Showing posts with label Stringham. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Stringham. Show all posts

Tuesday, June 7, 2011

Stringham origins from French Huguenots

I always had assumed that the Stringhams were of English descent because we trace the Stringham line to a birth in England.  But the name comes from France, and the Tringhams were Huguenots.  More information can be found in this short history:

http://www.surnames.com/documented_websites/Yvonne/stringham_history.htm


I nearly identical history can be found on this website:

http://www.myplanet.net/cstringham/stringhamindex.html

Because the cursive is harder to read, I typed up the "Stringham Family Overview (1572-present)", which reads as follows:

Saturday, June 4, 2011

Briant Stringham


This picture was recently discovered by Steven C. Nelson.  For years it was believed that there were no known photographs of him, so this is a real treasure.  The following note was shared with me from Aunt Donnette about the discovery: