OT: American Immigrant RD for 7th B/Methuen & for Anne Durning Holt, Authoress

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Robert Alexander Holt Methuen, 7th Baron Methuen of Corsham, co. Wilts, descends, via his father, Anthony Paul Methuen, 5th Baron Methuen of Corsham, co. Wilts, from Richard Cecil and Jane Heckington. The 7th Baron's mother, born Grace Durning Holt, a sister of the authoress Anne Durning Holt, was half-American and descends from Thomas Lawrence [RD] and Joan Antrobus, of Massachusetts (#s 832 & 833 below). The 7th Baron Methuen and his authoress aunt also share ancestry with various peerage families via the Rapalje family of New Amsterdam (as well as with Anderson Hays Cooper and John Blythe Dobson). Also worth noting are distant kinships via American Ancestors to the Right Honourable Sir Winston (Leonard Spencer-) Churchill, Knight of the Garter (KG) 1953, Privy Councillor (PC) 1907, Companion of the Order of Merit (OM) 1946, Campanion of Honour (CH) 1922, Member of Parliament (MP) 1920-22, 1924-64, etc, etc., Prime Minister ...

This ancestor table begins with the Holt sisters,

1] Grace Durning Holt, b. March 31, 1898, Liverpool, Lancs,
m. Capt Anthony Paul Methuen, 5th Baron Methuen of Corsham,
(b. June 26, 1891, d. June 21, 1975), July 22, 1920, d. Aug. 7, 1972
1] Anne Durning Holt, of Fasga-na-Coille, Nethy Bridge, Inverness,
Authoress, (A Life of Joseph Priestley, William Ellery Channing,
A Ministry to the Poor, and other works), b. Oct. 27, 1899, Liverpool,
Lancs
1] Dorothy Isabel Durning Holt, b. June 28, 1902, Liverpool, Lancs,
m. Capt Thomas Humphrey Naylor, of The Grange, Ashton, near Chester,
Montgomeryshire Yeo, served in WWI, son of John Naylor,
of Leighton Hall, Welshpool, Montgomeryshire and of Elmwood, Woolton,
Lancs & Magdalene Tod, (b. July 1, 1890, Woolton, d. Sept. 5, 1966,
at The Cottage Hospital, Grantown-on-Spey, Morayshire), April 30, 1935,
d. March 30, 1986, two sons and two daughters. Capt Thomas Humphrey
Naylor was a descendant of Richard Cecil & Jane Heckington,
(Burke’s Landed Gentry, 18th edition, vol 2 1969) Naylor formerly of
Leighton Hall)

2] Sir Richard Durning Holt, 1st & last Bt., of Liverpool, in the
Co. Palatine of Lancaster, JP, Hon. LLD Liverpool, Shipowner; President
Chamber of Shipping, Chairman Mersey Docks and Harbour Board, MP Hexham
Division of Northumberland, March 1907 to Nov. 1918, created a baronet
30 Jan. 1935, b. Nov. 13, 1868, Liverpool, Lancashire, m. June 15, 1897
in Grace Church, New York, NY, d. March 21, 1941, at 54 Ullet Rd,
Liverpool, Lancs, [Burke’s Peerage, 1938, page 1325, Burke’s Landed
Gentry, 18th edition, vol 1 (1965) Holt-Needham of Little Lemhill,
New York Times, June 16, 1897, of 30 Sloane Court, Chelsea, Midx, 1911,
three children, all living, none listed in their home, Managing Owner
Steamship Company; BLG 1965 provides a more complete and detailed
account of his family then does BP 1938]
3] Eliza Lawrence Wells, b. Oct. 22, 1869, New York, NY, d. Aug. 18, 1951,
[The History of St. Peter’s Church in Perth Amboy, New Jersey:
The Oldest Congregation of the Church in the State of New Jersey,
from Its Organization in 1698 to the Year of Our Lord 1923 ...
which covers several generations of this family)

