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Hastings (surname)

Hastings (name): See thread below related to this topic.

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And do not forget about Albert Francis Judd for example. Thanks, W Nowicki (talk) 19:25, 18 January 2010 (UTC)

Sorry to rain on your parade

... because in some respects you've written a fine article, but I feel I have to put Thomas Hastings (colonist) up for deletion. Please see the discussion. Mangoe (talk) 16:12, 20 January 2010 (UTC)

This went before Wikipedia review and the page and its subject was subsequently deemed to be sufficiently noteworthy.SBmeier (talk) 15:03, 20 March 2010 (UTC)

Regarding Ball's Bluff Battlefield and National Cemetery

Hi there! Thanks for your factual contributions to the page. I disagree that such a participants' list is appropriate in this case. Notable participants could be included in text in the main battle article, or listed in the orders of battle articles, but IMHO this list looks like unnecessary detail, much like a trivia section, especially since the first two are already linked and the last two aren't significant to the story of the cemetery. BusterD (talk) 23:13, 16 February 2010 (UTC)

Final discussion for Wikipedia:Requests for comment/Biographies of living people

Hello, I note that you have commented on the first phase of Wikipedia:Requests for comment/Biographies of living people

As this RFC closes, there are two proposals being considered:

Your opinion on this is welcome. Okip 03:29, 24 February 2010 (UTC)

Hastings (name)

Hi,

I didn't delete the derivation of the Hastings surname; it's still there at the start of the surname section. I think, and this is why I was there at the time, that every given name tries to claim/show a connection with one of the noble families with this name - do you have any data on this? I'd hate to be accused of publishing research but can't find my source for this (yet).

Best Wishes Saga City (talk) 14:43, 12 March 2010 (UTC)

Thanks and my bad -- didn't notice that you simply moved it until after I had replied. As for noble derivation, that is simply the earliest occurrence of the surname in any surviving source that I've been able to find. There was a Robert de Seneschal of Hastings who appears in the Domesday Book. The article goes on to say that, "There appears to be some reasonable grounds to suppose that the historic house of Hastings descended from the sieurs of Vernoix, who held Vernoix near Caen ..."^[1] The Yale trained Roberts is on the staff of the New England Historic Genealogical Society and held in quite high regard. In terms of an all encompassing provenance for the name, I prefer this one although I've seen better: "[A] well established surname from the twelfth century, is from a Norman personal name Hastenc, ultimately from Old Norse Hasteinn ..."^[2]

Other definitions rely on place name derivations related to the town of Hastings as described in the Toponymy section of that page. This also sounds credible and there doesn't have to be one single derivation.

Scott SBmeier (talk) 14:58, 20 March 2010 (UTC)

Hastings

Many thanks for the kind message. I emailed you off wiki. I also took the liberty of adding a photo of Justin Hastings and his wife from A History of Hatfield, Massachusetts, to the Thomas page. I also tried to upload a large photo from Bond's Watertown showing the Hastings plots, but the file was too big for Commons, I guess, and didn't go through. I did think you might enjoy this photo I uploaded to Commons a few days ago of Thomas Hastings's wife and friends outside the Colony Club in New York. Best regards, MarmadukePercy (talk) 18:55, 13 April 2010 (UTC)

Hello again. I noticed there is a small Hastings Y-dna project afoot, but was unclear if any of those tested are descendants of Thomas1 of Watertown. (It would seem not.) It seems that the predominant haplotype of the Hastings descendants (from this tiny sample) is I1, with some representation of R1b1b2. Perhaps there's another project underway that I missed, but this would seem to be fertile ground for divining the origins of the name and of the various families who carry it. Best regards, MarmadukePercy (talk) 13:53, 18 April 2010 (UTC)

Another good find. Thanks for sharing. It appears here that they (whoever that is, will need to contact them) are scooping up any and all Hastings. Should be interesting if mostly irrelevant. The only male line TH descendant that I know of who has had a test done came back with surprising and what seem to me to be atypical results. This is an exciting area of research to be sure! Scott SBmeier (talk) 14:29, 18 April 2010 (UTC)

Thanks for your reply. Yes, it is fertile ground for exploration, I think. You've piqued my curiosity: what's the anomalous Y-dna result for a TH descendant? I'm very curious. MarmadukePercy (talk) 03:21, 19 April 2010 (UTC)

Hello again. I noticed the Plimpton on the list of descendants. I'm also wondering whether the writer George Plimpton belongs there as well. He was the grandson of George Arthur Plimpton, who as I understand it was a Hastings descendant. Just a thought. Best, MarmadukePercy (talk) 22:27, 9 May 2010 (UTC)

Also, as far as the question of the signature from Bond's Watertown, that volume would fall into the public domain as it was published in the United States prior to 1923. You can indicate that on the categorization under Wikimedia Commons. If you have any questions, let me know, as I'm pretty active on there. MarmadukePercy (talk) 22:30, 9 May 2010 (UTC)

Thanks R, would you mind handling the Commons cat? Re George Plimpton, I assumed he was a descendant but haven't had the time to put together his line of descent. SBmeier (talk) 13:45, 10 May 2010 (UTC)

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