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 format.
To move around the tree
you click on the structural links.
My wife descends from the following families.
Noltie line:
Murray line:
Stephen line:
Davis line:
Day line:
Stanger line:
Berwick line:
Wells line:
Ruffles line:
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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 has three connections to the main family tree of the West:
These three gateway ancestors yield descent from the following families.
Kerr line:
Montgomery (Herbert) line:
Maltass line:
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
And they
yield further descent from the following families.
Old Anglo-Irish families in the Pale,
that tended to be Catholic and Royalist:
Scottish families:
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:
See also
Our common relations.
- Her ancestors:
- 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.
My wife's most recent Irish ancestral home:
Mount Merrion House, Co.Dublin.
Mary Fitzwilliam
left here
and moved to England around 1726-27.
"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.
