The Washington herald., 1917-10-21
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haye received very kind COM
municaff6n from q. reader who states
that she ts In q position to give in
formation concerning Daniel Brain
erd or Brainard to the reader who
recently asked for ii. VIII that read
- please communicate with Mrs. H.
r. Cullen, Sos Park avenue g.. savan-
nah, Ga.
Mrs. y. H. Van 2. writes thus:
Please advise me your terms for in
vestigattng genealogical lines. I have
several lines would like to have
investigated"
So many inquiries similar to this
have recently been received that
will take space in this column to
say that the only terms have for
this kind Of work are that querie,
should be sent to me care OF this
department. / undertake no outside
work for special fees and do not like
to recommend specialists to do thii
work, as 1t 10 extremely difficult tc
guarantee satisfaction in any Knt
OF genealogical Investigation, since q
often takes just as long to gain alb
soiuteiy no report whatever as Il
unearth a rich fund Of information
So VIII this correspondent please send
me her query and then I will try Il
answer 1t as quickly as possible II
this column.
c. W. Z. writes thus: .T woulS
like to get the book of ancestors a
far back as the first settlers of tn,
English people in America IL posi-.
BILE. / am tracing my ancestors o
the name Of Cartwright. As to theil
coat-of-arms I can't say as the,
have any coat-of-arms or emblem
Of any kind. II is possible tha
their name in England WASH
spelled just the same as II is II
this country. 1t might have beer
little different. as I very Otter
run across people that change ttiei
name when they come to this coun
try for some cause. Maybe this q
so with the Cartwrights. cal
trace them back a hundred years
but that is as far as Y can go a
present Now how can I Obtain
this ancestry book and what pric
will It cost?"
am sorry to say that there 4
no single volume that I could refel
you to help you in this research
Genealogical collections that are ii
any way complete contain man,
thousand books and often in trac
ing one single family I have to re
fer to ten or more volumes-man,
Of them reprints from old count,
records. family documents. and pri
vate papers. of which there ar
but few copies.
In Anglo-Saxon wright" sisni
fes a workman or artifcer, a,
cartwright would signify a cart
| maker. In Chaucer we find thi
use of wright: He was a wei
good wright carpenter" Pre-
! sumably, then. the first who took tn,
name as a surname followed the trad,
of cartmaker. Thomas Cartwright
an early settler Of New Jersey, useS
this coat-of-arms: Argent on a fesl
azure two GATHERINGS wheels of tn,
first. The crest is a lions head ar
gent, charged on the neck with Z
Catherine wheel sable.
The Cartwrights must have beer
early established in Virginia, but tn,
earliest record can secure OF one
OF the family was Peter Cartwright
who was born in 17S and lived on tn,
James River, in Amherst County, Va
He was q son of a Revolutionary sol
der who, after the close of the Revo.
luton. migrated to Kentucky, whert
Peter Cartwright made his home. Pc.
ter married Frances Gaines in lsos.
"Will you give inc some information
concerning Jim White. who landed II
America from ireland on the May
flOwer% asks NIL A Did he hayt
a coat-of-arms2''
The name. Of the White who CANT
over on the Mayhower was William
not James. 1t is possible. however
that he had descendants name(
James. William died soon after ths
Mayhower landed. His son. Peregrine
was the first white child born in New