","A family seat,<\/strong> or simply a seat,<\/strong> was the principal manor of a medieval lord, often an elegant country mansion. It denoted the family held political and economic influences. ","Cumberland <\/strong>was succeeded by Cumbria <\/strong>in 1974. Cumberland was located in the North West, with its borders touching Northumberland, County Durham, Westmorland (Cumbria), Lancashire and the Scottish Counties of Dumfriesshire and Roxburghshire. It was part of the Kingdom of Strathclyde in the Hen Ogledd or “Old North”, people spoke the language of Brittonic now called Cumbric.","Hundred<\/strong> derived from the Danish or Norse word wapentake which literally meant the taking up of weapons that were laid aside after an agreement was first used by the Saxons between 613 and 1017. One hundred held enough land to sustain approximately 100 households, or in other words land covered by one hundred \"hides\".","Ireland<\/strong> was first settled around 6000 BC by a race of Middle Stone Age hunter-gatherers who lived there. They tended to hunt such creatures as the megaceros, a giant variety of deer so large that their antlers spanned ten feet. ","Berry (beʁi), Barric, Bituria<\/span><\/span><\/strong> <\/span><\/span> Berry was a former province in central France until departments replaced the provinces in 1790. As a result, Berry became divided between Cher (Upper Berry) and Indre (Lower Berry). Notably, this region is the birthplace of several kings and other members of the French royal family and was the birthplace of the knight Baldwin Chauderon, who fought in the First Crusade. <\/span><\/span><\/span> ","From its founding until the last prison ship set sail in 1868, Van Diemen's Land<\/strong> was the primary penal colony in Australia and over 75,000 convicts were transported there.","The First Fleet<\/strong> departed from Portsmouth, on the south coast of England, on May 13, 1787 and sailed for around 250 days. The fleet was comprised of eleven ships - six prison ships, three equipment ships, and two navy ships, Sirius and Supply. After an extremely long journey, the First Fleet finally arrived at Botany Bay, located in Sydney, New South Wales, between January 18 and 20, 1788.","Dutch navigator Willem Jansz<\/strong> aboard the Duyfken was the first European to land in waht is now known as Australia<\/strong> in 1606. He charted much of the Gulf of Carpentaria, located on the northern coast of Australia. In 1616, another Dutch captain, Dirk Hartog, landed on the west coast of Australia near Shark Bay.","England<\/strong> is a country that is part of the United Kingdom. It occupies more than half of the land of the area. It shares its borders with Wales to the West and Scotland the to its north. Laced by great rivers and small streams, England is a fertile land which has supported a thriving agricultural economy for millenia.",null],"lnksHoverSummaryImgURL":[null,"\/cdn\/webp\/i\/kb\/200w\/Buckinghamshire England.webp?pos=floatRight","\/cdn\/webp\/i\/kb\/200w\/knight.webp?pos=floatRight","\/cdn\/webp\/i\/kb\/200w\/Yorkshire England.webp?pos=floatRight","\/cdn\/webp\/i\/kb\/200w\/books.webp?pos=floatRight","\/cdn\/webp\/i\/kb\/200w\/books.webp?pos=floatRight","","\/cdn\/webp\/i\/kb\/200w\/Gloucestershire England.webp?pos=floatRight","\/cdn\/webp\/i\/kb\/200w\/Herefordshire England.webp?pos=floatRight","","\/cdn\/webp\/i\/kb\/200w\/westmorland_england.webp?pos=floatRight","\/cdn\/webp\/i\/kb\/200w\/castle1.webp","\/cdn\/webp\/i\/kb\/200w\/Cumberland England.webp?pos=floatRight","","","","","\/cdn\/webp\/i\/kb\/200w\/first_fleet_ship.webp?pos=floatRight","","",null],"mode":"f","s":"Thornber","sU":"THORNBOR","oC":"EN","o":"English","o2":null,"cOk":true,"c":"\/dpreview\/THORNBOR\/EN\/Thornber\/family-crest-coat-of-arms.png","c2":"\/dpreview\/ANDERSON\/SC\/Anderson\/family-crest-coat-of-arms.png","v":"1","sections":["","SettlersUS","SettlersCA","SettlersAU","SettlersNZ","SettlersZA","SettlersWI","Settlers","ContemporaryNotable","ContemporaryNotables","HistoricEvents","RelatedStories","Motto","SuggestedReading","Citations",""]}
Remove Item
WARNING!
Removing this item from your shopping cart will remove your associated sale items.
Are you sure you want to delete this item from your shopping cart?
HouseofNames E-Newsletter Sign Up
Over 50 years of Research | Vast Database of Histories