Great-grandfather Sentence Examples

His great-greatgrandfather settled in York (disambiguation)|York county, Pennsylvania, about 1743, and from Chester (disambiguation)|Chester county, Pennsylvania, his great-grandfather, David McKinley, who served as a private during the War of Independence, moved to Ohio in 1814.

Mordecai's son John (1711-c. 1773), a weaver, settled in what is now Rockingham county, Va., and was the president's great-grandfather.

He came, on his father's side, of Thuringian stock, his great-grandfather, Hans Christian Goethe, having been a farrier at Artern-on-the-Unstrut, about the middle of the 17th century.

The name of Hashimiya, which the reigning family still retained, was henceforward derived not from Abu Hashim, but from Hashim, the grandfather of Abbas, the great-grandfather of the Prophet.

His great-grandfather the archbishop had been master of Jesus College, Cambridge, and to Jesus College he was sent.

He was called Gregory after his maternal great-grandfather, the bishop of Langres.

His father, Colonel John De Morgan, was employed in the East India Company's service, and his grand ' father and great-grandfather had served under Warren Hastings.

He calls his own child Dawn or Cloud, his own name is Sitting Bull or Running Wolf, and he is not tempted to explain his great-grandfather's name of Bright Sun or Lively Raccoon on the hypothesis that the ancestor really was a raccoon or the sun.

We finished with bedtime stories of ' great grandfather Abraham ' and the cruxifiction and resurrection of Christ from her children's bible.

In this case, Mackenzie defended the Marquis of Argyll, great-grandfather of the third duke, against the charge of treason in 1661.

We don't know if the brother accompanying Stephen was Percival, my husband's great grandfather.

Leather bound and neatly inscribed with my Great-grandfather's name, they were filled with carefully scribbled diary entries that spanned over ten years.

Thomas was the great-grandfather of Hugh Casson and he had a considerable influence on organ-building in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.

He came of a family which had been settled for many generations in the adjoining village of Daylesford; but his great-grandfather had sold the ancestral manor-house, and his grandfather had been unable to maintain himself in possession of the family living.

His father and grandfather and great-grandfather had all been shepherds.

Gilbert de Lafayette's father and grandfather and great-grandfather had all been brave and noble men.

Not my or thy great-grandfather's, but our great-grandmother Nature's universal, vegetable, botanic medicines, by which she has kept herself young always, outlived so many old Parrs in her day, and fed her health with their decaying fatness.

She developed her passion for changing a space after watching her great-grandfather and grandfather manage real estate holdings.

Featured prominently in the best selling novel and film Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil, the Mercer House was designed for the great grandfather of Johnny Mercer and completed in 1868.

Paris' paternal great-grandfather was the founder of the Hilton Hotel chain, and Barron Hilton, her grandfather, is the current Hilton chairman, with a net worth of over $1 billion.

Nicky Hilton was born in New York City, New York, in 1983, and was fortunate enough to be born into the Hilton family - her great-grandfather, Conrad Hilton, is the man behind the Hilton hotel brand.

They were usually signed by the registrant, which can be a thrill for a genealogist to see the actual handwriting of a great-grandfather.

Ben's great grandfather Thomas Gates was the last living signer of the Declaration of Independence and the clue that "the secret lives with Charlotte" has been passed down through the Gates family.

Her wealth made it certain that he would be the richest man in France, and he determined to play a part equal to that of his great-grandfather, the regent, whom he resembled in character and debauchery.

Francis, seventh Lord Howard of Effingham, was created earl of Effingham in 1731, a title extinct in 1816 with the fourth earl, but revived again in 1837 for the eleventh baron, who had served as a general officer in the Peninsular campaign, the great-grandfather of the present peer.

His name was originally Edmund Fiske Green, but in 1855 he took the name of a great-grandfather, John Fiske.

The latter's son Henry (1746-1812) became 3rd duke, and in 1810 succeeded also, on the death of William Douglas, 4th duke of Queensberry, to that dukedom as well as its estates and other honours, according to the entail executed by his own great-grandfather, the 2nd duke of Queensberry, in 1706; he married the duke of Montagu's daughter, and was famous for his generosity and benefactions.

The father, Carlo Mariada Buonaparte (Charles Marie de Bonaparte), had resolved to call his three first sons by the names given by his great-grandfather to his sons, namely Joseph, Napoleon and Lucien.

His son and grandson - respectively the great-grandfather and grandfather of James Martineau - were surgeons in the same city, while his father was a manufacturer and merchant.

The only facts of importance to be gleaned from them are that Prince Ziemovit, the great-grandfather of Mieszko (Mieczyslaw) I.

Their French name was de Cornets, and this cadet branch had taken the name of Groot on the marriage of Hugo's great-grandfather with a Dutch heiress.

The Scottish earldom was first conferred in 1703 upon the 4th earl's great-grandfather, Archibald Primrose of Dalmeny (1664-1723), a staunch Whig and a commissioner for the Union.