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i THE BIRMINGHAM AGE-HERALD
I VOLUME XXXXV _ BIRMINGHAM, ALABAMA, SUNDAY, JULY 25, 1915 SPORTING SECTION NUMBER 80
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*
Going to England to Work
in Factories or Fight
ANNEXATION FEARED
* Think All Belgians of Military Age
Will Be Drafted Into German
Army and Made to Fight
Against Countrymen
(I Paris, July 10.— (Correspondence of
the Associated Press.)—Scarcely a boat
leaves Holland for England those days
without Its contingent of Belgians of
military age who have evaded the. reg
istration of all male Belgians capable
of bearing arms now required by the
German authorities In Belgium. Many
of them are on their way to England
to work in the munitions factories,
while those who at the beginning cl
the war were called to the colors and
on account of the speed with which
tiie invasion of Belgium was accom
plished were unable to respond to the
call, are en route to join the Belgian
army in Flanders.
| Among the former there are various
groups wearing bits of colored tape in
their buttonholes or pinned to their
'clothing; some purple, some green,
some yellow, by the representatives of
Hithe British munitions firms who are to
•employ them may recognise their men.
or their women, as the case may be—
for many of these future workers in
the manufacture of armament are
Hvomen.
Are Fearful Still
• Those who are going for soldiers are
generally younger men, in their early
twenties for the most part. They have
(lived through much, and are sobered
land saddened by what lias passed in
(their country since last August. They
(talk together In little groups, in low
(voices, glancing over their shoulders
jtonstantly, unable, to rid themselves
jof the fear of what continual surveil
lance to which they have so long been
subject.
> Their talk just now is all of the pro
posed annexation of Belgium by Get
knany, which they are convinced is im
Jlminent. They claim that this is a new
Repressive measure on the part of the
Hnvaders—that Belgium once annexed
tend became therebly an integral part
of the German empire, all Belgians of
^military age will be called upon to
Ijserve in the German army, and on re
fusal to do so will be treated as Ger
tman deserters. For this reason, they
■ay, every Belgian of military age now
'remaining in the stricken country is
imaking desperate efforts to escape be
fore the expected annexation can no
tjproclaimed.
I On each boat also may be found gen
erally one or more prisoners of war
who has escaped from one of the Ger
man prison camps, of which a few are
mot far from the Dutch border. Most
lof these are French, whose language
ibemg the same as that of most Rel
Iftians renders their flight through Bel
gium leas difficult. But occasionally
there are Englishmen, left behind in
* the first retreat from Belgium and re
gaining in hiding ever since, or es
caped directly from a military prison.
Orce in hwhile there is a Russian. The
Associated Press correspondent made
the journey with two such escaped
Russians, whose story of their flight
Bu rned almost impossible of belief, yet
was borne out by the detail with which
it was filled, respecting the country
'jOVer which they had made their way.
! Two Escaped Russians
! Both wrere still In the full uniform
of Russian private soldiers which they
had neither been able to change nor
■ to disguise during their flight. With
j tlicir trousers thrust into high boots
and the conspicuous round; khaki hats
perched on the side of their heads, they
were unmistakable as far as they
<v;uld be seen. They spoke nothing but
Russian. Yet they told the Associated
Press correspondent that, when out
with a party of other prisoners work
ing in the fields, they learped from
some of their fellow's who understood
a little German that they were being
/employed but a few miles from the
Dutch frontiers. They decided to es
cope if possible. They discussed their
plans under the very noses of their
-jpierds, landaturm men who could not
I A CORNER IN ANCESTORS |
By FRANCES COWLES. \
THE NEWCOMB FAMILY
It must have been an easy matter to
spell correctly a thousand years ago. For
Newcomen is the Latin rendering of the
old Saxon name spelled variously New
com, Newcome, Newcombe, Neukum,
Newkom, Newckum, Nucom, Nucome,
Nucomb and Nucum. In Saxon times a
combe was a vale, or a depressed place
between two hills, and although some
exlpanationa suggest that Hugh New
comen's progenitors were new-comers,
the more generally accepted explanation
is that they lived in some new combe.
In the year 1606 there was born in Eng
land one Francis Newcombe, who wrote
his own name "Fransis nucom." Tra
dition has it that he was of pure Saxon
heritage.
When Francis was 30 years old he
iame to America in the ship Planter.
The list of passengers, filed in l^ondon,
starts off as follows:
“vith Aprilis 1635. Thets p’ties heere
under mencioned are to be transported
to New England: imbarqued In the Plan
ter * * * bound thether; they have
j brought certificates from Justices of
j peace and ministers of ye p’ish that they
I are conformable to the orders for ye
Church of England and are no subsidy
men. they have taken the oath of su
premacie and allegiance. Die et Ano
pred.
Ffrancis Newcom, husband, 30.
Rachell Newcom, 20.
Rachell Newcom, 2%.
Jo: Newcom. 9 months, wife and two
children.
Francis and Rachel, his wife and their
two children, settled in Boston. After
three years there they moved to Mount
Wollaston. They founded a big family
which spread and flourished, and many
of the American Newcombs trace their
descent from them.
It is another family, or branch of the
same family, that Simon Newcomb, one
of the greatest astronomers of modem
times, made famous. This branch was
founded by Captain Andrew. w’ho came
from the "west of England" sometims
0>efore 1663 and settled at Boston.
Thf first mention of this Captain An
drew in Boston occurs in 1663 when he
married his second wife, Grace Rix, or
Ricks. Not much is known of the per
sonality of this Andrew’. He was a
mariner, and a man of good education.