6] John Wells, m. May 17, 1864, New York, NY, d. June 7, 1871,
in his country home, Sommariva, near New Brunswick, Somerset Co.,
New Jersey
7] Grace Tileston, b. 1841, d. Feb. 13, 1928, at High Pastures,
Mossley Hill, Liverpool, Lancs, (New York Times, March 1 & 2,
1928: WELLS—Grace Tileston, widow of John Wells, Esq., and daughter of
the late Thomas Tileston, Esq., on Monday, Feb. 13, 1928, in the eighty-
seventh year of her age, at High Pastures, Mossley Hill, Liverpool.
Funeral services at Christ Church, New Brunswick, N.J., on Saturday,
March 3, at 2:30 P.M. Special car leaving Pennsylvania Station at 1:20
P.M.; returning, leaves New Brunswick 4:24 P.M. It is kindly requested
that no flowers be sent.)
12] Thomas Lawrence Wells, m. his second cousin
13] Julia Beach Lawrence
14] Thomas Tileston, (some ancestral lines for their son, T(homas) Tileston
Wells, b. 1865, appear in Compendium of American Genealogy, vol. 4,
pages 718-19, which is available on ancestry.com. For those “new” to
genealogy this source should be used as a “starting point” since the
accuracy of the lines varies. I haven’t used this as a source for the
ancestry of 12 & 13]
15] Mary Porter

24] John Wells, lawyer of New York City, b. 1770, in Cherry Valley,
Otsego Co., New York, d. Sept. 7, 1823, m. 1796
25] Eliza Lawrence, b. 1775, d. 1812
26] Isaac Lawrence, President US Bank of New York, b. Feb. 8, 1768,
m. Dec. 31, 1799, d. July 12, 1841
27] Cornelia Beach, b. April 1, 1777, New Brunswick, New Jersey,
d. Sept. 12, 1857, Brooklyn, New York

50] Capt Thomas Lawrence, b. 1733, d. Dec. 1, 1817, (Daughters of the
American Revolution Ancestor A067299)
51] Elizabeth Fish, b. Jan. 9, 1741, d. Feb. 19, 1822
52] William Lawrence, of Newtown, Long Island, New York, b. July 27, 1729 m. (1) May 14, 1752, d. Jan. 13, 1744
53] Anna Brinckerhoff, b. May 6, 1733
54] Rev Abraham Beach, Yale 1757, b. Sept., 9, 1740, Cheshire,
Connecticut, d. Sept. 14, 1828
55] Anna Van Winkle, d. Jan. 26, 1808, New York

100/104] John Lawrence, b. Sept. 9, 1695, Newtown, Long Island, m. Dec. 8, 1720
d. May 7, 1765
101/105] Patience Sackett, d. Oct. 24, 1772, aged 72
102] Nathaniel Fish, d. March 3, 1769
103] Jane Berrien, b. Sept. 29, 1716, Newtown, d. March 24, 1789
106] Isaac Brinckerhoff, of Newtown, b. April 26, 1699, d. June 4, 1745
107] Diana Brinckerhoff, d. Sept. 13, 1749
108] Elnathan Beach, b. July 7, 1698, Stratford, Connecticut,
m. (2) Dec. 10, 1739, d. Aug. 16, 1742
109] Hannah Cook, b. Dec. 22, 1722, d. May 18, 1744 or 1745
110] Evert Van Winkle, of New Brunswick, New Jersey

