Historical Articles


  • The Conant Family Tree 2010 Here is a PDF version of The Conant Family Tree, 2010.
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  • Conants In Canada In the mid 1950s The Daily Times Gazette from Oshawa and Whitby, Canada, re-printed “The History of Oshawa” by M McIntyre Hood, who was the author of several books about Oshhaw. The following text was scanned from this re-print. View more...
  • Country Life Article, Old Hall, Hambleton, 1930 A delightful stone-built manor house of the early seventeenth century, remarkable for the sense of style exhibited in its classical loggias, balustrades and arcaded parapet. View more...
  • Country Life Article, Hambleton Hall, Hambleton, 1910 There is in consequence a special value attaching to the correspondence of Abel Barker, who was born at the Manor House at Hambleton and only left it to build himself a bigger home at Lyndon. In 1665 Barker was made a baronet, but to the methodical habits of his younger days we owe a delightful, picture of his earlier life as a prosperous gentleman farmer. View more...
  • Roger Conant meets Sir Walter Raleigh In 1905 the Conants of America proposed that a statue be made of Roger Conant. This was dedicated on June 17, 1913 and is still standing in Salem, Massachusetts. A subscription was raised to cover the costs and in the library at Lyndon Hall there is information about the scheme. There is an engraving of Roger Conant meeting Sir Walter Raleigh included in the information. (Conant family tradition says that as a boy young Roger met Sir Walter Raleigh.) View more...
  • American Family Tree Pedigree of the Conant Family, Compiled by Frederick Odell Conant, of Portland, Maine, 1884. This heading is taken from a printed family tree produced in 1884. This 100" by 40" sheet is on the sort of paper used by draughtsmen or architects. The copy at Lyndon Hall is kept in the cardboard cylinder in which it was posted to Edward N Conant in the 1880's) View more...
  • Roger Conant - A Devon Pioneer On the patio in front of the Church Hall in East Budleigh, is a huge granite millstone. It is called the Conant Stone in memory of Roger Conant, the miller's son who sailed to North America in 1623 and founded the city of Salem, Massachusetts. View more...