Arapacana Press

Book Catalog Book Order Form Extraneus: Volume I - Le Strange of Britain and Aquitaine Extraneus: Volume II - Le Strange of Anglia and Eire Extraneus: Volume III - Strange of Balcaskie and the Alloway Strange  Extraneus: Volume IV - Strange Virginians Peregrine The Calendary Strange (N/A) The Art of Love (N/A) Descendants of Gottlieb Wruck

Book I - Le Strange of Middle Britain (N/A) Book II - De Lestrange of Aquitaine (N/A) Book III - Strange of Sanguinary (N/A) Book IV - Strange of Wessex and the Saxon Shore (N/A) Book V - Strange of Eastern America

Extraneus: Volume II - Le Strange of Anglia and Eire Book VI - Le Strange of Hunstanton Book VII - L'Estrange & Styleman of Hunstanton Book VIII - L'Estrange of Moystown

Book IX - Strange of Balcaskie Book X - The Alloway Strange

Book XI - Strange of Blisland Book XII - Strange of the Carolinas

Introduction Extraneus: Table of Contents - Book V Extraneus: Table of Contents - Volume II Extraneus: Table of Contents - Book IX Extraneus: Table of Contents - Book X Extraneus: Table of Contents - Book XI Extraneus: Table of Contents - Book XII

Introduction Prefaces to the books of Extraneus Epilogue to the Narratives Hunstanton Household Accounts Hypotheses of Hunstonian Descent Tithing and Taxation

Preface to the First Edition Preface to the Second Edition Preface to the Third Edition Preface to Book XI Preface to Book XII

Introduction A - C D - H I - L M - O P - S T - Z

Introduction A B C D E - F G H I - J K L M N - O P - Q R S T - V W - Z Addenda

The Alphabetary Heraldic Introduction to Glossary A - C D - H I - M N - R S - Z Miscellaneous

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Ages Dominions Letters Numbers Citations

John R. Mayer Autobiography Biography Excerpts

Arapacana Press is a book publishing house focusing on the genealogy research and writings of John R. Mayer. His Extraneus series of books concentrates on the following surnames:

Strange, Extraneus, le Strange, L'Estrange, de Lestrange,
Alloway Strange,Strang, Strong, Stronge, and d'Estreng

Our Mission:

John R. Mayer, a noted genealogist and author, suffered an untimely death in 1998.  At that time, much of his lifetime of work was yet to be published.  Arapacana Press is in the process of publishing limited editions of each one of his books and making them available to genealogy libraries and individual researchers.

Quotation:

"We are about to embark on a journey through nine centuries.  Our names, faces, and places are unimportant in an ultimate sense.  As humanity progresses through time and space in a continual struggle toward perfection, we study the fortunes and sorrows of others, aiming to find prosperity and avoid demise.  This is a history of the Strange family from 999 to 1998.  We shall explore the manor house and park at Hunstanton Hall, Norfolk, and examine places elsewhere Stranges have lived, such as France, Scotland, Ireland, and America.

This study documents the history of over thirty generations of a family called Strange.  The le Strange or L’Estrange family was the most celebrated and well-known branch of this family, and they lived principally at Hunstanton Hall, an estate in Norfolk, England.  Several other families emigrated to other parts of Great Britain and to foreign countries.  The narrative here is not intended to extol nor praise the accomplishments of these families.  We shall examine both the good and bad characteristics of these people.  In a broader and more important sense, this story will illustrate the evolutionary and historical pageant of Anglo-Saxon and Norman peoples, from medieval to modern times, hopefully without bias."

Extraneus, Vol. I, Book I, "Le Strange of Middle Britain"

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