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Show ' j Who Are You? j 88 The Romance of Your Name By RUBY HASKINS ELLIS A Seymour? THIS name was originally taken from a Norman knight, who lived in the Thirteenth century. Sir William St Maur and the House of Seymour in America descends through the grandson of this ancestor, an-cestor, Roger de St. Maur, who was lord of 1'enlow and Woundy, in England. John Seymour of Wolf Hall in Wiltshire, sheriff of the county in the reign of Henry VII, married the daughter of Sir Henry Darell of Littlecote, County Wiltshire. It was their eldest son who was knighted km tilts ajg V !gg!' Seymour by King Henry on the field of battle for gallant conduct as one of the commanders of the king's forces against the Cornish rebels at Blackheath. Later on, for his unusual prowess at the famous "Battle of the Spurs," he was made a Knight Banneret by King Henry Vin. He attended the king at the "Field of the Cloth of Gold," where the meeting of Henry and Francis I took place, an incident so famous in English history. He also attended the king at Canterbury, when Emperor Em-peror Charles V was received in England. John Seymour married Margaret Wentworth, daughter of Sir Henry Wentworth, who claimed descent from a great many medieval dynasties dynas-ties of Europe. Their son, Edward, became a powerful noble and Lord Protector of England. His rise to fame was meteoric; knights in 1523, created Viscount Beauchamp; governor gov-ernor and captain of the Isle of Jersey Jer-sey ; chancellor and chamberlain of North Wales; in 1537 created earl of Hertford and later, Knight of the Garter. His great-grandson, Richard Seymour, Sey-mour, came to America, settled in Hartford, Conn., where he Immediately Immedi-ately became active 'n the affairs of the colonies. He was a founder of Norfolk, Conn. Most of the Seymours in this country can trace to this Richard and thus back to the English family. A Worrall? THE earliest ancestor o the Worrall Wor-rall family was Sir Hubert de Warel, lord of Aries in Provence, and several of his sons were with William the Conqueror at the Battle of Hastings. Three of them were killed in battle and the conqueror granted the coat of arms to Hubert for his heroism and also conveyed to him large tracts of land In the Counties of Durham and Northumberland, Northum-berland, England. Here he erected a palatial residence. His name Is to be found In the Doomsday Book, tj:'."- that immortal Knglish document which contains the names of all the early feudal titleholders. Ilaliih de Warel, yourig"Kt Ron of Hubert, succeeded to the e.stale uml founded the Monastery of lilaek-burn. lilaek-burn. Sir William de Warel was active ' in the C'rus.-nk'S to tlie Holy Land with Ilichard the LIon-H'-arU.-d. His only son. Hudiger, had estali-s In Trance. He was Interred in the j Monastery of Aries. After the time of Sir William de Warel the name was changed to "Wiirell," then "Worrell," and finally final-ly "Worrall," which is In general i use today. 1 Tlie first settler In America of tlie family of Worrall was John, who came with the party of William I'etin and made their homes In Pennsylvania. Descendants of John went to Maryland, Delaware and i Virginia, but many of them still re-Bide re-Bide on land granted them by Will-lam Will-lam Perm. j Public Ledger. Idc WNU Bervlc. |