Thursday,
August 16, 2007
Edgar Allan Poe of Italian Ancestry !!!!!
The
ANNOTICO Report
According
to a Biography of Edgar Allen Poe by William Fearing Gill written in 1878,
starts out on the very first page of the First Chapter.....
<<
"The name Poe is an old
Italian name, and the minutest genealogical research
finds it antedating the river Po, which it is presumed, followed the original
spelling of the princely family from which it was named.
The
family, like that of the Geraldines, and other Anglo
Saxon writers in Ireland, passed from Italy into the north of France, and from
France, through England and Wales, into Ireland, where, from their isolated
position and other causes, they retained for a long period their heredity
traits, with far less modification, from inter-marriage, and consociation with
other races, than did their English compeers.
Meanwhile
the name underwent various changes in accent and orthography.
We
find descendants of the parent family rooted back in Ireland as far back as
1327, the name in its Gallic form being spelled "le Poer"........." >>
This scarce
antiquarian books has just been reprinted in paperback and part of Kessinger special Legacy Reprint Series
· Paperback: 356 pages
· Publisher: Kessinger
Publishing, LLC (January 17, 2007)
· Language: English
· ISBN-10: 1430444959
· ISBN-13: 978-1430444954
· Amazon Price $21.09
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