Sentence examples for English descent from inspiring English sources

Mr. Corzine's mother was of English descent, Mrs. Corzine said.

By as early as 1790, barely 50 percent of Americans were of English descent.

They were joined by colonists of English descent who'd grown up in eastern Virginia.

"Few Londoners have entirely English descent and Boris is no exception," Johnson's campaign Web site says, in a biographical note.

His ancestry was typical of the region: his mother, Louisa Van Velsor, was Dutch, and his father, Walter Whitman, was of English descent.

Folklore has flourished over the colonists' fate, including that of the first child of English descent born in the Americas, Virginia Dare.

Lamont Young 1851-19299), a Naples-born architect of Scottish-English descent, drafted a proposal for a subway among his many projects for his native city, but it was never built.

Reference: To the English line of royal descent that in the 12th century sprang from Count Geoffrey of Anjou and Henry I's daughter Matilda.... Cinema Subject: A three-dimensional animated graphic of Titans running back Eddie George.

They were children of Rupert's Land fur trade typically of Orcadian, Scottish, or English paternal descent and Aboriginal maternal descent.

Dale Farm residents, together with others representing travellers (of Irish origin) and gypsies (of English Roma descent), met civil servants from the ODPM on April 6th to discuss the matter, two days before they celebrate International Roma Day.But there is little enough to cheer about in most travellers' current plight.

She is of mostly German descent, and also has some Scots-Irish and English ancestry.