The "county or shire of Monmouth" was formed from parts of the Welsh Marches in 1535. At this time, Monmouth was designated as the "Head and Shire town of the said county of Shire of Monmouth." The eastern part of the county is mainly agricultural, with rich mineral resources in western valleys. Coal mining and iron working were significant employers from the 18th to 20th Century. Between the 5th and 10th centuries, the Welsh Kingdom of Gwent covered a variable area roughly contiguous with Monmouthshire.","It is generally thought that Norse Viking, Leif Erikson, was the first European to arrive on the island of Newfoundland, now the easternmost province of Canada. He arrived there in the year 1000 and established L'Anse aux Meadows, the only known Viking settlement in North America outside of Greenland. This site remains a historical site in Canada and it is located on the north coast of the island.","A family seat, or simply a seat, was the principal manor of a medieval lord, often an elegant country mansion. It denoted the family held political and economic influences. ","Dutch navigator Willem Jansz aboard the Duyfken was the first European to land in waht is now known as Australia in 1606. He charted much of the Gulf of Carpentaria, located on the northern coast of Australia. In 1616, another Dutch captain, Dirk Hartog, landed on the west coast of Australia near Shark Bay.","Anglesey (Isle of Anglesey, Anglesey, Môn)
Anglesey is an island on the North-West coast of Wales in the Irish Sea, known as Isle of Anglesey, that includes Holy Island and some islets and skerries. From 1974 – 1996 Anglesey was part of Gwynedd until it became an independent authority. Anglesey also has numerous megalithic monuments and menhirs; it also has a long association with the druids with the Roman general Gaius Suetonius Paulinus attacking the island using his amphibious Batavian contingent.","Ireland was first settled around 6000 BC by a race of Middle Stone Age hunter-gatherers who lived there. They tended to hunt such creatures as the megaceros, a giant variety of deer so large that their antlers spanned ten feet.","The ancient dukedom of Saxony derived its name from the Germanic tribe name the Saxons who inhabited the territory after the fall of the Roman Empire.","Founded in 1788, New South Wales (NSW) was the first penal colony for England. British explorer, Captain James Cook, first discovered the east coast of Australia while attempting to examine the planet Venus in order to determine the distance from the Earth to the Sun in 1770, he first named it New Wales, then later New South Wales.","Landlocked in the West Midlands, Staffordshire (Staffs.) is bordered by Cheshire, Derbyshire, Leicestershire, Warwickshire, and West Midlands County (est. 1974) as well as Worcestershire and Shropshire. The historic county now covers what is known as West Midlands. Historically the boundaries of Staffordshire included what is now known as West Midland County, then in 1888 the towns of Tamworth (partly Warwickshire) and Burton upon Trent (partly in Derbyshire) became united with Staffordshire. Changes came about again in 1911, 1928, and 1907 with the largest change in 1926 and a reorganization in 1966. The Local Government Act 1972 see more boroughs become part of the new West Midlands County.","From its founding until the last prison ship set sail in 1868, Van Diemen's Land was the primary penal colony in Australia and over 75,000 convicts were transported there.","The First Fleet departed from Portsmouth, on the south coast of England, on May 13, 1787 and sailed for around 250 days. The fleet was comprised of eleven ships - six prison ships, three equipment ships, and two navy ships, Sirius and Supply. After an extremely long journey, the First Fleet finally arrived at Botany Bay, located in Sydney, New South Wales, between January 18 and 20, 1788.","Located in the Gulf of St. Lawrence, Quebec, Canada, Grosse Ile is one of 21 islands of the archipelago. This was one of the Canadian quarantine stations which was active from 1832 to 1937. Most Irish immigrants passed through this station in the 1840s. During its operation, almost 500,000 Irish immigrants passed through this station.","Known as the birth place of William Shakespeare in Stratford-upon-Avon, Warwickshire