The Earle family : Ralph Earle and his descendants

ABBREVIATIONS.
The following abbreviations are used in this work :
—
b. for born ; d. for
died; dau. for daughter; gr. for grand; m. for married; unm. for unmarried.
For the names of children look under the numbers of their parents.
The italicized names in parenthesis, immediately following the name of a
married descendant, where his personal and family record is given, show his
direct pedigree back to the emigrant Ralph; and the small figures, attached
to those names, indicate the generation to which each of those persons,
respectively, belonged. For instance, in the case of [1638-2] George F.
Earle, on page 328, the parenthetical names show that George's father was
Halford, of the seventh generation ; his grandfather, Frederick, of the sixth
generation; his great-grandfather, George, of the fifth generation; and so on,
to Ralph, of the first generation. By these italicized names it is very easy for
any descendant to trace his direct ancestry.
In the language of another similar work, "The comparative length of the
biographical memoirs in the following pages, has been determined rather by
the means of information than by the merits of the subjects of the sketches."