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From: "Mike" <>
Subject: Re: Elvis: German or Scottish?
Date: Thu, 1 Apr 2004 08:31:12 -1000
References: <A1Kac.2871$qP2.9532@news.indigo.ie>


"Sean J Murphy" <> wrote in message
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> There has recently been widespread media and Internet coverage of the
claim
> by Allan Morrison that Elvis Presley's lineage has been traced back to an
> Andrew Presley of Lonmay, Aberdeenshire, in the eighteenth century. There
> had been various reports over the years that Elvis's ancestors were Irish
or
> English as well as Scottish, but none was satisfactorily documented. I
draw
> attention again to Gary Boyd Roberts's 'Ancestors of American Presidents',
> pages 119, 179, which indicates that Elvis's family was of German-Palatine
> origin, the name originally being Preslar or Presler, citing articles in
the
> New England Historic Journal 'Nexus', 1991-92. See the interesting summary
> 'Elvis Presley is the 7th Cousin of 39th President James Earl Carter Jr'
at
> http://users.legacyfamilytree.com/USPresidents/carter_presley.htm
> This gives Elvis's earliest traced ancestor as Valentine Preslar, born in
> Germany about 1689, whose son was Andreas Presler, and whose descendants
> later adopted the surname form Presley. Who is right?
>
> Sean Murphy

Morrison did provide a marriage date of Andrew Presley & Elspeth Leg Aug 27,
1713. So I suppose the evidence of this is the crux. The Robert's pedigree
did not, as far as I could see, give place of birth, date of marriage, year
of emigration.

Otoh, Morrison called the 'king of rock' Vernon Elvis Jr whereas it's common
knowledge his name was Elvis Aaron Presley. I will note the commonality of
genealogical problems at the "trans- Atlantic suspension point". Neither
may be right; but one has to be wrong.


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