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Eleanor of Aquitaine Descents II

1. Eleanor of Aquitaine m. Henry II, King of England
2. Eleanor m. Alfonso VIII, King of Castile
3. Blanche m. Louis VIII, King of France

From here  you get all the later kings of France, but there are many descents such as:

 

Blanche of Castile m. Louis VIII, King of France

Robert, Count of Artois m. Matilda of Brabant

Blanche of Artois m. Henry I, King of Navarre

Joan of Navarre m. Philippe IV, King of France

 

Blanche of Castile m. Louis VIII, King of France

Charles, King of Naples, Sicily m. Beatrice of Provence

Charles II, King of Naples, Sicily m. Maria of Hungary

Marguerite m. Charles Valois (himself, son of Philip III, King of France, grandson of Louis VIII)

Jeanne Valois m. William III, Count of Hainault and Holland

Philippa of Hainault m. Edward III

 

Eleanor of Aquitaine Descents I

I think I fell in love with Eleanor the first time I saw Lion in Winter.  So to me, Eleanor is Katharine Hepburn.  If you are descended from Edward III of England, you are also descended from Eleanor who was the mother of King John, Edward III's great-great-grandfather.  But there are a myriad of other ways to be descended from Eleanor.  The first is by her marriage to Louis VII King of France.  As Eleanor says in the movie, if I had had sons and not daughters I'd still be queen of France.

1. Eleanor of Aquitaine m. Louis VII of France
2. Marie m. Henry I Count of Champagne
3. Marie of Champagne m. Baldwin VI, Count of Hainault and  Flanders
4. Margaret Countess of Hainault m. Bouchard d'Avesnes
5. Jean I, Count of Hainault m. Adelaide Countess of Holland
6. Jean II, Count of Hainault and Holland m. Philippa of Luxembourg
7. William III, Count of Hainault and Holland m. Jeane Valois
8. Philippa of Hainault m. Edward III, King of England

And then there's this descent:

1. Eleanor of Aquitaine m. Louis VII of France
2. Marie m. Henry I Count of Champagne
3. Theobald III, Count of Brie m. Blanche of Navarre
4. Theobald IV, King of Navarre m. Marguerite of Bourbon
5. Henry I, King of Navarre m. Blanche of Artois
6. Joan of Navarre m. Philippe IV, King of France
7. Isabelle of France m. Edward II, King of England
8. Edward III

The next posting will be descents from Eleanor's daughter Eleanor who married the King of Castile.

 

 

Happy St. Patrick's Day

Happy Saint Patrick's Day from my Irish ancestors to yours.

3-greats

Thomas Stack 1818-1899 and his wife Abigail Cody 1821-1888, both from Co. Cork and my only Irish Catholic ancestors.  Arrived in New Brunswick prior to 1846 when they married.   

4-greats

James Quigley 1800-1885 and his children, including my 3-great grandfather William T. Quigley.  James was from Londonderry and they arrived in New Brunswick in 1840.

James Smyth 1809-1885 from Co. Armagh and his wife Catherine Sinclair 1819-1900 from Ballymagarry, Co. Antrim, who arrived with her parents Finley and Martha (Lawrence) Sinclair.  James arrived in New Brunswick in 1833.  The Sinclairs arrived in 1822.

Joseph Killen 1784-1840 from Co. Tyrone and his wife Lydia Robertson 1784-1874.  Their daughter Eliza married William T. Quigley, above.  Joseph arrived in New Brunswick in 1825.

5-greats

James Martin 1759-1842 from Co. Down.  My only revolutionary war soldier to fight with the British.  He later stayed in Nova Scotia and married a Prudence Wickwire, a New England Yankee transplant.  Was in Nova Scotia directly after the war in 1781.

6-greats

John Denny c. 1725-1797 and his wife Rebecca Mitchell.  John was in Nova Scotia by 1770.

Robert Spencer c. 1720-1794 from Clanda Horky, Co. Donegal and his wife.  Robert was in Nova Scotia by 1770.

7-greats

John Swan c. 1695-aft 1774 and his wife Margaret.  He was in Stow, Massachusetts by 1730.

Robert Russell c. 1695-1748 and his wife Mary.  Their daughter Mary Russell married William Swan, son of the above couple. He was in Stow, Massachusetts by 1730.

John Archibald c. 1693-1751 and his wife Margaret and son Samuel whose wife Eleanor Taylor was also from Ireland.  They came Co. Derry.  He arrived in Nutfield (later Derry), New Hampshire by 1719 or 1720.

There's No Point to Publishing in Genealogy

The most recent issue of the New Hampshire Genealogical Record (NHGR) came out this week.  The lead article was on the Nutes.  The principal title character of the  article married  a Pinkham and she is  given wrong parents in the article.  I immediately saw the error.  I had to email the editor and let her  know about the error.