206] Pieter Berrien, b. 1672, Flatbush, Long Island, m. Aug. 10, 1706,
d. April 5, 1737, Newtown, Long Island
207] Elizabeth Edsall, b. Bergen, New Jersey, d. May 6, 1763
200/208] Capt John Lawrence, of Newtown, d. Dec. 17, 1729
201/209] Deborah Woodhull, d. Jan. 6, 1742, aged about 83
210] Capt Joseph Sackett, of Newtown, b. Feb. 23, 1656, Springfield,
Massachusetts, d. 1719
211] Elizabeth Betts, d. before March 16, 1711
212] Joris Abramse Brinckerhoff, b. March 1, 1664, Flushing, Long Island,
d. March 27, 1729, Flushing
213] Annetje Bogart, b. June 9, 1665, Albany, New York, d. June 11, 1750
214] Dirk Brinckerhoff, of Flushing, b. March 16, 1677, d. April 26, 1748
215] Aeltie Couwenhoven, d. March 9, 1740, aged 62
216] Isaac Beach, b. June 27, 1659, Stratford, Connecticut, m. 1693, d. 1741,
Stratford
217] Hannah Birdsey, b. Feb. 1671, d. Oct. 15, 1750
218] Samuel Cook, of Wallingford, Connecticut, b. March 5, 1695,
m. Feb. 8, 1721, d. Nov. 7, 1743, New Haven, Connecticut
219] Hannah Lewis, b. Oct. 10, 1699

412] Cornelius Jansen Berrien, b. c.1640, Alkmaar, Holland, m. 1664, Flatbush,
Long Island, d. Dec. 16, 1688, Newtown
413] Jannetje Stryker, b. 1642, Ruine, Drenthe, Netherlands
414] Samuel Edsall
415] Ruth Woodhull
400/416] Thomas Lawrence, of Newtown, (see Ancestors of American Presidents,
2009 edition, page 344)
401/417] Mary -----
418] Richard Woodhull, b. Sept. 13, 1620, Thenford, Northants, to New England
about 1648, later of Setauket, Long Island, d. Oct. 17, 1690
419] Deborah -----
420] Simon Sackett, of Springfield, Massachusetts, b. c.1630, England,
d. July 9, 1656
421] Sarah Blomfield, b. 1634, Ipswich, Norfolk
422] Richard Betts, b. Hemel Hempstead, Herts, at Ipswich, Massachusetts 1648,
Newtown, Long Island, 1656, d. Nov. 18, 1713, aged 100 years
423] Joanna -----
424/428] Abraham Brinckerhoff, b. 1632, d. about 1714, m.
425/429] Aeltie Stryker
426] Teunis Gysbertszen Bogart
427] Sarah Rapalje
430] Jan Gerretse Van Kouwenhoven, b. c.1639, m. May 19, 1670
431] Gerardina DeSille, b. Feb. 10, 1642, Amsterdam
432] John Beach, of Stratford, Connecticut, settled in Stratford before 1660,
d. Stratford, 1676
433] Mary -----
434] John Birdsey, m. Dec. 11, 1669
435] Phebe Wilcoxson
436] Samuel Cook, of Wallingford, b. March 3, 1668, New Haven, Connecticut,
m. March 3, 1692, d. Sept. 18, 1725, Wallingford
437] Hannah Ives, d. May 29, 1714
438] Ebenezer Lewis, of Wallingford, Connecticut, m. Dec. 2, 1685, d. 1709
439] Elizabeth Merriman, b. Sept. 14, 1669

826] Jan Strijcker/Stryker, b. 1615, d. March 3, 1697, bd. Flatbush Reformed
Churchyard, Brooklyn, New York, m. (1) [The Stryker Family in America,
William Norman Stryker, 1979]
827] Lambertje Roelofse Seubering, d. June 1675, bd. Flatbush Reformed
Churchyard
832] Thomas Lawrence
833] Joan Antrobus
836-839]
840] Simon Sackett, from Ely, Cambs, about 1632, settled in Cambridge,
Massachusetts, where he died in the autumn of 1635
841] Isabel -----
842] William Blomfield, b. 1604, England, to Boston, 1634, at Hartford,
Connecticut 1639, New London, 1650, Newtown, 1663
843] Susan -----, b. 1609
854] Joris Janszen Rapalje, 1604-1663
855] Catalyntie Trico /Tricot, c.1605-1689
860] Gerret Wolphertse Van Kouwenhoven, b. c.1610, Amersfoort, Holland,
m. c.1635, Flatlands, Long Island, d. c.1645, Flatlands
861] Aeltje Cornelis Cool
862] Nicasius DeSille
863] Cornelia Meulmans
868] John Birdsey, of Stratford, Connecticut, m. (1) -----,
will dated Aug. 22, 1689
689] -----
870] William Wilcoxson, b. 1600/1, d. 1652
871] Margaret -----, b. 1611
872] Samuel Cook, of Wallingford, m. (1) May 2, 1667, Wallingford,
d. March 1702
873] Hope Parker, b. April 26, 1650, d. before 1690
874] William Ives, b. 1607, to Boston, Massachusetts, 1635, d. before 1648
876] Capt William Lewis, of Farmington, Connecticut, d. 1690
877] Mary Hopkins, d. before 1671
878] Capt Nathaniel Merriman, of Wallingford, b. 1613, d. Feb. 13, 1693/4
879] Joan -----, d. Dec. 8, 1709, Wallingford

