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My wife's family tree

I 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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Surnames

My wife descends from the following families:

Gibbon of Aberdeen, Scotland

Noltie of Alford, Aberdeenshire, Scotland
Stephen of Cluny, Aberdeen, Scotland
Murray of Alford, Aberdeenshire, Scotland

Davis
Hallandal
Day

Stanger
Berwick of East Dereham, Norfolk

Wells of Suffolk
Ruffles

Kerr
Dicey of Claybrook Hall, Leicestershire

Yeats of Aberdeen, Scotland
Leslie of Aberdeen, Scotland
Ædie of Aberdeen, Scotland

Three gateway ancestors

My wife's best connection to the World family tree.
Augustus Reebkomp, descendant of Edward III.

My wife's two other connections to the World family tree.
(Left) Barbara Yeats, descendant of Robert III, King of Scotland, and of Henry I.
(Right) Dr. William Kerr, descendant of Robert III, King of Scotland, and of Henry I.

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:

Maltass of Smyrna, Turkey
Icard of Smyrna, Turkey

Hunter of Hunterston, Ayrshire, Scotland (and of Croyland Abbey, Lincolnshire)
Craufurd of Auchenames, Ayrshire
Orby of Croyland Abbey, Lincolnshire
Gerard, Earl of Macclesfield
Horseman of Burton Pedwardine, Lincolnshire

Herbert, Earl of Pembroke [actually part of our common family tree]

Skene of Skene, Aberdeenshire, Scotland

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:

Old Anglo-Irish families in the Pale, that tended to be Catholic and Royalist:

Bagenal
Barnewall
Bellew
Bermingham of Baldungan, Co.Dublin
Butler, Earl of Ormonde
Dowdall
Finglas of Westpalstown, Co.Dublin
FitzEustace, Baron Portlester
Fitzgerald (The Geraldines) [actually part of our common family tree]
The Viscounts Fitzwilliam of Co.Dublin
Luttrell of Luttrellstown, Co.Dublin [actually part of our common family tree]
Perrers
Plunkett, Baron Louth
Preston, Viscount Gormanston
St.Lawrence, Baron Howth

Scottish families:

Douglas
Forbes, Baron Forbes
Hay
Home
Keith, Earl Marischal of Scotland
Lindsay, Earl of Crawford
Lumsden of Cushnie, Aberdeenshire, Scotland
Mercer
Oliphant

Others:

Berkeley
Cecil, Baron Burghley
Cooke
de Burgh, Lord of Connacht, and Earl of Ulster
de Greystock, Baron Greystock
Dudley, Duke of Northumberland
The Earls Fitzwilliam of England
Giffard
Green of Green's Norton, Northamptonshire
Lord Grey of Ruthyn
Hotham of Scorborough, East Yorkshire
Parr of Kendal Castle, Westmoreland
Sackville
Sheldon
Shelley
Stafford
Stapleton of Wighill, Yorkshire
Talbot
Villiers
Welles, Baron Welles
Weston, Earl of Portland
Zouche

And a lot of further families that I may also descend from. Hence I have separated these as our common family tree. My wife does descend from them anyway, whether I do or not.

These include a Royal Descent.

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My wife's Royal Descent

Arms of Edward III and his sons, Trinity College, Cambridge. See full size.

The graph:

My wife has a number of Royal Descents, too many to show on one graph. The most recent monarch she descends from is Edward III.
Even if we just restrict ourselves to showing descents from Edward III, there are still too many of them to show on one graph.

The Royal Descents:

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 [CUL] following the lines through [Burkes Peerage] and the [Complete Peerage] to see that the 10th Earl descends (through many lines) from Edward III.
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, just like her lover the 10th Earl of Pembroke.

If this chart looks a mess, see here.


                                        Edward III
                                         |
    +------------------------+-----------+-----------+------------------------+
    |                        |                       |                        |
   Lionel Plantagenet       John of Gaunt           Edmund Plantagenet       Thomas Plantagenet       
    |                        |                       |                        |

Proven, but cannot be shown on one graph:
There are so many proven descents from the above to the below that they cannot be shown on one graph.
To see them all, start at Edward III and follow all lines marked by the icon:



 |                              |                               | 
4th Earl of Pembroke           11th Baron Abergavenny          1st Earl of Macclesfield
descendant of Edward III       descendant of Edward III        descendant of Edward III    
 |                              |                               |
5th Earl of Pembroke           Winifred Neville                Charlotte Gerard 
 |                              |                               |
8th Earl of Pembroke           Frances Shelley                 Elizabeth Orby
 |                              |                               |
9th Earl of Pembroke           Mary Fitzwilliam                Thomas Orby Hunter
 |                              |                               |
 +------------------+-----------+                               |
                    |                                           |
                   10th Earl of Pembroke                       Kitty Hunter
                    |                                           |           
                    +------------------+------------------------+
                                       |
                                      Augustus Reebkomp
                                       |
                                      Elizabeth Montgomery == Arthur Gibbon
                                       |                      descendant of Henry I
                                       |
                                      Arthur Augustus Gibbon == Mary Kerr
                                       |                        descendant of Henry I
                                       |
                                      Arthur F.V. Gibbon
                                       |
                                      Gerard Gibbon
                                       |
                                      John Gibbon
                                       |
                                      Elizabeth Gibbon

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:
- 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
- Sir Francis Bacon
- Robert Carr, 1st Earl of Somerset, favourite of James VI.
- Barbara Villiers, Duchess of Cleveland, mistress of Charles II
- the poet Shelley
- 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.
- 18th century - She has ancestors in Germany, Ireland, Scotland, England
  - Irish - Mary Fitzwilliam left Ireland and moved to England c.1726.
  - German - Henry Nolty left Germany and moved to Scotland between c.1760 and 1780.
  - 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
Direct ancestors of hers who tried to kill each other (fought on opposite sides of the same battle):
1. 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 English side: Sir William Sidney (knighted after victory, may even have killed the above).

"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.

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