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What nationality is the name Drinkard?
Britain
The name Drinkard comes from the ancient Anglo-Saxon culture of Britain. It was a name for a literally comes from the words drink and water, but there are many interesting theories as to the reason for the nickname.
What nationality is the surname States?
Early Origins of the States family The surname States was first found in Naples, (Italian: Napoli, Latin: Neapolis) former capital of the Kingdom of the Two Sicilies in southern Italy; it is the chief city of the province of Naples. It shares with Instanbul the claim to be the most beautiful city in Europe.
What does the last name Drinkard mean?
Perhaps an altered spelling of German Trinkart or Trinkert, nicknames for a drinker, or Dutch Drinckwaard, which Debrabandere suggests could be an occupational name for a publican or innkeeper, though he thinks it is more likely to be a reinterpreted form of Drinkwater.
Where did The Drinkards come from?
Anderson House in Colonial Williamsburg where William R. Drinkard ran a tavern from 1771 – 1779. The earliest known Drinkard ancestor was in America in 1675. This webpage quotes directly from the book “The Drinkards in the United States – Their History and Genealogy” written in 1946 by Charles Arthur Drinkard.
Can my great grandfather name the Drinkard brothers?
My great grandfather William Drinkard, a native of Virginia born in 1773 and died in Missouri in 1853, knew the story and could name each of the brothers and all links in his family ancestral chain leading back to them. In fact, he claimed his great-great grandfather was one of them.
Where did Nitcholas Drinkard grow up?
Nitcholas Drinkard was born to a part Dutch, part African-American, mother Susan Bell Drinkard (née Fuller, b. 1876) and a full Native American father John Drinkard Jr. (b. 1870). He descended from a family of African-American landowners in Blakely, Georgia where three of his children were born.
Who were the founders of the Drinkards in Virginia?
If this story told by my father regarding his ancestors is true, the two brothers, William and George Drinkard, named as the founders of the Drinkards in Virginia by A. W. Drinkard, Jr., were sons of the George Drinkard, who, tradition says, came to America about 1675.