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Pictures from English Ancestral Homes of Noted Americans by Anne Hollingsworth Wharton, Philadelphia and London, J. B. Lippincott and Company, MCMXV [1915].

Anne Hollingsworth Wharton was born on 15th December 1845 and died on 29th July 1928, more than 70 years ago, so that this work is out of copyright. She was a descendent of Joseph Wharton and hence related to Thomas Wharton Jr. (1735-1778), the first President of Pennsylvania.

Church of St. Mary, Redcliffe, Bristol

Ancestral Homes of Noted Americans (1915)

Admiral Sir William Pen (1621 – 70), son of Giles Penn of Redcliffe, was buried at St Mary Redcliffe Church. He was a squadron commander in Cromwell’s Navy. He received Pennsylvania as a land grant in [...]

Keywords: churches, spires, towers, trees, arches, windows, cityscapes, christmas

Places shown: Redcliffe; Bristol; Gloucestershire; England

Added: 2004-06-30

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Methley Hall, Yorkshire

Ancestral Homes of Noted Americans (1915)

This building was demolished in 1963, and there is nothing left of it. I find no mention of this Hall in the book, unfortunately. Methley Hall was the country house of the Savile family, Earls of Mex [...]

Keywords: manors, animals, sheep, trees

Places shown: Mickletown; West Riding; Yorkshire; England

Added: 2005-04-02

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Penshurst Place, Kent

Ancestral Homes of Noted Americans (1915)

“In this fourteenth-century castle lived the great English liberal, Algernon Sidney, the friend and counsellor of William Penn, who had a hand in drawing up the famous “Frame of Government” for the Pr [...]

Keywords: manors, trees

Places shown: Penshurst; Kent; England

Added: 2003-03-12

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Church of St.Mary, Redcliffe(bg)

Ancestral Homes of Noted Americans (1915)

Version cropped for use as a wallpaper (screen background for computer desktop)

Keywords: churches, spires, towers, trees, arches, windows, cityscapes, wallpaper, backgrounds

Places shown: Redcliffe; Bristol; Gloucestershire; England

Added: 2004-06-30

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Sulgrave Manor

Ancestral Homes of Noted Americans (1915)

The English home of the WashingtonsNow little more than a farm house, the manor was a priory of St Andrew’s before the Reformation in the 16th Century. It’s located in Sulgrave, near Banbury in Oxford [...]

Keywords: manors, horses, trees, farms

Places shown: Sulgrave; Oxfordshire; England

Added: 2003-12-02

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