Distant Belnap-Belknap relative Graham Dixon, from England no less(!), visited us at our home while in the US on business for the BBC. He'd found Brent's family history materials on the Belnap-Belknap family online, and the rest is, shall we say, history.This special visit could be the first time in around 400 years that these two branches of the Belnap-Belknap family (one branch, through Abraham Belknap f/k/a Beltoft, came to Massachusetts in the 1630s, while the other branch remained in England where the surname eventually died out in the early 1900s) have reunited.
Brent and Graham figure that they're likely 11th cousins, give or take a few "somethings removed" here and there.
We're looking forward to the Dixons' presence at the next Belnap Family Reunion in Utah in 2010! Brilliant!
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