Missed by a few whiskers. A fellow named Roger de Montgomery was one of W. the C.'s right hand fellows.
P.

"Rickard A. Parker" <[log in to unmask]> wrote:

>On Fri, 20 Feb 2015 14:06:40 -0800, P <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
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>> Origins of the Eliot tribe? 
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>The BBC article Peter posted said: "About 65,000 people came to the country between 1330 and 1550." but the Eliots came ~300 years earlier.
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>The following are excerpts from
>http://www.elliotclan.com/history/early-history-elliot-clan/
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># Elliot and its many variant names, which drew comment from the late George MacDonald Fraser in his colourful history of the Border Reivers, The Steel Bonnets, are of Breton origin;
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># All Elliots and bearers of variant names of Breton origin, first arrived in England as participants in the Norman Conquest of 1066 and they left behind the ancestors of the many Elliots living in Brittany today;
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># The claim that the Eliots of St Germans are of Anglo-Norman origin has always been based on nothing more than an unsubstantiated assumption;1
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># DNA sampling has revealed that nearly forty per cent of Elliots (all spellings) tested, are of Celtic-Brittonic origin ( as opposed to Celtic-Gaelic);
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>On Fri, 20 Feb 2015 14:06:40 -0800, P <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
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>Origins of the Eliot tribe? 
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>-------- Original Message --------
>Subject: England's medieval immigrants revealed by universities
>From: Julian Reid <[log in to unmask]>
>To: Peter Montgomery <[log in to unmask]>
>CC: 
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>A new Web site shows immigrants to England during medieval times. “The new database, accessible to the public, shows that in 1440, the names of 14,500 individuals were recorded, at a time when the population of England was approximately two million.”
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>http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-york-north-yorkshire-31462885