1710] Jérôme Tricot
1711] Michele Sauvagie

News Accounts

A DAY’S WEDDINGS
Nuptials of Miss Eliza Lawrence Wells and Richard Durning Holt Celebrated in Grace Church, (New York Times, June 16, 1897)
The wedding of Miss Eliza Lawrence Wells, daughter of Mrs. John Wells, and Richard Durning Holt of Liverpool, England, took place at 11:30 A.M. in Grace Church. The Rev. Dr. William R. Huntington, rector of the church, officiated, assisted by the Rev. Edward Joyce of New Brunswick, N.J., where Mrs. Wells’s country house is situated.
The bride wore a French gown of soft white moiré, corsage draped with point lace, and a point lace veil. Miss Julia Lawrence Wells, her cousin, who acted as maid of honor, wore white chiffon over pink silk and a large hat to match. The bride was given away by her brother, T. Tileston Wells of 19 Liberty Street. The best man was Robert Durning Holt, a brother of the bridegroom. There were no bridesmaids. J. Lawrence Pool, Eugene H. Pool, J. Bingham, and Philip H. Holt were the ushers. A reception at the home of the bride’s mother, 52 East Twenty-fifth Street, followed the ceremony. A large number of guests attended.
Mr. Holt met Miss Wells abroad several years ago through Charles Booth, Jr., a mutual friend, who afterward married the young woman’s sister. Mr. and Mrs. Holt will sail soon for Liverpool, where they will make their home.

RICHARD HOLT DIES; BRITISH SHIP OWNER
Partner in Alfred Holt & Co., Head of the Elder Dempster Lines for 9 Years, Was 72
MADE A BARONET IN 1935
Ex-Member of Parliament Was Chairman of Mersey Docks, Harbor Board, Liverpool, (New York Times, March 23, 1941, 44:4)
LONDON, March 22—Sir Richard Durning Holt, senior partner in Alfred Holt & Co, ship owners, and a member of a well-known shipping family, died in Liverpool last night at the age of 72.
Sir Richard joined the Holt firm, owners of the Blue Funnel Line in April 1889. In 1896 he was elected a member of the Mersey Docks and Harbor Board in Liverpool and became one of the most energetic figures in the administration of the port of Liverpool.
There is no heir to the baronetcy.
__________

Sir Richard, chairman of the board of Elder Dempster Lines, Ltd., since 1932, was born in Liverpool on Nov. 13, 1868, the son of Robert Durning Holt, former Lord Mayor of that city, and Lawrencia Potter Holt. He attended Winchester College and New College, Oxford, and served as a director of the Ocean Steamship Company and the China Mutual Company.
Sir Richard became chairman of the Mersey Docks and Harbor Board in 1927. From 1907 to 1918 he served in Parliament as a member of the Liberal party from Hexham Division, Northumberland. Sir Richard was a justice of the peace, and, in 1933, received an honorary Doctor of Laws degree from the University of Liverpool.
He was made a baronet on Jan. 30, 1935. Sir Richard was president of the Chamber of Shipping in 1937-38 and chairman of the board of Martins Bank, Ltd., since 1937. He belonged to the Reform and Albemarle Clubs, and maintained homes in Liverpool and in Abernethy Forest, Inverness-shire.
In 1897 Sir Richard married Miss Eliza Lawrence Wells, daughter of the late John Wells of New Brunswick, N. J., in Grace Church here. His brother-in-law, T. Tileston Wells, is honorary Consul General of Rumania in New York. He leaves, besides a widow, three daughters, one of whom, the former Miss Grace Holt, was married to Anthony Paul Methuen, second son of the late Field Marshall Methuen. Another daughter, Miss Anne Holt, is a widely known historical writer.

