On Monday, June 4, 2012 at 11:25:04 AM UTC-4, roy.st...@btinternet.com wrote: > > > "There are many people alive today who are directly descended from Oliver Cromwell, via his > son Henry and his daughters Bridget and Frances. Their descent has been thoroughly > researched and reconstructed down to the mid Victorian period. Thus so long as you can > trace your ancestry back as far as the 1860s, you should be able to see quite easily whether > or not you lock into one of the proven lines of descent from Cromwell." > > I am a descendant of daniel Crumb of Rhode Island. IDK if it's directly or not but Daniel is my 9th great grandfather following the paternal lineage from my great great grandfather. (does that make sense?). Anyway.. I was reading "The Crumb Genealogy" (it's free on Google books) and it was stated that it wasn't known (at the time of the book writing) from where Daniel was descended from. there were three "rumors", one of them being he's descended from the Cromwells. If he were, I'm thinking more along the lines of the name Cromwell was shortened for recording purposes (Like my great grandfather's name was from a long polish "ski" name to a six letter "Americanized" name). It could also be thru marriage as well. I prob will never know but that would just be so freaking awesome if we were related to them! So i Just wanted to post that. :)