The English Families

Virginia Eustace Family

From Cornwall They Came By: Dawna (Eustice) Lund Many of our namesakes – Eustace, Eustice, Eustis – can trace their ancestry to Cornwall. Cornwall is a duchy (county) occupying the southwestern most area of England.  It is a peninsula bounded by the English Channel on the south and the Atlantic Ocean on the west and north and terminates in a point on the west called Land’s End. It shares a border with

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Oxfordshire Eustace Family

The English Family has been in the area southeast of Oxford since the 1200’s. The family claims descent from Eustace, Count of Boulogne, chief ally of William the Conqueror at the Battle of Hastings, 1066. However, the definite link has not been established. The first to make his home in England was Geoffrey of Boulogne who appears in  1086 as holding manors

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