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From: "Sanders, Robert (NATED - LLD1b)" <>
Subject: RE: Royal connections
Date: Thu, 27 Sep 2001 13:08:11 +0100


Louise

My great grandmother, born in 1834 to an Ag Lab from a little village in the
Vale of Glamorgan was descended via several lines from King Edward I of
England, as well as from many of the Princes of various Welsh Royal families
and from the Scottish Royal family so there is a good possibility that the
article in the family history magazine is true !

Regards

Bob Sanders

-----Original Message-----
From: Louise Reynolds [mailto:]
Sent: 27 September 2001 12:49
To: Sanders, Robert (NATED - LLD1b)
Cc:
Subject: Re: Royal connections


Robert and Terry,
I love the idea of this book, but I have to say that, as an Australian
lister
who has been researching many of my lines for nearly 15 years, I have not
even
found a whisper of a gentry connection, let alone nobility or royalty in any
of
my lines. I read in one of the family history magazines some years ago that
there were many descendants of one of the medieval kings (one of the Edwards
maybe?) whose many offspring had married into the nobility/gentry rather
than
made royal matches. This writer claimed that as many as one in ten (or
close to
this) English were directly descended from this King. May be true for
people
still resident in the UK who have a greater chance with every generation of
marrying someone with this bloodline, but as a sixth generation Aussie, if
it
wasn't there in 1840, not much chance now I guess. Most of us come from
pretty
humble stock, but hey, in 212 years we've made a pretty good job of it
anyway,
haven't we!
Louise
Melbourne, Aus.

Sanders, Robert (NATED - LLD1b)" wrote:

> Terry
>
> I can fully second your recommendation. I bought this book at Chatsworth
> House last year in hardback for £9.99. Although I have been researching
> family history for over 40 years including Royal and Noble families, and I
> probably had more information on the families concerned than was in the
> book. I found it excellent in that it showed all the lines and links
between
> families in a very readable form. Also the heraldic side is excellent.
>
> Regards
>
> Bob Sanders
> Cardiff
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: [mailto:]
> Sent: 26 September 2001 08:58
> To:
> Subject: Royal connections
>
> Hi All
> A absolute must for any of us interested in Genealogy with (possible)
> Royal
> connections, must find the following book absolutely brill.
>
> LINES OF SUCCESSION, Heraldry of the Royal Families of Europe.
>
> By Jiri Louda and Michael MacLagen
>
> IBSN 1-85605-469-1
>
> Publish by
> Little, Brown and Company (UK)
> Brettenham House
> Lancasrer Place
> London WC2E 7EN
>
> First publish in 1981 by Macdonalld
> Secondly in 199 bt Little Brown
>
> It should still be available as I brought mine less than a year ago. Cost
> was
> £20 hardback, though I got it brand new for £4, and there is a paper back
> for
> £16 I do believe. Well worth getting, it has pedigrees for every Royal
House
>
> in Europe. Though I did find a few members of some families missing,
> probably
> Because they married to lesser families, or were dead ends, and were
> ignored,
> possibly due to lack of space. My score out of 10 - is 9.9
>
> I'm merely a reader, absolutely nothing to do with the book.
>
> Regards Terry Blackmore
>
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