Re: Edward Lewis line - Wales to America
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Re: Edward Lewis line - Wales to America
Betty Berentson 1/19/07
Thanks for posting this information, Betty. I hope we can generate some interest in this Lewis line, that has so many ancestors but relatively few researchers.
I'm intensifying my research on Lewis's in Norfolk and Suffolk in England, from whence we have the earliest record of Edmund Lewis and his family, boarding the Elizabeth in Ipswich.
Ipswich is an odd port, as it was not known as a common debarkation port for emigrants in the 17th Century.
There were a number of Lewis families in Norfolk and Suffolk in the mid-17th Century, particularly in Norwich, Bury St. Edmund and Shotley. I'm searching these records as well as I can by computer before going to England to do on-site research.