re: Where did your family immigrate from and when did they come to this beautiful country?

Sicily, 1902

Dad's side is Irish and German pre-revolution.

Mom's namesake was an English stowaway that got here in the 1850's.

My great aunt did an exhaustive study into our family tree shortly before I was born. What’s Impressive about this is she did this in the late 1960s long before the internet existed. She spent who knows how many hours in libraries and court houses in a number of states across the South going over the Original birth, death, and marriage records to hunt down our family history. What she found was our family hailed from primarily England, Scotland, France, and Germany.

One interesting side note from her efforts is my first name comes from an ancestor she found who served in the 15th Alabama Infantry and was killed fighting at Little Round Top during the Battle of Gettysburg.

Another interesting side note is my ancestor from France moved to Charleston, SC in the 1720s. He came from Boudreaux, France. His name was Jacob de Lascaux originally. When he moved to Charleston, he changed his name to Jacob Dillashaw. What she never found out though is why he moved from France to a British Colony. What makes his move interesting is, at that time, France and Britain were mortal enemies. It’s just my guess, but I think the two most likely explanations are:

1. He got into some sort of legal or financial trouble in France and had to flee.

2. He was involved in piracy, which was common along the coast of the Carolinas at that time. Perhaps he made enough money doing this to set himself up a new life under a new name in a new land.

darth , maybe he was protestant

huguenots

Japan August 7, 1945

Literally landed in New Orleans

In the early years, many Huguenots also settled in the area of present-day Charleston, South Carolina. In 1685, Rev. Elie Prioleau from the town of Pons in France, was among the first to settle there. He became pastor of the first Huguenot church in North America in that city. After the Revocation of the Edict of Nantes in 1685, several Huguenots including Edmund Bohun of Suffolk, England, Pierre Bacot of Touraine France, Jean Postell of Dieppe France, Alexander Pepin, Antoine Poitevin of Orsement France, and Jacques de Bordeaux of Grenoble, immigrated to the Charleston Orange district. They were very successful at marriage and property speculation. After petitioning the British Crown in 1697 for the right to own land in the Baronies, they prospered as slave owners on the Cooper, Ashepoo, Ashley and Santee River plantations they purchased from the British Landgrave Edmund Bellinger. Some of their descendants moved into the Deep South and Texas, where they developed new plantations.

The French Huguenot Church of Charleston, which remains independent, is the oldest continuously active Huguenot congregation in the United States. L'Eglise du Saint-Esprit in New York, founded in 1628, is older, but it left the French Reformed movement in 1804 to become part of the Episcopal Church.

Grandparents are
German and Irish
French and German

England as far back as 1666.

England, Scotland, Ireland and Sweden. Some were in the Mayflower. The rest at different times.

1620. England. The most recent immigrant was my great grandfather from Germany in the late 1800s.