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From: "Paul M. Gifford" <>
Subject: Re: Oldest male line?
Date: Wed, 30 Oct 1996 02:47:37 -0500


According to Sir Anthony Wagner, all Gifford/Giffard lines likely go
back either to Osbern de Bolebec (10th century) or Giffard the Usher, of Dry
Drayton,Cambridgeshire, a Domesday tenant (1086), without serious
interruptions. I think the line of Lord Halsbury goes back to Osbern and
may be the oldest English male line. Unfortunately I haven't figured
out the origin of my immigrant ancestor's family, so it stops at about 1600.

Paul Gifford

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