Does you line origionate from France and if so Normandy.? Is there any Native American [Cherokee] Your web site states that. Shaftsbury is that Dorset.rather than Cornwall.? If he was an Earl then he has a Royal Lineage. The oldest ancestor I have of Record is one of the first Grand Masters of the Templar Knights 1150.in Northern France.but they came out of southern france accoding to Vatican Records. Read the book the devinci code.My family is there.there origin Saxony.just east of Normandy. If the coopers were trades people.how did they accumilate wealth enough to become an Earl. keep on-keeping on-never quit. Roger