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More Magna Carta Barons, PLUS New German Project

Since my last post, I’ve identified another seven members of royalty who signed the Magna Carta who are our ancestors. There was a second list of “illustrious people” of the time mentioned in the Magna Carta, and we are related to at least ten of those. The newest list is found at: http://allinthepast.net/notables/magna_carta/magna_carta.htm

The importance of these ancestors is that, in many cases but not all, their descendants became European royalty, members of the Puritan Migration to the Colonies from England, were important figures in the American Revolution, or in some other way influenced early American history.

One such family, for example, is the de Clare line of Magna Carta barons.  Two de Clares signed the document, after the family made a name for itself immigrating from France and Belgium. They are the progenitors of the Murray Clan in Scotland, later found in Ireland, and whose descendants eventually settled the Colonies in Pennsylvania. Others migrated to the south, progressively moving from North Carolina to South Carolina to what would become Alabama.

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The second task this past week was beginning a project for Wikitree with Germans from the Rhineland-Palatinate region of Southern Germany, near France, Luxembourg and Belgium. Also known as Rheinland-Pfalz, the area was occupied by the French after World War II, until it became part of the German Federation in 1949. Much of the land area was once considered part of Prussia and Bavaria. The projects can be found at:
http://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Category:Rheinland-Pfalz%2C_Deutschland and http://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Category:Bavaria

 

Two Exciting New Projects

The past week or so has been an interesting one. First, I got more involved in a project on Wikitree I’ve been skirting for quite a while as I was doing other things. I found a list of Magna Carta Surety Barons and recognized some names. A quick check of my database yielded at least five Barons on a list of 25 names who were privy to the historical document. On another list of 16  distinguished persons named in the Preamble, I also recognized some names, but haven’t done anything with them, yet. You can find what I currently have at: Magna Carta Surety Barons with more research yet to be done.

The second project fell into my lap this morning, also from Wikitree. A gentleman asked on the forum if he could create a category of profiles of people involved with the Salem Witch Trials. Having four of the witches in my maternal lines, here, as well as the English Governor who presided over the process, I continued reading. Someone responded that two categories had been created. One was for “Accused Witches in New England” and another was for “Salem Witch Trials.” Only two of my ancestors are listed on the “Accused” list, and none are listed on the “Salem” list, so now I have some work to do. It will have to wait until after Christmas, though.

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An Irish Christmas Festival — Wikitree Clean-up

Last weekend, we went to an Irish Christmas festival arranged by a wholesaler we’ve known for several years. He moved his store (http://celticbroker.com) to a different location inside a merchandise mart since we had been there last. He gained a little bit of space, but ended up with a lot of glass with sliding glass doors along two walls of the shop.

The beer was good, the whiskey better, and then we got Mulligan Stew, to boot! A local step-dancing class performed, there was a short hurling demonstration, and then we heard new and old Christmas carols sung by a local group called Celtic Friends.

Had a good time, but KNOWING you’re Irish doesn’t hurt. Years ago, when I thought I was mostly German, I’m not sure it would have been as much fun. Over the past few years we’ve been exposing ourselves to Irish and Scottish culture a bit more, and it’s been enjoyable, to say the least.

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Everything looks a little better now, except that middle names turned into middle initials, or didn’t show up at all. The latter problem may be confusing when several people had the same first name and surname, with the only difference being the middle name. Time will tell if it makes any difference.

 

Ancestor Lists from Wikitree

I’ve just added ancestor lists for both me and Cyndie, transferred from my online work at wikitree.com.I have also added them to the drop-down menu so you can go to them directly.

Each list is seven generations (126 people) long. There is a placeholder for missing ancestors, that is, those you don’t have any information about or haven’t researched yet.

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Each person has a profile link based on their last name and the number when it was entered. For example, my link is Thomas-10705, meaning mine was the 10705th name unloaded under the surname Thomas. If you have both the surname and number, you can move around fairly quickly on wikitree. Almost everything you do on the site is based on those two bits of information, including searches and merges, two of the most important things you can do on the site.

PGM – The Puritan Great Migration, Links to the Past

If you were able to trace your ancestors back far enough, you can probably claim a relationship with a Puritan who emigrated to this country from England. If your ancestors came from another part of the world – Canada, South America, Europe, etc. – and came sometime after the mid-1600’s, you probably can’t.

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First, let’s differentiate. PILGRIMS came on the Mayflower in the early 1600’s, landing on Plymouth Rock, now located in Massachusetts. PURITANS (most) came a short while later. Pilgrims were Puritans and Separatists, but not all Puritans were Pilgrims. Got it?

Puritans had a special set of religious beliefs, and the Separatists just wanted to get away from England. Between the years of about 1621 and 1640 (0r 1650) in some opinions, Puritans left England to come to the American Colonies in droves. As many as 20,000-40,000 people came in those decades, and the era became known as the Puritan Great Migration. In your genealogical records, you will find all were born in England, but most died in the colonies. Some were disheartened by the rough and tumble land they arrived in and decided to go back to England, but most stayed. Those who did were a mix – farmers, shopkeepers, pastors, bondsmen, indentured servants and, yes, criminals, but they were also joined by wealthy members of English society (to be called aristocracy) who would go on to become famous landowners, politicians and soldiers.

