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Royal Descents of famous people - Unproved and Disproved Royal Descents


Unproved and Disproved Royal Descents



Apparently proved, but I have not seen the descent yet:

I trust Gary Boyd Roberts when he says all the following have Royal descents, but I have not found in which work he lays out the descent. If you know, please tell me.


  1. Vincent Price, born 1911, actor.

  2. Roy Rogers, born 1911, actor.

  3. Brian Wilson, born 1942, lead singer of "The Beach Boys".

  4. Richard Gere, born 1949, actor.

  5. Alec Baldwin, born 1958, actor.



Unproved

  1. James Buchanan

  2. McGeorge Bundy

  3. Bill Clinton

  4. Bob Dole

  5. Stephen A. Douglas

  6. T. S. Eliot


  7. Jackson


  8. Herman Melville

  9. Colin Powell
    • Colin Powell, born 1937, US Secretary of State.
    • William Addams Reitwiesner summarises the claim. Colin Powell claims his mother Maud Arial McKoy, born 1901, is descended from Sir Eyre Coote, born 1760, who descends from Edward III. No proof is given.

  10. Adlai Stevenson
    • Adlai Stevenson, born 1900, US Presidential candidate. Apparently has Royal Descent.

  11. Tennessee Williams



Unproved - W.B. Yeats and Jack Yeats

The Yeats family believed they had a descent from the Earls of Ormonde, and used the name Butler Yeats as a result, but they neglected to actually write down the descent. They believed they descended from Edmund Butler, ancestor of Butler of Newchome, Co.Kilkenny, and descendant of Edward I.

W.B. Yeats himself worked on this link but never managed to prove it. See notes on this link at the Butler Society.



John Butler          Mary Goddard
of Dublin            dau of Charles Goddard
1st Clerk in          |
British War Office,   |
Dublin Castle         |
 |                    |
 +---+----------------+
     |
    Mary Butler                        Benjamin Yeats
    born 1751                          of Dublin
    inherited Thomastown, Co.Kildare   born 1750
     from John Humphrey of Dublin,      |
     whose will was registered 1775     |
     (relative of her father)           |
     |                                  |
     +--------+-------------------------+
              |
             Rev. John Yeats
             born 1774
             Rector of Drumcliffe, Co.Sligo (where Yeats now buried)
              |
             Rev. William Butler Yeats
             born 1806
              |
             John Butler Yeats
             born 1839
              |
 +------------+---------------------+
 |                                  |
William Butler Yeats               Jack Butler Yeats
poet                               painter
born 1865                          born 1871
Nobel Prize for Literature 1923



Disproved

  1. Daniel Boone
    • The claimed descent of Daniel Boone, born 1734, pioneer explorer of the American West, through Morgan from Lady Frances Somerset and hence from Edward III is disproved in:
      • "The Family of Edward Morgan of Pennsylvania: Daniel Boone's Maternal Kin" [part 1], Stewart Baldwin, The Genealogist, Vol. 15, No. 1 (Spring 2001): 104-28.
      • "The Family of Edward Morgan of Pennsylvania: Daniel Boone's Maternal Kin" [part 2], Stewart Baldwin, The Genealogist, Vol. 15, No. 2 (Fall 2001): 172-95.

  2. Ulysses S. Grant

  3. Abraham Lincoln



Disproved - Sir Laurence Olivier


The descent of the actor Sir Laurence Olivier from Charles II
as shown at the Thomas Arundell Society site (see here and here)
is wrong because Emma Eden is not a blood relation of his. She is his grand-uncle's wife, NOT his grandmother.




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