In the United States, members of the Delano family include U.S. presidents
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
Franklin Delano Roosevelt (; ; January 30, 1882April 12, 1945), often referred to by his initials FDR, was an American politician and attorney who served as the 32nd president of the United States from 1933 until his death in 1945. As the ...
,
Ulysses S. Grant
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and
Calvin Coolidge
Calvin Coolidge (born John Calvin Coolidge Jr.; ; July 4, 1872January 5, 1933) was the 30th president of the United States from 1923 to 1929. Born in Vermont, Coolidge was a History of the Republican Party (United States), Republican lawyer ...
, astronaut
Alan B. Shepard
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, and writer
Laura Ingalls Wilder
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. Its progenitor is
Philippe de Lannoy (1602–1681), a
Pilgrim
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of
Walloon descent, who arrived at
Plymouth, Massachusetts
Plymouth (; historically known as Plimouth and Plimoth) is a town in Plymouth County, Massachusetts, United States. Located in Greater Boston, the town holds a place of great prominence in American history, folklore, and culture, and is known as ...
, in the early 1620s. His descendants also include
Eustachius De Lannoy (who played an important role in Indian History),
Frederic Adrian Delano
Frederic Adrian Delano II (September 10, 1863 – March 28, 1953) was an American railroad president who served as the first Vice Chair of the Federal Reserve from 1914 to 1916. After his term as vice chairman, Delano continued to serve as a membe ...
,
Robert Redfield, and
Paul Delano Captain Paul Delano (June 15, 1775 – February 4, 1842) was an American born sea captain and a member of the prominent American Delano family.
Early life
Delano was born in Fairhaven, Massachusetts on June 15, 1775, to Nathan Pope Delano and S ...
. Delano family forebears include the
Pilgrims who chartered the ''
Mayflower
''Mayflower'' was an English ship that transported a group of English families, known today as the Pilgrims, from England to the New World in 1620. After a grueling 10 weeks at sea, ''Mayflower'', with 102 passengers and a crew of about 30, r ...
'', seven of its passengers, and three signers of the
Mayflower Compact
The Mayflower Compact, originally titled Agreement Between the Settlers of New Plymouth, was the first governing document of Plymouth Colony. It was written by the men aboard the ''Mayflower,'' consisting of separatist Puritans, adventurers, an ...
.
De Lannoy family in Europe
![Captain Warren Delano](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/9/92/Captain_Warren_Delano.jpg)
Philippe de Lannoy was born in
Leiden
Leiden (; in English and archaic Dutch also Leyden) is a city and municipality in the province of South Holland, Netherlands. The municipality of Leiden has a population of 119,713, but the city forms one densely connected agglomeration wit ...
on December 7, 1602, of religious refugee parents Jan Lano, born Jean de Lannoy in 1575 at
Tourcoing
Tourcoing (; nl, Toerkonje ; vls, Terkoeje; pcd, Tourco) is a city in northern France on the Belgian border. It is designated municipally as a Communes of France, commune within the Departments of France, department of Nord (French department), ...
, and Marie Mahieu of
Lille
Lille ( , ; nl, Rijsel ; pcd, Lile; vls, Rysel) is a city in the northern part of France, in French Flanders. On the river Deûle, near France's border with Belgium, it is the capital of the Hauts-de-France Regions of France, region, the Pref ...
,
Spanish Netherlands
Spanish Netherlands (Spanish: Países Bajos Españoles; Dutch: Spaanse Nederlanden; French: Pays-Bas espagnols; German: Spanische Niederlande.) (historically in Spanish: ''Flandes'', the name "Flanders" was used as a ''pars pro toto'') was the Ha ...
, both now in northern France.
His parents were betrothed in the Leiden
Walloon Church on January 13, 1596.
[George English, 'L'histoire et les ancêtres de la famille de Philip Delano (Philippe de Lannoy)', Le Parchemin 72 Annee Mars-Avril 2007 No. 368, pages 114–155.] His father died in 1604 at Leiden. Philippe's grandfather, Guilbert de Lannoy of Tourcoing, was born Roman Catholic but apparently became an early
Protestant
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. He left the mainland with his family for England probably in the late 1570s and then, in 1591, moved to Leiden, a safe harbor for religious dissidents. The Mahieu family arrived in Leiden around the same time, having earlier been at
Armentières
Armentières (; vls, Armentiers) is a commune in the Nord department in the Hauts-de-France region in northern France. It is part of the Métropole Européenne de Lille.
