Friday, December 25, 2015

HAPPY BIRTHDAY Humphrey Bogart #CousinoftheWeek

Humphrey DeForest Bogart was American actor who became a preeminent motion picture “tough guy” and was a top box office attraction during the 1940s and '50s. In his performances he projected the image of a worldly wise, individualistic adventurer with a touch of idealism hidden beneath a hardened exterior. Offscreen he gave the carefully crafted appearance of being a cynical loner, granting only minimal concessions to Hollywood conventions. He became a cult hero of the American cinema.
Bogart was the son of a prominent surgeon and a commercial artist. He served in the United States Navy at the end of World War I, and after the war he began a stage career in New York City playing juvenile roles in drawing-room and country-house comedies. By the mid-1920s he had won a leading role in the comedy Cradle Snatchers (1925) and other plays, and the young actor with the distinctive lisp began receiving good notices from critics. He often played the ascot-wearing playboy or country-club fixture who seemingly frolicked through life in dinner jacket and tails, which is the ultimate irony in light of his later screen persona as the hard-bitten, world-weary man of few words. He is reported to have originated the classic line of the mindless society fellow: “Tennis, anyone?”
Bogart's Broadway success led to roles in two film shorts—The Dancing Town (1928) and Broadway's Like That (1930)—and a contract with the Fox Film Corporation. His supporting roles in some 10 films made between 1930 and 1934 failed to make an impact, and the disillusioned Bogart returned to the Broadway stage. He scored his biggest triumph to date as the ruthless killer Duke Mantee in Robert Sherwood's The Petrified Forest (1935). He finally garnered some serious attention in Hollywood when Warner Bros. adapted the play for the screen the following year. Bogart spent the next five years playing numerous supporting roles—mostly gangster types—and occasional leading roles in B-films. His best pictures of this period are such films as Black Legion (1936), Marked Woman (1937), Dead End (1937), The Roaring Twenties (1939), and They Drive by Night (1940).
Two films in 1941 marked the turning point of Bogart's career. In High Sierra he played a killer with a tortured soul and a sense of morality—a departure from the one-dimensional thugs he had portrayed earlier. His performance as detective Sam Spade in The Maltese Falcon (1941), John Huston's adaptation of the Dashiell Hammett detective thriller, helped make the film a classic. He followed this with leading roles in such well-regarded films as All Through the Night and Across the Pacific (both 1942) before he was cast in what is perhaps his quintessential screen characterization, that of cabaret owner Rick Blaine in Casablanca (1942). Despite its hurried, chaotic production, begun when the script was only half-finished, Casablanca is one of the best in moviemaking history; it ranked second only to Orson Welles's Citizen Kane (1941) on the American Film Institute's 1999 list of the top 100 American films. Released just after America's entrance into World War II, Casablanca's topicality and sentimental cynicism helped to make it an enormous success. The film won the Oscar for best picture, and Bogart's Oscar-nominated performance secured his newfound status as Warners' top male star.
From this success Bogart went on to compile an impressive list of screen credits. Few actors can match his track record for quality films: To Have and Have Not (1944), The Big Sleep (1946), The Treasure of the Sierra Madre (1948), Key Largo (1948), In a Lonely Place (1950), The African Queen (1951; Academy Award for best actor), Sabrina (1954), and The Caine Mutiny (1954) are all regarded as screen classics. He seldom appeared in a truly bad picture, and his legend helped such minor films as Sahara (1943), Passage to Marseilles (1944), Dark Passage (1947), Beat the Devil (1953), and The Barefoot Contessa (1954) to achieve cult status.

