Our family’s largest single country of origin was England. I’m about one third Scottish, with a little Irish, Welsh, German, Dutch, and some Viking ancestors. They migrated to the New World over three centuries, eventually gathering to Utah in the 19th century.
Below are my grandparents. In each section I included their four generation family trees going back to my third great-grandparents. This is the group who lived in the eighteen and nineteen hundreds. You can access our complete family tree on Ancestry.com by following this link.
Out Colonial Immigrant ancestors came from England, Scotland, Germany and The Netherlands beginning with Henry Bagwell who arrived in Jamestown in 1610. He was on the ill fated ship “Sea Venture” that was sent to supply the Jamestown colony but wrecked on Bermuda. They were eventually able to make their way to Jamestown to relieve the settlement. That same year our ancestor Cecily Reynolds also arrived in Jamestown. In 1620 Our ancestors William Bradford and father and son Thomas and Joseph Rogers arrived on the Mayflower and established the Plymouth Colony. John Thomas Fike, born in Louisa County, Virginia in 1718, was the earliest known ancestor with the Fike surname.
We are descended from at least nine Revolutionary War patriots. Fourteen of my third great-grandparents on the Lowe and Andrew sides of the family crossed the plains to Utah in covered wagons on the Mormon trail between 1847 and 1861.
On The Lowe side of the family we are descended from three Scottish highland clans: McLean, Ross, and Mackintosh. We are also descended from two lines of Norman aristocratic clans. When the Normans conquered England in 1066 they awarded lands in Scotland to those who fought with them. Robert de Brus and the Le Fleming family from Flanders were two who came over with William the Conqueror.
Through the same Farley and Fleming immigrants to Jamestown we are descended from the Plantagenet kings of England and the Bruce and Stuart lines of Scotland and later England. Our Norman ancestors link us to Rollo the Viking Sea King who conquered the Normandy region of France and through him further back in history to early Swedish royalty.