T. TILESTON WELLS, LAWYER, DIES AT 80 (Brother of #3)
Ex-Partner of Clarence Lexow Once Was Rumanian Consul and Alliance Française Head, (New York Times, April 24, 1946, 25:1)
T. Tileston Wells, retired lawyer, who formerly was Rumanian consul general here and president of the Alliance Française of New York died yesterday at his home, 52 East Seventy-sixth Street, at the age of 80.
Mr. Wells was born at 2 East Fourteenth Street, this city, a son of John Wells, merchant, and a grandson and great-grandson of prominent lawyers, Thomas L. and John Wells. Educated abroad and at St. Mark’s School, Southboro, Mass., and at Columbia University (LLB 1890), Mr. Wells later received an honorary Doctorate of Literature from Rutgers.
A law partner of the late Clarence Lexow in the firm of Lexow, MacKellar & Wells, 1898-1916, Mr. Wells was a member of Wood, Wells, Moran & Derby, 1918-27. He was president of the Five Points House of Industry for twenty-one years. In 1918, when Rumania established consulate in New York, he was appointed consul general. He occupied the post for more than ten years and continued as honorary consul general until 1941. He was chairman of Serbian Relief, 1915-18.
Mr. Wells was a member of the Union Club, Holland Lodge, and the Delta Psi fraternity. He held the Grand Cross of the Orthodox Order of the Holy Sepulchre, and the decorations of many other foreign orders.
He leaves a widow, who was Georgina Betts of this city at their marriage in 1894; a son, Maj. John Wells, N.Y.N.G.a daughter, Mrs. Cortlandt Schuyler Van Rensselaer; two sisters, Lady Holt, widow of Sir Richard Holt, and Mrs. Charles Booth, of Liverpool, England, six grandchildren, and one great-grandchildren.

#s 26 & 27 have other descendants

Isaac Lawrence, m. Cornelia Beach
William Beach Lawrence, Charge d’Affairs to London, 1827-8, Lt Gov Rhode Island, m. Esther Rogers Gracie
Gen Albert Gallatin Lawrence, m. Eva (Taylor) Kingsbury, (a niece of Zachary Taylor)
Esther Gracie Lawrence, m. Felix, Count Voss-Giewitz of Mecklenburg-Schwerin

[Gov William Beach Lawrence, New York Genalogical and Biographical Record XIII:2, (April 1882), 53-62,
New York Times, Nov. 5, 1892]

William Beach Lawrence, m. Esther Roger Gracie
Cornelia Beach Lawrence, m. Baron Von Klenck, of Hanover, issue

Isaac Lawrence, m. Cornelia Beach
Maria Elizabeth Lawrence, m. Rt Rev William Ingram Kip, DD, LLD, Yale 1831
Lt Col Lawrence Kip, b. 1836, m. Eva Lorillard
Eva Kip, m. (1) Richard McCreery, (2) Hon. Henry Thomas Coventry, son of the 9th Earl of Coventry

Isaac Lawrence, m. Cornelia Beach
Hannah Eugenia Lawrence, m. Henry Whitney
Cornelia Lawrence Whitney, m. John G. Heckscher
Georgiana Heckscher, m. George Brinton McClellan, Mayor of New York, 1903-1909

