(Special message to those researching Southern US Meadows lines.)

I have set up this page as a place for those researching:

• Meadows of England
• Meadows of Canada (primarily Ontario)
• Meadows of the Western US (primarily California)

If you are researching the Meadows line in any of these localities, please send me as much of the following info as possible, to be added to my database:

• the name of a Meadows ancestor that seems key to your research
• the birth and death dates & places of this person
• the name of this person's spouse
• the name and birth year of this person's father
• your email and/or snail mail addresses

If you have more than one key Meadows in your tree, you are welcome to send more, but please don't send your whole tree, and please don't send info about people who are living. I freely share whatever information I have about deceased persons.

Send this information to:

Sue at FamHistBuf@aol.com

or to:

Sue Hobbs
PMB 110
5150 Fair Oaks Blvd Ste. 101
Carmichael CA 95608-5758

Please feel free to print out this page to share with off-line Meadows researchers.

Click here to see more of my Meadows line.

From family lore:  The old Meadows home was called "The Elms." It was in Ipswich, St Mary's Parish in Suffolk Co, England. They belonged to County families.  The Meadows were shipping merchants; headquarters in Ipswich, branches in London and Liverpool. The Meadows family can be traced back to 1188 in the "Registre of the Possession of Land."

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From a document called SOME BURIALS OF PERSONS OF THE NAME OF MEADOWS BURIED AT WITNESHAM:

"In the Nave: 'Sacred to the memory of Philip Meadows of Burghersh House, in this parish, Esquire.  The only surviving son of John Meadows of Botsdale, Esquire, by Frances, the youngest daughter of Humphery [sic] Brewster, of Wrentham Hall, in this county Esquire. He was in a direct lineal descendant of the elder branch of the very ancient family of Meadowe (once lords of the manor and patrons of the church of Witnesham) and possessors of land in the parish as early as the year 1188 being the Great-great-grand son of William Meadows Esquire who was first seated here in 1630 and whose younger brother Daniel Meadows, Knight Marshall.  The ancestor of the present noble family of Pierreponts, Earle Manvers.  He departed this life Oct 16, 1824 in the 73rd year of his life.'

"Below the arms was inscribed: 'William Meadowe was seated at Witnesham in the year 1614.  No evidence can be found that the Meadows' possessed lands in Witnesham as early as 1188.' "

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From NORFOLK FAMILIES by Walter Rye : "Meadow of Yarmouth ... is said by Palmer's Perlustration (i., p. 163) to have been 'descended from a family in Suffolk where, until a very recent date, they had a landed estate of which Peter de Medowe, living 1188, died seised.'  Into the truth of this I need not go further than to point out that the name does not occur in any Suffolk Visitation, nor except as "atte Medowe" in the Suffolk Fines.' "

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Please be very clear that I don't mean to say my Meadows line is linked with the ancient line.  My grandfather said it was, but I really don't know yet.  Perhaps if all of us to whom this information is familiar put our heads together we can figure it out.

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PLEASE NOTE: I do NOT have any connection to the Meadows family in the Southern U.S., so PLEASE don't send me any queries about them.  For your convenience, here are some resources I know of:

• Dayna's Southern Genealogy Page
  
• Laura's Heritage Page
  
• MEADOWS mailing list: Send "SUB MEADOWS" (without the quotes) in subject & message (include nothing else in the message, or it won't work! This includes your signature.) to MAISER@rmgate.pop.indiana.edu
  
• MEADOWS HERITAGE

  Charlotte Meadows
  Meadows Heritage
  2808 Bicknell Rd.
  Richmond, VA 23235

  From their literature: "Meadows Heritage is a non-profit organization founded and established to locate, acquire, restore, and preserve in perpetuity all available MEADER-MEADOR-MEADOWS (and all other variants of the name) tangible historical records and assets, i.e. manuscripts, documentary, personal, real, and all other family historical properties."

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