Very Neat Family History Page I Found

[furrbear]

Always finding references to Clizbe Ave or Clizbe Rd but never any story behind them.

Hudson-Mohawk Genealogical and Family Memoirs: Clizbe

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[This information is from Vol. II, pp. 785-788 of Hudson-Mohawk Genealogical and Family Memoirs, edited by Cuyler Reynolds (New York: Lewis Historical Publishing Company, 1911). It is in the Reference collection of the Schenectady County Public Library at R 929.1 R45. Some of the formatting of the original, especially in lists of descendants, may have been altered slightly for ease of reading.]

Of the ancient Anglo-Norman family De Clisbe, we learn from the researches of John Fries, chronicler and antiquarian of the Scottish Border, that this house was originally of the Chateau De Clisbe, Val de Loire, Normandy.

In the suite of William the Conqueror, three knights of the family — Richard, Robert and John De Clisbe — passed over to England, where, for distinguished valor in the battle of Hastings (October 14, 1066), they were granted crown lands upon the Scottish border, south of Berwick Demesne.

These they still held in the time of Henry V., when at the battle of Agincourt (October 25, 1415) one of the house, Lee Ira De Clisbe, commanding the Northumberland Archers, two thousand in number, having charged on and routed the left wing of the French army, was, at the close of the battle, highly commended by King Henry in the presence of the assembled knights of the whole army. And the king presented him with a shield of gold bearing the family's ancient armorial quarters, and a new motto: "Sans Peur" — in Norman French, signifying "without fear."

In the time of Charles I. (1625), the family by lopping the prefix "De" from their name thenceforth was anglicized to Clisbe. This is also borne in the deeds and charters of the Manor of Yeardly, and Manor of Nechells Green granted them by Henry V. On these estates they lived in opulence and high respect, up to the time of the revolution in 1642, when Robert Clisbe was so severely wounded in a cavalry charge upon a body of His Majesty's horse (probably at the battle of Edgehill, October 23, 1642) that he died on the field. On account of his participation in this action, two of his sons — and heirs — Ira and John Clisbe, were cited before a military commission in the court of Bromwick, Warwickshire, to take an oath of submission and allegiance to the king's officers in the Midland counties. This the two brothers defiantly refused to do, averring, that rather than submit to the arbitrary dictum of a self-elected, unconstitutional court, they would leave the country for foreign lands forever. Being hence heavily mulcted in money and estates, they immediately took their departure from the old Manor of Nechells Green, Warwickshire, and thence from Bristol, England, accompanied by Henry Clinton, Knight of Warwick, and several eminent yeoman families, neighbors, set sail for the Colonial Province of York (New York). This branch left at home at the old Manor, an uncle, named Ira Clisbe, noted for having brought over to England, while serving the Commonwealth as consul at Tangiers, Morocco, six thoroughbred Arabian stud horses, which, crossing the fine hunting stock of the time, produced some of the fastest racers of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, and from which blood has descended the races Hamiltons and Lexingtons of Kentucky. As the grand jury of Warwickshire, subsequent to the emigration of the brothers, Ira and John, ordered a restitution of the fines which had been imposed upon them for "contumacy" in the court of Bromwick, severely censuring that court for its arbitrary sentence and execution, the Clizbes were granted lands by a royal commission upon what was called the York Grant (1664) in the states of New York and Connecticut. This is described in an old manuscript found by Anthony Barclay, of Barclay street, New York, British consul-general, among a number of old British government papers entitled "Records of the Blood Stock-Colonial Families." There is also another old manuscript history of the family which proved that more recently a branch settled in the state of Michigan. The paper was handed to Colonel Clizbe, of the ordnance department, Britain, many years ago by a distinguished gentleman, General Cass, of Detroit, Michigan, and these two documents, connecting the Clizbe family in America with that of that ancient name in England, were deposited in the archives of Aston Hall, county of Warwick, in the possession of James Watt, Lord of Manor of Aston.

The old manuscript history cited above is probably the one done by my great-grandfather, Simon Ernest, who was born at Quincy, MI, and parents relocated to Detroit.

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[sunbeam-bears.livejournal.com]

I love doing family history. I've found some great stuff about John's family when they came to San Francisco in 1850 from Prussia. I haven't searched beyond that other than finding a blood link to Robert The Bruce in Scotland in John's family tree.
My own tree was written for me, as I am related to several accused, and executed for witchcraft in Salem MA., and a very minor link to the Mayflower. However, I am adopted, and now am researching my bloodline as I found my birth names. My natural bloodline goes back to Scotland, and Sweden.

[envirobear.livejournal.com]

Why am I not surprised that you had an uncle who brought along Arabian studs?

*ducking and laughing* :)