I52796: THORFINN II "the Black" SIGURDSSON Earl of Orkney (ABT 1009

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"34. In 1057 Malcolm Canmore--son of the murdered Duncan, attacked the usurper.
Macbeth, defeated and slew him and became King Malcolm III., of Scotia. The great Earl Thorfinn having died in the same year, Malcolm most prudently married his widow Ingibiorg, of the Pictish race, thereby bringing under his rule the Norse districts of Scotland, including Galloway. Consolidation was now the order of the day. The Norse influence, undermined by the effects of the battle of Clontarf, was steadily on the wane. The island [p.263]of Britain, soaked as it was with centuries of bloodshed, was resolving itself into the two main dominions of England and Scotland -- a process which the Church, relieved from oppression by the pagan Norsemen, lent her influence to accelerate. The native rulers of Galloway showed some hesitation as to the realm into which they would seek admission. Tradition and custom tempted them to union with their old over-lords the Saxon earls of Northumbria; but the Saxon power was waning, as the Roman and the Norse had waned before. Geography as well as linguistic and racial affinity turned the scale, and the Galwegians became lieges of the Scottish king.

"In this manner closed the dominion of the Norsemen over Galloway and such parts along the Solway shore of Dumfriesshire as they had been able to hold by force. Their strength ever lay in their ships, but of their handiwork some traces probably remain in a peculiar kind of cliff tower, which may be seen at various parts of the coast, such as Castle Feather and Cardhidoun near the Isle of Whithorn, and Port Castle on the shore of Glasserton parish."--Maxwell, pp. 43, 44.

35. Gallwallia or Galwedia is termed in the Irish Annals Gallgaedhel, a name also applied to the people of the Isles. The name of Galwedia in its more extended sense consisted of the districts extending from Solway to the Clyde: but in its limited sense, in which it is used here, it is co-extensive with the modern counties of Wigton and Kirkcudbright. In the Norse sagas it is termed Gaddgeddli.

"Both districts of Ergadia and Gallwallia appear to have been to a great extent occupied by the Norwegians down to the period when these 'reguli' first appear. At the battle of Cluantarf in 1014, there is mention of the Galls or foreigners of Man, Sky, Lewis, Cantire, and Airergaidhel (Wars of Gaedel with the Galls, p. 153). THORFINN, the Earl of Orkney, when he conquered the nine 'rikis' in Scotland in 1034, included in his possessions Dali or Ergadia, and Gaddgedli or Galloway, and in the same year the Irish Annals record the death of 'Suibhne mac Cinaeda ri Gallgaidel.' Though Thorfinn's kingdom in Scotland terminated in 1604, when it is said that 'many rikis which he had subjected fell off, and their inhabitants sought the protection of those native chiefs who were territorially born to rule over them' (Coll. de Reb. Alb., p. 346), the Norwegians appear to have retained a hold of Ergadin and Galwedia for nearly a century after, as we find in the Irish Annals mention made in 1154 of the fleets of Gallgaedel, Arann, Cintyre, Mann, and the Centair Alban, or seaboard of Alban, under the command of Macsceiling, a Norwegian (Annals af the Four Masters, 1154). Mac Vurich likewise states that before Somerled's time, 'all the islands from Mannan (Man) to Arca (Orkneys), and all the bordering country from Dun Breatan (Dumbarton) to Cata (Caithness) in the north, were in the possession of the Lochlannach (Norwegians), and such as remained of the Gaedel of those lands proteated themselves in the woods or mountains'; and in narrating the exploits of Somerled, he says 'he did not cease till he had cleared the western side of Alban from the Lochlannach.'

"It seems probable, therefore, that the natives of Ergadia and Gallwallia had risen under Somerled and Fergus, and had finally expelled the Norwegians from their coasts, and that owing to the long possession of the country by the Norwegians, all trace of their parentage had disappeared from the annals of the country, and they were viewed as the founders of a new race of native lords.

"The two districts appear, however, closely connected with each other in the various attempts made by the Gaedheal against the ruling authority in Scotland."--Skene, Fordun, vol. ii, p. 431."

"Outliving his elder brothers, he (Thorfinn) became the Lord of Orkney and Shetland; Caithness was given to him by his maternal grandfather, and after the death of Malcolm . . . he . . . conquered Sutherland and Ross, and made himself lord of Galloway, in the widest sense of this denomination --viz., from Solway to Carrick--where he resided for long periods,.and whence he made successful inroads, sometimes on Cumberland, sometimes upon Ireland. He possessed, besides the Sudreys and part of Ireland, not less than nine earldoms in Scotland, etc. As Munch further states, all the Hebrides and a large kingdom of Ireland were also his. The Skeld Arnor, who personally visited him, and made a poem in his honour, testifies in it that his kingdom extended from Thurso rocks to Dublin. He also mentions that Thorfinn obtained possession of eleven earldoms in Scotland, all the Sudreyar (Hebrides), and a large territory in Ireland. He further states that Thorfinn sent men into England to foray, and then, having collected a force from the places named, he sailed from England, where he had two pitched battles: as Arnor gives it--"South of Man did these things happen."

This is contemporary evidence. In 1035, when Rognwald arrived from Norway, Thorfinn was much occupied in Scotland, and they made an alliance by which Rognwald was to have his part of Orkney free of contest, under condition of assisting Thorfinn with all the forces he could command. This alliance lasted ten years, and during that time Thorfinn made many incursions into England and Ireland. He generally resided in the south during the summer months, and in Caithness, or rather the Orkney and Shetland Isles, during the winter. They quarrelled, however, and Rogn-wald was slain in 1045. Thorfinn died about 1064 [?],34 says Munch, or sixty years after King Malcolm . . . so far as the exact dates can be ascertained..."

