When I get silly I like to refer to myself in the third person when conversing.
You know......like when I disapprove of something and am talking to someone, I'll say, "We are not amused".
That sort of thing.
I'm just that silly.
Well come to find out, wanting to talk in the third person might be imbedded somewhere deep in my dna.
A few months ago I traced, via paper trail,(sources range from excellent to dubious though), my maternal genealogy back to European royalty.
Most of the connections are NOT sourced by me but taken from other trees of people I appear to be related to.
That gentleman in Erie, PA who I found I am related to via a maternal Great Grandfather's line(my mother's mother's father's line)and corresponded with about 5 years ago, is part of the Vassar/Vasser family of VA. This line stretches back to the first immigrant to the New World, John Vasser who arrived at Jamestown in 1635. Old John V. happens to be one of my 9th Great Grandfathers.
That's all well documented and many ancestors are right proud of that lineage.
But I turned my attention to John Vasser's wife awhile ago, Elizabeth Dowe(other spelling variations are Dow and Dew).
She also came to VA in 1635.
Her parents were Christopher Dowe and Elizabeth Franklin from England.
I traced Elizabeth's maternal line back 3 generations to an Ann Hare.
She was the daughter of Thomas Popy Hare.
I traced Thomas' paternal line back 4 more generations to a John Hare.
He married Jane or Joan de Neville, who was the daughter of Ralph de Neville and Joan de Beaufort, the Countess of Westmorland.
Joan de Beaufort was the daughter of John of Gaunt, 1st Duck of Lancaster, of the Plantagenet house of England.
Yes, my ancestor was one of the bastard children of John of Gaunt and his mistress Kathryn Swynford(who he eventually married).
This line leads me back through the Plantagenet rulers of England all the way back to William the Conqueror(born 1024), who appears to be one of my 29th Great Grandfathers.
So even that line of my ancestry leads back to France.
I tell you I am finding all kinds of ancestors going back to France once I started rooting around deep enough in my tree branches.
My direct ancestor rulers are William(the Man), Henry I, Henry II, John I, Henry III, Edward I II and III, and then I drop off into the minor nobility after John of Gaunt and upper classes of English society, before hopping a boat to America.
But being descended from the Plantagenet line means I am remotely related to all the rulers of England down through Liz II.
Do you think I can use my "connection" to the House of Windsor to get a peek "up close and personal" of the new royal baby? 8-)
Whoop dee doo I hear you say about all those stuffy royalty folks......
Yah, that's sort of my reaction as well.
But it still doesn't keep me from enjoying this cute little song from a BBC series called "Horrible Histories" that I found episodes for on You Tube.
Can't we all use a silly little tune to remember the Rulers of England by? lolz
Enjoy!
Sluggy
H.N.S.R.M (Her Not So Royal Majesty)
You know......like when I disapprove of something and am talking to someone, I'll say, "We are not amused".
That sort of thing.
I'm just that silly.
Well come to find out, wanting to talk in the third person might be imbedded somewhere deep in my dna.
A few months ago I traced, via paper trail,(sources range from excellent to dubious though), my maternal genealogy back to European royalty.
Most of the connections are NOT sourced by me but taken from other trees of people I appear to be related to.
That gentleman in Erie, PA who I found I am related to via a maternal Great Grandfather's line(my mother's mother's father's line)and corresponded with about 5 years ago, is part of the Vassar/Vasser family of VA. This line stretches back to the first immigrant to the New World, John Vasser who arrived at Jamestown in 1635. Old John V. happens to be one of my 9th Great Grandfathers.
That's all well documented and many ancestors are right proud of that lineage.
But I turned my attention to John Vasser's wife awhile ago, Elizabeth Dowe(other spelling variations are Dow and Dew).
She also came to VA in 1635.
Her parents were Christopher Dowe and Elizabeth Franklin from England.
I traced Elizabeth's maternal line back 3 generations to an Ann Hare.
She was the daughter of Thomas Popy Hare.
I traced Thomas' paternal line back 4 more generations to a John Hare.
He married Jane or Joan de Neville, who was the daughter of Ralph de Neville and Joan de Beaufort, the Countess of Westmorland.
Joan de Beaufort was the daughter of John of Gaunt, 1st Duck of Lancaster, of the Plantagenet house of England.
Yes, my ancestor was one of the bastard children of John of Gaunt and his mistress Kathryn Swynford(who he eventually married).
This line leads me back through the Plantagenet rulers of England all the way back to William the Conqueror(born 1024), who appears to be one of my 29th Great Grandfathers.
So even that line of my ancestry leads back to France.
I tell you I am finding all kinds of ancestors going back to France once I started rooting around deep enough in my tree branches.
My direct ancestor rulers are William(the Man), Henry I, Henry II, John I, Henry III, Edward I II and III, and then I drop off into the minor nobility after John of Gaunt and upper classes of English society, before hopping a boat to America.
But being descended from the Plantagenet line means I am remotely related to all the rulers of England down through Liz II.
Do you think I can use my "connection" to the House of Windsor to get a peek "up close and personal" of the new royal baby? 8-)
Whoop dee doo I hear you say about all those stuffy royalty folks......
Yah, that's sort of my reaction as well.
But it still doesn't keep me from enjoying this cute little song from a BBC series called "Horrible Histories" that I found episodes for on You Tube.
Can't we all use a silly little tune to remember the Rulers of England by? lolz
Enjoy!
Sluggy
H.N.S.R.M (Her Not So Royal Majesty)
That's really cool that you've traced back to far. I have made it to about 1800 or so on my father's side, someone else already got mom's side back to 17th century Germany, which is pretty cool in and of itself.
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Jay
lol! Wow! Royalty! I'm going to have to practice my curtsy.
ReplyDeleteI talk to myself all the time, and not always just in private. Though it's more of an "I" think, "she" thinks, "we" should. Ever thought it was possible to lose an argument against yourself? Been there, done that. Sad.
ReplyDeleteGotta love Thomas "Popy Hare". People sure had a sense of humor those days.