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The LaRue family and its descendants trace their ancestry back to the French Huguenot Abraham LeRoux, who sailed to America with his family around 1680 as part of a mass exodus from France. According to LaRue descendant and author of Six Generations of LaRue and Allied Families , Otis M. Mather, several attempts to trace Abraham's family to a ...
LaRue is a French topographic name for someone who lived beside a road, track, or pathway, Old French rue (Latin ruga ‘crease’, ‘fold’), with the definite article la. [1] It literally means "the street" in French. [ 2 ]
Here's when (and why) the British royal family randomly decided to change their last name to Windsor.
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Hugh was born on August 12, 1830, in Elizabethtown, Kentucky, to Sarah Cummings and Jacob Hodgen LaRue. [2] When he was about nine-years-old, Hugh's family headed west to settle in Lewis County, Missouri, which was still mostly wilderness and inhabited by hostile natives. Not long after, Hugh began dreaming of settling his own family in California.
John LaRue was the second child of Isaac and Phebe (Carman) LaRue, born in Frederick County, Virginia on January 24, 1746. He grew up on his father's farm, where there was plenty of work to be done, and few opportunities for acquiring an education.
The House of Windsor is the reigning house of the United Kingdom and the other Commonwealth realms.The house's name was inspired by the historic Windsor Castle estate. Since it was founded on 17 July 1917, when the name of the house was changed from the German Saxe-Coburg and Gotha, there have been five British monarchs of the House of Windsor: George V, Edward VIII, George VI, Elizabeth II ...
Alice Cooper (real name Vincent Damon Furnier) (1948–), American heavy metal singer and born-again Christian. [136] [137] [138] Gary Cooper (1901–1961), American actor, descended from the Brazier family. [139] [140] Daniel Craig (1968–), English actor, descended from Pastor Daniel Chamier of Le Mont, near Mocas, west of Grenoble.