LIves in Canberra, Australia. Born in Hororata, Canterbury New Zealand

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Recent activity

✑ 05 Aug 2023 - Thomas Gray (1749-1820) of Sackville Street, Royal Retail Jeweller, Goldsmith and Sword-Cutler. Based on a document sent to me from Tobias **** a researching the history of fencing and dueling, from The Journal of The Society of Jewellery Historians and an article written by Dr Leslie Southwick.

✑ 03 Jun 2023 - I discovered that the Foreman family had links to two families from Cornwall. Paul Inch and Tabitha Inch were born in Cornwall and immigrated to New Zealand in 1841. Paul died in 1877 (aged 73) after receiving a flesh wound in the fighting in the Land Wars at the battle of Waireka. He died of exposure. Paul and Tabitha are my fourth great grandparents. Henry Pearce and Catherine Pearce were also fourth grandparents, born in Cornwall. Their daughter, Elizabeth Grace Foreman immigrated to Melbourne in 1885. Given that the Cornish have a genetic, linguistic and culturally separative identity to the rest of England, this is an interesting relationship between the two families. Eiizabeth's son William Henry Foreman married a descendant of Tabitha and Paul, Helen Crozier.

✑ 28 Aug 2022 - second cousins: Henry Francis Gray and Sarah Gray.

✑ 3 Oct 2021 - Eleanora Hevingham. Sir John Heveningham, Kt.. Alice Bedingfield, Michael Abney-Hastings, 14th Earl of Loudoun

✑ 20 Sept 2021 - Found this - need to save it somewhere Hall brothers of the Mackenzie South Canterbury, New Zealand - need to save it somewhere

✑ 15 Sept 2021 - Looking for Cowpers and Jocelyns, - found a John 'Yeoman' Cowper in Norfolk - we both are descended from Sir Simon de Pierrepont who is my 16th great grandfather and Sir Henry de Pierrepont

✑ 19 May 2021 - Updated some info about the family of Len Gray including his wife, Margaret Langford, and mother-in-law, Mary Parker. Added some photos, biographical information and linked some Find-a-grave sites and Gisborne cemetery information.

✑ 12 Apr 2021 - Richard Might and family. Most people say married to Lady Eleanor - there's also a record of a Catherine Godsalve -- which seems to be connected to family somewhere as there's a probate record for Richard Godsalve Might (which I haven't found yet - only the reference to it)

✑ Record search England

✑ 25 Jan 2021 - descendent of Charles Norris, Trenby wrote:"my ancestor was the Norris artist in Tenby and there has always been some family mention of the Admiral ('Foul Weather Jack') who commanded the Torbay and avoided the catastrophe that befell the Association in 1707. Those Norrises ended up in Taunton as farmers and civil servants. My father, John Phillips Norris, was born in Taunton and was a GP in Salisbury where he lived until his death in 2012 in his late 80s"

✑ 17 Oct 2020 - merging of records for Henry and Hannah Pearce of Cornwall, and later London - it's a bit messy and I don't have time to finish it.

✑ Sept 2020 received package from Fay, (descendant of Charles Gray), with copy of Great Aunt Amy Gray's original family tree form Charles Gray and Agnes Norris and Mark Gray's memoir of growing up at Waiohika

✑ received a package of information about the Colfer family in Norfolk, from Neville Colfer, (4 Sept 2020). Neville's work, which he completed in 1983, contains lots of fascinating insights about the Colfer family, of Wood Dalling in Norfolk from 1500's - 1600's. I'm starting to add it all in. See Edward Colfer, other families are, Standhowe/Stanhoe, Kemp, Mingay - there's also a family of unrelated Grays, with five sons (step brothers) which is curious.

