The Blakeneys: An Etymological, Ethnological, and Genealogical Study

ISBN-13: 9781943737499 / Angielski / Twarda / 2017 / 404 str.

Lochlainn Seabrook

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Over ten years in the making, The Blakeneys: An Etymological, Ethnological, and Genealogical Study, by award-winning author and historian Colonel Lochlainn Seabrook, is the most detailed work ever undertaken on the origins and meaning of the Blakeney surname and family; a classic that will fascinate, educate, and enlighten for generations to come.This international bestselling 400-page chronicle includes not only a comprehensive exploration of the family’s beginnings and name, but also a complete Blakeney family tree (beginning with Willihelm de Blakenia, born about 1150), an exhaustive Blakeney Surname Dictionary (that includes all related names), thirty-eight illustrations, the family crest and motto, articles on Blakeney Point (Norfolk) and Lord William Blakeney (1672-1761), information concerning the Blakeney-Blakley Family Association of Canada and the Castleblakeney Development Committee of Ireland, and an in-depth bibliography and index. The foreword is by Ray H. Blakeney, former president of the Blakeney-Blakley Family Association. The Blakeneys is a must-have for every Blakeney family member, friend, and researcher.Civil War scholar Lochlainn Seabrook, a descendant of the families of Alexander H. Stephens and John S. Mosby, is the most prolific and popular pro-South writer in the world today. Known as the “American Robert Graves” after his celebrated English cousin, he is a recipient of the prestigious Jefferson Davis Historical Gold Medal and the author of over 50 books that have introduced hundreds of thousands to the truth about the War for Southern Independence. A seventh-generation Kentuckian of Appalachian heritage and the sixth great-grandson of the Earl of Oxford, Colonel Seabrook has a 40 year background in American and Southern history, onomastics, and etymology, and is the author of the international blockbuster Everything You Were Taught About the Civil War is Wrong, Ask a Southerner!His other titles include: The Caudills: An Etymological, Ethnological, and Genealogical Study; The Great Yankee Coverup: What the North Doesn’t Want You to Know About Lincoln’s War; Lincoln's War: The Real Cause, the Real Winner, the Real Loser; Abraham Lincoln Was a Liberal, Jefferson Davis Was a Conservative: The Missing Key to Understanding the American Civil War; The Unholy Crusade: Lincoln's Legacy of Destruction in the American South; All We Ask is to be Let Alone: The Southern Secession Fact Book; Confederacy 101: Amazing Facts You Never Knew About America’s Oldest Political Tradition; Confederate Flag Facts: What Every American Should Know About Dixie’s Southern Cross; Women in Gray: A Tribute to the Ladies Who Supported the Southern Confederacy; Lincoln’s War: The Real Cause, the Real Winner, the Real Loser; Everything You Were Taught About American Slavery is Wrong, Ask a Southerner!; The Constitution of the Confederate States of America Explained; A Rebel Born: A Defense of Nathan Bedford Forrest; The Quotable Nathan Bedford Forrest; Slavery 101: Amazing Facts You Never Knew About America's Peculiar Institution; Confederate Blood and Treasure: An Interview With Lochlainn Seabrook; Abraham Lincoln: The Southern View; The Unquotable Abraham Lincoln; Give This Book to a Yankee: A Southern Guide to the Civil War for Northerners; and Honest Jeff and Dishonest Abe: A Southern Children’s Guide to the Civil War.