English law prevailed, as did customs and traditions brought with them from England. As the settlers built towns and cities, they named them for locations they had known in England. As counties were created to consolidate the needs of several towns, they too were named for English locales. Naming conventions followed by parents and children also transferred across the oceans. If you study England in the late 14th Century, you know what America was like in the early 15th Century.

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Taken together, the Mayflower families and PGM families offer links, for those able to find them, to families who remained in England and carried on the history of that nation. Aristocrats who came to America left aristocratic families in England. Many of them, if not most, were involved at some point in every important historical occurrence in England, from the time of the Romans and Celts. These include (in no particular order) the Norman Conquest of Britain, the Magna Carta, the expulsion of the Romans and Vikings, the beginnings of the feudal way of life, the Crusades, wars with Ireland and Scotland, and more.

If you never liked history in school, I think it’s difficult to be really successful in Genealogy. The best researchers I’ve run across have been avid history buffs. The two, Genealogy and History, seem to go hand-in-hand. That will be evident in what you continue to read here.

You can find our PGM ancestors here: http://allinthepast.net/usancestors/pgm.htm

Who Am I? What Are My Credentials?

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I am a retired high school Applied Technology teacher and Technology Coordinator. Also an Army veteran, I have been a community activist, newspaper publisher, water gardener, prize-winning newsletter editor, and now publish the website and newsletter for my local gun club.

My father was in the US Navy during World War II and came home to Colorado to attend the University of Colorado in Boulder. He and my mother were married shortly before he graduated with a degree in Mechanical Engineering. In the late 1940’s, foreign jobs paid well, so he took a job with American Smelting and Refining (ASARCO) in San Luis Potosi, Mexico. I was born in El Paso, Texas while he was training for his job.

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We lived in San Luis Potosi for a few years, during which time my mother returned to Colorado and filed for divorce. After the divorce, my dad got a promotion as Plant Engineer at the ASARCO smelter in Denver, Colorado, his home town. I grew up in Aurora, a suburb east of Denver.

I got started in Genealogy asking questions about my mother. I loved my stepmother dearly, but still needed something more. After my dad passed away in 1994 and my stepmother moved to Texas to be with her sister, my research shifted into high gear. I found notes from a cousin in my Dad’s papers, and soon had everything I could get on my paternal lines, which really wasn’t much.
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Computers were just coming into widespread use, and I was still searching for my birth mother and my maternal line. I always joked that I didn’t celebrate St. Patrick’s day because I was German, but after I re-located her in 2005, I found a rich heritage of aristocracy all over Europe and tons of settlers of Colonial America.

As I was working on my lines, my wife started wondering about her lineage. More and more records were showing up on computer by this time, and our research uncovered several cross-over ancestors, especially royalty in Scotland and France. Where my ancestors tended to settle in New England and move West, hers settled in the South and moved to the Northwest.

Before changing my major in college so I could teach, I had been a History and Political Science major and, to this day, I find myself going off on tangents as I’m working. At times, I’m finding the historical times of my ancestors are far more interesting than my ancestors themselves.

Scottish Clan Updates

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I am the manager for several Scottish Clan sites on wikitree.com, a free Genealogy site that is worth your time (http://www.wikitree.com). I manage the profiles for BRUCE, GORDON, KEITH, MURRAY, and SUTHERLAND, as well as related history and other material about the Clans. That same material, and then some, is now available on this site from the Scottish/Irish Clans link on the Menu Bar on the Home Page. Other Clans connected to us, including Seton and Gunn, are managed by other members of Wikitree.

Personally, I (Michael) link to Clan Gordon about 13 generations back on my mother’s side. As I follow Gordon ancestors further back, they intermarry and I also become part of Clan Murray. I also have maternal links to Clan McMahon from County Clare (probably!), Ireland, although little is known about them in Ireland. They came to the U.S. during the Irish Potato Famine in the early 1800’s, and far more information is available on this side of the ocean than where they came from.

Cyndie is from Clan Murray, but through various links can also identify ancestors in Clan Bruce, Clan Gunn, Clan Keith, and Clan Sutherland. We have followed Cyndie’s lineage back to when the Murrays were Norman knights who came from Belgium to fight in England in the 1oth Century, and stayed on as landowners, politicians and soldiers. Many of our Clan members fought in the Crusades, but we haven’t hashed out exactly who and when yet.
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Common Ancestors

Donald II (Domnall), King of Scotland (862 – 900)
Renaud De Roucy, Count of Rheims, France (ca 931 – 15 Mar 973)
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Donncuan MacDunlaing O’Toole, King of Leinster (950 – 1018)
Robert II Le Fleming, Count of Flanders, Belgium (1065 – 1111)

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