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5 unusual facts about Henrietta


Abilene Trail

Its exact route is disputed owing to its many offshoots, but it crossed the Red River just east of Henrietta, Texas, and continued north across the Indian Territory to Caldwell, Kansas and on past Wichita and Newton to Abilene.

F. Ritter Shumway

When RIT was forced to move in the mid-1960s, he ensured that the new Henrietta campus would also have an ice arena.

Roc City Thunder

The team was founded in 2012 and will play home games at the Gordon Field House on the campus of Rochester Institute of Technology in Henrietta, New York.

Rochester Zeniths

They played in Henrietta, New York, a suburb of Rochester at the Dome Arena and in downtown Rochester, New York at (what is now known as) the Blue Cross Arena at the War Memorial.

For the 1978-1979 basketball season, the Zeniths joined the newly renamed Continental Basketball Association (formerly known as the "Eastern League") and played most of their home games at the Dome Arena at the Monroe County Fairgrounds in Henrietta, New York.


Anna Mebus Martin

Hewill Mebus lost his Solingen-based business in 1858, and the family made the decision to emigrate to Texas, where Henrietta Mebus's relatives resided.

Anthony R. Montalba

Henrietta was a noted sculptor who studied first at what was to become the Royal College of Art in South Kensington, and then in the Accademia di Belle Arti at Venice.

Bernard Darwin

Members of the Darwin family who are also buried in St Mary the Virgin Churchyard, Downe, Kent are: Bernard Darwin and his wife Elinor Monsell; Charles Waring Darwin; Elizabeth Darwin; Emma Darwin, Charles Darwin's wife; Erasmus Alvey Darwin; Mary Eleanor Darwin; Henrietta Etty Darwin, later Litchfield.

Bruce Adler

Born in New York City, Adler's parents, Henrietta Jacobson and Julius Adler, and his two maternal uncles, Irving and Hymie Jacobson were well-established popular stars of the Yiddish theatre, at the time in its heyday on New York's Lower East Side.

Charles Howard, 9th Earl of Suffolk

They were, indeed successful in securing posts at his accession as George I in 1714; Charles as Groom of the Bedchamber to the King, and Henrietta as a Woman of the Bedchamber to Caroline, Princess of Wales.

Christopher William Codrington

# Sir Gerald William Henry Codrington, 1st Bt. (1876), of Dodington Park, * 1850, + 1929, Md. 1887, his first half-cousin maternally Lady Edith Henrietta Sybil Denison, + 1945, d.

Daniel Dulany the Elder

After his death, in 1754, Dulany's third wife Henrietta Maria,appeared before Michael MacNamara, then Deputy Commissioner of Anne Arundel County, seeking to overturn the will of her late husband.

Daniel Tiger's Neighborhood

The series also features other children of the characters from the Neighborhood of Make-Believe, such as Katerina Kittycat (daughter of Henrietta Pussycat), Miss Elaina (daughter of Lady Elaine Fairchild and Music Man Stan), O the Owl (nephew of X the Owl), and Prince Wednesday (King Friday and Queen Sara Saturday's youngest son and Prince Tuesday's little brother).

Ed Gossett

Born in a sawmill camp known as Yellow Pine, near Many, Sabine Parish, Louisiana, Gossett moved to Texas in 1908 with his parents, who settled on a farm near Henrietta, Clay County.

Elizabeth Somerset, Duchess of Beaufort

# Lady Henrietta Somerset (26 April 1748 – 24 July 1770, aged 22), married Sir Watkin Williams-Wynn, 4th Baronet on 6 April 1769, no issue.

Ferid Murad

He was born in Whiting, Indiana to Jabir Murat Ejupi, an Albanian immigrant from Gostivar, Macedonia, and Henrietta Bowman, an American Christian, Ferid Murad was raised as a Christian.

Francis Bernard, 1st Earl of Bandon

On 12 February 1784, Bernard married Catherine Henrietta Boyle, only daughter of the 2nd Earl of Shannon.

Francis Sykes

Sir Francis Sykes, 3rd Baronet (c. 1799-1842), husband of Lady Henrietta Sykes, lover of Benjamin Disraeli

Gilbert Belnap

Descendants of Gilbert Belnap now number over 10,000 and are found in most states and several countries outside the U.S. The Belnap Family Organization, a non-profit ancestral family organization, conducts primary genealogical research and preserves genealogical and other historical information on behalf of descendants of Gilbert Belnap and his wives Adaline Knight and Henrietta McBride and others surnamed Belnap or Belknap.

Henrietta Knight, Lady Luxborough

Henrietta Knight went to live on her husband's estate at Barrells Hall, which she had laid out in the artificial style of landscape gardening.

Henrietta Shore

Henrietta Shore (1880–1963) was a post-impressionist Canadian painter who exhibited contemporaneously with Georgia O'Keeffe and influenced the photographer Edward Weston.

Henrietta Wells Livermore

She was born as Henrietta Wells on May 22, 1864 to Judge Henry Jackson Wells and Maria A. Goodnow in San Francisco, California.

Henrietta Wells Livermore (May 22, 1864 - October 15, 1933) organized the first meeting of suffragists at her Park Avenue apartment in 1910, which became the Women's National Republican Club.

Henriette Catharina von Gersdorff

Henrietta Catharina, Baroness von Gersdorff (maiden name von Friesen auf Roetha, October 6, 1648, Sulzbach, Upper Palatinate – March 6, 1726, Grosshennersdorf, Upper Lusatia, Saxony) was a German Baroque religious poet, an advocate of Pietism and also a supporter of the beginnings of the Moravian Church.

Henry Fielding

By her he had five children, of whom a lone daughter, Henrietta, would survive childhood only to die at the age of 23, having already been "in deep decline" when she married military engineer James Gabriel Montresor months before.

Henry Hanbury-Tracy

Hanbury-Tracy was born at Toddington, Gloucestershire, a younger son of Charles Hanbury-Tracy, 1st Baron Sudeley, by the Honourable Henrietta Susanna, only child and heiress of Henry Tracy, 8th Viscount Tracy.

I Have Returned

The first track, "Thus Cacked Henrietta", is a rendition of Richard Strauss' "Also Sprach Zarathustra", performed in chicken clucks.

J.L.B. Smith

From 1922 to 1937 he was married to Henrietta Cecile Pienaar, who was a descendant of Andrew Murray, and whose father was a minister of the NG Kerk at Somerset West.

James Gabriel Montresor

He remarried 25 August 1766, Henrietta Fielding, daughter of novelist Henry Fielding.

James Tunstall

Tunstall married, about 1750, Elizabeth, daughter of John Dodsworth of Thornton Watlass, Yorkshire, by his wife Henrietta, daughter of John Hutton of Marske, and sister of Matthew Hutton, successively archbishop of York and Canterbury.

John Dalgleish Donaldson

His first wife Henrietta died on 20 November 1997, he was married secondly on 5 September 2001 to Susan Elizabeth Horwood (born 1940), she is a novelist and writes under the names Susan Moody, Susannah James and Susan Madison.

Kerstin Tidelius

Her most notable performances are Ingrid Löfgren in the long running Swedish TV series Hem till byn and a supporting role as Henrietta Vergérus, the bishop's sister, in Fanny and Alexander by Ingmar Bergman.

Lincoln Castle Academy

Tracy Borman (1988 to 1990) PhD Historian, author of Henrietta Howard: King’s Servant, Queen’s Mistress, Elizabeth’s Women: Friends, Rivals and Foes Who Shaped the Virgin Queen and Queen of the Conqueror: The Life of Matilda, Wife of William I as well as regular appearances on television for BBC, Channel 4, Channel 5 and Sky.

