Evening Republican, Volume 14, Number 273, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 November 1910 — Ives Family [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

Ives Family

Ives, Ivie, Ivys,. Ivins, Ivison, St Ives, and also Eve, Eves, Eaves, Eveson and Evans are names supposed to be derived from the town of St. Ives, England. This town was thus called in honor of St Ive, a Persian)missionary of early days. Drayton, In a poem,, thus gives the story:

[From Persia, led by zeal, St. Ive this Island sought ' " And near our eastern fens, a ' fit place, finding taught faith; which place from him alone the name derives, And of that sainted man has since been called St Ives. A person living at St Ives might be *of Ives,” or “de Ives" or “d’lves,” •which was finally shortened to Ives or Ive. The Norman form of the name was Ivo. Other near relatives of the names Ives are Ison, Ivett and Ivatts. An old Hebrew form of Eve, it may be mentioned, was Havah, which was another name for Eve of the Bible. Eve means, as we are told, the mother of an. It Is not Impossible, however, to acl.‘ count for all these names by referring them back to Ivan, meaning John. The family has its history all along the ages, and its romance. There was the famous antiquarian. John Ives, who was also the "Suffolk herald extraordinary". He was bom in Great Yarmouth, 1751, and "the son of an opulent merchant” Some of his manuscripts are in the British museum. But this is of but trifling importance compared with the romance which adorns the pages of its history. For he eloped. wouldn’t anyone give for an elopljag great-great-grandfather? This grandfather and Sarah, daughter of Wade Kett of Lopham, eloped. It was midsummer, the “silly Season;" each was young and foolish and didn’t know any better. William Ives of London came over in the Truelove, 1635. He was a freeman and one of the proprietors of New Haven, where he died, 1648. His name is one of the number found in (the civil compact dated June 4, 1639. ■Gpe of his sons was Joseph, whose son Samuel was a Maine colonist. WilHam's' (the pilgrim) widow, married William Bassett. Another immigrant was Mlles Ives, who was also from England, i He was first at Watertown, Mass., ana afterward at Boston. His wife was Sarah and they had a large family. Others of the Ives family of those days were John, at New Haver}, 1669, and proprietor of New

Wallingford, Conn., was another home of the Ives. John Ives married Mary and had eight children, of whom one was Gideon, born 1680. He is called Ensign. His wife was Mary Royce and their family numbered a dozen minus one. One son was Joel, which was a favorite name for a few generations. —, The Ives have fighting blood and in every war were always to the fore. I Some of the most important photographic devices are the invention of

Frederick Eugene Ives, born in Litchfield, Conn., 1856. An artist of the family is Halsey Ives, knight of the Order of Danebrog, and also a knight of the Order of Vasa, decorations bestowed by Christian IX., 1891, and by the king of Sweden, 1895. The coat of arms reproduced is: “Argent, three torteaux, between two bends, gules.” The torteaux, or roundels, of heraldry symbolize manchets or communion wafers. This coatarmor, judging from the charge, is an ancient one and probably was bestowed upon a crusader knight. Moors’ heads and goats are the charges of other Ives arms. Hie Ives of Northampton, England, had goats as their heraldic charge. Burke’s “Peerage” blazons two coats of arms for the Eve family and they, too, must be very ancient. One Is "quarterly, sable and or.” The other is . "barry of ten, argent and purpure." In the beginning of things, coat-armor was little more than one the shield. Regarding the second coat, the metal argent (silver), signifies peace, sincerity, purity and innocence; purpure (purple), royal majesty, sovereignty and justice. ;

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