In a message dated 1/15/2007 7:54:39 PM Pacific Standard Time, [email protected] writes: Hi Jackie, I too, am researching the DeNormandie family. I am descended from Clarissa who married Thomas Kirkbride Biles. The information that you have regarding the DeNormandie family history can be found in a book by Arthur Sandys titled "Annals of De Normandie" that can be found at the NYC Public Library as well as at the New England Historical & Genealogical Society in Boston, MA, and the Library of Congress. The only place where the book was easily accessible was in Boston, where it had been the gift of Louis Joseph Sands, the brother of Arthur Sandys, the author. Both of the other libraries house it in the rare book section and require special permission to view it. The book specifies that there were only 50 copies printed and were for the family. It is truly a treasure to anyone who is descended from this noble family. I have one entry in my files that differs from what you have and that is that Wm. Penn De Normandie (1824-1881) married Sarah Ten Eyck 18 Feb 1854 in Shodack Landing, NY. Regarding the Biles family, the children of Thomas Kirkbride Biles and his wife Clarissa DeNormandie were: Mary, Thomas J. (1793-1848), Charles (1795-1865), William Henry, James D. (1799-aft 1875) & Hannah (1806- ) Regards, Debbie Anderson Dear DEBBIE, I am so happy to have discovered another person researching this family. I just found that item by SANDYS today through GOOGLE BOOKS. (see items found below) I am a member of the NEHGS but live in California and cannot go to Boston to use their library but I do have a cousin who lives in Vermont who goes there every once in a while. He is a cousin by marriage. I have 18 pages of DE NORMANDIE research coming in mail from the National Genealogy Society, Arlington, VA. How do you descend from THOMAS KIRKBRIDE BILES? Do you have a website? I thought for sure CLARISSA was CLARE because of all the girls named CLARA DE NORMANDIE ABERCROMBIE in my ABERCROMBIE-DE NORMANDIE family. This item from the IGI lists her name as CLAIRE. IGI Individual Record FamilySearch™ International Genealogical Index v5.0 North America CLAIRE <DENORMANDIE> Female Christening: 28 DEC 1761 Christ Church And Saint Peters, Philadelphia, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania Father: ANTHONY DENORMANDIE Mother: MARY DENORMANDIE Messages: Extracted birth or christening record for the locality listed in the record. Source Information:Type: C725888 1750 - 1762 1490578 ====================================== If you see any other glaring errors on my website or omissions - please let me know. I have only really been working on the DE NORMANDIE family since Jan. 2, 2007, when I discovered my 3-gg was a descendant so have gotten a lot of material very very fast and much of the later material came from census research. I can use all the help I can get. There is only one website on WORLDCONNECT Rootsweb with this family's history (besides mine) and I hope she has good research on it. Have you looked it over? http://worldconnect.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=GET&db=jenneology&id=I602 Would you by any chance known how CAPT. EDWARD W. WILLET descends from a DE NORMANDIE mother? Regards, Jacki Russell =============================== Catalogue of American genealogies in the library of the Long Island Historical Society Brooklyn, N. Y.: The Society, 1935, 666 pgs. (HQ online) 1968. DE NORMANDIE. Annals of DE NORMANDIE as preserved in documents, public records and registers of the city of Geneva, by ARTHUR SANDYS. (6+ 308p. Cambridge, Mass. 1901. 8o. (hand written to left of this item is: * K.P. (Rogers) ================================================================ http://www.brooklynhistory.org/visitor/contact.html (*formerly Long Island Historical Society) ================================================================= The New England Historical and Genealogical Register By Henry Fritz-Gilbert Waters 212 BOOK NOTICES (April Annals of DE NORMANDIE, as presented in documents, Notes, Private Papers, Public Records, Genealogies, the writings of old authors, and the Registers of the city of Geneva. Collated, translated and explained by ARTHUR SANDYS. Cambridge. Printed by Riverside Press. 1901. 8vo. pp.308 1ll. The history of this distinguished family, cromprised in this volume, is comprised from such authentic sources, as the papers brought from Geneva by the immigrant ancestor of the American DE NORMANDIES, the records of Geneva, mentioned in the title, and of Noyon, a city of Picardie, also those of the Parliament of Paris, the tomes of the Grand Bibiotheque de France, and a collection of domestic letters. From such materials, MR. SANDYS has elaborated a narration of great interest, and one which, as it relates the part the family played by the family in promoting the Reformation, is also of historical significance. That the justifyable pride taken in narrating the share of the DE NORMANDIES in such a momentous movement has not obscured the author's discrimination, is evident in his discriptions of CALVIN and of the effects produced by his creed. The book is printed on heavy, unbleached, deckle-edge paper, and bound in boards with buckram back, its exterior being in ideal keeping with the contents of dealing with families and persons of exceptional distinction. ========================================================= [Manuscript notes of the genealogies of the Sandys, De Normandie, and Cruger families]. by Arthur Sandys Type: English : Book Publisher: [S.l., 1895?-1913?] OCLC: 58762088 Subjects: De Normandie family. | Sandys family. | Cruger family. | Normandie family. ======================================================================== Jacqueline Sleeper Russell website: http://worldconnect.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=SRCH&db=jacquelinesr