Steele Family History Book

Steele: The History of an American Family
Planters of Old England, New England, and the American West
by Edward E. Steele

With a Foreword by Curt Witcher, Former President, National Genealogical Society

This totally revised and enlarged edition of
A Steele Family History
is now available
for $100.00 postpaid.

Its predicessor,

A Steele Family History,

was named the “Best Family History” in the
Connecticut Society of Genealogists’ 2002 Literary Awards contest.

This new 764-page history of one line of the Steele family in England and America
with over 100 illustrations, maps, and photographs is now available.
Includes an every-name index and an index of subjects plus an annotated bibliography.

Presents 15 generations of the Steele family from the 1400s to the present in England and America.

Includes a history of each maternal line at every American generation, including: Talcott, Warner, Bradford, Webster, Seymour, Pitkin, Merrill, Barber, Annis, Winslow, Oakley, Wheeler, Osborne, Brownell, Lowe, Ebbets, Badarous, West, Wood, Terrell, Edelen and Seigneur families

Iincludes an all-new chapter on the recently discovered ancestry of the Lowe family of Portsmouth, New Hampshire, tracing their lineage back to Thomas Low of Ispwich, Massachusetts

New: At each generation includes biographical information of all siblings, as available.

Includes coverage of seven Mayflower lines: William Bradford, Peter Brown, Edward Fuller, Samuel Fuller, John Howland, George Soule, and John Tilley

Researched for over 40 years. Presents new information, never before published

WHAT OTHERS ARE SAYING:
“Everyone should be so lucky to have a family history as well written as this one.”
Ann Carter Fleming, CG, Former Vice President, National Genealogical Society

“Mr. Steele has done a masterful job of weaving the events that occurred within the family
with the events that were taking place in the world around them.”
A. C. Dudley, Connecticut Society of Genealogists

“One of the finest examples of a family history I have seen.”
Ryan Taylor, Genealogy Department, Allen County Public Library

“What makes this book really interesting is all the little tidbits of local history….”
Jennifer Etheridge, The Honeoye Herald

This award-winning publication is available for $100.00 postpaid.
Send your check made payable to Edward E. Steele to:
Steele Family History
7421 Gannon Ave.
St. Louis, Mo. 63130

Details...

Foreword, Preface, and Introduction

Part I. The Steele Family in England
   1. The Tudor Era: 1485–1603
   2. Essex County, Fairstead, and Puritanism
   3. The Steeles of Fairstead
Part II. The Steele Family in America
   4. John Steele: Puritan Pioneer in a New World
   5. John Steele: The Young Ensign
   6. Samuel Steele: Puritan and Pilgrim
   7. Thomas Steele: Captain of the Trainband
   8. William Steele: The Steeles Leave Hartford
   9. Isaac Steele: The Minuteman
10. Roderick Steele: To the New York Frontier
11. Edwin Steele: Pioneer Planter in the Midwest
12. William Wilson Steele: The Forty-Niner
13. William Eugene Steele: A Young Attorney; A Lifelong Rascal
14. Donald Eugene Steele: An Iowan in Los Angeles
15. Edward Eugene Steele: A Return to the Midwest

Part III. The Steele Family Wives, including seven Mayflower families
16. The Talcott Family of Braintree, Essex, England
17. The Warner Family of Great Waltham, Essex, England, and Hartford, Connecticut
18. The Bradford Family of Austerfield, York, England, and Plymouth Colony
19. The Webster Family of Cossington, Leicester, England, and Hartford, Connecticut
20. The Seymour Family of Sawbridgeworth, Hertford, England, and Hartford and New Hartford, Connecticut
21. The Pitkin Family of Berkhamsted, Hertford, England, and Hartford, East Hartford, and New Hartford, Connecticut
22. The Merrill Family of Wherstead, Suffolk, England, and Hartford and New Hartford, Connecticut
23. The Barber Family Hartford, Washington Co., New York
24. The Annis Family, of Enniskillen, Northern Ireland, and Newberry, Massachusetts, including the Winslow and Oakley families
25. The Wheeler Family, of New London, Connecticut, and Deposit, New York, including the Osborne and Brownell families
26. The Lowe Family of Portsmouth, New Hampshire, including the Ebbets, Badarous, and West families
26a. New! The Lowe Family Addendum, tracing the Lowe family of Portsmouth back to Thomas Low of Ipswich, Massachusetts
27. The Wood Family of Nuneaton, Warwick, England, and Rowley and Upton, Massachusetts, including the Terrell and Edelen families

Bibliography
Index of Names
Index of Subjects

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