A Theory of Mine....
Consider these facts...
- In this era, loyal subjects would often call their children after the King/Queen
- They were often unimaginative about names. George, Thomas etc., but names like Astroflash or Apple would be unheard of, yet George Moseley Landers named one of his children "Philadelphia", an unheard of name.
- I have found one record of a Landers being a "Retired land owner" at 40 years old?
- I have found another, possibly he same, living at an old age with a young family, as if they were doing i out of charity.
- Landers is comparatively rare in England.
- THere are various references to Landers back to 1782 or so, and then it goes cold, with only a couple of references to a family of Landers in Dorset.
- Landers is a very extensive name in the USA and many Landers played a big role in its early, pre-revolutionary history... and he main place where the Landers were located was...Pennsylvannia, he capital of which is Philadelphia, the city that was the capital of the USA before Washington DC.
Theory...are we the opposite of everyone else? Given the timing of the US Revolution in 1776, were the Landers a loyalist family that had to flee the USA like many others, to return to England?
- R