Luckily, like you Ruth, my paper trail starts with both parents, my mother to James I of England and my father to the Savoy line , with a great great aunt who was mother of the first Battenberg. Peter In a message dated 20/05/2016 17:14:32 GMT Daylight Time, [email protected] writes: Hi Len Like most other people who are lucky enough to find a more recent paper trail, I too can trace my ancestry back to Charlemagne. I should be interested to know the source of your assertion about the HEXT and YEO families. Ruth Sent from my iPad > On 20 May 2016, at 16:48, Len Heyward via <[email protected]> wrote: > > Hi listers, > > > > In the process of gathering additional info on a number of my associated > Devon ancestry lines, I have become aware that the HEXT family of Devon, and > indeed also the YEO family, are "blood descendants" of Holy Roman Emperor > Charlemagne, born about 742. > > > > If any other lister has similar interests, I would be more than willing to > share the information I have. > > > > This was a surprise to find and has sparked my interest even further. > > > > Best regards > > > > Len Heyward > > ------------------------------------------ > The DEVON-L mailing list is co-sponsored by GENUKI/Devon > http://www.genuki.org.uk/big/eng/DEV/ > and > the Devon FHS (http://www.devonfhs.org.uk/ ) > List archive for Devon can be found at http://archiver.rootsweb.ancestry.com/th/index?list=devon > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message ------------------------------------------ The DEVON-L mailing list is co-sponsored by GENUKI/Devon http://www.genuki.org.uk/big/eng/DEV/ and the Devon FHS (http://www.devonfhs.org.uk/ ) List archive for Devon can be found at http://archiver.rootsweb.ancestry.com/th/index?list=devon ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message