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Re: So You Think You are Royal
« Reply #9 on: Monday 14 May 07 21:20 BST (UK) »
My 4 x gt uncle married the 2 x gt grand-daughter of Lady Frances Stuart  :o

I have no idea what this programme will be like  ???
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Re: So You Think You are Royal
« Reply #10 on: Monday 14 May 07 21:46 BST (UK) »
Isn't it always the way.

I was helping a friend trace her family tree, and found a direct (legitimate) line all the way back to Edward I!

All of my lot were Ag labs and farm labourers all the way back to the year dot. Not one sniff of royalty. I think the closest any of my lot would have got to a Royal connection was getting legless in the Kings Head!

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Re: So You Think You are Royal
« Reply #11 on: Monday 14 May 07 22:38 BST (UK) »
I'm descended from the Houghton family, one of whom came over from Normandy on the same boat as William the Conqueror (my 29x great grandfather, Herverus de Normandie).

I did find a link to William the Conqueror via another branch of the family a few months ago, but wasn't too sure about it, so I just consider it a possible.


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Re: So You Think You are Royal
« Reply #12 on: Monday 14 May 07 22:45 BST (UK) »
Quote from: XPhile2868 on Monday 14 May 07 22:38 BST (UK)
I'm descended from the Houghton family, one of whom came over from Normandy on the same boat as William the Conqueror

Oooh - are these Hampshire Houghtons?  Perhaps this could be my link to royalty too!

Anna
Ayr: Barnes, Wylie
Caithness: MacGregor
Essex: Eldred (Pebmarsh)
Gloucs: Timbrell (Winchcomb)
Hants: Stares (Wickham)
Lincs: Maw, Jackson (Epworth, Belton)
London: Pierce
Suffolk: Markham (Framlingham)
Surrey: Gosling (Richmond)
Wilts: Matthews, Tarrant (Calne, Preshute)
Worcs: Milward (Redditch)
Yorks: Beaumont, Crook, Moore, Styring (Huddersfield); Middleton (Church Fenton); Exley, Gelder (High Hoyland); Barnes, Birchinall (Sheffield); Kenyon, Wood (Cumberworth/Denby Dale)

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Re: So You Think You are Royal
« Reply #13 on: Monday 14 May 07 22:46 BST (UK) »
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I think the closest any of my lot would have got to a Royal connection was getting legless in the Kings Head!

I can't even claim that - my lot were Temperance!
Banks, Beer, Bowes, Castle, Cloak, Coachworth, Dixon, Farr, Golder, Graves, Hicks, Hogbin, Holmans, Marsh, Mummery, Nutting, Pierce, Rouse, Sawyer, Sharp, Snell, Willis: mostly in East Kent.
Ey, Sawyer: London
Evans: Ystradgynlais, Wales
Snell: Snettisham, Norfolk
Knight, Burgess, Ellis: Hampshire
Purdy: Ireland/Canada/Durham/Pennsylvania
McCann: Ireland
Morrow: Pennsylvania
Sparnon: any
Beers, Heath, Conyers, Miller, Russell, Larson, Clark, Sibert, Hopper, Reinhart: USA

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Re: So You Think You are Royal
« Reply #14 on: Monday 14 May 07 22:48 BST (UK) »
Quote from: avm228 on Monday 14 May 07 22:45 BST (UK)
Quote from: XPhile2868 on Monday 14 May 07 22:38 BST (UK)
I'm descended from the Houghton family, one of whom came over from Normandy on the same boat as William the Conqueror

Oooh - are these Hampshire Houghtons? Perhaps this could be my link to royalty too!

Anna

Sorry, mine are the Lancashire Houghtons.


Stephen :)
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Re: So You Think You are Royal
« Reply #15 on: Monday 14 May 07 23:27 BST (UK) »
Well the programme format was much as I had it explained to me.  I found it enjoyable and will watch further episodes.

 I think they said there were about 10 in total  :-\

What did become apparent was the strong family impact, I have long thought that it was the reason why they declined my story, not enough of us  :( just me and my youngest son, elder one did not want to know.  :(

It was obvious that the had found a connection otherwise they would not have been there but they did seem genuinely surprised.
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Re: So You Think You are Royal
« Reply #16 on: Tuesday 15 May 07 12:26 BST (UK) »
For those of you that missed the programme it is being repeated on Sky Three on Thursday at 9.00pm according to the Radio Times :)

Steve :)
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Re: So You Think You are Royal
« Reply #17 on: Wednesday 16 May 07 00:30 BST (UK) »
Just looked at the description of the first programme - looks like another one in the same vein as the Bill Oddie series on Channel 4!

How does being related to Grace Kelly make someone Royal?
Banks, Beer, Bowes, Castle, Cloak, Coachworth, Dixon, Farr, Golder, Graves, Hicks, Hogbin, Holmans, Marsh, Mummery, Nutting, Pierce, Rouse, Sawyer, Sharp, Snell, Willis: mostly in East Kent.
Ey, Sawyer: London
Evans: Ystradgynlais, Wales
Snell: Snettisham, Norfolk
Knight, Burgess, Ellis: Hampshire
Purdy: Ireland/Canada/Durham/Pennsylvania
McCann: Ireland
Morrow: Pennsylvania
Sparnon: any
Beers, Heath, Conyers, Miller, Russell, Larson, Clark, Sibert, Hopper, Reinhart: USA
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