1619), alderman and twice mayor of Bristol, was born about 1593. Thomas James (1593?-1635?), was a navigator, a kinsman, it is believed, of Thomas James (d. Thomas James (1573?-1629), was Bodley's librarian, uncle of Richard James, was born about 1573 at Newport, Isle of Wight. Outstanding amongst the family at this time was Richard James (1592-1638), English scholar, born at Newport in the Isle of Wight in 1592, the third son of Andrew James of that town, by his wife Dorothy, daughter of Philip Poore of Durrington, Wiltshire. Early Notables of the St James family (pre 1700) In the eastern counties it nearly disappears, but it reappears in the north, though in no great numbers. It is also numerous in the south - west of England, especially in Somerset, Dorset, and Cornwall. The name is also frequent in Shropshire and Herefordshire on the Welsh border, and in the neighbouring counties of Gloucester and Stafford. Lower tells us of a very ancient Pembroke family possessing an estate successively held by thirteen persons bearing the name of William James. "The principal home of this name is in South Wales and Monmouthshire. "In early documents the name is usually Jacobus, but James is occasionally found in the 12th and 13th centuries, sometimes alternating with Jack or its diminutives Jackamin, Jackett and Jacklin." They acquired the manors and estates of Hamon de Cravignuier, from De Inge, Zouch of Harringworth, Read, and Willoughby, and thence to the noble house of James. In nearby Utrecht the name became Van Haestrecht, whence it became FitzJames again, having migrated from Utrecht into England, into the manor of Ightham, at the time of King John, about the year 1210 A.D. At an early time the name migrated from Normandy under the name FitzJames, as one of the noble house of Normandy. The surname St James was first found in Surrey.
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