Sowthe History, Family Crest & Coats of Arms

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England

Early Origins of the Sowthe family

The surname Sowthe was first found in Lincolnshire where they held a family seat from very ancient times, as Lords of the manor of Ferraby, some say well before the Norman Conquest and the arrival of Duke William at Hastings in 1066 A.D.

Early History of the Sowthe family

This web page shows only a small excerpt of our Sowthe research. Another 66 words (5 lines of text) covering the years 1634, 1636, 1676 and 1716 are included under the topic Early Sowthe History in all our PDF Extended History products and printed products wherever possible.

Sowthe Spelling Variations

Spelling variations of this family name include: South, Sowthe and others.

Early Notables of the Sowthe family

John South, Gentleman of the Privy Chamber to King Charles II; and Robert South (1634-1716), an English churchman buried in Westminster Abbey. He was son of Robert South, a London merchant, born at Hackney. "In June 1676 he travelled to Poland as chaplain to the ambassador, Laurence Hyde. The story goes...
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Sowthe migration to West Indies +

The British first settled the British West Indies around 1604. They made many attempts but failed in some to establish settlements on the Islands including Saint Lucia and Grenada. By 1627 they had managed to establish settlements on St. Kitts (St. Christopher) and Barbados, but by 1641 the Spanish had moved in and destroyed some of these including those at Providence Island. The British continued to expand the settlements including setting the First Federation in the British West Indies by 1674; some of the islands include Barbados, Bermuda, Cayman Island, Turks and Caicos, Jamaica and Belize then known as British Honduras. By the 1960's many of the islands became independent after the West Indies Federation which existed from 1958 to 1962 failed due to internal political conflicts. After this a number of Eastern Caribbean islands formed a free association. 1

Sowthe Settlers in West Indies in the 17th Century

Francis Sowthe, aged 19, who arrived in Barbados or St Christopher in 1634 2

Sources +

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/British_West_Indies
Filby, P. William, Meyer, Mary K., Passenger and immigration lists index : a guide to published arrival records of about 500,000 passengers who came to the United States and Canada in the seventeenth, eighteenth, and nineteenth centuries. 1982-1985 Cumulated Supplements in Four Volumes Detroit, Mich. : Gale Research Co., 1985, Print (ISBN 0-8103-1795-8)