Let me state, first of all, that if you have many English or Welsh immigrant ancestors from the 1600s in New England, Pennsylvania, or Virginia, such as are found in my own family trees, then it is not at all uncommon to find connections to many of the US Presidents.
Likewise, if you have a huge number of very early ancestors from England, Scotland and Wales, such as are found in my own family trees, then it is somewhat likely that one of them will connect with one or more of the Royal families of Great Britain.
While the pastime of finding famous or royal persons in one's family tree has no real import in our modern world, it is wonderful for stirring up new interest in genealogy. And it's fun & fascinating!
The attraction, for me, as a history buff, is finding real connections to the distant past. It gives me great pleasure to recognize the multitudes that have come before me.
I hope you enjoy this little sidetrip into the nether regions of my family trees! Most of these lineages have been well-researched and proven, but if you see an error, please let me know by emailing lastlaugh48@yahoo.com
See bottom of each section for sources used. This is a work in progress, so please check back frequently.
PS.--- I'll let you decide for yourself which of these persons are saints and which are scoundrels :-)
Betty Tartas June 2008
Alonzo Cox Huber
For a detailed family tree, see my Rootsweb Worldconnect online family tree:
huberfrazier2 Colonial Pennsylvania, North Carolina & Maryland families
ALONZO IS A DIRECT DESCENDANT OF :
Rhirid
Flaidd, "The Wolf" Lord of Penllyn b abt 1150 Wales, d 1207
married Gwenllian verch Ednyfed. For biography, see the National
Library of Wales website
Descent is through Willliam ap Edward b abt 1630-1640 Llanderfel Parish, Penllyn, Merionethshire, Wales, Quaker immigrant to PA, whose daughter Katherine Williams b abt 1678 Wales married William Brown, who was a Quaker minister, accompanied William Penn to the colony, and was one of the first settlers at the Pennsylvania settlement "Nottingham Lots". Their daughter Mary Brown, married Williams Reynolds Sr.
**Note: the following Royal genealogy is based on the work of Gary Boyd Roberts, from his book, "The Royal Descent of 500 Immigrants." Our direct ancestor with supposed Royal roots was HUGH HARRY, a Welsh Quaker, born 1660 Montgomeryshire, Wales, died 1708 Chester Co PA, married ELIZABETH BRINTON.
However, in the updated 2006 version of Gary Boyd Roberts book, he notes that he has dropped HUGH HARRY and his brother DANIEL HARRY from the list of immigrants with royal blood, citing a lack of evidence. The issue is the parentage of HUGH's father, HARRY ap THOMAS OWEN b abt 1630, a Quaker also who did not emigrate.
I am including the royal lineage here, with 2nd line of descent, just in case it proves to be true.
William
I, "The Conqueror", Duke of Normandy, King of England
b 1025 Falaise, Normandy, France, d 1087 England; married Matilda
of Flanders,.
Henry
I, Beauclerc, King of England b 1068 & Matilda; (second line
of descent, see below)
Matilda,
Empress of England b 1102 England & Geoffrey Plantagenet,
Count of Anjou
Henry
II, King of England b 1133 m Eleanor of Aquitaine
John
"Lackland" King of England b 1167 married Isabelle de
Clare & 2nd) Isabelle de Angouleme
Henry
III, King of England b 1207 & Eleanor of Provence
Edward
I, "Longshanks" King of England (Plantagenet) b 1239
d 1307 England; & Eleanor of Castile, Margaret of France Captured & executed William Wallace
"Braveheart" of Scotland in abt 1305.
Edward
II, King of England (Plantagenet) b 1284 d 1327 England; &
Isabella The Fair, of France Edward
II, who apparently was a very incompetent king, was betrayed and
overthrown by his Queen, Isabella, and her lover, Sir Roger Mortimer.
Edward II was tortured to death in 1327, while his son Edward
III age 14 ascended to the throne with the assistance of his mother
Queen Isabella & Sir Roger Mortimer. There is an excellent
biography in the book, "The Kings & Queens of England"
by Antonia Fraser; also "Queen Isabella" by Allison
Weir publ 2005, and "The Greatest Traitor: The Life of Sir
Roger Mortimer" by Ian Mortimer publ 2003
Edward
III, King of England (Plantagenet) b 1312 d 1377 England ; &
Phillipa of Hainault; Line of descendency.
