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From: Kay Allen AG <>
Subject: Re: Alice Freeman Thompson Parke lineage - the incorrect line toHughCapet???
Date: Wed, 05 Feb 2003 11:10:10 -0800
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GBR feels that the line is insufficiently documented. I disagree with him. I just have to find the time to write the article documenting the connections.
Kay Allen AG
Donna wrote:
> According to the following Gary Boyd Robert's article, can someone tell me the Capetian line that is not correct any more? at what point is it correct/incorrect? what magazine/volume did this appear in?
>
> Royal Descents, Notable Kin, and Printed Sources #68
> Notable Descendants of Mrs. Alice Freeman Thompson Parke, RD
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------------
> by Gary Boyd Roberts
> Posted January 24, 2003
>
> Mrs. Alice Freeman Thompson Parke, ur-mother through her two younger
> daughters of Stonington, Connecticut, and surrounding towns, is, as I have
> previously written, both an ancestor of the late Princess of Wales and
> Princes William and Harry, and a descendant herself of Ethelred II "the
> Unready," King of England (d. 1016). Mrs. Parke probably migrated from
> Roxbury, Massachusetts to Wethersfield, New London, and Stonington,
> Connecticut with her second husband, Robert Parke (as the widow of John
> Thompson of Little Preston, Northamptonshire, who died in England, she
> married Robert Parke shortly after May 30, 1644). She is almost certainly
> the royally-descended immigrant to Connecticut who left the largest known
> notable progeny.
>
> I treat Alice Freeman briefly in American Ancestors and Cousins of The
> Princess of Wales (1984, with William Addams Reitwiesner; hereafter AACPW),
> pp. 32, 143-44. In The Genealogist 4 (1983): 184, note #25, Neil D. Thompson
> calls to our attention an article by Geoffrey W.S. Barrow in The Scottish
> Genealogist 25 (1978): 98, which disclaims any connection between Maldred,
> Lord of Carlisle and Allerdale, to the royal house of Scotland. In addition,
> the Capetian line via, among other families, Wake and Duston, first posited
> by George Andrews Moriarty, Jr., and dependent on a stained-glass window
> inscription, is no longer tenable. A new Carolingian line, via Throckmorton,
> Spinney, Durvassal, de Camville, counts of Réthel and Namur and dukes of
> Lower Lorraine, to Louis IV, King of France (d. 954), is mentioned in the
> 2002 reprint, with addenda, of my 1993 compendium, The Royal Descents of 500
> Immigrants (hereafter RD500), pp. 657-58. An ancestor table of Alice
> (Freeman) (Thompson) Parke for 32 generations appears in Henry James Young,
> The Blackmans of Knight's Creek: Ancestors and Descendants of George and
> Maria (Smith) Blackman, rev. ed (1980), which includes, however, the
> discarded Scottish and Capetian lines. Alice (Freeman) (Thompson) Parke also
> appears in the 7th (and earlier) editions of Ancestral Roots of Certain
> American Colonists [Sixty Colonists] (1992), lines 29A, 41-43, 34. Her
> Giffard descent was first developed in TAG 13 (1936-37): 1-8, 14:(1937-38):
> 145-46, 29 (1953): 215-18 (articles by Clarence Almon Torrey and Robert L.
> Steenrod). The ancestry Alice shares with Rev. William Sargent of Malden,
> Mass. was developed by G. A. Moriarty, Jr., in volumes 75 and 79 of the
> Register.
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