Book explores Montgomeryshire's first immigrants to new world
Shortly after the indenture, Margaret James of Newchurch married Samuel Miles of Llanfihangel Helygen and then emigrated. In this item, a hope is expressed that it will encourage research into emigration. As it happens, the Montgomeryshire Genealogical Society will be publishing a book in June entitled Selected Tales of Emigrants from Montgomeryshire. This covers more than 50 emigrants from the county to all corners of the world from the seventeenth to nineteenth centuries. Within the text are included people such as David Pott, who was a direct ancestor of the Roosevelt family, Willi...
Source: countytimes.co.uk