The motto of the town is ''Pauvre mais fière'' (Poor but proud).
Geogra ...
, near Lille. The family name
de Lannoy De Lannoy or Delannoy is a surname, and may refer to;
;Noble Belgian House of Lannoy:
* Jean de Lannoy
* Baldwin of Lannoy
* Hugo van Lannoy
* Guillebert de Lannoy, soldier, traveller and diplomat
* Charles de Lannoy, 1st Prince of Sulmona: soldi ...
may derive from the town of
Lannoy (that results from the agglutination of the definite article ''le'' "the" and ''annoy'' "alder plantation", Picard variant form corresponding to Modern French ''aulnaie'' "alder plantation") also near Lille.
Migration to America
Arriving from England, Philippe de Lannoy's ancestors affiliated with the Leiden
Walloon Church, which held services in French, indicating they probably spoke French or
Picard. The timing and extent of his contact with the
John Robinson John Robinson may refer to:
Academics
*John Thomas Romney Robinson (1792–1882), Irish astronomer and physicist
* John J. Robinson (1918–1996), historian and author of ''Born in Blood''
*John Talbot Robinson (1923–2001), paleontologist
*John ...
Pilgrim
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congregation in Leiden is unknown but Philippe eventually joined the voyage Robinson organized to the American continent. The Leiden Pilgrims bought the ''
Speedwell'' for the voyage. Although his name is not on the passenger list, Philippe is believed by ''
Mayflower
''Mayflower'' was an English ship that transported a group of English families, known today as the Pilgrims, from England to the New World in 1620. After a grueling 10 weeks at sea, ''Mayflower'', with 102 passengers and a crew of about 30, r ...
'' scholar Jeremy Bangs to have joined his maternal uncle
Francis Cooke (husband of his mother's sister, Hester Mahieu) and young cousin John Cooke on the ''Speedwell'' voyage from Delfshaven to Southampton to meet the ''Mayflower''. It is possible that Philippe went separately to England rather than aboard ''Speedwell''. They gathered in England with other Pilgrims and hireling colonizers to stage the onward voyage with the two ships. The ''Speedwell'' proved unseaworthy and eleven of its passengers were able to join the ''Mayflower''. It is unknown if the twenty (including Robert Cushman and Phillipe de Lannoy) who could not sail on the ''Mayflower'' returned to Leiden or remained in England. The ''Mayflower'' proceeded solo with a combined company of 103, leaving Plymouth on September 6, 1620, arriving Cape Cod Harbor on November 11, 1620. The ''
Fortune
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'' eventually substituted for the ''Speedwell'', sailing for Plymouth Colony in early July 1621, arriving on November 9, 1621, with Philippe among its passengers.
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Life in America
Philippe de Lannoy joined and resided with his uncle Francis Cooke and cousin John, who had arrived on the ''Mayflower
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'' the year before. In 1623, he received a land grant in Plymouth but sold this property in 1627 and moved to Duxborough. In 1634, at Plymouth, Massachusetts, he married Hester Dewsbury. Their children: 1. Mary Delano, b. abt 1635; 2. Philip Delano, b. abt 1637; 3. Hester or Esther Delano, b. abt 1640; 4. Thomas Delano, b. 21 March 1642; 5. John Delano, b. 1644; 6. Jonathan Delano, b. 1647–1648, prob. Duxbury, Massachusetts. Delano prospered and was part of the group that organized the construction of highways and bridges around the village. Hester died after 1648. Before 1653 he married the widowed Mary Pontus Glass, b. abt 1625, by whom he had three children: 1. Jane Delano; 2. Rebecca Delano; 3. Samuel Delano.".
He served in the Pequot War
The Pequot War was an armed conflict that took place between 1636 and 1638 in New England between the Pequot tribe and an alliance of the colonists from the Massachusetts Bay, Plymouth, and Saybrook colonies and their allies from the Narragans ...
of 1637 as a volunteer. In 1652, he joined with 35 other colonists to purchase with trading goods what was then called Dartmouth Township from Massasoit, the leader of the Wampanoag
The Wampanoag , also rendered Wôpanâak, are an Indigenous people of the Northeastern Woodlands based in southeastern Massachusetts and historically parts of eastern Rhode Island,Salwen, "Indians of Southern New England and Long Island," p. 17 ...
