Armes Name Study

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About the Project

The Armes Name Study project serves as a collaborative platform to collect information on the Armes name. The hope is that other researchers like you will join the study to help make it a valuable reference point for other genealogists who are researching or have an interest in the Armes name.

As a One Name Study, this project is not limited to persons who are related biologically. Individual studies can be used to branch out the research into specific methods and areas of interest, such as geographically (England Armes's), by time period (18th Century Armes's), or by topic (Armes DNA, Armes Occupations, Armes Statistics). These studies may also include a number of family branches which have no immediate link with each other. Some researchers may even be motivated to go beyond the profile identification and research stage to compile fully sourced, single-family histories of some of the families they discover through this name study project.

Also see the related surnames and surname variants.

How to Join

To join the Armes Name Study, first start out by browsing our current research pages to see if there is a specific study ongoing that fits your interests. If so, feel free to add your name to the Membership list below, post an introduction comment on the specific team page, and then dive right in!

If a research page does not yet exist for your particular area of interest, please contact the Name Study Coordinator: Tony Armes for assistance.

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Once you are ready to go, you can also show your project affiliation with the ONS Member Sticker:

Our Goals

This is a One Name Study to collect together in one place everything about the surname ARMES using the best possible sources available for documentation. The hope is that other researchers like you will join our study to help make it a valuable reference point for people studying lines that cross or intersect. Currently no variant names are included, but if there is a desire to add variant names later, they can be set up. Just drop me an email.

Research Pages

Here are some of the current research pages included in the study. I'll be working on them, and could use your help.

1. Armes' Name Origin

Armes/Arms family believed came from the Isle of Jersy, 5 brothers are blacksmiths in PA or sea captains settled in VA

William Arms (Arme) b 1654 St Brelade, Isle of Jersey, d 1731 Aug 25 bur Old Cemetery, Albany Rd Deerfield MA; “immigrant from Jersey, Channel Islands, England and early settler of Deerfield, Massachusetts, was baptized 19 Sept. 1655 in St. Brelade's Parish, Jersey, Channel Islands. His baptismal certificate lists his parents as William Arme and Sara Fautrarte. He may have been their only child, and we have no further information on the immigrant's father. During the time he was born, Jersey, was under siege for 10 years by supporters of the English Parliament. Jersey, had sided with Charles I, and to say the least it wasn't the safest environment to be born.”

It was not until 1998 when a record of his baptism was found recently in catelogued and indexed records in Jersey. Earlier Arms historians thought he might have assumed the name of Arms.

William Arms, the ancestor of the Arms family in the United States, came from either the English Island of Jersey or Guernsey, in the English Channel. It is (was) presumed that he assumed the name of Arms, as none of this name are found on the island from whence he came. He was a knitter of stockings by trade. The first heard of him was his marriage with Joanna, daughter of John Hawks, one of the settlers of Hadley Mass., in1677. His name appears in the town records of Hatfield Mass.,in 1677. He removed from Hatfield to Sunderland and thence to Deerfield Mass. about 1684. It is said of him that he was a good farmer, industrious and economical, devotional and religious, and a quiet and obliging neighbor. He would knit a pair of stockings while going to and returning from the mill at Hatfield. In 1698 he was chosen farm viewer, and one of a committee to build a school house and hire a school commissioner. After that his name appears almost yearly in the town records. Also in the records of Sinderland Mass., from1714 to 1722, where he is spoken of as "Good Mr. Arms." He served in the Indian fight at Great Falls, where now is Gill Mass., May 17, 1676, for which his son John was one of those entitled to the township, granted by the General Court 1736.His body lies in the old burying ground at Deerfield, a little east of the center of the grounds, adjacent to his son William and grandson William. p. 5

William was a soldier in King Phillips War. [1]

Uncle Ted Armes family research Book NEW ENGLAND MARRIAGES PRIOR TO 1700 A Genealogical Record of THE ARMS FAMILY in this Country" by Edward W. Arms. 1877

Membership

Related Surnames and Surname Variants

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What You Can Do - Task List

1. Add the category for Armes Name Study to profiles. Use a State|County location to better organize and identify family lines. See the ONS FAQ page for instructions. (See first helpful link below to find your profiles lacking categories.)

2. Work to verify that all your Armes profiles have a category connection to the Armes Name Study. (See below on how to create a new category.)

3. Search out original rather than derivative documentation and add sources to Armes profiles. Write comprehensive, well-sourced biographies for Armes profiles.

4. Check for duplicates and request merges.

5. Ask for help finding any Brick Wall Armes in your own line.

6. Add Category: Armes Brick Walls to any Armes profile which has no parent.

7. Add wikitree ID to Armes men with no known father to the list below of Armes Brick Walls.

8. If you are a male with the Armes surname and haven't already, please consider testing your yDNA through the Armes Family Tree DNA Project so that we can all have a better understanding of our heritage and possibly make new discoveries. 9. Please add your best sources to the Published Armes Resources List below. Let's make this a great go-to list! If the list gets too large, I'll make a separate page for it!

10. If you find errors in categorizing, please fix it or let me know.

11. We need to connect all the Unconnected ARMES profiles on WikiTree. (This can count towards the Connectors Challenge if you're feeling competitive.) For information on connecting profiles, see the Connectors Project.

12. If you find errors in profiles managed by others, consider consulting with the author of the profile you consider erroneous, and then creating a free space page discussing the pros and cons of the situation, This is called a disambulation page where all sides and sources are discussed, trying to arrive at a consensus solution to the puzzlement or differences. Please private msg me if you have written a disambiguation page for any ARMES related topic.

13. If you've put up all of the ARMESES in your family (or at least all the ones you've found so far), and are looking for something else to do, here are some tasks that you might be willing to help with: Armes in Wikipedia: We need to verify that all deceased wikipedia:Armes_(surname) with Wikipedia entries have profiles on WikiTree, and are sourced and connected to the main tree. If you have done this, would you please put 'DONE' after this comment.