I wrote about this in 2005-2006 in my article: The Pinkhams of Strafford County, New Hampshire, New Hampshire Genealogical Record, Vol. 22 (2005):1-7, 63-67, 115-25, 164-71, 23 (2006):27-76.

But neither the author or editor could put two and two together.  If they had used my book: New Englanders in the 1600s: A Guide to Genealogical Research Published Between 1980 and 2010 (Boston, Mass.: New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2011) they would have seen under the entry for  Richard Pinkham that there was an article described as a multi-generational work on the descendants of John-2.  So neither used my book which pointed to my article.

Both the editor and author are big time genealogists.  One's a Certified Genealogist and the other is a Fellow of the American Society of Genealogy. Yet neither did the basic research one should do.

Lastly, the author cited to a secondary source instead of a primary source for the marriage.  I was harangued by the editor in my Wallis article to cite every genealogical statement to a primary source.  I'm guessing the editor needs articles so badly she's letting that criteria go.  Why should  people go around writing scholarly genealogical articles when no one reads them?

All genealogy  is politics and I'm not a political animal.  By now, based on my writings, I should be known as the definitive source on the Pinkhams, Yeatons, and Wallises.  All you have to do is  ask.  I've had the same email address for 25 years.

I also thought that my genealogical legacy would  be my book and my articles on the Pinkhams, Yeatons, and Wallises.  But  no one reads anything.  It's all pointless.

 

 

Founders and Patriots of America

The next heritage organization I may join is the Founders and Patriots of America.  In order to join you have to have an ancestor in America by 1659 (50 years after Jamestown) and in the same line with the same surname, a Patriot ancestor.  The line must then conclude with the same surname to you, your mother or any of your grandparents.

So my Pinkham line qualifies.  I can go 12 generations from Richard Pinkham (the founder) to Thomas Pinkham (the patriot) to my mother and to me.

I already belong to the:

• Sons of the American Revolution.
• Piscataqua Pioneers (now people in Piscataqua before 1776.  When I joined it was the 17th century).  I joined through Richard Pinkham.
• Old Plymouth Colony (this is the Mayflower also ran organization.  you have to have an ancestor at Plymouth before 1630).  I joined through Kenelm Winslow.
• Old Newbury Settlers. Can't remember how I joined (or if I joined).

These last three I joined for my cousin Nancy so I could escort her to meetings.  I've not kept up with them at all.

Summation

So I found the research I did for these three cousins 30 years ago.  I'm now throwing it out since I don't want it to be confused with my own ancestry.  But before I did that I wanted to review it and post some of my findings.  I was also interested to see if, in the intervening 30 years, someone had broken through on any of the lines.

I noted that someone had given Eunice Hathorne parents, but as I also stated there are two contemporary Eunice Hathornes and no one has distinguished them.

Someone had broken through on Job Trask who married Martha Gray on 7 June 1763 at Marblehead, Massachusetts.  He is now given as a possible son of Elias-3 (John-2 William-1) Trask and his third wife Esther/Hester Goodale.  Certainly Job  names a daughter Esther after his potential mother.  Further work is needed, but a good clue nonetheless.

I notice that on Wikitree many immigrant ancestors' wives are given surnames when in fact they have none.  Curious.

I don't belong to any genealogical web tree place so I found clues among them all via Google.  But mostly my research of 30 years ago holds up against time.

 

Nancy and the Huguenots

The other society Nancy wanted to join (other than Mayflower and all the societies to which she was a member such as DAR and the like) was the Huguenot Society.  Again, I told her that the Huguenots migrated to the Middle Atlantic and Southern states mostly.  Some went to Massachusetts such as the Delanos and Reveres.  But it was rare.  She had Collier and Currier lines and thought those sounded French.  I had to explain that those were English occupation names.

Anyway, I could never  find such a line and I'm certain she didn't appreciate it.  She made me join several societies so I could escort her.  She liked the fact I was at Harvard and could  take her to lunch at the Harvard Faculty  Club.  But she was vehemently anti-gay, so our  relationship was doomed from the outset.

Later after we parted ways I studied the 1/4 of her ancestry I  hadn't looked at.  Her  maternal grandfather was my great-great-grandmother's older brother so  we shared that ancestry.  Her maternal grandmother was also from Atlantic Canada and I didn't study her.  With a little bit of study she had huge French ancestry.  Were these Huguenot ancestors?  One French woman married at an Anglican church.  Was she a convert or a Huguenot?  This was her umbilical line too, so very important.

1. Joshua Frederick Vienot 1773-1815 m. Catherine Elizabeth Vienot (both with vast ancestries)
2. Eleanor Catherine Vienot m. Zenas Thompson
3. Sophia Elizabeth Thompson m. Naphtali Snyder
4. Mary Olivia Snyder m. John Wesley  Smith
5. Lillian Victoria Smith m. Ralph Hathorne Porter
6. Nancy Hathorne Porter

 

 

Salem Witch Hysteria and Ralph Hathorne Porter

Although Nancy wanted a Mayflower line, she had all kinds of ties to the Salem Witch Hysteria of 1692 due to her father's Essex County ancestry.  She had a descent from a victim, from the family of the accusers, and even the judge, John Hathorne.

