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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Arms of Edward III and his sons,
Trinity College, Cambridge.
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The graph:
If this chart looks a mess, see here.
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Edward III
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Lionel Plantagenet John of Gaunt Edmund Plantagenet Thomas Plantagenet
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| | | 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
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- 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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