My wife's family treeI never planned to research my wife's tree as well, but it is so spectacularly interesting that I couldn't help myself. And of course these are now my children's ancestors. I started in 1995, and this is the result so far.How to read my narrative family trees: The format I am using is a hypertext version of the Burke's Peerage narrative format. Basically, to move around the tree you click on the names in bold.
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SurnamesMy wife descends from the following families:
Three gateway ancestors
My wife's best connection to the World family tree. Augustus Reebkomp, descendant of Edward III.
My wife's descents from (a) Elizabeth Montgomery, (b) Barbara Yeats, and (c) Mary Kerr are her three connections to the World family tree. (a) Elizabeth Montgomery's father was Augustus Reebkomp, illegitimate son of the 10th Earl of Pembroke by Kitty Hunter, both of whom connect to the World family tree. (b) Barbara Yeats descends from Katharine Skene, who comes from the family of the Lairds of Skene. (c) Mary Kerr comes from the main (titled) Kerr family. These three gateway ancestors yield descent from the following families:
And they yield further descent from the following families. These will not be done in detail. Rather I will only show enough of the tree that is necessary to highlight and cement my wife's particular lines of descent:
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My wife's Royal Descent
My wife has many Royal Descents. The most recent monarch she descends from is Edward III. She descends from 4 of the sons of Edward III. She has too many descents from Edward III to graph them all. Below I show some of them. To see them all, start at Edward III and follow the lines marked:
- My wife's Royal Descent is not really a discovery. Her family always knew they were descended from the 10th Earl of Pembroke. It was simply a matter of an afternoon by me in 1995 in the library at Cambridge following the lines through Burke's Peerage and the Complete Peerage to see that the 10th Earl descends (through multiple lines) from Edward III.
Further Royal Descents:
- In 1998, my wife and I discovered a 2nd Royal Descent (of Arthur Gibbon from Katharine Skene and hence from Robert III, King of Scotland and Henry I) by matching a single page of notes on Skene by Barbara Yates Gibbon in the Gibbon family papers with the published genealogy of Skene and the Aberdeen parish records.
- In 2005-06, I worked out a 3rd Royal Descent (of Mary Kerr from the main Kerr family and hence from Robert III, King of Scotland and Henry I) after a tip-off in 2005 from a passer-by, Kelsey Williams. (Thank you!)
- In 2007, I discovered a 4th Royal descent - that Kitty Hunter descends from Sir Thomas Orby, 3rd Baronet rather than just the 1st Baronet, and hence descends through Gerard from Edward III. So both Kitty Hunter and her lover the 10th Earl of Pembroke descend from Edward III. And in fact, Kitty has more descents from Edward III than the 10th Earl does. In 2009 I got a further Royal Descent for Kitty Hunter when I read in [Roberts, 2008] that General Robert Hunter descends from James II, King of Scotland, descendant of Edward III.
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Descent of 10th Earl of Pembroke
Descent of Kitty Hunter
I cannot show all the descents of Kitty Hunter. Her ancestor Sir Charles Somerset has more descents from Edward III than I could possibly graph. Here I just show his remarkable male-line descent, and indicate where the other descents branch off. To see all the descents, start at Edward III and follow the lines marked:
My wife's relations
- Her ancestors:
- The poet Lord Vaux of Harrowden.
- William Cecil, 1st Baron Burghley.
- Sir John Hotham the Parliamentarian.
- Sir Philip Stapleton the Parliamentarian.
- Her blood relations:
- Scottish hero William Wallace.
- The historian Edward Gibbon (unproved).
- William Hunter, founder of the Hunterian Museum, Glasgow.
- John Hunter, founder of scientific surgery.
- The economist Malthus (unproved).
- The fundamentalist biblical scholar John William Burgon.
- The Scottish poet Charles Murray.
- Edward Dicey, journalist, lawyer, and author.
- Albert Venn Dicey, jurist and constitutional theorist.
- Thomas Aveling, inventor of the steam roller.
- Robert Carr, 1st Earl of Somerset, favourite of James VI.
- Barbara Villiers, Duchess of Cleveland, mistress of Charles II.
- The writer Lord Dunsany.
- Her most recent non-English ancestors:
- 17th century - She has ancestors in France, Germany, Ireland, Scotland, England
- French - Katharine Guernier
left France and moved to England c.1660.
Jane de Civelle left France and moved to England c.1660.
Icard may have left France later, up to c.1765. - Scottish abroad - Katharine Skene left Poland and moved to Scotland perhaps 1671.
- French - Katharine Guernier
left France and moved to England c.1660.
- 18th century - She has ancestors in Germany, Ireland, Scotland, England
- Irish - Mary Fitzwilliam left Ireland and moved to England c.1726.
- German - Henry Noltie left Germany and eventually settled in Scotland c.1768.
- English abroad - Susan Maltass left Turkey and moved to England perhaps 1791.
- 19th century - She has ancestors in Scotland, England
- Scottish - Henry Noltie left Scotland and moved to England between 1891 and 1897.
- 20th century - She has ancestors in England
- 17th century - She has ancestors in France, Germany, Ireland, Scotland, England
- Direct ancestors of hers who tried to kill each other
(fought on opposite sides of the same battle):
- Battle of Flodden
1513 (English victory over Scots)
- Fought on Scottish side: 14th Laird of Hunterston (killed in the battle).
- Fought on Scottish side: Sir David Home, of Wedderburn (killed in the battle).
- Fought on Scottish side: George Douglas, Master of Angus (killed in the battle).
- Fought on Scottish side: 5th Laird of Auchenames (killed in the battle).
- Fought on English side: Sir William Sidney (knighted after victory, may even have killed the above).
- Battle of Flodden
1513 (English victory over Scots)
"Of me that clean shall be forgot
As I had not been born."
- Deathbed poem (c.1556) of Thomas Vaux, my wife's great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-grandfather.