Mademoiselle de Valois

Anne Marie d'Orléans (1669–1728) daughter of Philippe I, Duke of Orléans and Princess Henrietta of England

Mary Alsop King Waddington

She was born in New York City, New York on April 28, 1839 the daughter of Charles King (academic) an American academic, politician, newspaper editor and the ninth president of Columbia College now Columbia University and his second wife, Henrietta Liston Low.

New York State Route 15

The route exits Henrietta for Brighton, but the commercial surroundings remain until Crittenden Road, a local east–west arterial linking NY 15 to both NY 15A and the Monroe Community College campus on the latter route.

Old Gray Cemetery

At the suggestion of Reese's wife, Henrietta, the cemetery was named after English poet Thomas Gray, author of Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard.

Philip Thomas Godsal

In 1879 Godsal married Ellen Henrietta Parke who was daughter of Charles Joseph Parke of Henbury, Dorset, and grand daughter of Charles Parke, formerly H.B.M Commissioner to the kingdom of Mexico and Deputy Lieutenant of Dorset.

Pink Flag

Henry Rollins (as Henrietta Collins & The Wife-Beating Child Haters) covered "Ex Lion Tamer" on the 1987 album Drive by Shooting.

Ravenswood, West Virginia

The second story says that Henrietta Fitzhugh, wife of one of the town founders, Henry Fitzhugh, named the town after the hero in Walter Scott's novel The Bride of Lammermoor (1819).

Robert Worth Bingham

His daughter Henrietta Bingham was involved with the Bloomsbury Group, having affairs with the painter Dora Carrington and later with the sculptor Stephen Tomlin, who went on to marry Julia Strachey, niece of Lytton Strachey, the love of Carrington's life.

Robin Roy Snyman

Snyman was Warden to the Sisters of the Community of St Michael and All Angels in Bloemfontein (the Community had strong historical ties with Kimberley, through, inter alia, Sister Henrietta Stockdale), from 1986.

Ron Dawson

Adopted aged two by Thomas Dawson (canal boatman) and his wife, Henrietta of Kingstanding, Birmingham.

Sir John Swinburne, 6th Baronet

Charles Henry (1797–1877), Royal Navy officer; he married Jane Henrietta, daughter of George Ashburnham, 3rd Earl of Ashburnham, and they had six children, of whom the second was the poet Algernon Charles Swinburne.

St Peter and St Paul's Church, Aldeburgh

There is a memorial by Thomas Thurlow to George Crabbe the poet (d. 1832) and a monument to Lady Henrietta Vernon, d.1786.

Stettheimer Dollhouse

Carrie and her sisters Florine and Henrietta (Ettie) lived with their mother Rosetta in New York City; Florine was an artist and Ettie an author, and the family attracted a celebrated group of artists, writers, and critics during the first half of the twentieth century.

The Castaway Cowboy

Texas cowboy, Lincoln Costain (James Garner), gets "shanghaied" in San Francisco, then jumps ship and washes ashore on the Hawaiian island of Kauai, right into the arms of widow Henrietta MacAvoy (Vera Miles) and her son (Eric Shea) who are struggling to make a living as farmers.

The Wicked Lady

Henrietta wins Barbara's jewels, including her most-prized possession, her late mother's ruby brooch, in a game of Ombre.

Thomas LeFanu

Born in Ireland to a Hugenot family, he was the son of William Richard Le Fanu (1816- 1894) and his wife Henrietta Victorine Barrington, daughter of Sir Matthew Barrington, 2nd Baronet.

Tissa Weeratunga

Born to Arthur (proprietor planter) & Henrietta Weeratunga (née Gurusingha) of Matara and he had one sister, Krishnajina who married Ana Seneviratne ( former Sri Lankan Inspector-General of Police).

William Peyton

E. T. Gage CB, third son of Henry Gage, 4th Viscount Gage, and of Ella Henrietta Maxse, a granddaughter of the 5th Earl of Berkeley.


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