✑ added some members of Richard Hall's family after Bridget passed away (30 May 2020)

✑ Feb 2020, Private added Ursula Mary Woodburn Larmuth

✑ correcting merge issues in the Wroughton family (Berkshire) - not finished

✑ there's something in the descendents of Philip Wroughton that needs to be fixed - Michael Wroughton

✑ connecting Waller family (Ireland) with Sir Hendress Waller - and the Wallers in Gloucestershire - completed connection

✑ interesting Waller Family history

✑ connecting Nugents with a tree remnant - not finished

Ancestors

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Williams

The Williams Museum

Foreman

Great great-grandmother Elizabeth Grace Foreman
Great great-grandfather Richard White Foreman

Great great-great-grandmother Hannah Pearce
Great great-great-grandfather Henry Pearce

Gray

Great grandfather Charles Gray

Great great-great-grandmother Louisa Norris
Great great-great-grandfather John William Norris

Great great-great-great-grandmother Deborah Busby
Great great-great-great-grandfather John Norris

Watching a bit of Scottish history

The Forgotten Kings of Scotland by Bruce Fummey

Kenneth I Mac Alpine, king of the Picts (32nd great grandfather)
Máel Coluim Mac Cináeda, Rí na h'Alba (27th great grandfather)
Duncan I, King of Scots (25th great grandfather)
Macbeth, King of Scots (first cousin 27 times removed)
First Queen Regnant Margaret Eriksdatter. Margaret, Maid of Norway (grandneice of Edward Longshanks)
David of Scotland, Prince Of Scotland (first cousin 19 times removed)
Donald mac William (26th great uncle)
William fitz Duncan, Mórmaer of Moray (26th great grandfather)
Alexander II, King of Scots. Alaxandair "The Peaceful" mac Uilliam, (22nd great grandfather)
Marjorie of Scotland, daughter of Alaxandair III (21 great grandmother)
Alexander III, King of the Scots, was Marjorie's half-brother, he was also married to
Margaret of England, Queen consort of Scots or Margaret Plantegent, 19th great Aunt
Donald de Mar, 6th Earl of Mar Domhnall mac Uilleim, 6th Earl of Mar, (22nd great grandfather)
Duncan I, King of Scots, Donnchad mac Crínáin, Rí na h'Alba, (25th great grandfather)
Malcolm III, 'Canmore', King of Scots, (24th great grandfather)
Duncan II, King of Scots, Donnchad mac Maíl Coluim (24th great uncle)
Matilda of Scotland, Eadgyth, Mathilde, Reine consort d'Henri Ier d'Angleterre (23rd great grandmother), married to Henry I "Beauclerc", King of England, (23rrd great grandfather)

Brutal murder of three-year-old last McWilliam
Assured the Canmore family's reign and aserted Norman Primogeniture

Malcom III to Margaret, Maid of Norway, Canmore family
Malcolm III Canmore (a.k.a. Máel Coluim mac Donnchada)

Henry VIII, King of England
Margaret Beaufort
Elizabeth of York
Charles III, King of the United Kingdom
Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh

Symbols and Dingbats

Dingbat ]], "Everyone of European ancestry is descended from Charlemagne" - the difficult task is to prove it (2002).

Descended from John William Norris, I have traced his ancestors back to Edward I "Longshanks", King of England, Edward II, king of England, Edward III, king of England, Louis IV, king of West Francia, William "the Conqueror", king of England and Gange-Hrólfr 'Rollo' Ragnvaldsson. This was done by careful checking of the lineage proposed by Ursula Norris, back to the Derehams and Audleys of Norfolk, Their family tree was recorded by the College of Arms, where Ele Guybon , daughter of Sir John Awdeley, Kt., of Swaffham Market married Thomas Dereham .

Extensive work has been done elsewhere by others cleaning up the Plantagenet tree. It is thanks to the work of these people that older connections can be made. This makes Geni all the more fun to use.

Ancestors

1. Alfred the Great, king of The Anglo-Saxons
2. Egbert, king of Wessex
3. Henry I, king of France
4. Henry II "Curtmantle", king of England - Henry Plantagenet
5. Isabella of France, Queen consort of England
6. Roger Mortimer, 1st Earl of March
7. Harold Godwinsson, King of England
8. Harald III "Hard ruler", king of Norway (Uncle)
9. Philip III, "the Bold" king of France
10. Charlemagne
11. Conrad II, Holy Roman Emperor
12. Geoffery Noreys, IV, Lord of Monpinzoun Manor
13. John Le Norreys (d. 1382)

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William IV, Duke of Aquitaine, Guillaume 'Fier-à-Bras' de Poitiers, IV duc d'Aquitaine et II comte de Poitou, sometimes translated as William Iron Arm, called Fierebras or Fierebrace (meaning "Proud Arm", from the French Fier-à-bras or Fièrebrace, in turn from the Latin Ferox brachium),