"On Duncan's accession to the Scottish throne, after the death of Malcolm, that king assumed full authority over Caithness, and bestowed it upon his nephew, Moddan, with the title of earl. Duncan's cousin, Thorfinn, naturally looked upon this as an abrogation of his own rights, and the two became enemies. When Moddan came north with his men from Sutherland to take possession of the earldom, he was met by a superior force under Thorfinn and compelled to retire. Duncan at once organized a considerable army, and having sent Moddan to the north overland, sailed from Berwick to Caithness with a fleet of eleven vessels. Thorfinn met the fleet in the Pentland Firth, and though having with him only five warships, defeated Duncan, and obliged the latter to retire to the Moray Firth, where he landed, and started for the south to get together a new army. Earl Moddan, who in the meantime had entered Caithness, was followed by Thorfinn's lieutenant, and surprised and slain at Thurso. Duncan collected as large an army as possible, and having entered Moray again, met Thorfinn in battle at Torfness, or Broghead, where, the second time, he was completely defeated and his forces routed. Earl Thorfinn then overran and subdued the country as far south as Fife.9 Soon after, Duncan was slain by Macbeth, the Morronor of Moray, whose father, Finley, had regained the mormaorship after the death of Earl Sigurd. Macbeth at the time may have been operating as an ally of Thorfinn10; or, according to some accounts, endeavoring to make good his own wife's claim to the Scottish throne--a claim which seems to have been at least of equal merit with that of Duncan himself."

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From "A Memoir of Henry Flood Bocock" "A prominent politician in Buckingham Coounty in his day. He represented the county in the General Assembly of the State. He owned the Mill near by on Davids Creek, Afterwards (called) Osborne's Mill, and he kept a store house at his residence at Prospect Hill. The old stone house stands there yet, the same building now used by Thomas S. Bocock as his "Book Room."

William Flood was a Captain in the late war in 1812 with England. His command was stationed at Norfolk, VA. After the War was over, he returned to Prospect Hill. He is buried in the family graveyard at Red Oak Hill.

Children:
2 John S. FLOOD
2 Susannah FLOOD
2 Martha Jane FLOOD
2 Henrietta FLOOD
2 Judith FLOOD
2 Peter G. FLOOD
2 William G. FLOOD b: 23 SEP 1803 d: 8 MAR 1885 + Jane Guerrant ANDERSON b: 28 FEB 1806 d: 1836 + Pricilla C WILLIAMS b: 1809 d: 26 DEC 1876
2 Lucy Ann FLOOD b: 1805
2 Thomas Henry FLOOD b: 11 MAY 1816 d: 12 SEP 1886 + Eliza J. GLOVER b: 23 MAR 1820 d: 12 JAN 1866 + Martha Jane GLOVER b: 1 SEP 1842 d: 4 DEC 1874 + Judith Adalade GLOVER b: ABT 1818 d: 4 MAR 1917

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"[Note: Possibly Susanna ferch Gruffudd ap Cynan (sister of #4(Owain Gwynedd, d. 1169)), who was wife of Madog ap Maredudd, but Madog is known to have had children by other women also, and Bartrum does not list a mother for Margred in his charts in BWG, indicating that the early sources do not identify Margred's mother. PF, vol. 1, pp. 119-124 states that Margred (Margaret) was daughter of Madog by Susanna, but this source also gives Madog a chronologically impossible second wife Maude who md. 2nd, John Fitz Alan, d. 1268, earl of Arundel, who lived a hundred years later, and PF cannot be considered reliable on this matter.]"

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JL1.x.3. Franklin W. Lee born ca. 1856 AL possibly named Franklin William Lee

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Father: Roger Mallory b: 1680 in VA Mother: Sarah Mallory ^[S2620]

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Joseph married Rachel. ^[S2611]

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Lewis B. Wyatt, Matthews Co., father and natural guardian of James, Robert, Lewis and Mary Wyatt, who are Children of Elizabeth, formerly Elizabeth Iveson who was dau of Molly (Dudley) Iveson. Appoint Tabb and Brooke, Attest, Saml. Digges, J. of P. 14 Nov., 1833. Virginia Soldiers of 1776 . page 63.

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My Southern Family

THORFINN II "the Black" SIGURDSSON Earl of Orkney

ABT 1009 - 1057

ID Number: I52796

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James Nelson BURFORD

12 Aug 1831 - 11 Oct 1893

ID Number: I73201

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Capt. William FLOOD

1776 - ABT 1818

ID Number: I4436

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SUSANNA ferch Gruffydd ap Cynan GWYNEDD

ABT 1095 - ____

ID Number: I27592

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Garrett Michael HOLT

Franklin W. LEE

ABT 1856 - ____

ID Number: I75571

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Mary MALLORY

ABT 1740 - ____

ID Number: I47109

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Margaret L. MCCANTS

Oct 1883 - ____

ID Number: I25222

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Margaret SWARTZ

ABT 1900 - ____

ID Number: I36875

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George Fayette WASHINGTON of Waverly

17 Jan 1790 - Sep 1867

ID Number: I50426

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Joseph WEAVER

BET 1710 AND 0000 - ____

ID Number: I34505

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Lewis B. WYATT

ABT 1780 - AFT 1835

ID Number: I21901

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