Unlike most men of his day, even men
of affairs, he could write a legible and
easy hand.
By his first wife, Captain Andrew had
Andrew, born in 1640, and Susannah, who
married, first, a Mr. Blague, and, second,
a Mr. Pritchett, or Pritchard. His only
child by his second wife was a daughter
Grace.
The arms of the Newoomb family are
blazoned: Argent, a lion’s head erased
sable between three crescents gules. The
crest Is: A lamb's gamb erased and erect
sable.
To J. P. Newcomb, who asks for the
coat of arms of the Bowles family and
something about the origin of the name.
The coat-of-arms of the Newcomb fam
ily Is: Azure, three standing bowls, ar
gent. out of each, a boar's head, or. This
Is the coat-of-arms of the Lewis family
of Maryland, and Virginia, and quarter
ed with the arms of the Lewis family.
It is seen upon pieces of silver, which are
treasured heirlooms.
Not only in aristocratic Virginia and
Maryland, were the arms seen blazoned
upon family. Bilver, seals, bookplates,
carriage doors and stationery, but even
in staid New England, the Bowles, also
the Bolles. made use of this Insignia.
The crest, used by some branches of
the family, is a deml-boar, azure,
armed, hoofed and bristled, or, pierced
through the shoulder with an arrow of
the second, headed or.
The Lincolnshire Bow'les bear the
arms Illustrated. Henry VIII granted
one coat-armor in 1518, and a motto,
used by one branch is: Ut tibl sic alterl
■ ■■■■■■I—«««f
—"As I do to thee so will I do to oth
ers."
This is also the motto of the Pem
berton Leighs. |
Twelve distinct coat of arms are
borne by as many branches of the fam
ily in England, but they agree in one
particular—they all have bowls—in
reference to the name, and ninny have
the boar, a symbol of courage.
It has never been definitely settled
Just how the name Bowles originated.
One theory leads back to Normandy,
where there is a town called Bouelles,
and the progenitor may have been a
Norman knight. Bole is a name on Bat
tlo Abbey Roll, and in Domesday Book,
tw'o tenants-ln-c*hief were named Bolle
and Bollo. They had lands in Hants
and Dorset.
The name, which now is confined to
two forms, Bowles and Bolles, appears
in old records as de Boel, Boel, Boles,
Booles, Bolles, Bowie, Bowles, Bolles,
Bowie, Bowldes, also Bowelis, Vowles
and Fowles.
To "Interested Reader" who asks
how the Leach family had its origin.
Tho Leach family goes back, in Eng
land, to the time of King Edward III,
who ruled from 1327 to 1377. During
his reign there were three visitations
in England of the dreaded plague then
called the "Black Death," and a good
physician, or surgeon, as he was then
called, was w’orth his weight in gold.
There was such a surgeon in the King’s
houhehold, and his name was John Le
Leche or Leach. Perhaps, as the first
form of the name suggests, the family
came from France, for King Edward’s
mother was a French woman. Anyway,
the name Leach was derived from the
leech then so much used, in medicine, and
considered practically & cure-all, the
symbolism of health, and. therefore, a
good name for a physician.
The King was very fond of his surgeon,
and there is a quaint story told in con
nection with the arms borne by Edward
Leach and his descendants. Owing to
his mother's French birth. King Edward
thought that he deserved the throne of
France, and he fought many battles with
the French King before he was persuaded
otherwise. He also fought with the Scotch
under David Bruce, although he did not
succeed In conquering them permanently.
But at one time the kings of France
and Scotland were both prisoners in Ed
ward’s hands, so the story goes. And.
of course as they were kings, they could
not be treated as ordinary prisoners, and
Edward used to do his best to entertain
them. One day he took them to dinner
at the house of his favored surgeon, who
wined and dined them to their hearts’ con
tent. All three kings were much pleased
with the feast which Leach provided, and
as they were leaving him—aJI this accord
ing to tradition—each king gave him a
■mall crown.
Later Edward granted a large landed
estate to John Leach.
understand what was being said. The
remaining Russians agreed to help
them and when evening fell and the
prisoners were returned to their camp,
but these two were covered with hay
by their companions and left in the
field. Presumably they were not missed,
for they got off safely, making their
way by night and hiding In haystacks
by day. At first they went without
food entirely, but finally approached
a peasant woman who was milking In
a field and she gave them some milk
without the exchange of a word, plain
ly ignorant of what they were—doubt
less thinking them German soldiers In
one of the many new uniforms adopt
ed by the Germans since the beginning
of the war.
The third night they crossed the
Dutch frontier without seeing a sentry.
Ultimately, with Immense difficulties
engendered by their Ignorance of any
speech familiar to The Netherlands,
they succeeded In reaching The Hague,
whore they were taken In charge hy
the Russian legation and furnished
with the necessary funds for a return
to the realm of the Csar.
Dutch Contemplate Drastic Measure
The Hague, July 10.—(Special.)—The
Dutch Parliament Is contemplating a
law which would call to the oolors all
men who during the last 20 years have
been exempt from service for one rea
son or another. According to the sup
porters of the measure. It Is planned
to call the younger men to the colors
at once, while the men as old as 40
years would he called upon by the end
of next' year—when, they fondly hope
the war will be over. Military service
In the Netherlands Is not popular, and
such a drastic law. It Is believed, would
ersato a difficult situation.
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Crepe de Chine and
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