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 the House Plantagenet.)
(Direct Descendant of William Marshall, Knight Templar, Regent of England)
(Direct Descendant of 14 Magna Carta Surety Barons, 5 Nobles, and King John)
(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.)
(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.)