Anna Tilghman

UPDATE June 2019: An unchecked source in an old Gary Boyd Roberts book showed his wife as Anna Whetenhall. Everyone was thrilled because she led back to English Nobility. HOWEVER, after checking the cited source (a Harleain manuscript first mentioned by Stephen F. Tillman in Spec Alit Agricolam) it did not prove this marriage. After emailing Gary Boyd Roberts back in the late 1990s about one of his sources not proving the Whetenhall-Sanders marriage, he acknowledged the error and said that he would print an errata in a future book. I'm glad he followed through on his word and printed an errata in his 2004 book The Royal Descents of 600 Immigrants. In this book, he shows the correct lineage. John Sanders married the daughter of a Mr. Austen of Tenterden. Anna Whetenhall married John Code in London. While it severs our lineage back to Charlemagne, at least the truth has come out. (Information provided by Barbara Kay Rockett Boone)

English records show that Mrs. Tilghman was a direct descendant of William, the Conqueror.