Edmund of Langley Plantagenet, 1st Duke of York b 1341 d 1402 & Isabella of Castille
Constance Plantagenet b abt 1380s, England, married Sir Thomas le Despenser; illegitimate child by Edmund de Holland, b Jan 6, 1382, 4th Earl of Kent
Eleanor de Holland (illegitimate) b 1406 England, & James Touchet, 2nd Baron Audley
Constance Touchet b 1445 Staffordshire, England, & Sir Robert Whitney
Eleanor Whitney b 1467 Wales, & Sir John Puleston, Constable of Caernarvon, Glamorganshire, Wales
Sir John Puleston b 1480s-1490s Wales, & Gainor ferch Robert ap Maredudd
Jane Puleston b 1520s Wales, & Rhys ap Thomas, High Sheriff of Caernarnon, Wales
Gaynor Thomas b 1542 Wales, & Richard Pugh (or ap Hugh)
Elizabeth Pugh b 1571 Wales, & Rowland ap Owen of Macynelleth, Montgomershire, Wales
Thomas ap Owen b 1598 Montgomeryshire, Wales & Joyce Pugh
Harry ap Thomas Owen b 1630s Montgomeryshire, Wales, Quaker, & Elizabeth Unknown (unverified as father of Hugh Harry; see Gary Boyd Roberts)
Hugh Harry (aka Harris), Quaker immigrant to PA b 1660 Montgomeryshire Wales; d 1708 Chester Co PA & Elizabeth Brinton, daughter of William Brinton b 1632 & Elizabeth Bagley, Quaker immigrants to PA
Evan Harry b 1687 Chester Co PA & Elizabeth Underwood, Quakers
Ann Harry b 1715 Chester Co PA; d 1766 Chester Co PA & John Hutton, Quakers
Ann Hutton b 1741 Chester Co PA; d 1824 Guilford Co NC & William Reynolds II, Quakers
Eleanor Reynolds July 19, 1777 Guilford Co NC & James Otwell b abt 1776 Sussex Co DE, Quakers
Mary Polly Otwell b Dec 12, 1798 Guilford Co NC & Henry Frazer, Quakers
Eli Branson Frazier b Jan 17, 1826 Guilford Co, NC & Nancy Van Arsdale, Quakers
Caroline Amelia "Cramelia" Frazier b April 9, 1848 Thornton, Boone Co IN, Quaker, & Phillip L. Huber
Alonzo Cox Huber b Dec 25, 1871 Thornton, Boone Co IN, Quaker, & Mintie Mae Bruton
Henry
I, Beauclerc, King of England b 1068 & Unknown Mistress, second
line of descent
Robert of Caen, 1st Earl Gloucester & Mabel FitzHamon; ancestor of Robert the Bruce of Scotland.
William FitzRobert, 2nd Earl Gloucester & Unknown Mistress; he was married to Hawise de Beaumont
Mabel of Gloucester & Gruffudd ap Ifor Bach of Wales
Mawd verch Gruffudd & Hywel ap Madog
Cynwrig ap Hywel of Radur & Angharad verch Lewys
Hywel ap Cynwrig of Radur & unknown
Meurig ap Hywel of Radur & Crisli verch Adam Vychan
Dafydd ap Meurig of Radur & Ela verch Hopkin
Gwladys verch Dafydd & Ieuan ap Rhys
Mawd verch Ieuan & Llewellyn ap Hywel Vychan
Sir Knight Dafydd (David) ap Llewellyn Gam b abt 1377 died Oct 25, 1415 Battle of Agincourt, France & Gwenllian verch Gwilym; for biography, see the National Library of Wales website
Gwladys verch David Gam & Sir William ap Thomas Herbert
Sir Knight Richard Herbert & Margaret ap Thomas
Sir Knight William Herbert & Jane Griffith
Jane Herbert & Sir Knight William ap Thomas, High Sheriff of Caernarvon 1536, Glamorganshire, Wales
Rhys ap Thomas, High Sheriff of Caernarvon, Glamorganshire, Wales & Jane Puleston
Gaynor Thomas b 1452 Wales & Richard Pugh ( see above for continuation of descendancy list)
ALONZO RELATED TO THESE INDIVIDUALS THROUGH SHARED ANCESTORS:
Dr
Curtis Otwell b 1806 Guilford NC d aft 1850 Greenville, Darke
Co Ohio.
shared ancestors: James Otwell b abt 1776 & Eleanor Reynolds, Quakers, of Guilford Co NC, and all preceding generations
back to Edward I, King of England, see above.
