Over three hundred seven men, women and children came to the New World, forging new lives and laying a foundation for our present-day Armentrout family. They came fleeing persecution and hoping for freedom to live and worship as they chose. Some came bringing the Author of life to a nation being birthed. Some were snatched out of the lives they knew by powers they didn’t understand, only hoping to live. As you explore the palate you will learn much more of their reasons. So let’s start where the streams of their lives first touched the shores of America.
Glenna’s 10th great maternal grandparents led the way, leaving the world they knew in England, and inaugurated the amazing adventure that was to stretch over thousands of miles and two hundred years. We’ll never know the total or exact number of our ancestors making this journey as many lines stop at a dead end and are untraceable. What we do know follows:
Glenna’s 10th great maternal grandparents led the way, leaving the world they knew in England, and inaugurated the amazing adventure that was to stretch over thousands of miles and two hundred years. We’ll never know the total or exact number of our ancestors making this journey as many lines stop at a dead end and are untraceable. What we do know follows:
Total Number of Family Members Immigrating
Graphs This graph shows the immigration of our family to the shores of the Americas, from Virginia and the Barbados to Massachusetts and Maine, with most arriving over a 140 year span. But the transplanting of our families actually came in many waves as you can see in the graph below. The arrival of all our Dutch forebearers made their journey from the Netherlands over a relatively brief period from roughly 1660 to 1690, settling in and around New Netherlands (later renamed New York), followed by the Welsh between 1680 and 1700, and preceded by the earliest immigrants, the English who arrived mostly between 1620 and 1660. The Germans spread over ten decades peaking in 1730 with the migration of Palantine Germans fleeing the hardships of their homeland, and their were smaller from Ireland, France, Scotland and Switzerland. Specific graphs for each country can be found under "Where We Came From".
Total Number of Émigrés by Country
Now that we understand when our forebears came and the countries they left, let's follow their journeys in twenty-five year intervals, starting with the earliest voyagers who came at the dawn of the seventeenth century.