Three gateway ancestors

   
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.

• Elizabeth Montgomery.
  Her father was Augustus Reebkomp, illegitimate son of the 10th Earl of Pembroke by Kitty Hunter.

• Barbara Yeats.
  She descends from Katharine Skene, who comes from the family of the Lairds of Skene.

• Mary Kerr.
  She comes from the main (titled) Kerr family.

Kerr line:

• Kerr
• Errington
• Dicey of Basingstoke and Northampton
• Cluer of Basingstoke

Montgomery (Herbert) line:

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

Maltass line:

• Maltass of Smyrna, Turkey
• Icard of Smyrna, Turkey
• Vassal of Syros, Greek islands

Hunter line:

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

Yeats line:

• Yeats of Aberdeen, Scotland
• Leslie of Aberdeen, Scotland
• Ædie of Aberdeen, Scotland
• Skene of Skene, Aberdeenshire, Scotland

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

• Butler, Earl of Ormond
• FitzEustace of Co.Kildare
• The Viscounts Fitzwilliam of Co.Dublin
• Plunkett
• Preston, Viscount Gormanston
• St.Lawrence, Baron Howth

• Bagenal
• Barnewall
• Bathe
• Bellew
• Bermingham
• Dartas of Gascony, France
• de Burgh, Earl of Ulster
• Dowdall
• Finglas of Westpalstown, Co.Dublin
• Holywood of Artane, Co.Dublin
• Perrers

Scottish families:

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

Others:

• Belknap
• Cecil, Baron Burghley
• Cooke
• Dudley, Duke of Northumberland
• Fitton
• The Earls Fitzwilliam of England
• Green of Green's Norton, Northamptonshire
• Griffith
• Holcroft
• Hotham of Scorborough, East Yorkshire
• Michelgrove
• Parr of Kendal Castle, Westmoreland
• Sawyer
• Shelley
• Sidney of Penshurst Place, Kent
• Stapleton of Wighill, Yorkshire
• Stradling
• Villiers

• Beaumont
• Bellers
• Berkeley
• Brandon
• Browne of Betchworth Castle, Surrey
• Constable
• Conyers
• de Greystoke, Baron Greystoke
• Ferrers
• Giffard
• Lord Grey of Ruthyn
• Hildyard
• Manners
• Sackville
• Sheldon
• St.Leger
• Stafford
• Talbot
• Welles, Baron Welles
• Weston, Earl of Portland
• Wingfield
• Zouche

And further descent from:

• Many other families that I also descend from.
  I have separated these as our common family tree.

• These include a Royal Descent.

My wife's Royal Descent

My wife's relations

See also Our common relations.

• Her ancestors:
  • Sir Henry Percy, "Hotspur"
  • William Cecil, 1st Baron Burghley.
  • Garret Mor Fitzgerald.
  • Garret Og Fitzgerald.
  • The plotter Dudley, Duke of Northumberland.
  • Richard of York (who "gave battle in vain").
  • Edward de Vere, 17th Earl of Oxford.
  • The poet and translator Lady Mary Sidney.
  • The poet Lord Vaux of Harrowden.
  • The 10th Earl of Pembroke.
  • Sir John Hotham the Parliamentarian.
  • Sir Philip Stapleton the Parliamentarian.
  • Robert the Bruce

• Her blood relations:
  • Scottish hero William Wallace.
  • Robert Carr, 1st Earl of Somerset, favourite of James VI.
  • Barbara Villiers, mistress of Charles II.
  • William Hunter, founder of the Hunterian Museum, Glasgow.
  • John Hunter, founder of scientific surgery.
  • The Scottish poet Charles Murray.
  • The fundamentalist biblical scholar John William Burgon.
  • Edward Dicey, journalist, lawyer, and author.
  • Albert Venn Dicey, jurist and constitutional theorist.
  • Thomas Aveling, inventor of the steam roller.
  • Michael William Sharp, painter.
  • Edmund Sharpe, architect and architectural historian (uncertain line but must be related).

My wife's most recent non-English ancestors

• From around 1586 up to around 1671:
  She has ancestors in Poland (Scottish abroad).
  David Skene left Scotland and moved to Poland shortly before 1586.
  Katharine Skene left Poland and moved to Scotland perhaps 1671.

• Up to around 1727:
  She has ancestors in Ireland.
  Mary Fitzwilliam left Ireland and moved to England around 1726-27.

• Up to around 1737:
  She has ancestors in France.
  Jacques Icard left France and moved to Turkey by 1737.

• Up to around 1768:
  She has ancestors in Germany.
  Henry Noltie left Germany and eventually settled in Scotland c.1768.

• From around 1737 up to around 1791:
  She has ancestors in Turkey (French and English abroad).
  Jacques Icard left France and moved to Turkey by 1737.
  William Maltass left England and moved to Turkey by 1763.
  Susan Maltass left Turkey and moved to England perhaps 1791. Though by 1818 she had moved to France and died there in 1851. So my wife had a direct ancestor living in France until 1851.

• From 1768 or earlier up to apparently 1804:
  She has ancestors in Barbados (apparently English abroad).
  George Errington was in Barbados by 1768.
  Isabella Errington (born Barbados) and her husband left the West Indies and moved to England in apparently 1804.

• Up to around 1897:
  She has ancestors in Scotland.
  Henry Noltie left Scotland and moved to England between 1891 and 1897.

- Deathbed poem (c.1556) of Thomas Vaux, my wife's great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-grandfather.