is located in the West Midlands region. Bordered by Staffordshire, Leicestershire, Worchestershire, Northamptonshire and West Midlands as well as Gloucestershire and Oxfordshire. It originally included more areas including Coventry, Solihull, Sutton Coldfield and some of Birmingham until these became part of the County of West Midlands in 1974. Other boundary changes occurred in 1844, 1888, 1891, 1909, 1911, 1928, and 1931. Tourism is a key part of the economy with castles and estates, country parks and the theater district in Stratford-upon-Avon including the Royal Shakespeare Theater. ","Norfolk lies in the East of England with borders along Lincolnshire, Cambridgeshire and Suffolk with a large area on the North Sea. There were settlers as early as 950,00 years ago (pre-Roman), there is evidence of occupied areas right throughout, including the 5th Century the Norman Conquest.","England is a country that is part of the United Kingdom. It occupies more than half of the land of the area. It shares its borders with Wales to the West and Scotland the to its north. Laced by great rivers and small streams, England is a fertile land which has supported a thriving agricultural economy for millenia.","Sussex is located in the South East of England it was formerly an independent medieval Anglo-Saxon kingdom. It is bordered by Hampshire, Surrey and Kent as well as having a large coast line in the English Channel.","County Sligo, (Sligo, Contae Shligigh)
Located in the province of Connacht, County Sligo has a lovely shoreline and borders County Mayo, County Roscommon, and County Leitrim. Initially formed in 1585, County Sligo did not come into effect until 1603. Its boundaries reflect the Ó Conchobhair Sligigh confederation of Lower Connacht (Irish: Íochtar Connacht) as it was, at the time, of the Elizabethan conquest. The Caves of Kesh, famous in Irish mythology, are in south County Sligo. The recently uncovered work of Marinus of Tyre and Ptolemy shows Sligo as the likely location of Nagnata, an important place of assembly in the Iron Age.","In America, those who took up arms for the Crown and fought for a United Empire longed to see the English people united under a common flag and sovereign. These largely forgotten U. E. Loyalists (United Empire Loyalists) who resolved not to live under any flag but the British flag were often driven out of the United States.","With coast line along the English Channel and access routes to the Isle of Wright, Hampshire (Hants) has two of the largest cities well known in history, Southampton and Portsmouth which are administered separately. Originally named after Southampton which was a settlement, it is now one of the most affluent counties in England. Home to famous writers Jane Austen and Charles Dickens, as well as the childhood home of Florence Nightingale and birth place of Isambard Kingdom Brunel. It has been occupied since the end of the last Ice Age around 12,000 BCE when sea levels were lower and the land bridge was too attached to Europe. ",null],"lnksHoverSummaryImgURL":[null,"/cdn/webp/i/kb/200w/books2.webp?pos=floatRight","","","","","","/cdn/webp/i/kb/200w/books.webp?pos=floatRight","/cdn/webp/i/kb/200w/wales_monmouthshire.webp?pos=floatRight","","/cdn/webp/i/kb/200w/castle1.webp","","/cdn/webp/i/kb/200w/wales_anglesey.webp?pos=floatRight","","","","/cdn/webp/i/kb/200w/Staffordshire England.webp?pos=floatRight","","/cdn/webp/i/kb/200w/first_fleet_ship.webp?pos=floatRight","","/cdn/webp/i/kb/200w/Warwickshire England.webp?pos=floatRight","/cdn/webp/i/kb/200w/Norfolk England.webp?pos=floatRight","","/cdn/webp/i/kb/200w/Sussex England.webp?pos=floatRight","/cdn/webp/i/kb/200w/island_of_ireland_sligo.webp?pos=floatRight","","/cdn/webp/i/kb/200w/Hampshire England.webp?pos=floatRight",null],"mode":"f","s":"Howell","sU":"HOWELL","oC":"WA","o":"Welsh","o2":null,"cOk":true,"c":"/dpreview/HOWELL/WA/Howell/family-crest-coat-of-arms.png","c2":"/dpreview/ANDERSON/SC/Anderson/family-crest-coat-of-arms.png","v":"1","sections":["","SettlersUS","SettlersCA","SettlersAU","SettlersNZ","SettlersZA","SettlersWI","Settlers","ContemporaryNotable","ContemporaryNotables","HistoricEvents","RelatedStories","Motto","SuggestedReading","Citations",""]}
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