Noyes familyThe name of NOYES is derived from the residence of its first bearers at the town of Noye or Noyers, in Normandy, and was probably taken into England at the time of the Norman Conquest under William the Conqueror, in 1066, in the form of de Noye. It is found on ancient English and early American records in the variants of Noyers, Noiers, Noies, Noers, Noese, Noice, Noye, Noy, Noys, Noyce, Noyse, Noise, Noyes and others, of which the last is the most generally used spelling in America today. Reverend William Noyes was born in England during the year 1568. He matriculated at University College, Oxford, 15 November, 1588, at the age of twenty years. He was Rector of the Parish of Choulderton in Wiltshire, situated between Amesbury in Wiltshire and Andover in Hampshire, and eleven miles from Salisbury, which contains the great Salisbury Cathedral, built in the year 1220, whose lofty tower overlooks "Stonehenge," the ruins of the wonderful pre-historic temple of the ancient Celtic Druids, in the midst of Salisbury Plain. ...... more |
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