Notable Descents, Relatives, Accomplishments, and Circumstances
(Gateway Ancestor)
(Direct Descent from Cerdic, King of the West Saxons, through Henry II of England)
(Direct Descendant of Charlemagne)
(Direct Descendant of Alfred the Great)
Direct (Descendant of William the Conquerer)
(Direct Descendant of Lady Godiva, 11th Century Anglo-Saxon noblewoman, who rode naked through the streets of Coventry, England in order to gain relief from the oppressive taxes imposed by her husband on his tenants.)
(Direct Descendant of Multiple Royal Lines: English, Irish, Scottish, French, Spanish, Italian...)
(Direct Descendant of the House Plantagenet.)
(Direct Descendant of William Marshall, Knight Templar, Regent of England)
(Direct Descendant of 14 Magna Carta Surety Barons, 5 Magna Carta Nobles, and John, King of England aka "John Lackland")
(Direct Descendant of Geoffrey Luttrell who commissioned the Luttrell Psalter. Picture from the psalter shows Knight Geoffrey with wife Agnes de Sutton and daughter-in-law in background.)
(The Luttrell Psalter, circa 1320-40, Lincolnshire, England. As of 2015 housed in The British Library)
(Olive Welby emigrated from England to Colonial America, Concord/Chelmsford Massachusetts abt 1635/36 with her husband Henry Farwell. Artwork "Tha Last of England" by Ford Madox Brown,1855, oil-on-panel
(Portrait of Olive's uncle Reverend Peter Bulkeley, cofounder of Concord, MA, USA and a prominent Puritan leader of his day in England and Colonial America.)