[Ancestor] Agnew

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Husband [Ancestor] Agnew

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1 M Daniel Agnew ^{1 2}

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         Spouse: [Unk] Armstrong (      -      ) 1

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General Notes: Husband - [Ancestor] Agnew

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The history of the Agnew family is an interesting one, one of its most attractive points being the fidelity with which the members, about whom closer interests naturally attends those of American residence, have followed the spirit of the family motto as it appears upon the Agnew coat-of-arms, Consilio Non Impetu, of which a translation in modern terms is, "With brain, not brawn." As the records of those generations unroll themselves, it will be seen to what an extent this has been true. The Agnews (anciently Agneaux) of Locknaw, Scotland, are of Norman descent, members of a family which was moderately numerous in France from the ninth to the sixteenth century, now entirely extinct in the country which was the cradle of their race. Toward the close of the twelfth century they were granted lands in Ireland, and about 1330, Agneau, son and heir of the Earl of Larne, acquired the lands of Locknaw in Galloway, with the hereditary title of constable and the office of sheriff of Wigtown, as well as of the baillie of Leswalt. In the fourth generation of that title Earl Douglas expelled the incumbent, this taking place about 1390, it being restored in the fifth generation when Sir Andrew Agnew married, in 1426, the daughter of Sir John Kennedy, of Dunure, by the Princess Mary. Reinstatement was made by the Duchess of Turenne, Lady Superior of Galloway, who not only replaced him in his father's position, but caused charters of ratification to be passed to him, under the Great Seal, establishing also the sheriffdom of Wigtown in his family forever. Such is the blood from which Daniel Agnew, the American ancestor of the line of Agnew, descends, coming to this country from Glasgow, Scotland. [GPHWP, 124]

1 John W. Jordan, LL.D., Genealogical and Personal History of Western Pennsylvania (New York: Lewis Historical Publishing Company, 1915), Pg 125.

2 Edward B. Reighard, John Agnew of Hominy Ridge (Clearfield, PA: Self-published, 1984), Pg 4.