, who drew the boundaries. It was sold to the Religious Society of Friends
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or Quakers, who wished to live outside the stringent religious laws of the Puritans
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. Philippe gave his portion of the acquisition, amounting to 800 acres (3.2 km²), to his son Jonathan Delano. He died on August 22, 1681, in Bridgewater, Massachusetts
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. A great many of his offspring would become prominent mariners, whalers, and shipbuilders. The later commercial success of some Delanos was such that they would become part of the Massachusetts aristocracy, sometimes referred to as one of the Boston Brahmins (the "First Families of Boston").
Warren Delano's career smuggling opium into China
Warren Delano Jr.
Warren Delano Jr. (July 13, 1809 – January 17, 1898) was an American merchant and drug smuggler who made a large fortune smuggling illegal opium into China. He was the maternal grandfather of U.S. President Franklin Delano Roosevelt.
Early ...
made a large fortune trading opium
Opium (or poppy tears, scientific name: ''Lachryma papaveris'') is dried latex obtained from the seed capsules of the opium poppy ''Papaver somniferum''. Approximately 12 percent of opium is made up of the analgesic alkaloid morphine, which i ...
in Canton (now Guangzhou), China. Delano first went to China at age 24 to work for Russell & Company
Russell & Company () was the largest American trading house of the mid-19th century in China. The firm specialised in trading tea, silk and opium and was eventually involved in the shipping trade.
Foundation
In 1818, Samuel Russell was approached ...
, which had pioneered trading with China. John Perkins Cushing
John Perkins Cushing (April 22, 1787 – April 12, 1862), called "Ku-Shing" by the Chinese, was a wealthy American sea merchant, opium smuggler, and philanthropist. His sixty-foot pilot schooner, the ''Sylph'', won the first recorded American yac ...
also a Russell & Company partnerhad preceded Delano and initiated a close relationship with a Chinese official called Howqua
Wu Bingjian (; 17694 September 1843), trading as "Houqua" and better known in the West as "Howqua", was a hong merchant in the Thirteen Factories, head of the '' E-wo hong'' and leader of the Canton Cohong. He was once the richest man in the wor ...
. The two men had established an offshore basean anchored floating warehousewhere Russell & Company ships would offload their opium contraband before continuing up the Pearl River Delta to Canton with their legal cargo.
By early 1843, Delano had spent a momentous decade in the China trade. He had achieved his financial competence and risen to become the head partner of the biggest American firm dealing with China. He had witnessed the destruction of the hated Canton system, the humiliation of the Chinese government, and the creation of New Chinas.
Descendants
His son Jonathan (about 1648-1720) married Mercy Warren, granddaughter of ''Mayflower'' passenger Richard Warren
Richard Warren (c. 1585c.1628) was one of the passengers on the Pilgrim ship ''Mayflower'' and a signer of the Mayflower Compact.
Early life
Richard Warren married Elizabeth Walker, at Great Amwell, Hertfordshire, on 14 April 1610. Elizabeth ...
; among their direct descendants are the author Laura Ingalls Wilder
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, President Ulysses S. Grant
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, President Calvin Coolidge
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, anthropologist Robert Redfield, astronaut Alan B. Shepard
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, journalist Hunter S. Thompson
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, entertainer Martina McBride
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and the poet Conrad Potter Aiken.
Over time, family members migrated to other states, including Pennsylvania, Utah, Georgia, Michigan, Maine, New York, Ohio, Oklahoma, Virginia, Vermont and as far away as Chile, where today descendants of Captain Paul Delano Captain Paul Delano (June 15, 1775 – February 4, 1842) was an American born sea captain and a member of the prominent American Delano family.
Early life
Delano was born in Fairhaven, Massachusetts on June 15, 1775, to Nathan Pope Delano and S ...
are numerous and prominent. From the New York clan, Sara Delano
Sara Ann Roosevelt ( Delano; September 21, 1854 – September 7, 1941) was the second wife of James Roosevelt I (from 1880), the mother of President of the United States Franklin D. Roosevelt, Franklin Delano Roosevelt, her only child, and ...
married James Roosevelt and their only child, Franklin Delano Roosevelt, became President of the United States
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.
