Welcome to my online Family Tree!



This site centers around the the union of 
Coward J Phillips & Samantha Arthur, 
and their family histories, present and past.  
I began research into my family in 2002, and we recently began researching the Phillip's 
family also.  Some of the surnames being researched are:  
Phillips, Oakes, Daugherty, Carroll, Ward, Harmon, 
Hyden, Williams, & Arthur.  
These are surnames from both sides.  
  
Take your time and look around my site.  I have spent countless hours gathering the information I 
have so far. I believe most of the information I have here to be accurate, but if you find anything 
that you believe is not, feel free to contact me.  Genealogy research is a never-ending endeavor, 
so this is a work-in-progress.  Your contributions may be of assist in collecting information 
that may bridge a gap to interesting information for us all. 

I was recently able to track one 
 family line all the way back to Germany with the birth of Theobald David Pfautz in Rohrback,  Rhenish, Palatinate, Germany in 1722.  Spelling with the last name was changed to Fouts, probably  either by misspelling in immigration records, to make the name easier to spell or pronounce, or to  improve their employment opportunities as German-Americans.

Another family line goes back to England with the immigration of Wm (William) Alsup in 1682 at the  age of 22.  William's father, George Alsup, had previous immigrated to the United States (when  William was 6 years old) in 1667 at the age of 36.  William's great granddaughter, Lucy was the  first to marry into the Hyden family!

If anyone has any additional information, photos (especially old ones), documents, stories, or 
anything they would like to share, please feel free to contact me through the website or by 
emailing me at lisa.milanese@outlook.com.  Any help in my research would be greatly appreciated.  
Please visit & sign the guestbook & leave a message for other family members if you 
wish.  

PHILLIPS- Welsh: a patronymic surname 
meaning "son of Phillip."

Alternate Surname Spellings: PHILIPS, PHILLIP, PHILIP
 The surname Phillips and its many variations are believed to be patronymic surnames, which mean  they were originally derived from the male first name Philip or Phillip. Adding an "s" to the end  of Philip or Phillip causes the name to mean "son of Philip" or "son of Phillip."

The website Behind the Name states that the first name Philip or Phillip is from the  Greek: "Philippos", a compound of "philein", to love, and "hippos", horse. Hence, "lover of horses"  or "friend of horses."

One of the first recorded spellings of the Phillips surname with a "Ph" is shown to be that of  Alicia Philippes, which was dated 1273, in the "Hundred Rolls of Huntingdonshire", during the reign  of King Edward I, known as "The Hammer of the Scots", 1272 - 1307.

Motto: Ducit amor patriae.
Motto Translation: Patriotism leads me.




OAKES- English: topographic name, a plural variant of Oak.
       
Spelling variation include: Oak, Oake, Oke, Okes, Oaks, and others.
First found in Somerset where they were seated from early times and their 
first records on the early census rolls taken by the early Kings of Britain to 
determine the rate of taxation of their subjects.
Some of the first settlers of this name or some of its variants were: John 
Oaks settled in S.C. in 1822; John Oaks settled in Bristol, Rhode Island in 
1820; C. Oak settled in San Francisco, CA in 1851; Jan Oake settled in New 
York in 1687.
Motto:  The strength of the oak is the safety of our 
country.