Mary Farris married William Pamer on November 23rd 1567 in St. Margaret's Lothburg, London. On August 18th 1700, Thomas Farris was christened in St. Martin in the Fields, Westminster, London. The first recorded spelling of the family name is shown to be that of Ferris (Gaelic O'Fearghusa), which was dated 1586, Census of County Kerry, during the reign of Queen Elizabeth 1, Good Queen Bess, 1558 - 1603.
Walter Mosley is an American novelist. He is well known for his crime fiction. He was born in 1952 in Los Angeles. He is now living in New York. The hero of his work is detective Easy Rawlins.
Sir Walter Raleigh was an Elizabethan explorer and scholar. Sir Walter Raleigh advocated the colonisation of what we now call the United States of America and, for right or wrong, Raleigh will always be associated with the introduction of the potato and tobacco into England. Sir Walter Raleigh was born around 1554. His father was also called Sir Walter Raleigh and the boy was born into a degree of affluence. He attended Oriel College, Oxford University and went to the Middle Bar.