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From: Lloyd Rowsell <>
Subject: [NFLD-LAB] Loyalists or Royalists .....Surname and variations of... Royall / Ryall
Date: Sat, 8 Nov 2003 09:00:12 -0800 (PST)

This is my reply to those listers who requested information on the
Royal / Ryall Surname:

general response....

"A few weeks ago someone wrote and asked me if I had found any
information on the subject surname. Unfortunately, parts my
filing system is 'out of control' at this moment, and I have
misplaced the email. I have had leanings for some time that my
Rosewell/Roswell ancestors came from New England to Newfoundland
and have been looking in that direction.

On October 21st, 2001 I downloaded 8 pages of info from the
internet under this subject: "A Genealogical Dictionary of the
First Settlers of New England, before 1692, Volume #3...Ross-Ruel
by James Savage.

At that time I could see no obvious family connections. This
paper has been tucked away until yesterday.
Unfortunately I was unsuccessful in my attempts to return to the
website link below on June 2, 2002 and again on Nov. 5, 2003.
Savage New England Register, Volume 3, Ross-Ruel
http://www.usgenet.org/usa/vt/state/savage/bk3/ross-ruel.htm
perhaps you will have better luck.

There is almost a page of interesting information on Royal, or
Ryall, under the following Christian names: Isaac, Ruth, Jemima,
Sarah, Elizabeth, Robert, John, Thomas, Samuel, William etc. and
in-law connections to Dodd, Tyler, Cole, Endicott, Gorges
(George?) and Stevens.

Please let me know if you are able to access the website, if not I
could transcribe the information."


In response to my earlier posting, here are excerpts from emails
requesting more information on the subject surname.

#1.."My ROYAL/RYALLs are mostly from the Job's cove area."

#2.. "I am most , absolutely interested in those
surnames!!!...have you got something on the go that I don't know
about??...Loyalist name?!..Royal/Ryall!?"

#3.."I've traced the family (Ryall, Royal, Royle, Rahill,
Rial etc ) coming here as early as 1706. They would come in the
summer to fish, and return to England in he Fall. England would
not allow them to settle until the early 1800's.."
((lghr comment...important to remember that families from New
England also engaged in the summer migratory fishery at 'the big
island' and 'the Labrador'))

#4.."...... was a Riles from the southcoast of Newfoundland. The
surname has changed spelling many times in that family but I have
been able to trace the family back to Charles Ryall born about
1820. Unfortunately I have not been able to determine where he
was born. He married Sarah Hutchings in Harbour Breton around
1840."



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