Our first known Fleming was a Benedictine Monk from Flanders and was known as William le Bec. In the year 1066, he went with Duke William of Normandy as part of his army to England to assist the Duke in gaining the crown of England. Duke William was crowned the King of England on Christmas day in 1066. William le Becwas given a Barony and a large area of land to govern by King William. William le Bec was soon known as William le Flandrensis, then changed to le Flemyng, then to le Fleming and finally to Fleming. All of this is supposed to mean, William the Man >From Flanders. He had a son, Richard le Fleming who was granted the Barony of Slane and other estates in County Meath, Ireland. As Loards of Slane, the Flemings held sway in Meath until the end of the 17th century. The Flemings became gaelicized and exerted their efforts to repel later invaders. The Flemings supported the Stuart cause. When King Charles Stuart was executed and Oliver Cromwell assumed leadership in England by military force, the Flemings and others who were royalists, were stripped of their lands and titles in the confiscations that followed the Broken Treaty of Limerick. Thomas Fleming (1593-1666), eldest son to the Baron of Slane was the Archbishop of Dublin. Father Patrick Fleming (1599-1666) was a noted Franciscan Scholar. Arthur Fleming(1610-1680) the youngest son of the Baron of Slane, migrated to Eastern Canada about 1650 and is burried in the Province of Quebec. A son of Arthur's moved from canada to what is now known as the state of Vermont. One of his son's was William Fleming(1700-1760) and he had a son named Charles(1730-1800) . Charles had a son named Victor (1755-1845) and he married a girl named Metcalf and had five children. Ira Nelson Fleming (1830=1895) one of their five children was my great grandfather. Ira moved to Delaware County, Iowa and settled near Manchester. Ira had three marriages, the first to Eleanor Rowe, then to Samantha Tony (my great grandmother) and to Fanny Dixon. Ira and Samantha had four children, one of which was my grandfather, Charles Arthur Fleming (1861-1907). Charles married in 1883, my grandmother, Minerva Etheline Ford (1866-1935) of Atlanta, Macon County, Missouri and had eight children. My father, Paul Victor Fleming (1905-1983) was the youngest of eight children. They settled in Waterloo, Iowa. My father married my mother, Ruth Schmeling of Milwaukee, WI. Little is known of the several generations of the Fleming Family after arriving in Vermont up until our present family, however some moved to New York, some to Massachusettes, some to Ohio, some to Pennsyvania and many to Kentucky and Georiga. All of this was written by my father, Paul, sometime ago. He also wrote, about the year 1085, much of the land of Flanders was flooded by the North Sea, causing many people to migrate to Scotland and on to Ireland and England. These people too were called Fleming. The Flemings of Scotland became part of the Murray Clan. The town of Kirkaldy, in Fifeshire, on the Firth of Forth, near Edinburg, Scotland was inhabited almost entirely by people named Fleming. Some Flemings migrated to Germany where the name is spelled, Flemming. I would like to find any details of the above and histories of our Flemings. Thank-you, Paulette (Fleming) Perez