Gateway ancestor?
Leo van de Pas
Dear Bryan,
My response may be a bit of good news and a bit of bad news.
Will you settle for a 'gateway cousin'?
I had a look in my computer and found your James Parsons and Katherine
Fenton, but no parents for either. Then I checked the source and this is
Gerald Paget's ancestors of Prince Charles. To make sure I had not as yet
entered their parents, I got hold of the book and sadly he does not
supply any parents at all. By now you must have guessed what I am going tp
show :
James Parsons=Katherine Fenton
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Sir William Parsons, 1st Bt..............in the complete Baronetage
Lord Chief Justice of Ireland his wife is named a niece
I of Sir Geoffrey Fenton, this
Mary Parsons Sir Geoffrey is also an ancestor
I of QEII and without any trouble
William Hill can I display his descent via those
I Beaumonts to King Edward III
Michael Hill
1672-1699
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Arthur Hill-Trevor
1st Viscount Dungannon
1699-1771
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Hon. Anne Hill
1742-1831
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Richard Wellesley---------------his full brother Arthur Wellesley
Marquess Wellesley Duke of Wellington
1769-1842
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Anne Wellesley
1788-1875
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Rev. Charles Cavendish-Bentinck
1817-1865
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Nina Caecilia Cavendish-Bentinck
1862-1938
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Lady Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon
The Queen Mother
1900-
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Elizabeth II
Queen of Great Britain
1926-
Dear Bryan while typing this response I found the entry to Sir Geoffrey,
byt I think he is an uncle by marriage as that wife is a Lany and her
mother a Bostocke. However, you are correct Archibald, 1st Duke of Argyll
and Elizabeth Tollemache, only had one legitimate daughter: Lady Anne.
Let me know if there is anything else? I will try to look up the Fentons.
Best wishes
Leo van de Pas
At 03:54 AM 2/27/98 GMT, you wrote:
>I recently was able to trace my ancestry back to a family named Woods in
>Kentucky. I found several books on this family, all of which claimed
>quite a descent for them. I have a degree in history and have been doing
>genealogy long enough to know that these kind of claims are usually bogus.
>The first part was easy enough to trace just with Burke's Peerage and the
>Dictionary of National Biography. It's the jump from the Parsons family
>through the Worsops to the Woods that might be fishy. Can anyone comment
>on this?
>Henry III, King of England
>Edmund, Earl of Lancaster
>Henry, 3rd Earl of Lancaster
>Eleanor m. 2nd Baron Beaumont
>Henry, 3rd Baron Beaumont
>John, 4th Baron Beaumont
>Sir Thomas Beaumont, Seigneur de Basqueville
>John Beaumont
>George Beaumont
>William Beaumont
>Cecily Beaumont (I took everything up to this point from Burke's Peerage.
>The Dictionary of National Biography states that Cecily was the daughter
>of John Beaumont of Cole Orton, which would be the same family). She
>married Henry Fenton and the line continues:
>Catherine Fenton mar. Thomas Parsons
>James Parsons
>Sir William Parsons, 1st Baronet
>Richard Parsons, Member of Parliament (this is the last generation that
>can be found in Burke's).
>Elizabeth Parsons mar. Thomas Worsop
>Elizabeth Worsop mar. John Woods
>Michael Woods mar. Mary Campbell, settled in Albemarle Co., Virginia in
>1734 and had many descendants there, in North Carolina, West Virginia, and
>Kentucky, etc.
>
>I looked in the IGI and Ancestral File at the Mormon library the other
>day. Although Michael Woods and Mary Campbell do seem to have been very
>well off, I noticed that the Worsop-Parsons entries in these databases
>were all of the "Born c. 1655" type, taken from someone's family guess
>sheet. Several entries called Mary, "Lady Mary Campbell" or "Lady
>Margaret Campbell" and stated that she was the daughter of Archibald, 1st
>Duke of Argyll, and Elizabeth Tollemache, which is definitely someone's
>wishful thinking.
>
>Bryan
>
>
D. Spencer Hines
Dear Leo van de Pas,
How thoroughly delightful, if true.
The Iron Duke would then be the 3rd Great-Grand-Uncle of Queen Elizabeth II
and the 5th Great-Grand-Uncle of Prince William of Wales. N'est-ce pas?
I rather fancy that, if it's confirmed. Now if we could just link him to
Margaret Thatcher. <grin>
D. Spencer Hines
--
"Well, that's what I mean. You know, if all the people who are named
...deny it....That's all, I mean, I expect them to come looking into it and
interview you and everything, uh, but I just think that if everybody's on
record denying it you've got no problem.....I wonder if I'm going to be
blown out of the water with this. I don't see how they can...if they don't,
if they don't have pictures."
Governor Bill Clinton --- Telephonic Advice to Gennifer Flowers [1991]