dunford familys given free land in waterford

HOW FAR DOES YOUR FAMILY TREE GO BACK TO DO YOU HAVE THE NAMES OF THE DUNFORD WHO TOOK FREE LAND .AND THEN MARRIED MURPHY.SO I CAN SEE IF THERE IS ANY OF MY FAMILY THERE .

first it startedin 1066 when william 1 or william cthe conqueror came to briainto fight for king ship of engand against king harold,

he brought with hintwo brothers generals named dunford who he favoured

after the battle all officers were allowed land to farm the two brothers were given lancashire and yorkshire

since wrinting this dozensoif historians have written to me but the best was from the british history online,who gave me long list to look up from 11 th century to the 20 century informationi never knew perhapes you would likev to know.first one ofthe knights of william the first was knight william of eu who regarded the two brothers dunford as his best friends and went to yorkshire with one of the brothers,and took on a parish besides the dunford brother.thenthey both would ride together to london parliament for williamthe first

king edgar granted land to winston in 972

this land was fine right beside a river ,so this wasthe first land dunford took as his own, right away he started biulding little dunford manor ,then dunford church it lay on 4 hides of land,thensoonafter a dunford village the people who lived there were called dunefolk

then he looked for some thing bigger to farm this time he called the home great dunford manor it was huge,100 of acres

in1410 built a rectory house where his tenants lived

he soon had a heared of cows 220 sheep pigs

he built houses foir hisworkers but they had to mow,make hay for feed milk the cows learn everything

in 1794 his farms were the biggest 566 acres allen closed

now from1066 to 1650 there was always a dunford in parliament

nowin 1636 king charles the first was on the throne ,and heand his goverment aways wanted money

especialy for gunpowder to save .this money came from the rich and one of the richiest was thomas dunford

so king charles asked parliment for more money they refused so he asked thomes dunford for ship money he decline saying i have loaned yo money which you never repay you repay my money and i willpay the ship money which caused a storm the people who make the rich pay was paid 40 poundsper year ,and thomas dunford as parliament commissioner was paid 120 pounds per year for working in parliament,but after a while thonas paid the ship money

then at30 of january 1649 charles 1 was exacuted leaving only cromwell there who onferuary 1649 he went to ireland to confiscate better land fromthe murphy family and in 1650 came back to england and called the dunford family andtold them of the land grant dunford family thanked him and travelled to ireland were they met and traded with the murphy family soon they were marrying each other and sharing there farms

in 1200 they brought out in england a census on the weathy landowners of england john dunford from buckinghamshire was the richiest another john and william dunford of yorkshire came second

little bit more information members ofthe family dunford of lancashire and yorkshire sailed abroad the huge armada ofthree masted sailing ships knownas the white sails which plied the stormy atlantic

amongst the first settlers in north america which was dunford john dunford purchsed land on the eastern seaboard in 1718

james dunford brought hisfamily to new york city in1820

more dunfords made pennsylvania their home bought large parcelsof land

in newfoundland johndunford settled in battle harbour labrador

phillip dunford wasmarried inst johnsin 1813the family settled in harbour grace,rencontre

from this port of entry many dunford settlers made there waywest loining the wagon trains fighting off the red indians to the praires or the west coast

they the british history on line have sent me so much i still have to look at

have you had any luck finding the dunfords who married the murphys in and after 1650 ireland,

if we could start up a family tree from them i bet thereis some dunfords or murphys there who have said my family had a murphy or dunford in it.are there any murphy farms or dunford farms still running,

i am a dunford i married a murphy 50 years ago this month we are still happy.so i am tracing my dunford family reached john dunford born1778 married martha but cannot find there marriagealthough all there children were baptised in a catholic chuch st mary church liverpool so there parents must have been married,

my wifes family we reached john murphy born 1850 dublin

so finding out how the dunfords married the murphys in 1650

the murphy clan if you have heared of have traced both familys back to 1700 so they tell me

with fingers crossed you might have a clue waiting to hear from you

have a good year