Researcher and officer in the Mendenhall Family Association. Author of "The Mendenhalls, Stubbs, and Singletons: an English Family History" published in 1983 after 10 years in England including some time in Spain. Research was done intermittently during that period especially on the Mendenhalls, Stubbs, Blossoms, Brewers, Dunhams, Stewarts, Singletons and Beauforts. This all resulted from the reading of Anya Seton's "Katherine", a historical romance novel about the beginnings of the Beaufort family of England. Our family has at least over 10 lineages to the Beauforts: see the 3rd paragraph from the bottom below to see our Beaufort ancestors.
Our Singleton/Brewer family has many direct ancestral lines up to Henry I King of England and his father William the 1st the "Conqueror" our 27th ggf. There is an old story that 25 year old William before he became the "Conqueror" traveled to Flanders to visit with Count Baldwin V, descendant of Emperor Charlemagne. William's purpose was to see Baldwin's daughter, Matilda who was 18. William declared his desire to marry her, but both Matilda and Baldwin said that William was beneath Matilda in rank maybe because they were closer direct descendants of Emperor Charlemagne. Before William left Flanders he got Matilda alone for a minute and forceably kissed her. Her father told her she would not want to marry such a man. Matilda replied, "I will marry that man." She was "conquered" 17 years before 1066.

From our Brewer/Blossom/Singleton/Craft families we have over 100 direct lines from Henry I King of England.

Our Brewer family line is about our closest link up to Henry I and William I. Our ancestor John "Tadody" de Braose's ancestors in 1066 came from the town of Briouze, Normandy. That is pronounced like "Brew with a very soft s" in French and for hundred's of years the English spelled it Braose before they finally added -er to the end. John Tadody was the 6th Lord of Bramber, in Sussex County, England right by Brighton. He married Margred Llewelyn the Fair daughter of Llewelyn the Great of Wales and Joan the daughter of King John of England. That line goes to Henry I, but also John Tadody's mother was Matilda de Clare who was starved to death in prison by King John for failure to pay their taxes. Matilda de Clare's mother was Amice de Gloucester, whose father was William de Gloucester, whose father was Robert 1st Earl of Gloucester, whose father was King Henry I, whose parents were William the Conqueror and Matilda de Flanders. So both John Tadody de Braose and his wife Margred Llewelyn were directly descended from King Henry I and William I. Both our grandfather Harry Brewer and grandmother Hazel Brewer have direct lineages up to John Tadody de Braose and with that Harry has a connection as well through the following line: Jean Stewart → Eleanor Sinclair, Countess of Atholl→ Marjory Sutherland of Dunbeath>> Alexander Sutherland of Dunbeath → Robert de Moravia, 6th Earl of Sutherland → William Sutherland,>> 5th Earl of Sutherland → Margaret of Mar, lady Sutherland → Elen ferch Llywelyn → Llewelyn "The Great" ap Iorwerth, King of Gwynedd, Prince of Wales
her father. Harry and Hazel also share the line from Robert de Brewze's wife, Ela de Stapleton to Ufford, Clavering, Zouche, Quincy, 2 Lochlan's, Mac Fergus, to Elizabeth FitzRoy, daughter of Henry I. William de Brewere's (b1482 Wenham, Suffolk, England) wife, Rohese Lucy (b1482 Warwickshire) had a lengthy royal ancestry leading through Ludlow up to Audley and Longespee which both have descent from Kings Henry III, II, and Henry I. Then Lucy leads up to Grey, Willoughby, Mohun, Ferrers, Chester to Henry I; plus Elizabeth Grey (Lucy) leads up to Strange, Boteler, then through again Audley and Longespee to Henry I twice. Then again Elizabeth Grey goes up to Strange, Clifford, Llewelyn, King John, and Henry I. When Harry Brewer's mother, Lauretta Ingram's all Scots Stewart line is included, eleven lines to Kings of Scots James II, I, Robert III, II, and I all go up to Isobel de Clare, descendant of Henry I. Isobel married Robert Bruce 5th Lord of Annandale, grandfather of Robert I. Also Robert Bruce the 5th's paternal grandfather, William Bruce 3rd Lord of Annandale, married the Duchess of Dunbar, whose parents were Uchtred mac Fergus of Galloway and Gunhild de Allerdale. Gunhild's mother was Elizabeth FitzRoy whose father was King Henry I. Harry Brewer then has a total of at least 21 direct lines up to Henry I.