Her line from victim Margaret Scott is as follows (despite all his Salem ancestors, his witch is from Rowley):

1. Margaret Stephenson d. 1692 m. Benjamin Scott
2. Benjamin Scott, Jr. m. Susannah Scails
3. Joseph Scott m. Mary Barker
4. Mercy Scott m. Richard Tappan
5. John Tappan m. Martha Hall
6. Abigail Tappan m. Joseph Currier
7. Sarah Hall Currier m. Michael Boardman
8. Lydia Hall Boardman m. John Cabeen
9. Julia Boardman Cabeen m. Samuel Hathorne Porter
10. Ralph Hathorne Porter

Likewise his Hathorne line is as follows:

1. Eunice Hathorne 1767-1847 m. Aaron Porter
2. Samuel Hathorne Porter m. Mehitable Brown
3. Rev. Aaron Porter m. Martha Ellen Grush Cassino
4. Samuel Hathorne Porter m. Julia Boardman Cabeen
5. Ralph Hathorne Porter

Now someone on the Internet has broken through on Eunice Hathorne and made her the daughter of Capt. Daniel Hathorne and Rachel Phelps.  This would make her a direct descendant of Judge John Hathorne.  But as I recall there are two Eunice Hathornes born at the same time in Salem.  I couldn't unravel which was which so I never assigned her parents.  More research is needed here.

The main accuser of witches in Salem was Ann Putnam, daughter of Thomas Putnam and Anne Carr and granddaughter of Thomas Putnam and Anne Holyoke.  These last are in the ancestry of Ralph Hathorne Porter.  In fact he has four Putnam lines.

His ancestress Mehitable Brown is the daughter of Bartholomew Brown, Jr. and Mehitable Flint.  Bartholomew was the son of Bartholomew Brown and Sarah Rea; grandson of John Brown and Mary Elsey, and great-grandson of Henry Brown, Jr. and Hannah Putnam.

Meanwhile Mehitable Flint was the daughter of Elisa Flint and Miriam Putnam and granddaughter of Thomas Flint and Mary Putnam and Stephen Putnam and Miriam Putnam.  So three of her four grandparents were Putnams.

So Ralph is a first and second cousin several times removed (in four lines) of Ann Putnam.

Two More Royal Lines for Ralph Hathorne Porter

In addition to Percival Lowell, Ralph also  had double lines to Christopher Batt and his wife Anne Baynton, both of royal descent.

Christopher Batt m. Ann Baynton
Jane Batt m. Peter Tappan
Peter Tappan, Jr. m. Sarah Kent
Richard Tappan m. Mercy Scott                Elizabeth Tappan m. Samuel Todd
John Tappan m. Martha Hall                     Elizabeth Todd m. William Currier
Abigail Tappan m. Joseph Currier
Sarah Hall Currier m. Michael Boardman
Lydia Hall Boardman m. John Cabeen
Julia Boardman Cabeen m. Samuel Hathorne Porter
Ralph Hathorne Porter

Three Mayflower Lines for Eva Lowell Larkin

Ironically, my cousin Nancy wanted more than anything to be in the Mayflower Society.  But alas, her father's ancestry was all Essex County, Massachusetts where only Richard More of the Mayflower settled.  Her mother's ancestry was all Atlantic  Canada.  I share that ancestry with her and although we have Cape Cod  and Plymouth ancestry we have a half dozen Mayflower almosts including Kenelm Winslow.  So Nancy could never get her wish.  But she had me trace the ancestry of our mutual cousins in California and they had three Mayflower lines.

 

William Brewster m. Mary (—-)
Patience Brewster m. Thomas Prence
Mercy Prence m. John Freeman
Mercy Freeman m. Samuel Knowles
Samuel Knowles, Jr. m. Bethia Brown
Enos Knowles m. Sarah Sparrow
Nathaniel Knowles m. Lois Holmes
Robert Goodwin m. Elizabeth Knowles
Moses Larkin m. Margaret Goodwin
Rebecca Larkin m. Henry Sherburne Lowell
Margaret Miriam Lowell m. Freeman John Larkin
Eva Lowell Larkin

Stephen Hopkins m. Mary Kent
Giles Hopkins m. Catherine Whelden
Abigail Hopkins m. William Merrick, Jr.
Rebecca Merrick m. Jonathan Sparrow, Jr.
Sarah Sparrow m. Enos Knowles, see above

Richard Warren m. Elizabeth Walker
Mary Warren m. Robert Bartlett
Joseph Bartlett m. Hannah Pope
Sarah Bartlett m. Elisha Holmes
John Holmes m. Lois Kempton
Lois Holmes m. Nathaniel Knowles, see above