Researching Simon Snow
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![]() | Did you know that in the 1881 UK census there were 4052 people with the Snow surname? In that year Snow was ranked number 1052 for popularity in the UK. |

The name Simon means "he who hears" and is of Hebrew origin.
Records of Simon Snow on Ancestry
Ancestry is a major source of information if you are filling out the detail of Simon Snow in your family tree. Many large databases are available to search covering from births, deaths and marriages, military records, census records and immigration records with many other smaller collections too. Free trials are normally available and are a good way to fill out a lot of your tree quickly.
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DNA
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Birth, Death and Marriage Records for Simon Snow and the Snow Genealogy
Birth, Death and Marriage records are often the best method of making the links to the Snow Genealogy that will form part of your family tree. Although records vary from country to country, they are normally the most formal record of a person's relations. From the sources below you will be able to find a birth record and, from that, a birth certificate can be ordered which lists the names of the mother and father, taking you back another generation in your tree. A marriage certificate may also list the names of the respective fathers of the bride and groom which may then help you to find them earlier in life on a census record enabling you to fill out more detail in the Snow family tree.
Explore Parish Records for Simon Snow at Find My Past.
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![]() | Did you know that there are currently 4388 people with the Snow surname in the UK? Snow is now ranked number 1338 for popularity in the UK. |
Snow Family Tree Databases
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Snow Forums
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![]() | Did you know that there are currently 63803 people with the Snow surname in the USA? Snow is ranked number 136 for popularity in the USA. |
Miscellaneous Snow Databases
Explore the Ellis Island Database for information on Simon Snow. This database contains over 25 million immigration records detailing passengers arriving in the United States of America.
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Simon Snow (MP)
Simon Snow (1600 – February 1667) was an English politician who sat in the House of Commons of England from 1640 to 1648. He supported the Parliamentarian side during the English Civil War
Snow was the son of Thomas Snow of Exeter and his wife Grace Vilvayne. He became a merchant of Exeter and was an alderman of the town. He was a puritan and benefited by acquiring building materials from the dismantled houses belonging to the cathedral clergy.
In April 1640, Snow was elected Member of Parliament for Exeter for the Short Parliament. He was re-elected in November 1640 MP for Exeter for the Long Parliament. In December 1648 Snow was named as one of the Commissioners for settling Militia throughout England and Wales for Exeter. He was excluded from parliament under Pride's Purge in 1648.
In 1653 Snow was Mayor of Exeter. He also benefited from the will of his uncle Robert Vilvayne who left various charitable foundations. Snow inherited a brewhouse and malthouse, called the Common Brewhouse, "lately erected near the Duckingstool Mills, in Exe Island" which he also devised for charitable purposes. In 1657 Snow was one of a group of citizens who contributed to the building of a wall within the cathedral to separate presbyterian and independent worship.
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