Our grandmother Hazel Brewer's Blossom father-line goes up to Tilson, Davenport, Warburton, Sir William Stanley born 1432 or 37 whose Goushill line leads up to King Edward the first, then separately to Henry III, then Henry II and finally Henry I as well as separately through Stanley's Hopton wife through Lucy and also Badlesmere. Hazel also has 14 lines to Henry I through her Maddock lineage, 3 lines also via Beulah Taylor, Conarroe, Paston and then through Margery Brewer(Brewse), another line via Beulah Taylor, Curtis, Welles, Maud de Ros, and Badlesmere, one line through Ashton-Hill, plus 12 direct lines through her Mendenhall family ancestry: 9 through Hannah Thomas wife of James Mendenhall born 1718 and 3 through Elizabeth Bates the wife of John Mildenhall born 1560 died 1614 in India. So Hazel Brewer (Blossom) has counted for at least 35 direct lines up to Henry I above. Plus her Blossoms have two more lines to Henry I via Snell, Packard, Lathrop, Middleton, Mauleverer, Mary Hansard, to Gascoigne, Mowbray, to John Tadody de Braose. And go up one more Mowbray to Roger 1st Baron Mowbray's De Clare wife leading up to Amice de Gloucester whose Gloucester line goes up to Henry I. Then secondly Roger Mowbray's mother was a Beauchamp whose mother was Ida de Longespee d1269. Ida's grandfather was King Henry II and his father was King Henry I. That makes it 39 lines to Henry I from Hazel Blossom.

Our Singleton direct line from Canada, Wexford, and Dublin has at least 20 more direct lines up to King Henry I and William I. One is through our Coad/Codd line of Canada which goes directly up to Prince Lionel and his father King Edward III which leads up to King Henry I. Then go further up the Singleton line to Thomas Singleton b1571 Preston, Lancashire at Brockholes & Scales/Newton who married Prudence Butler. Her grandmother Ann Bold goes up to Butler/Boteler again, then goes up through the Butlers of Warrington to the 6th of Warrington whose mother was Ada de Workington, whose mother was Grace, then follow the Galloway ancestor to the FitzRoy daughter of King Henry I. Back to Margaret Bold (Butler) again, her mother's mother born Ellen Egerton can be followed up through 8 Mainwaring's to Amicia (Kevelioc de Chester) whose gt.gt. grandfather was Henry I. Also Butler goes up through Molyneux(Mullins), Dutton, Tuchet, to the de Ros family with 6 direct lines to Henry I. Also Tuchet's FitzAlan goes to 2 more lines to Henry I. Again up Butler to Molyneux, Stanley is found again which gives Prudence Singleton 3 more Goushill lnes to Henry I. One more time go back to the Bold/Butler line and it can be seen that Margaret (Butler) Bold's grandmother was Margaret Stanley and her mother was Joan Goushill. This makes one more separate line to Goushill adding 3 more Henry I direct lines. Then Prudence's Bannister mother goes to Halsall which goes again up to Joan Goushill which gives the Singleton's separately three more direct lines; then THE TOTAL FOR SINGLETON IS 20 separate direct lines to King Henry I and William I. With these 80 above direct lines to Henry I of England, we can add the 13 lines we have to the Beauforts who all descend from King Edward III and Henry I. Then we see the total known 93 routes to Henry I is apparent.

Muriel (Kenyon/Craft) Singleton's Craft line is now found to have a direct descent from Henry I through the Crafts of Boston, then Croft leading up to the Herbert family of Wales, then several Margred Nest Verch Gruffydd's and Llywelyn's to a wife who was a daughter of the Earl of Gloucester whose grandfather was King Henry I. Continuing up the Craft/Croft ancestry there are four more lines up to Henry I and William through Cornwall-Talbot-Bohun, FitzAlan and Audley (to Chester). That pushes our individual trees up to Henry I to 98 lineages. Of course, as seen in Muriel's profile and below, she has also other lines up to Henry I through Kenyon, Lawrence, Warburton, and Stanley,
A line to King Alfred the Great and his son King Edward the Elder further up the Singleton line is found at our James Singleton 1435-95 of Brockholes Manor, Preston, Lancs. whose wife was Agnes Hoghton. About 4 Hoghton fathers up the line follow the Venables (wife) up some 11 more Venable generations to Odo. Then follow his mother Berthe, her mother Matilda of France, then her father Louis IV king of France, to his mother Eadgifu the daughter of King Edward the Elder and her grandfather King Alfred the Great. Our French line there follows the husband of Eadgifu named King Charles III of France up to his father Louis II, his father King Charles II, his father Louis the first called the Pious, and then his father Emperor Charlemagne. The emperor's grandfather was Charles Martel, never a king but he ruled nearly all of Europe after his great military victories including the defeat of the Moors in southern France in the Battle of Tours 732ad. It should be mentioned that the direct line from James Singleton b1435 and his wife Agnes Hoghton through her Hoghton paternal line plus Venables (11) to Eadgifu to Alfred the Great of Wessex and England leads all the way up through the kingly line of Egbert bc769 to King Cerdic bc467 who first managed a powerful rule in southern England after the Romans left England. The British royal family of Windsor also directly descends from Cerdic and his ancestor Brand and the mythical Woden of Saxon heritage. Our Singleton all male line also descends directly from Brand and the mythical Woden according to the Saxon Chronicles ancestral trees and those of the Canterbury Chronicles. Further back from Brand is considered mythical by the Geni curators and historians.

