Olive Welby

Notable Descents, Relatives, Accomplishments, and Circumstances

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  (Gateway Ancestor)

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  (Direct Descent from Cerdic, King of the West Saxons, through Henry II of England)

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  (Direct Descendant of Charlemagne)

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  (Direct Descendant of Alfred the Great)

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  Direct (Descendant of William the Conquerer)

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  (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.)

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  (Direct Descendant of Multiple Royal Lines: English, Irish, Scottish, French, Spanish, Italian...)

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  (Direct Descendant of the House Plantagenet.)

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  (Direct Descendant of William Marshall, Knight Templar, Regent of England)

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  (Direct Descendant of 14 Magna Carta Surety Barons, 5 Magna Carta Nobles, and King John)

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  (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.)

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  (The Luttrell Psalter, circa 1320-40, Lincolnshire, England. As of 2015 housed in The British Library)

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  (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

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  (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.)