Mary Ann Boyer Conklin?

So start her tree!

You make a "sister" to yourself and then disconnect her from her parents. Voila! New tree!

I'm too busy finding male favourites... there aren't enough males in the bunch yet. :)

Great starting point if you want to help hunt them out...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Favourite

I KNOW, Ben, I had been looking for a list of male prostitutes from way-back-when and found 2, but they usually HAD "decent" jobs already. LOL

I didn't know about the "gentleman of the bedchamber" business being "really" of the bedchamber. Naive me.

What about "The Persian Boy," Alexander the Great's favorite? Or in fact the male portion of the harems?

I was only aware of the French practice... another disappointment... Cinq-Mars isn't out there somewhere... there are Cinq-Mars family members with profiles, but Louis XIII's lover is not among them. And to think of all the trouble that Cardinal Richelieu took to set him up with the King too...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cinq-Mars

Profile made!

Apparently he not only inspired an opera ... he inspired plates and boots?

http://www.geni.com/people/Henri-Coiffier-de-Ruz%C3%A9/600000001097...

Ah, the accoutements de courtesans ...

I'll have to see what I can do to figure out his tree at some point... one of the thing that has me hesitant on doing Mary Ann... I want her connections to family first... will see how far I get with Thomas today, and then maybe...