Childs Family History
Childs …
One
of the oldest English family names.
Childe was a title given to Norse,
French, and English Kings during the 4th – 10th
centuries.
First found in Hertfordshire where
they held a family seat in ancient times, long before the Norman conquest in
1066.
It was a title given to young
nobles awaiting knighthood during the 13th & 14th
centuries.
Richard Childe, Sr. born about
1465 in England.
The Chiles
family immigrated from England
to Jamestown, Virginia in 1636.
Walter Chiles, Sr. of Bristol, a 29 year old cloth worker was a passenger on the
ship named ‘Blessing’ of Falmouth
and was employed to assist the ship’s purser.
A short time later he had his own
ship and was engaged in the shipping business.
He later became a prominent
political figure serving the people of James
City and Jamestown Virginia
for a number of years.
Gov. William Berkeley in 1649 sold
the home known as the “Kemp House” to Walter Chiles for the sum of 26,000 lbs
of tobacco. This house was the first brick house in America
and was located in Jamestown.
On Monday July 28th
2002 my uncle G.W. Childs and I traveled to the old Childs cemetery west of Fayetteville, TN
to do a little research on the family tree. We also visited the courthouse and
library to confirm the names and dates on the stones.
We understand the earliest
documentation of our ancestors coming to America
is one Thomas Childs, aged 30 aboard the “Speedwell” bound for Virginia in 1635 from England. We understand the family
settled on the Virginia – North
Carolina border and eventually some of the family moved to the Fayetteville, TN
area.
The oldest legible stone in the
cemetery in Lincoln Co. TN is that of Thomas Childs who died in 1872. One of
his sons moved to Tippah Co. MS. Hezekiah Childs is buried in the old Childs
cemetery there. Tippah Co. is where my Father Rex Childs was born, the family
later moved to Alcorn Co. near Corinth MS. where I was born nearly 57 years
ago. I know some of you are into genealogy and thought you might enjoy a little
of the family “history.”
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