Leo’s Genealogics website shows the descent from #s 52 and 53 to Torquhil Ian Campbell, 13th Duke of Argyll

52 and 53 had another daughter,

Deantie Lawrence, b. 1755/6, m. Abraham Lent, (a Rapalje descendant)
Anna Lent, m. Anthony Barclay, son of Henry Barclay & Mary Rutgers
Henry Barclay, m. Sarah Moore, daughter of Daniel Sackett Moore
Sackett Moore Barclay, m. Cornelia Cochrane Barclay
Robert Cochrane Barclay, m. Anita Caldwell Goldsborough
Frances Moore Barclay, m. Brig Robert Adolphus George Tilney, CBE, DSO,
of The Hall, Sutton Bonnington, Leics
Anne Frances Tilney, m. Rodney Elton, 2nd Baron Elton, son of Godfrey Elton,
1st Baron Elton & Dedi Hartmann, (b. March 2, 1930)

[History of the Lent (van Lent) Family … 1638-1902, by Nelson Burton Lent, available on ancestry.com, Barclay, Colonial Families of The United States, vol 2, 1912, 50-52, and The Barclays of New York: Who They Are and Who They Are Not and Some Other Barclays, R. Burnham Moffatt, 1904]

#s 432 and 433 have other descendants,

John Beach, m. Mary -----
John Beach, m. Hannah Staples
Ebenezer Beach, m. Mehitable Gibson
John Beach, m. Rebecca Berry
Mehitable Beach, m. Ambrose Hall
Abrose Hall, m. Clarissa Wilcox
Clarissa Hall, m. Leonard Walter Jerome
Jennie Jerome, m. Rt. Hon. Lord Randolph Henry Spencer-Churchill
Rt. Hon. Sir Winston Leonard Spencer-Churchill, KG, PC, OM, CH, MP, Prime Minister, etc.

Rt. Hon. Lord Randolph Henry Spencer-Churchill and his son, Rt. Hon. Sir Winston Leonard Spencer-Churchill, KG, PC, OM, CH, MP, both descend from Richard Cecil and Jane Heckington

[Six Generations of the Anglo-American Ancestry of Sir Winston Churchill, by Scott C. Steward, NEHGS NEXUS, XIII, #5 and The Eighth Generation Ancestry of Sir Winston Churchill, by Scott S. Steward, NEHGS NEXUS, XIV, #2]

John Blythe Dobson shows descents from #854 & 855 to Humphrey Bogart, Barons Faringdon and DeWitt Clinton on his website

#s 860 and 861 are the same as #s 4042 and 4044 in the ancestry of William Addams Reitwiesner at www.wargs.com/family/ancestry.html which lists some "notable" descendants

John Blythe Dobson shows a descent from #1711, Michelle Sauvagie Tricot and her second husband ----- Flamand to Prince Dmitrius Augustine Dmitrievich Galitzine, (1770-1840) and to prinz Georg Friedrich (von Brandenburg) of Prussia on his website

870 and 871 have other descendants,

William Wilcoxson, m. Margaret -----
John Wilcoxson, m. Johannah Titterton
John Wilcoxson, m. Elizabeth Buss/Beers
John Wilcoxson, m. Elizabeth Tomlinson
Timothy Wilcoxson, m. Abigail Platt
Joanna Wilcoxson, m. David Wells
Charity Wells, m. Isaac Clinton
Maria Clinton, m. Ela Collins
Harriet Anne Collins, m. John Williamson Herron
Helen Herron, m. William Howard Taft

[The descent from Thomas Wilcoxson & Abigail Platt appears on page 403 of Ancestors of American Presidents, 2009 edition. See also Descendants of William Wilcoxson, of Derbyshire, England and Stratford, Connecticut, 1963]

872 & 873 have other descendants,

Samuel Cook, m. Hope Partkr
Isaac Cook, m. Sarah Curtis
Isaac Cook, m. Jerusha Sexton
Isaac Cook, m. Martha Cook
Isaac Cook, m. Margaret Scott
Maria Cook, m. James Webb
Lucy Ware Webb, m. Rutherford Birchard Hayes