"CURTIS OTWELL, physician and surgeon, Greenville, was born in Guilford Co North Carolina March 19, 1806; his father JAMES OTWELL was a native of Sussex Co Delaware, and his mother ELEANOR REYNOLDS of Guilford County; she was of Scotch-Irish parentage, and the descendant of a Quaker who came to this county with William Penn. JAMES OTWELL was a slaveholder, but emancipated his slaves near the beginning of the present century (1800); he died in 1830, aged 52, and his wife soon followed him. The family comprised five children, of whom our subject was the only son; at an early age he evinced a great thirst for learning and made a practice of carrying a book in his pocket to study in intervals of leisure; when a youth of 18, he was appointed Constable of his native county, and while excuting the duties of his office, he read thousands of pages of history while going over the county on horseback; by thus improving his spare moments, he put in years of study and supplemented a common-school course with highter attainments, including some knowledge of the Latin language; he says that ' he was quite proud of his position as Constable from the fact that Gen Jackson was once Constable of the same county.' In 1824 he married EUNICE S. WILSON of his native county; her father MICHAEL WILSON, was born on the ocean, of Irish parents, and reared in North Carolina; after his marriage he (Curtis Otwell) read medicine, and in the spring of 1832 moved to Wayne Co Indiana, where he practiced his profession eight years; in the fall of 1840 he settled in Darke Co Indiana and purchased a flouring mill in township and supervised the same for thirty years, continuing his professional practice; in the year 1844 in connection with a prominent farmer in the neighborhood, he erected a schoolhouse near his mill, and engaged teachers competent to teach higher mathematics and languages. It was known for years as 'Otwell's Seminary', and numbers of the prominent men of the county came here for their higher education...In 1846 Dr Otwell graduated from the Ohio Medical College in Cincinnati, and in 1848 located in Greenville, where he has since followed his profession. He is the father of four sons and four daughters; two of the latter deceased. Three of the sons are practicing medicine in Darke County; the eldest son is editor and proprietor of the Greenville Journal. Dr Otwell has had a very extensive and successful practice and has been the preceptor of perhaps one-half of the physicians in Greenville and the surrounding country." Source: "History of Darke Co Ohio" by W H McIntosh Beers, publ 1880.
Gen.
George Brinton McLellan, Civil War General shared ancestors: William Brinton b abt 1632 Sedgeley
Parish, Staffordshire England, & Ann Bagley, Quaker immigrants to Pennsylvania.
President
Richard Milhous Nixon b
1913 shared ancestors: Hugh Harry (aka Harris) b abt 1660 Montgomeryshire,
Wales, Quaker immigrant
to Pennsylvania &
Elizabeth Brinton; William Brinton & Elizabeth Bagley Quaker immigrants to PA;
Harry ap Thomas Owen b
abt 1630 & Elizabeth Unknown of Montgomeryshire, Wales; Thomas
ap Owen b 1598 &
Joyce Pugh of Montgomeryshire Wales, and
many many previous generations
in Wales & England back to Edward I, King of England, same
line of descendency as listed above, see note.
Ellen
Herndon, b 1837, wife of President Chester Alan Arther shared ancestors: Constance Plantagenet who married Thomas le Despencer. She
had an illegitimate child with Edmund de Holland
4th Earl of Kent, namely,
Eleanor de Holland
b, who was an ancestor of Hugh
Harry (aka Harris),
see line of descendency above. Constance was the granddaughter
of Edward III, King of England & Phillipa of Hainault., see
above.{not completely verified by me as yet}
Abigail
Adams, b 1744 , wife of President John Adams shared ancestors: Sir William Griffith b abt 1450s Wales
& Jane Troutbeck, ancestors of Thomas
ap Owen, grandfather
of Hugh Harry (aka
Harris) our Quaker
ancestor who emigrated from Wales to Pennsylvania.{not completely
verified by me as yet}
Edith
Bolling, b 1872, wife of President Woodrow Wilson shared ancestors: Sir Ralph Bostock & Isabel Lawton of England, his daughter Maud (or Alice?) Bostock married Richard Bulkley;
ancestors of Elizabeth
Pugh who married Rowland ap Owen, Montgomeryshire,
Wales, grandparents
of Thomas ap Owen, see line of descendency above{not completely
verified by me as yet}
President
Thomas Jefferson b 1743 shared
ancestors: Sir Ralph
Bostock & Isabel Lawton
of England, his daughter Maud
(or Alice?) Bostock
married Richard Bulkley; same as above {not completely
verified by me as yet}
President
Martin Van Buren b 1782 shared
ancestors: Cornelis
Hendrickse Van Ness b
abt 1600 Nes, Friesland, Netherlands, d abt 1684 Rensselaerywck,
New Netherlands (Albany, NY) & Maritje Van Der Burchgraeff (dau. of Hendrick Adriense van der Burchgraeff
& Annetje Jans); Cornelis came
to America possibly on the ship "den Eychenboon"; occupation
was farmer, brewer, councillor of the colony of Rensselaerywck
(Albany, NY) , and magistrate of the court of Fort Orange and
Beverwyck. Dutch immigrants
to Rensselaerywck, aka Albany, New York
Hannah
Hoes, b 1783, wife of President Martin Van Buren shared ancestors: Cornelis Hendrickse Van Ness
b abt 1600 Nes, Friesland, Netherlands,
d abt 1684 Rensselaerywck, New Netherlands (Albany, NY) &
Maritje Van Der Burchgraeff
(dau.
