On Thursday, September 14, 2017 at 7:11:31 PM UTC-4, Brad Verity wrote: > On Thursday, September 7, 2017 at 3:06:47 PM UTC-7, John Higgins wrote: > > One possible answer to Peter's question might be provided by Douglas Richardson's "Plantagenet Ancestry". Of the roughly 150 surnames of gateway ancestors (excluding siblings) covered in at least the 1st edition of that work, only slightly more than half have descents from Edward III. The remainder derive their Plantagenet descents from an earlier monarch - or from a non-monarch Plantagenet descendant (e.g., Hamelin Plantagenet). Make of that what you will... :-) > > Let's take one of those Edward III New England immigrants from Plantagenet Ancestry: the Mayflower passenger Capt. Richard More of Salem, Mass. (1614-by 1696). > > Per the Mayflower Society, there are 31 Mayflower passengers known to have descendants living today. The list is here: > https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Mayflower_Society > > Is Capt. More the only one on the list with a traceable line of descent from Edward III? He is the only one with any royal ancestry proven whatsoever (although don't know if the pending TAG article has something new) > > How many descendants of Capt. More are living today? Hundreds? Thousands? What percentage of the total number of Mayflower descendants living today (which the Mayflower Society claims is in the tens of millions) are descended from Capt. More? Anecdotally, the number is not in the millions as it is for some other mayflower passengers I've never met or heard of one despite the onslaught of John Alden, Richard Warren, Francis Cooke descendants out there. As far as I can tell he only has 10 known grandchildren.