William of Hauteville, Iron-Arm who fought Harald III "Hard ruler", king of Norway with the Byzantines

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Interesting people

1. Oliver Cromwell, Lord Protector of the Commonwealth of England, Scotland, and Ireland, Oliver was born in Huntingdon, Huntingdonshire
2. Sir Walter Hungerford, 1st Baron Hungerford - another knight, Oliver Cromwell's ancestor and my 14th Great grandfather
3. Thomas Cromwell, 1st Earl of Essex
4. Roger de Somery, Baron Dudley, My common ancestor with Thomas Cromwell. He was a Welsh Knight and built a castle at Dudley Staffordhire, England.
5. Roger de Mowbray / Montbray, 27 Great grandfather, through the d'Aubigny family, living in Buckenham, Norfolk, England
6. (poss son of Roger II) Robert I de Toeni, Lord of Belvoir - this guy - another Norman, was Lord of Belvoir Castle in Lincolnshire, near Grantham. Grantham is where Louisa Norris came from.

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Working on these profiles

1. John Constable, RA
2. Abram Newman
3. Harriott Douglas, Baroness Bloomfield
4. Georgiana Liddell, Lady Bloomfield

Constance of York

Constance, Countess of Gloucester is my 14th great grandmother. She was the only daughter of Edmund of Langley, 1st Duke of York and Isabella of Castile, Duchess consort of York. Edmund was the fourth son of Edward III, king of England. Constance married Thomas le Despenser, 1st Earl of Gloucester. The Despensers were trouble in Plantagenet history, and Thomas was eventually executed. I don't (at this stage) appear to be descended from the Despencers. After her husband's death, Constance was granted a life interest in the greater part of his lands and custody of her son. [1]

After her husband's death, Constance was either betrothed to or lived as the mistress of Edmund Holland, 4th Earl of Kent(1383–1408), [2] by whom she had an illegitimate daughter, Eleanor Holland, [3] who married James Tuchet, 5th Baron Audley (died 1459).

These people are my ancestors. When I first connected to James Tuchet, I got a direct line to Edward III. This no longer happens, and the direct line goes through Edmund Holland, 4th Earl of Kent, the father of Constance's illegitimate daughter, Eleanor Tuchet. I don't know why this is happening. It throws a lot of interesting relationships out, because they get diverted through Edmund. Somehow, there is a mistake in Geni because Edmund and Constance are fourth cousins and that is not now showing up.

Wikipedia - Constance of York

Footnotes for Constance of York

1. Richardson II 2011, pp. 75–8, 500–1; Pugh 1988, p. 79.
2. Stansfield, M. M. N. "Holland, Edmund, seventh earl of Kent", Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, 23 September 2004. Accessed 2 February 2019.
3. Horrox, Rosemary. "Despenser, Constance, Lady Despenser", Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, 23 September 2004. Accessed 2 February 2019.

References

1. Richardson, Douglas (2011). Magna Carta Ancestry: A Study in Colonial and Medieval Families, ed. Kimball G. Everingham. II (2nd ed.). Salt Lake City. ISBN 1449966381
2. Pugh, T.B. (1988). Henry V and the Southampton Plot of 1415. Alan Sutton. ISBN 0-86299-541-8
3. Horrox, Rosemary (2004). Edward, second duke of York (c.1373–1415). 1. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/22356. Retrieved 18 October 2012.
4. Stansfield, M. M. N. "Holland, Edmund, seventh earl of Kent", Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, 23 September 2004. Accessed 2 February 2019.

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Finding Irish ancestors

Royal we by Steve Olsen, May 2002

Mark Humphrys, a young computer scientist at Dublin City University. He became interested in genealogy as a teenager, after hearing romantic stories about his ancestors' roles in rebellions against the English. But when he tried to trace his family further into the past, the trail ran cold. The Penal Laws imposed by England in the early eighteenth century forbade Irish Catholics from buying land or joining professions, which meant that very few permanent records of their existence were generated. "Irish people of Catholic descent are almost completely cut off from the past," Humphrys told me, as we sat in his office overlooking a busy construction site. (Dublin City University, which specializes in information technology and the life sciences, is growing as rapidly as the northern Dublin suburb in which it is located.) "The great irony about Ireland is that even though we have this long, rich history, almost no person of Irish-Catholic descent can directly connect to that history."