;Delano family in America:
* Amasa Delano
''Benito Cereno'' is a novella by Herman Melville, a fictionalized account about the revolt on a Spanish slave ship captained by Don Benito Cereno, first published in three installments in '' Putnam's Monthly'' in 1855. The tale, slightly revi ...
(1763-1823), master mariner, shipbuilder and author“Delano, Amasa and Samuel,” Drew Archival Library
/ref>
* Paul Delano Captain Paul Delano (June 15, 1775 – February 4, 1842) was an American born sea captain and a member of the prominent American Delano family.
Early life
Delano was born in Fairhaven, Massachusetts on June 15, 1775, to Nathan Pope Delano and S ...
(1775–1842), Commander of the Chilean Department of the Navy
* Columbus Delano (1809–1896), a statesman, lawyer, rancher, banker, U.S. Congressman from Ohio, Whig/Republican Party member. Advocated for federal African-Americans rights and protection under federal government occupation of the south. U.S. Secretary of the Interior in the Grant administration. In 1874 demanded Yellowstone be federally protected. In 1875 under a cloud of corruption during his tenure. President U.S. Grant, a cousin, demanded his resignation. He returned to Ohio as a farmer and lawyer; later a town in California was named for him.
* Warren Delano Jr.
Warren Delano Jr. (July 13, 1809 – January 17, 1898) was an American merchant and drug smuggler who made a large fortune smuggling illegal opium into China. He was the maternal grandfather of U.S. President Franklin Delano Roosevelt.
Early ...
(1809–1898), a grandfather of President Franklin D. Roosevelt
Franklin Delano Roosevelt (; ; January 30, 1882April 12, 1945), often referred to by his initials FDR, was an American politician and attorney who served as the 32nd president of the United States from 1933 until his death in 1945. As the ...
and Chief of Operations of Russell & Company
Russell & Company () was the largest American trading house of the mid-19th century in China. The firm specialised in trading tea, silk and opium and was eventually involved in the shipping trade.
Foundation
In 1818, Samuel Russell was approached ...
, whose business included the opium trade in Canton
Canton may refer to:
Administrative division terminology
* Canton (administrative division), territorial/administrative division in some countries, notably Switzerland
* Township (Canada), known as ''canton'' in Canadian French
Arts and ent ...
.
* Franklin Hughes Delano
Franklin Hughes Delano (July 27, 1813 – December 23, 1893) was an American merchant, diplomat and society man.
Early life
Delano was born in Dartmouth, Massachusetts on July 27, 1813 and grew up in Fairhaven. He was a son of Captain Warren Del ...
(1813–1893), a merchant and diplomat (husband of Laura Astor, favorite granddaughter of John Jacob Astor
John Jacob Astor (born Johann Jakob Astor; July 17, 1763 – March 29, 1848) was a German-American businessman, merchant, real estate mogul, and investor who made his fortune mainly in a fur trade monopoly, by smuggling opium into China, and ...
)
* Francis Ralph Delano, (1842–1892), banker, railroad executive
* Warren Delano IV
Warren Delano IV (July 11, 1852 – September 9, 1920) was an American horseman and coal tycoon.
Early life
Delano was born at Algonac, the family estate in Balmville near Newburgh, New York in 1852. He was a member of the Delano family as a s ...
(1852–1920), a coal magnate and horseman
* Sara Ann Delano
Sara Ann Roosevelt ( Delano; September 21, 1854 – September 7, 1941) was the second wife of James Roosevelt I (from 1880), the mother of President of the United States Franklin Delano Roosevelt, her only child, and subsequently the mother ...
(1854–1941), mother of Franklin Delano Roosevelt
Franklin Delano Roosevelt (; ; January 30, 1882April 12, 1945), often referred to by his initials FDR, was an American politician and attorney who served as the 32nd president of the United States from 1933 until his death in 1945. As the ...
* Jane Arminda Delano
Jane Arminda Delano (March 12, 1862 in Montour Falls, New York – April 15, 1919 in Savenay, Loire-Atlantique, France) was a nurse and founder of the American Red Cross Nursing Service.
Personal life
A descendant of one of the first settlers to ...