Samuel Cook, m. Hope Parker
Joseph Cook, m. Eleanor Johnson
Benjamin Cook, m. Hannah Munson
Martha Cook, m. Isaac Cook, (above)

[Ancestors of American Presidents, 2009 edition, page 639, shows the descent from Isaac Cook & Jerusha Sexton, see also History of Wallingford, Connecticut, 1870, for the Cook family, and Ross County, Ohio Families, Bicentennial Edition, 1976, Ross County Genealogical Society, pages 303, 500, for a chart of Lucy Ware Webb’s ancestry to her great-grandparents]

878 & 879 have other descendants,
Capt Nathaniel Merriman, m. Joan -----
Mary Merriman, m. Ensign Thomas Curtis
Nathaniel Curtis, m. Sarah Howe
Lydia Curtis, m. Thomas Hall
Ambrose Hall, m. Mehitable Beach, ancestors Winston Churchill, see above

Capt Nathaniel Merriman, m. Joan -----
Caleb Merriman, m. Mary Preston
Phoebe Merriman, m. Waitstill Munson
Hannah Munson, m. Benjamin Cook, ancestors of Lucy Ware Webb Hayes, see above

Some of the above ancestry intersects with ancestry of Frances Margaret Lawrence, wife of George Henry Venables Vernon, 7th Lord Vernon, Capt of the hon. corps of gentlemen-at-arms 1892-94, sometime lieut Scots guards and capt 12th Lancers. Perhaps I'll prepare some material on her ancesty with notable connections through the Brinckerhoff, Berrien and Styker families.

Cordially,
Marc

[Matt A]

Marc,

Keep these fascinating posts up!

I wonder if 15. Lucy Porter connects to Windsor and Joseph Porter/Anna White.

-Matt Ahlgren

[hoove...@yahoo.com]

Matt,

If Compendium of American Genealogy, vol 4, page 718 is to be believed, Grace Tileston Wells was born 19 years after her parents were married (1820). Thomas Tileston is stated to have been born 1793, died 1869, Mary Porter born 1799, died 1879.

Nothing is said about her ancestry or even her parents. However, their grandson, Thomas Tileston Wells married Georgina Betts, daughter of George Frederic Betts (1827-1898) and Ellen Porter, (1829-1899). Her Porter ancestry is listed as follows,

John Porter
John Porter, 1620-1688, m. Mary Stanley
John Porter, b. 1651, m. Joanna Gaylord
David Porter, b. 1685, m. Anna Phelps
Increase Porter, b. 1722, m. Abigail Kellogg
David Porter, 1763-1851, m. Sarah Collins
William Augustus Porter, 1798-1830, m. Mary A. Noble
Ellen Porter, m. George Frederic Betts

With Compendium of American Genealogy lineages submitted by those listed I assume they, their children and the first couple generations are correct. Sometimes the earlier generations are completely clean as well, sometimes they're a ... /shocking scandal/

I clipped off two sources from my rough draft when I copied it into my last post, one being a chart of the ancestry of Hannah Eugenia Lawrence Whitney, sister of #13, which appears in _The Whitney Family of Connecticut and its Affiliations_ (1878?) which is incorrect on a couple of points, and, obviously improved upon on others based on more recent scholarship like the Woodhull article early on in the _Genealogist_

Also, _A Genealogical History of the Berrien Family_ by E. Renee Heiss, Gateway Press, Baltimore, 1982, which covers many lines well beyond descendants with the Berrien surname.

Also, I misspelled the last name of Frances Margaret Lawrance (rather than Lawrence as I indicated), wife of the 7th Lord Vernon. An ancestor had changed the spelling from the original "Lawrence" to distinguish himself from a contemporary kinsman with the same name.

I think you and Leo may be the only two people with Dutch ancestry that I'm not related to. Keep your fingers crossed and maybe it'll stay that way [?]

Marc