of Hendrick Adriense
van der Burchgraeff & Annetje Jans);
Cornelis came to America possibly on the ship "den Eychenboon";
occupation was farmer, brewer, councillor of the colony of Rensselaerywck
(Albany, NY) , and magistrate of the court of Fort Orange and
Beverwyck. Dutch immigrants
to Rensselaerywck, aka Albany, New York
SOURCES USED:
"The Royal Descents of 500 Immigrants to the American Colonies or the United States," by Gary Boyd Roberts, publ 1993
"Ancestors of the American Presidents" by Gary Boyd Roberts publ 1989
"A Genealogy of the Wives of the American Presidents and Their First Two Generations of Descent," by Craig Hart, publ 2004
"The Lives of the Kings & Queens of England," by Antonia Fraser, publ 1999 (paperback version)
"Kings & Queens of Great Britain" by Charles Phillips publ
"Welsh Founders of Pennsylvania" by Thomas Allen Glenn, publ 1911-1913
"The Lloyd Manuscripts" by Howard Williams Lloyd, publ 1912
"The Brinton Genealogy" by Janetta Wright Schoonover publ 1925
"History of Chester County Pennsylvania" by J. Smith Futhey publ 1881
"Chester County Pennsylvania Wills 1713-1820" database Ancestry.com
"Merion in the Welsh Tract" by Thomas Allen Glenn, publ 1896
"William Penn's Twenty-Three Ships" by Marion Balderston
"Notable Kin Volume II" by Gary Boyd Roberts, publ 1999
"History of Darke Co Ohio" by W H McIntosh Beers, publ 1880.
Mintie Mae Bruton
See also Rootweb Worldconnect online family tree:
bruton2 Colonial Virginia, South Carolina & North Carolina families
AT THIS TIME I HAVE NOT RESEARCHED THIS FAMILY THOROUGHLY ENOUGH TO ESTABLISH ANCIENT LINEAGES IN ENGLAND, SCOTLAND OR WALES. MORE RESEARCH TO COME.
MINTIE MAE RELATED TO THESE INDIVIDUALS THROUGH SHARED ANCESTORS:
Rev
Benjamin Wofford b 1780, Spartanburg SC married Anna Todd; founder of Wofford College; left
a $100,000 bequest in his 1850 will to build the college. Shared
ancestors: Absalom Wofford
b abt 1703 PA? MD? & Sarah Hosey
Hon
James J Bruton b 1845 Greene Co MO; d 1898 Sparta, Christian Co
MO; married Margaret
Farmer, and 2nd) to Ollie Dryden. Prominent lawyer, businessman
& founder of the town of Sparta, Christian Co MO, who held
many public offices in that town & county, including deputy
sheriff, justice of the peace, and state representative for Christian
Co MO 1892-1898. Died while in office. My grandmother's uncle;
shared ancestors: Thomas
Bruton b 1811 Greensville SC & Lavina Scott b abt 1815 Sparta,
White Co TN.
Tyrell
Philip Bruton b 1838 Tishomingo, MS; d abt 1860 Douglas Co MO; state representative for Douglas Co
MO, late 1850s-1860. Died while in office. Shared ancestors: David Bruton b abt 1790 Spartanburg,
SC & Nancy Langford b abt 1790 Greensville, SC, my grandmother's great grandparents.
SOURCES USED:
"History of Spartanburg, South Carolina" by Dr J.B.O. Landrum publ 1910
"A Reminisicent History of the Ozark Region" by Goodspeed; publ abt 1890s
"Christian County: It's First 100 Years" author?