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The Richard Hall & Sir Roger Beckham FamiliesUpdated May 3, 2007 | |
Ronald (Ron) McKinley Hall 605 Colony Rd. Chester,SC 29706 803-581-6063 | The Halls originated in Scotland. The earliest name of Hall came from FitzWilliam. Arthur FitzWilliam was given the name Hall to distinguish him from his older brother. In North America, migrants which could be considered kinsmen of the family name Hall, included Christopher Hall who settled in Virginia in 1623; John Hall who settled in Connecticutt in 1633; Alexander Hall settled in Virginia in 1654; Ann Hall settled in Barbados in 1660; Daniel Hall settled in Delaware in 1682; David Hall settled in Maryland in 1684; Edward Hall settled in Cambridge, Massachusetts in 1630; George Hall settled in Nevis in 1670. There were many notables of this name Hall: Sir John Hall, Director, Bank of America; Admiral Geoffrey Hall; Harold Hall, Judge; General Kenneth Hall; Professor Peter Hall, Geography; Sir Noel Hall, Principal, Brasenose College; Professor William Hall, Nuclear Physicist, and many, many more. In addition, David Hall was a partner of Dr. Benjamin Franklin in their printing establishment. The wife of Sir William Shakespeare was a Hall. Finally, the Rev. Dr. Lyman Hall, MD, DD, for whom Hall County, Georgia was named, signed the American Declaration of Independence as a delegate from Georgia. From the port of arrival many settlers joined the wagon trains westward. During the American War of Independence some declared their loyalty to the Crown and moved northward into Canada and became know as the "United Empire Loyalists". John Hall settled first in Cambridge when he arrived from Coventry or Meriden, Warwickshire, England in 1633 at Boston. Soon he removed to Roxbury where the prefix of respect Mister was accorded to him on the records of Elliot's church. This prefix was given to only a few persons and it indicated that they were entitled to great honor. Beckham is an English name derived from the Anglo Saxon words "beck," meaning a small brook, and "ham," meaning home.Beckham means home by the brook. The English family name Beckham is classified as being of habitation origin, being one of those surnames derived from the place where the original bearer once lived or where he once held land.Some habitation names can give us the exact location of the town or village of its initial bearer, while others are descriptive of a particular feature found nearby.In this particular case, the surname Beckham originally identified a person who came from Beauchamp, the name of places in Aurances and Haure (France). This family name, which was introduced in England at the time of the Norman Conquest in the 11th century, is derived from the Old French "beau champ" meaning "fair field".The family name was later anglicized as Beecham, Beaucham, Becham and Beaucome.One of the earliest references in this surname or in its variants includes a record of one Thomas de Becham who resided in Somersetshire at the time of King Edward III.William de Becham was recorded in Oxford shire in 1273. It appears that William (1619) and Simon (1623) arrived in the colonies together in 1639 and settled in upper Norfolk County. They were either brought by or indentured to Richard Preston. Immigration from a variety of places not only caused the population in the colonies to grow from 250,000 in 1700 to 2.5 million in 1775, but resulted in a diverse populace. Records from 1790 show that 50 percent of the colonists could trace their heritage back to England, 19 percent to Africa, 15 percent to Scotland or Ireland, 7 percent to Germany, 9 percent to Wales, the Netherlands, France, Switzerland, Spain, or Portugal. Many of these men and women were farmers or tradespeople. |
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