TITL Ancestral Roots of Certain American Colonists Who Came to America bef 1760 AUTH Frederick Lewis Weis PUBL 7th ed Genealogical Publishing, Baltimore 1992 Same ref source as earlier ed, "Ancestral Roots of 60 Colonists who Came to New England 1623- 1650" ed 1-6 good to very good J.H. Garner MEDI Book PAGE line 132A pp 116-117 ALIA Ranulf de Meschines /Vct de Bessin/ TEXT living in 1031 PAGE line 132A pp 116-117In Douglas' *William the Conqueror*, p 92-93, there is only a discus sion of Ranulf (spelled Rannulf here) numbers I and II. Douglas states that Ranulf I was " the son of a vicomte named Anschitil", and that he "survived until after April 1089", whic h I didn't know before. _FA1 PLAC 1st Earl, Vicomte de Bayeux before the Conquest. _FA2 PLAC Vicomte de la Bessin. _FA3 PLAC Fought at the Battle of Val-es-Dunes, 1047.