William Gorges information

William Gorges (January 1605 – February 1658) was a soldier and the first colonial governor of the Province of Maine. Gorges was born in January 1605,...

Colonization in North America," even though Gorges himself never set foot in the New World. Ferdinando Gorges was born between 1565 and 1568, probably in...

the estate. It then passed to the Gorges family of Wraxall, in Somerset, near Bristol, and was sold by Sir Arthur Gorges to the Trevill family, wealthy merchants...

The Gorges family in the Elizabethan era included Sir Ferdinando Gorges, founder of the Province of Maine, and Arthur Gorges' uncle, Sir Thomas Gorges of...

king in the English Civil War (1642–1651). In 1639, Gorges obtained a renewed patent, the Gorges Patent, for the area between the Piscataqua and Kennebec...

sentenced to 12 years in prison. Richard William Howard Gorges was from the Irish branch of the Norman Gorges family that had settled in England in the...

1730–1780) Richard William Howard Gorges (c.1876–1944) Anglo-Irish soldier and criminal Sir Richard Gorges-Meredyth, 1st Baronet (born Richard Gorges, 1735–1821)...

Hampshire, and Gorges, from Somerset, apparently without knowledge of each other or their common usage, until John de Warbelton and Theobald de Gorges served...

The Gorges family was a gentry family established in the southwest of England. Believed to have come from Gorges in Normandy, the first documented member...

1623 to 1624. He was the son of Sir Ferdinando Gorges. After having served in the Venetian wars, Gorges was given a commission as Governor-General of New...

believed to be William de Gorges (d. 1346) or according to Raymond Gorges who wrote a history of the Gorges family in 1944, John Gorges of Warleigh House...

Olduvai Gorge or Oldupai Gorge in Tanzania is one of the most important paleoanthropological localities in the world; the many sites exposed by the gorge have...

in Dorset, a household knight of King John (1199–1216). Ralph Gorges, 2nd Baron Gorges (d.1330/1), who died without issue, was keen to see his family...

flows through it. A Bridge over a mountain Stream - Gorges du Guiers Mort, Chartreuse - 1802- William Turner - Tate Britain 45°21′07″N 5°45′34″E / 45...

of Noseley Hall, Noseley, Leicestershire, and of Frances Gorges, daughter of Sir William Gorges, of Alderton, Northamptonshire. From an early age he imbibed...

Baron Gorges was a title created in the Peerage of England for the soldier Sir Ralph Gorges (died 1323), of Wraxall in Somerset, who was summoned to Parliament...

Meeker, Lon Chaney Jr., William Talman, Charles Bronson and Felicia Farr (credited as Randy Farr), were filmed in Royal Gorge Park and Cañon City. On...

thereupon to have assumed the name de Gorges, and as Theobald de Gorges was sued in 1346–7 by Elizabeth widow of Ralph de Gorges the younger for the manor. Judgement...

The Royal Gorge Bridge is a tourist attraction near Cañon City, Colorado within Royal Gorge Bridge and Park, a 360-acre (150 ha) amusement park located...

The Cataract Gorge is a river gorge in Launceston, Tasmania, Australia, approximately 1.5 km from the city centre. It is one of the region's premier tourist...

the Gorges family of Wraxall, Somerset. As is recorded in a surviving document, in 1324 Eleanor Ferre, wife of Ralph de Gorges (d.1323), Baron Gorges, Sheriff...

(forerunner of the Province of Lygonia) William Gorges (1636–38) Sir Ferdinando Gorges (1639–47) Thomas Gorges (1640–43) Richard Vines (1644–45) Henry...