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The primary purpose of this site is to identify all known descendants of Morris Somes 
and Lucy Day who married in Gloucester, Massachusetts, on 24 March 1739/40.  Lucy is 
a documented great-granddaughter of Anthony Day, immigrant to Gloucester.  Nothing is 
known of Morris Somes other than that he was married to Lucy and had four children by 
her and that he died in Cape Breton, French Canada, in 1746.  How, why and when he 
proceeded to Cape Breton remains unknown.  He does not appear on the muster rolls of 
any militia sent as a punitive expedition to Louisburg.  Likewise, the cause of his 
death is unkown.

John Babson in his Notes and Additions to the History of the Town of Gloucester Cape 
Ann hints that he might be the son of Morris Somes, son of Timothy and Jane 
(Stainwood) Somes, although there is no extant record that that Morris was ever 
married or had a child.  Christine Huston Dodge in her Vital Records of Edgecomb and 
Newcastle in the County of Lincoln Maine to the Year 1892 dated 1979, manuscript at 
the Skidompha Library, Damariscotta, Maine, asserts that Morris Somes, son of Timothy 
and Jane (Stainwood) Somes was the one who married Lucy Day on March 24, 1739/40.  
This could not be the case since he was lost at sea in October 1716.

Many questions have been addressed to me about other members of the Somes Family.  As 
a result I have decided to add the descendants of Morris Somes, the immigrant to 
Gloucester, to the extent that they are known by me.  Most descendants do not bear 
the Somes name as the family seems to have had more daughters than sons.  I have not 
included the descendants of Samuel
 Morse Somes who changed changed his name to Alvin Moroni Montierth and 
FrancisOrleander Somes who changed his name to Francis Orlando Black.  Where possible 
I will add links to sites in which their descendants are identified.

Anyone who has information about any of the individuals identified that they would 
like to see included in this site, or has knowledge of individuals not included but 
they believe should be included, is invited to submit that information to me.

It is my desire that this site should be more than just names and dates.  I will try 
to bring them to life by revealing who they really were, what they did, what they 
contributed.  It some cases it will involve speculation, but when such is the case it 
will be revealed, and the rationale for the speculation will be given.

A secondary purpose of this site is to identify, if possible, all descendant lines of 
immigrant ancestors to Loren Edward Somes, Jr., Linda Marie Somes, and Nancy Ellen 
Somes.  Non-immigrant individuals have been included when the descendand line is not 
royal.

Four of the ancestors shown on this site; specifically Gov. Thomas Dudley, Constant 
Southworth, Elizabeth Stratton, wife of John Thorndike, and George Morton are of 
royal descent.  Their ancestry may be found on Somes Family Royal Ancestors.

For the benefit of their descendants, I have added the known ancestry of my adopted 
brothers Edward Delmont "Monty" Somes and Selwyn Somes through their natural parents.

Having recently found the grave of Edgar Rinaldo Somes in the 
Wyoming Cemetery, Melrose, Middlesex, Massachusetss, I have tried to fit him into the 
family.  Such information that I have on him, his forebears and cousins have been 
added to the website, and he is tentatively connected to the descendants of Morris 
Somes, the immigrant, through Timothy, son of Timothy and Abigail (Andrews) Somes, by 
means of a 1790 U.S. Census for Meredith, New Hampshire.