Hi Glenn, This is great information - thanks! I, for one, would love to see further details when you have time. There is also a possible connection through Francis Peabody's wife Mary Foster. Unfortunately, I have not been able to definitively determine if Mary was the mother of Lydia Peabody who married Thomas Howlett or if Francis' other wife, Lydia, is her mother. If Mary is our gal, her ancestry goes back to Odin, King Alfred the Great, several Kings of France, Counts in Flanders, etc. etc. etc. For now, Celia At 8:26 PM -0400 8/17/98, [email protected] wrote: >Hi Rudd Cousins, > Many of you have mentioned in the past the potential for Rudd royal >connections but have not elucidated further. > Today I came across a Rudd Royal Connection, I can give more detailed info >if anyone wants, but to summarize: > 1) Increase Rudd m. Bathsheba Johnson > 2) Maverick Johnson m. Deborah Payne > 3) John Johnson m. Sarah Tisdale > 4) John Johnson m. Mary Mousall > 5) John Johnson m. Elizabeth Maverick > 6) Elias Maverick m. Anne Harris > 7) John Maverick m. Mary Gye > 8) Robert Gye m. Grace Dowrish > 9) Thomas Dowrish m. Ann Farrington > 10) Charles Farrington m. Margery Stuckley > 11) Sir Thomas Stukeley m. Ann Wood > 12) Nicholas Stukeley m. Thomasine Cockworthy > 13) Hugh Stukeley m. Katherine de Affeton > 14) Richard Stukeley m. Elizabeth Fitz Roger > 15) John Fitz Roger m. Alice > 16) Sir Henry Fitz Roger m. Elizabeth de Holand > 17) Roger Fitz Peter m. unknown wife > 18) Sir Peter Fitz Reginald (knight) m. Ela Martell > 19) Sir Reginald Fitz Piers m. Joan de Vivonia > 20) William de Fortibus m. Maud de Ferrers > 21) William de Ferrers m. Sibyl Marshall > 22) William de Ferrers m. Agnes of Chester > 23) Hugh of Kevelioc m. Bertrade de Montfort > 24) Ranulph de Gernon m. Maud > 25) Robert de Caen m. Maud Fitz Hamon > 26) Henry I Beauclerc King of England (b. 1070, d. 1 Dec 1135) > m. Matilda of Scotland (b. 1079, d. 1 May 1118) > 27) William I, the Conqueror, King of England (b. 1027, d. 9 Sep 1087) > m. Maud of Flanders (b. 1032, d. 3 Nov 1083) >[Source, Ancestral Roots of Sixty Colonists by Frederick Lewis Weis] > >Is this connection old news? It certainly seems well documented. >Cousin Glenn