destitution.'"