Hello Bob, When I was visiting England, I was able to visit Alnwick and Alnwick Castle, the herediatry home of the Percys in England. One legend that is told there is that when Henry Percy was rejected by Ann Boelyn in favor of King Henry VIII, Henry Percy left England, traveling to Ireland as part of the "peace keeping forces" the British had stationed there. This would have been in the 1500s. Henry supposedly stayed in Ireland, and the family lands went to a brother or a cousin when Elizabeth assended the throne. One line of Percy>Pearce was supposed to have immigrated to America from Ireland during the Potato Famine. Ruth This legend (for lack of a better word) has been in my family for several generations, and in a nutshell, puts forth the theory > that the family lost its ancestral lands and was dispossessed by the English > at some point in time. >