The latest issue of TAG (The American Genealogist) just slid through my mail slot. The final part of the English origins of the six Perry immigrants was published (I descend from Mary (Perry) Heath). William Fiske, the author notes that he'll be doing a followup article on the Cramphorne family. No one by that name came to the colonies, yet they are ancestral to several immigrants. I'm wondering if they are now the most popular family from which to be descended whose name never came to the U.S.?
My ancestor William Heath's first wife was Mary Cramphorne, daughter of Thomas and Mary (Lyndesell) and granddaughter of William and Joan (Plowe) Cramphorne. Thomas's sister Mary Cramphorne married Edmund Browne and were the parents of Abraham and John Browne of Watertown, Mass., and Edmund Browne and Hannah (Browne) Ines of Boston. Thomas and Mary's brother George had a daughter, also Mary, who married Thomas Perrry who were the parents of Phebe Perry, the wife of Walter Desborough of Roxbury, Mass. So there's six immigrants already.
See: The Ancestry of Eva Belle Kempton 1878-1908: Part I, The Ancestry of Warren Francis Kempton 1817-1879 by Dean Crawford Smith (Boston, NEHGS, 1996) for the Brownes; The Heath Connection by Douglas Richardson, NEHGR 146 (1992):261-278; Robert Charles Anderson, The Great Migration Begins; Immigrants to New England 1620-1633 Vol. 1 (NEHGS, Boston, 1995) (William Heath).
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