Genealogical Memoranda Relating to the Family of Merriam (Classic Reprint) - Tapa blanda

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Although in 1638, when Robert, George and Joseph Merriam, the sons of William Merriam, of Hadlow, in Kent, emigrated, and settled at Concord in Massachusetts, there were living at several places in Kent, as is shown by these evidences, a number of people bearing the name, it has now, as far as is known, quite died out in that county, and as regards the English branch, altogether in England.

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Excerpt from Genealogical Memoranda Relating to the Family of Merriam

The name of Merriam is now a distinctly American name.

Although in 1638, when Robert, George and Joseph Merriam, the sons of William Merriam, of Hadlow, in Kent, emigrated, and settled at Concord in Massachusetts, there were living at several places in Kent, as is shown by these evidences, a number of people bearing the name, it has now, as far as is known, quite died out in that county, and as regards the English branch, altogether in England.

The writer of this preface, who was born in America, being great-great-grandson of Nathan Merriam (25 v.) mentioned in Mr. W. S. Appleton's pamphlet, The Family of Merriam of Massachusetts (1892), has been for a number of years the only Merriam in the London Directory, and, during a residence in London of nearly thirty years, has only come across English representatives of the name two or three times. About twenty-five years ago there was in the London Directory the name of William Merriam (since dead) whose father came from Maidstone in Kent. It is remarkable that on the 27th June, 1889, there died at Linton, in Kent, John George Merriam, stonemason. Linton is the next parish to Boughton Monchelsea, where among many Merriam records we have the will of John Meryham, mason, 1455. One may almost assume that the name of John and the trade of mason had gone from father to son for over four hundred years.

The only place in Great Britain, where apparently the name has lived on, is Pembrokeshire, where there was in the sixteenth century a manor of Meriham or Myrryam; and where, that is to say in the town of Tenby, about fifteen years back, Mr. John Merriam was living, who knew that his family had been resident in Pembrokeshire for one hundred and thirty years.

In America, on the other hand, the descendants of the three brothers have become, if not very numerous, at any rate a fairly good number, if one may judge by the comparative frequency of the name.

It is a matter for the greatest regret that the birth and marriage of William Merriam, the father of the emigrants, cannot be definitely traced. We have at Horsmonden, an adjoining parish to Tudeley, the baptism of a William Merriam in 1580, which is a possible date, but we cannot be certain of his identity.

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