I wrote the Thomas Bradbury article and it has a logical hypothesis on the royal line through the Fulnetbys. I include it in my own database because I descend from Thomas Bradbury, but I also descend from the key couple in the line already. That couple is Lionel de Welles, the 6th Lord Welles who died in 1461 and his wife Joan de Waterton. Among their children were:
- Cecily de Welles m. Sir Robert Willoughby
- Christopher Willoughby, 10th Lord Willoughby m. Margaret Jenney
- Elizabeth Willoughby m. William Eure, 1st Lord Eure
- Sir Ralph Eure m. Margery Bowes
- Anne Eure m. Lancelot Mansfield
- John Mansfield m. Elizabeth (---)
- Elizabeth Mansfield of Boston, Mass. m. John Wilson
- Margaret de Welles, sister of Cicely m. Sir Thomas Dymoke
- Jane Dymoke m. John Fulnetby
- Katherine Fulnetby m. William Dynewell
- Anne Dynewell m. Henry Whitgift
- William Whitgift m. Margaret Bell
- Elizabeth Whitgift m. Wymond Bradbury
- Thomas Bradbury of Salisbury, Mass. m. Mary Perkins
So I descend from this couple no matter what. If this identification holds up then Elizabeth Mansfield and Thomas Bradbury were sixth cousins. Lionel is given a page in the Ancestry of American Presidents. Among his descendants are George Washington, Theodore Roosevelt, William Howard Taft, and both Bush presidents.
Lionel is also an ancestor of Michael's royal ancestor Anne Skipwith Goforth.
- Margaret de Welles m. Sir Thomas Dymoke
- Lionel Dymoke m. Joan Griffith
- Alice Dymoke m. William Skipwith
- Henry Skipwith m. Jane Hall
- Anne Skipwith m. Henry Smith
- Sarah Smith m. Dr. Patrick Saunders
- Honora Saunders m. Willoughby Skipwith (half third cousins through the Skipwith family)
- Anne Skipwith, of Philadelphia, Penn. m. William Goforth
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