(1862–1919), an RN. Nurse, Founder of the American Red Cross Nurses Service, died in Lilles France, 1919 from influenza. She died in service to stop the swine flu pandemic.
* Frederic Adrian Delano II, (1863–1953), civil engineer, member of the Commercial Club of Chicago, brother of Sara
Sara may refer to:
Arts, media and entertainment Film and television
* ''Sara'' (1992 film), 1992 Iranian film by Dariush Merhjui
* ''Sara'' (1997 film), 1997 Polish film starring Bogusław Linda
* ''Sara'' (2010 film), 2010 Sri Lankan Sinhal ...
* William Adams Delano
William Adams Delano (January 21, 1874 – January 12, 1960), an American architect, was a partner with Chester Holmes Aldrich in the firm of Delano & Aldrich. The firm worked in the Beaux-Arts tradition for elite clients in New York City, Long I ...
(1874–1960), an architect
* Franklin Delano Roosevelt
Franklin Delano Roosevelt (; ; January 30, 1882April 12, 1945), often referred to by his initials FDR, was an American politician and attorney who served as the 32nd president of the United States from 1933 until his death in 1945. As the ...
, (1882–1945), 32nd President of the United States
* Warren Delano Robbins
Warren Delano Robbins (September 3, 1885 – April 7, 1935) was an American diplomat and first cousin of President Franklin D. Roosevelt. He served as Chief of Protocol of the United States from 1931 to 1933 and as the U.S. Minister to El S ...
(1885–1935), a diplomat
* Preston Delano
Preston Brady Delano (April 2, 1886 – August 31, 1961) was a United States Comptroller of the Currency from October, 1938 to 1953. He inherited this Office from an Acting Comptroller of the Currency from April 1938 to September 1938 named Ma ...
(1886–1961), U.S. Comptroller 1938 to 1953
* David Delano Clark
David Delano Clark (February 10, 1924 – December 22, 1997) was a nuclear physicist best known for his work at Cornell University building nuclear reactors and using them to perform neutron activation analysis.
Biography
Born in Austin, Texas ...
(1924–1997), a nuclear physicist
* Diane Delano (born 1957), an actress
* James Whitlow Delano (born 1960), a photographer
* Mary Gray-Reeves (daughter of Florence Delano Gray) (born 1962), first woman to be an Episcopal
Episcopal may refer to:
*Of or relating to a bishop, an overseer in the Christian church
*Episcopate, the see of a bishop – a diocese
*Episcopal Church (disambiguation), any church with "Episcopal" in its name
** Episcopal Church (United State ...
bishop in California.
;Delano family namesakes:
* Delano, California, named for Columbus Delano
* Delano, Minnesota
Delano is a city in Wright County, Minnesota, United States. The population was 5,464 at the 2010 census. The city is known for its small-town feel. It is in the outskirts of the Twin Cities Metropolitan Statistical Area.
History
Delano was pl ...
, named for Francis Roach Delano
* Delano, Pennsylvania
Delano is a census-designated place (CDP) in Schuylkill County, Pennsylvania, United States. The population was 377 at the 2000 census.
Geography
Delano is located at (40.839633, -76.071032).
According to the United States Census Bureau, the CD ...
, and Delano Township, Schuylkill County, Pennsylvania
Delano Township is a township in Schuylkill County, Pennsylvania, United States. Formed in 1882 from part of Rush Township, it is named for Warren Delano Jr., maternal grandfather of Franklin Delano Roosevelt, 32nd President of the United States ...
, named for Warren Delano Jr.
Warren Delano Jr. (July 13, 1809 – January 17, 1898) was an American merchant and drug smuggler who made a large fortune smuggling illegal opium into China. He was the maternal grandfather of U.S. President Franklin Delano Roosevelt.
Early ...
* Delano Hall, the main dining facility for midshipmen at the United States Merchant Marine Academy is named in honor of the Delano family for its support of the American Merchant Marine in general, and President F.D. Roosevelt's support for the Academy in particular.
References
External links
The American House of Delano, 1621-1899
Welcome to the Town of Dartmouth Massachusetts
Delano Family Tree
at Geni.com
Delano family letters
at the Newberry Library
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American families of French ancestry
American people of Walloon descent
Political families of the United States
People of colonial Massachusetts
American families of Belgian ancestry
17th-century Dutch emigrants to North America
Massachusetts whaling families