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- a descendant of Count Raoul de Remy of Picardy, France, left London for the New World with his wife, Elizabeth (“Bess”) and 169 other refugees, and landed at Jamestowne, Virginia, on January 20, 1700. They made the perilous voyage across the Atlantic on the ship “Peter and Paul” after having been given asylum in Wales. They had fled France with hundreds of thousands of fellow Huguenots following the Revocation of the Edict of Nantes. Until the year 1386, there were no surnames. People assumed appellations consistent with their surroundings, environment or occupations, such as “the smith” or “the hill.” In about the year 1500, the semi-barbaric peoples began to add surnames to their environmental or occupational names to distinguish members of various families and clans, so then it was “John, the Smith,” etc. // Some constants, however, come down through antiquity, as has the strong stem “ra” and “re” in our family names. “Ram,” “Ramie,” or “Rem” evolve through the ages from the days of Ham and Cush, “When the first Ram’s horn was blown”--down through the mists of the dawn of civilization and history. // Many are the variations in the spellings of our name: Remy, Remi, Reem, Reamy, Rhame, Ramey, etc. Old--and recent!--documents we encounted and studied in our efforts to trace the family genealogy often contain more than one spelling in the same instrucment! This is attributable to the fact that the writers often went by the phonetic sounds of the names as they wre orally pronounced to them in the preparation of wills, deeds, writs, land grants, and other papers. // Dr. Bonnelle W. Rhamy, in this book The Remy Family in America, points out the numerous references to individuals and places in the Old Testament which contain the original stem of the present nominal derivatives, such as, “Raamah,” “Ramah,” “Mt. Rams,” “Ramadia.” // We have noted in our research that many “given” names in the Rhame families are consistent with the penchant for biblical identification: Abraham, Jeremiah, Ebenezer, Asa, Zebulon, Obadiah, Obid, Thurza, Thomas, Miriam, Ruth, Mary. // The present country of Egypt was once peopled by the Causian races of Rhamites and Hamites, descendants of Noah. The thirteen dynasties of Pharoahs who ruled that country from 1525 BC to 1200 BC belonged to the family of Ramses. // As mighty Egypt spread her trade and power, some descendants of the Ramses crossed the Mediterranean Sea and became established in Europe. // We recall the legend of the founding of Rome, about 753 BC, by the twin brothers, Romulus and Remus, who, having been abandoned in infancy, were suckled by a she-wolf. Romulus slew Remus and became the first king of Rome. The Remi descendants built a castle on one of the Seven Hills of ancient Rome. Continued migration took the Remis north into France and Belgium. // During the Gallic Wars, Caesar made frequent references to the Remi who secured many marks of special favors because they remained faithful to the Romans throughout his expeditions into Gaul. // The city of Rheims was founded by the Remi clan. Bishop Remigius (437 AD - 533 AD) was the first Archbishop of Rheims. It was he who annointed Clovis, the first king of France, thus establishing the French monarchy, and Christian France. // Bishop Remigius was entombed in the Chapel of St. Christopher in Rheims which was later replaced by the magnificent Church of St. Remi that bears his name, and in which his relics repose at this time. In recognition of his canonization as the Saint Apostle of the Franks and Bishop of Rheims, October 1 is celebrated in the Anglican and Roman Catholic breviary as Saint Remi’s Day. // Joan of Arc, born in 1412, was the daughter of Jacques d’Arc and Isabel d’Ramee in Dom Remy, a village located in the valley of the Muese River. The ardent researcher will find early French history resplendent with the names and activities of the ancient Remi family. // ...”From Egypt-to Italy-to France-to Wales”....’God said unto Abraham, ‘Thou shalt keep my covenant, therefore, thou, and thy seed after thee in their generation’.” [1, 3]
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1662 - 1734 (72 years)
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