LAWRENCE-L Archives

Archiver > LAWRENCE > 1997-09 > 0874593780


From: <>
Subject: Lawrence, Marie, John, Thomas & Jane of Royal Descent
Date: Thu, 18 Sep 1997 10:43:00 -0400 (EDT)


The Royal Descents of 500 Immigrants, pp. 455-7

1.Louis IV, King of France, d. 954 (probable grandson maternally of Edward
the Elder, King of England. d. 924)= Gerberga, daughter of Henry I the
Fowler, German Emperor, d. 936
2. Charles, Duke of Lower Lorraine = Adelaide ----
3.Gerberga of Lower Lorraine = Lambert, Count of Louvain
4. Maud of Louvain = Eustace I, Count of Boulogne
5. Lambert, Count of Lens = Adeliza of Normandy. sister of William I, the
Conqueror, King of England, and widow of Enguerrand II Count of Ponthieu, for
whose ancestry see G. A. Moriarty, The Plantagenet.Ancestry of Edward III and
Queen Philippa). mss. widely available on microfilm, pp. 113-14, etc.,
Roderick W. Stuart, Royalty for Commoners. 2nd ed. (1992), lines 131, 244,
and H.M. West Winter, The Descendants of Charlemagne (800-1400). Part 1,
"Brandenburg Updated," Generations I-XIV (1987), XII 75a, etc. Enguerrand II
was a son of Hugh III, Count of Ponthieu (and Bertha of Aumale), son of
Enguerrand 1, Count of Ponthieu (and Adela, possibly of Westfriesland), son
of Hugh I, Count of Ponthieu and (almost certainly) Gisela, daughter of Hugh
Capet, King of France, and Adelaide of Poitou. Adeliza's own descent from
Charlemagne, and that of William the Conqueror, her brother, is also fully
covered by H. M. West Winter and outlined in AR7, lines 130, 121, 118, 50.
6.Judith of Lens (paternity uncertain, possibly a daughter of Enguerrand 11;
see Sir A. R. Wagner, Pedigree and Progress [1975], p. 253, and sources cited
therein) = Waltheof II, Earl of Huntingdon, Northampton, and Northumberland
7.Matilda of Northumberland = Simon de St. Liz, Earl of Huntingdon and
Northampton
8.Matilda de St. Liz Robert de Clare
9.Walter FitzRobert Maud de Lucy
10. Alice FitzWalter (sister of Robert FitzWalter, Leader of the Magna
Charta barons) = Gilbert Pecche
11. Hamon Pecche Eve ----
12. Gilbert Pecche = Joan de Creye
13.Gilbert Pecche, 1st Baron Pecche = Iseult ---
14.Gilbert Pecche, 2nd Baron Pecche = Joan --
15. Katherine Pecche = Thomas Notbeam
16.Margaret Notbeam = John Hinkley
17. Cecily Hinkley = Henry Caldebeck
18. Thomasine Caldebeck = Thomas Underhill
19.Anne Underhill = Thomas Knighton
20.Joan Knighton = Charles Bull
21. Richard Bull = Alice Hunt
22. Elizabeth Bull = John Lawrence
23. Thomas Lawrence = Joan Antrobus of Mass., who m. (2) John Tuttle
24.Jane Lawrence of Mass. = George Giddings.
25.Joseph Giddings = Susanna Rindge
26. Joseph Giddings, Jr. = Grace Wardwell,
27. Susanna Giddings = William Torrey
28. Joseph Torrey = Deborah Holbrook
29. William Torrey = Anna Davenport
30.Samuel Davenport Torrey = Susan Holman Waters
31.Louisa Maria Torrey = Alphonso Taft, diplomat, U.S. Secretary of War and
Attorney General
32.William Howard Taft (1857-1930), 27th U.S. President = Helen Herron

24.John Lawrence of Flushing, Long Island, N.Y. = Susanna

24.Thomas Lawrence of Newtown, Long Island, N.Y. = Mary
25.Mary Lawrence (very probably, see TAG 17 [1940-41]:74-78) = Thomas Walton
26.William Walton = Mary Santvoort
27.Jacob Walton = Maria Beekman
28.Abraham Walton = Grace Williams
29.Maria Eliza Walton = James Roosevelt
30.Isaac Roosevelt Mary Rebecca Aspinwall 31. James Roosevelt Sara Delano
32.Franklin Delano Roosevelt (1882-1945), 32nd U.S. President = (Anna)
Eleanor Roosevelt

24.William Lawrence of Flushing, Long Island. N.Y. (1) Elizabeth
---- ; (2) Elizabeth Smith (She = (2) Philip de Carteret, 1st colonial
governor of N.J. and (3) Richard Towneley of N.J. Both of her later husbands
were ARD, SETH.).

24Mary Lawrence of Mass. = Thomas Burnham.

Sources: Unpublished, copyrighted research by David L. Greene, co-editor of
TAG, based in part on AR7, line 148, the Pecche article in.. CP (vol. 10, pp.
333-38), Joan Corder, ed., Visitation of Suffolk,1561 Part I (HSPVS. new
ser., vol. 2, 1981), pp. 78, 86, 88 esp. (Pecche to Knighton) and Walter C.
Metcalfe, ed., Visitation of Hertfordshire, 1634 HSPVS vol. 22, 1896), p. 34
(Bull). Mr. Greene's Lawrence monograph, to incorporate research in numerous
English record sources, will appear in a future issue of TG; see also
Consuelo Furman. "St. Albans Origin of John Lawrence of New Amsterdam,
Thomas Lawrence of Newtown, L.I., William Lawrence of Flushing, L.J."
(typescript, revised 1955), pp. 2-4 (but ignore her identification of John
Lawrence's wife, paternal grandmother of the immigrants), 9-41.

Dave

This thread: