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? 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? Cheers, ----Brad

Em sexta-feira, 15 de setembro de 2017 00:11:31 UTC+1, Brad Verity escreveu: > 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? > > 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? > > Cheers, ----Brad Capt. Richard More is the only one with a proved line from royalty he is the Mayflower passenger with less descendants in the Mayflower Society. There are also conjectures of royal descent for the Winslows.