Current list of our Beaufort ancestors found over the past 50+ years:

1ST THROUGH BLOSSOM, Murdock, Tilson families, then Joan Davenport, Margaret Booth, Lady Margaret Assheton, Anne de Greystoke, Ralph de Greystoke, Elizabeth Ferrers, Sir Robert Ferrers who married Joan Beaufort, the only Beaufort daughter of John of Gaunt. SECOND ROUTE to Beaufort is through Blossom, Perry, Saville (Paston), to Lady Anne Beaufort, daughter of Edmund Beaufort, 2nd Duke of Somerset. A 3RD ROUTE goes again up to Sir Robert Ferrers & Joan Beaufort through our Bascom ancestral tree via Mercy (Shubael/Bascom) Phillips & Darius to Nathaniel Phillips → Emily Phillips (Allen) his wife to Mary Allen, her mother, to Pease to Bygod Eggleston, → Margaret Eggleston, his mother → Dorothy Harker (Radcliffe), her mother → Dorothy Radcliffe(Bigod), her mother → Sir Francis Bigod, of Settrington, MP, then his 2x paternal gt.grandmother Greystoke whose mother was Elizabeth Ferrers from Beaufort. ALSO FOR A 4TH DIFFERENT ROUTE TO BEAUFORT,Sir Francis Bigod's MATERNAL grandmother Scrope had a Greystoke mother whose grandmother was again Elizabeth Ferrers with the Beaufort mother. The 5TH ROUTE TO BEAUFORT IS THROUGH BIGOD'S maternal grandmother to her paternal grandmother who was a Neville. Then her Neville Grandmother was again Joan Beaufort but this time through her marriage to Earl Ralph Neville. 6TH and 7TH ROUTES, Bigod's wife, Catherine Conyers had two direct lines up to the Beauforts and John of Gaunt through the Neville's. For an 8TH ROUTE we even have a direct lineage up to Katherine Swynford through Brewer, Ingram, Margaret Stewart the wife of Lazarus, then through her 2x great grandfather Archibald's mother Egidia to her father John Gordon of Pitlurg whose 3x gt. grandmother was Katherine Swynford. Now this route up to Katherine deserves to be considered our 8th direct route because she was the mother of the Beauforts. The 9TH ROUTE is through Blossom, then to Crocker, then to Saville (Paston) to Lady Anne Beaufort & Duke Edmund Beaufort. A 10h direct route is contested now by the curators at Geni. It is found by going up our Blossom family, then Perry to Crocker and Susanna Dunham. She is descended from Deacon John Dunham of the Plymouth Settlement arrived in 1631 from the Leyden Pilgrim Church of Holland. Many have believed for quite a while that the father of Deacon John was Thomas Dunham because Thomas and his Dunham family for many generations came from Scrooby, Nottinghamshire, England, the origin of the Pilgrim's Church before they moved to Leyden. Thomas had a son named John but evidence has been found giving the father of Deacon John the name of Richard Dunham. The Dunhams of Scrooby descended from two sons of King Edward III, John of Gaunt and Thomas of Woodstock(through the Buckingham family). Sorry to lose that connection but at least we still have descent for sure from Deacon John Dunham from the Scrooby and Leyden Pilgrim's church. The rest of John's life in Plymouth is a mystery which can be read by Googling him. A GENUINE 10TH ROUTE TO THE BEAUFORTS can be seen by going UP TO THE WIFE OF LAZARUS STEWART, MARGARET STEWART. Then follow her line up to Archibald b1550 whose mother was Egidia Gordon, whose father's mother was Jean Stewart of Atholl whose grandmother was Joan Beaufort of Scotland. Jean Stewart's 3rd GGF was King of Scots, Robert II. THE 11TH Route, 12TH, and 13th Routes come through Alice Benson, the wife of Marmaduke Mendenhall of Wrightsboro, GA. Her grandfather was Griffith John whose wife's line goes to Stradling to Cardinal Henry Beaufort, Bishop of Winchester. The John line also goes back to Woodward which goes back to Eleanor Neville, a daughter of Joan Beaufort I. Griffith John's wife's family was Williams leading to Verch John, then to Verch Owen, and then to the Welsh family of Griffith. That returns them to Cardinal Henry Beaufort, Bishop of Winchester for the second time through a wife's line. Our Singleton line does go directly to the brother, Lionel, of John of Gaunt who was the father of the Beauforts. That is through the Coad/Codd family line.
See Mendenhall.org to see the results of all of our work for the Mendenhalls and the ancient Mildenhalls.

See Allen's wife's Overview for the lineage showing Muriel (Kenyon) and Gary are 14th cousins through MRCA Sir John Warburton b1459 and both descend also through Sir John Warburton from the Singletons of Little Singleton, Lancashire. The Singleton of Broughton/Little Singleton ancestral line is found from the Warburtons through Sir John's father being married to Lady Ellen Savage, granddaughter of Sir John Savage de Clifton. Then the line goes back through Savage's wife, Maud Swynnerton and the Holland family and the Kellett family who married Matilda de Singleton, daughter of Uchtred FitzHuck de Singleton 1140-85. Besides being 14th cousins through female and Male lines, Allen and Muriel are also 24th cousins through BOTH of their ALL PATERNAL lines up to Robert de Thornton b1145. Above Jordan de Kenyon, Muriel's line goes up to his mother, Alice de Winwick, her father Hugh Winwick, then his mother Matilda de Thornton to her father, Robert de Thornton b1145.