The Genealogy of Washington Irving - Irvine, James M
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The creator of Rip van Winkle and The Legend of Sleepy Hollow, Washington Irving was America's first literary writer, and one of its greatest. He was also a well-travelled diplomat and a popular raconteur. His life has been the subject of several comprehensive biographies, but this is the first publication to be devoted solely to his Scottish ancestry, from the youngest son of a lowly crofter in a small island in Orkney, through the largest landowner in the Orkney Islands, back to (allegedly) the armour-bearer of King Robert the Bruce and the ancestor of nine Scottish kings. The first part of…mehr

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The creator of Rip van Winkle and The Legend of Sleepy Hollow, Washington Irving was America's first literary writer, and one of its greatest. He was also a well-travelled diplomat and a popular raconteur. His life has been the subject of several comprehensive biographies, but this is the first publication to be devoted solely to his Scottish ancestry, from the youngest son of a lowly crofter in a small island in Orkney, through the largest landowner in the Orkney Islands, back to (allegedly) the armour-bearer of King Robert the Bruce and the ancestor of nine Scottish kings. The first part of this book is a transcript of the hitherto unpublished genealogy of Washington Irving written by his nephew Pierre M Irving while the celebrity was still alive. Being based in part on contemporary sources, this genealogy was very advanced for its time, and is still probably the most readable history of the surname ever written. Part II of this book brings this research up-to-date, drawing on the much more extensive resources now available, including DNA test results. Some of the 19th century findings are confirmed but some are now shown to be misleading. Appendices add further background, including transcripts of the extensive correspondence between Scottish and American genealogists during the 1850s, and the provenance of gifts exchanged between Scottish lairds and the American author.
Autorenporträt
Captain James Irvine is the author of Trace Your Orkney Ancestors and several books on Orcadian History, and the administrator of the Clan Irwin Surname DNA Study. Before his retirement from the shipping industry in 2000 he was able to visit Sunnyside, the home of Washington Irving, and begin a tortuous search in archives in Aberdeen, Edinburgh, Kirkwall, London and New York for the documentation that established the author's genealogy in the 1850s and has refined it since. This book, the result of that research, is one of a trilogy of publications on the family surname: Dr Christopher Irvin and his 'Original of the Family of the Irvins', a biography of this 17th century polymath and a detailed analysis of his monograph on the origins of the surname, and The Irwin Surname - its Origins, Diaspora and Early Branches. The former is being published simultaneously with this book, the latter will be published in 2020.