OUR BRANCH OF THE ENGLAND FAMILY IS SPECULATED BUT NOT AS YET VERIFIED TO HAVE BEEN DESCENDED FROM WILLIAM ENGLAND WHO SETTLED IN NEW KENT COUNTY VIRGINIA IN 1691. JAMES AND BEN HOLLOWELL WERE GRANTED 200 ACRES FOR THE TRANSPORTATION OF FOUR PEOPLE FROM ENGLAND TO AMERICA INCLUDING WILLIAM ENGLAND. THE ENGLAND FAMILY THEN MIGRATED ON TO NORTH CAROLINA AND SETTLED IN BURKE COUNTY. NATHANIEL ENGLAND THEN MIGRATED ON TO CUMBERLAND COUNTY KENTUCKY IN 1801. HE MARRIED POLLY SPARKS WHOSE FAMILY HAD MIGRATED FROM MARYLAND.
MY PATERNAL GRANDFATHER THOMAS MATTHEW ENGLAND, THE SON OF JAMES WILLIAM (JIM WILL) ENGLAND WAS BORN IN METCALFE COUNTY IN 1882. HE MARRIED SALLY JANE JESSEE.
BEING EMPLOYED AS A SAWMILL WORKER MY GRANDFATHER TRAVELED WITH THE MILL AS IT MOVED FROM ONE TRACT OF LAND TO ANOTHER. MY GRANDMOTHER AND CHILDREN FOLLOWED THE MILL LIVING IN A TENT. MY GRANDMOTHER HAVING A WEIRD SENSE OF HUMOR DECIDED TO DOCUMENT HER TRAVELS DURING PREGNANCY BY NAMING THE CHILD AFTER HER TRAVELS, SHE NAMED HIM AFTER THE STATES THAT SHE LIVED IN DURING PREGNANCY. THE NAME TURNED OUT TO BE INDKYNOIS THE IND FOR INDIANA THE KY FOR KENTUCKY AND THE NOIS FOR ILLINOIS. PEOPLE IN HOPEWELL TODAY STILL REMEMBER THAT NAME AND GET A CHUCKLE.THE SAWMILL CLOSED ITS OPERATIONS IN PAINT ROCK ALABAMA. WITHOUT WORK MY GRANDFATHER BEGAN SHARECROPPING WITH LITTLE SUCCESS. MY AUNT ETHEL ANSWERED AN AD IN THE PAPER FOR EMPLOYMENT IN A TEXTILE PLANT IN HOPEWELL .SHE WAS HIRED SIGHT UNSEEN AND THE WHOLE FAMILY PACKED UP AND MOVED TO HOPEWELL.

R.Stanford ENGLAND
1312 MARL BANK DRIVE
HOPEWELL, VA> 23860
United States
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