http://www.geni.com/people/Humphrey-Bogart/6000000001727303301

Humphrey Bogart is your 8th cousin five times removed.
You 
   →  Pop 
your father →  Mamie C. Nichols (Collins) 
his mother →  Daniel J. COLLINS 
her father →  Catherine Poff Stump Collins 
his mother →  Sarah Wilson 
her mother →  Joshua Wilson 
her father →  Catherine Huff 
his mother →  Ruth Brownson 
her mother →  Roger Brownson 
her father →  Jacob Bronson (1641-1708) 
his father → Isaac Brunson 
his father →  Hannah Brunson 
his mother →  Hannah Scott 
her mother →  Mary North 
her sister →  Thomas North, Sr. 
her son →  Lydia Humphrey (North) 
his daughter →  Isaac Humphrey 
her son →  Jonathon Humphrey 
his son →  Harvey Humphrey 
his son →  John Perkins Humphrey 
his son →  Maud A. Humphrey 
his daughter →  Humphrey Bogart 
her son

Friday, December 11, 2015

John Quincy Adams #CousinOfTheWeek

John Quincy Adams, 6th President of the USA is my 12th cousin 7 times removed.  

You 
   →  Mom 
your mother →  Pvt. Garnett Hancock, WWII Veteran 
her father →  Burrell H Hancock 
his father →  Samuel Austin Hancock 
his father → Peter Hancock, CSA Soldier 
his father →  John Hancock 1785 
his father →  Benjamin Hancock 1759 
his father →  John Hancock 
his father →  Benjamin Hancock 
his father →  John Hancock 
his father →  William Hancock, III 
his father →  Elizabeth Hancock 
his mother →  Nicholas William Spencer 
her father →  Mary Spencer 
his mother → Thomas Elmes, Sir 
her father →  Alice St. John 
his mother →  Sir John St. John, Kt. 
her father →  Sybil Saint John 
his mother → Margred (Margaret) or Jane or Jonnet Mathew 
her mother →  Thomas Mathew, Esq., of Radyr, Glamorgan 
her brother →  Janet Stradling 
his daughter → Jane Stradling 
her daughter →  Dorothy Griffiths 
her daughter →  Jane Coytmore 
her daughter →  Captain Rowland Coytmore 
her son →  Elizabeth Coytemore 
his daughter → Anna Tyng 
her daughter →  Anna Quincy 
her daughter →  Colonel John Quincy 
her son →  Elizabeth Smith (Quincy) 
his daughter → Abigail Adams (Smith), First Lady of the United States 
her daughter →  Hon. John Quincy Adams, 6th President of the USA 
her son


http://www.geni.com/people/Hon-John-Quincy-Adams-6th-President-of-the-USA/6000000002917823767

Friday, December 04, 2015

Andrew Jackson #CousinOfTheWeek

Andrew Jackson, 7th President of the USA is your 7th cousin 7 times removed.   

You 
   →  Mom 
your mother →  Pvt. Garnett Hancock, WWII Veteran 
her father →  Burrell H Hancock 
his father →  Samuel Austin Hancock 
his father → Elizabeth Edwards Hancock 
his mother →  Brice Edwards 
her father →  Ambrose Edwards, Jr. 
his father →  Ambrose Edwards, the Immigrant 
his father → Isabella / Elizabeth Edwards (Downing) 
his mother →  Sir George Downing, 2nd Baronet 
her father →  Frances Downing 
his mother → Sir William Howard of Naworth 
her father →  Margaret Howard 
his mother →  Mary Gerard 
her mother →  Sir William Dormer, KB. MP for Buckinghamshire 
her father → Anne Hungerford 
his daughter →  Lucy St. John 
her daughter →  Lucy Apsley 
her daughter →  Lady Lucy Apsley 
her daughter →  John Hutchinson 
her son → Francis Cyrus Hobart Hutchinson 
his son →  Elizabeth "Betty" Hutchinson 
his daughter →  Andrew Jackson, 7th President of the USA 
her son

http://www.geni.com/people/Andrew-Jackson-7th-President-of-the-USA/6000000007059604501

Friday, November 20, 2015

JOHN ADAMS #FamilyHistoryFriday #CousinOfTheWeek

John Adams, 2nd President of the USA, Signer of the Declaration of Independence is your 11th cousin 8 times removed's 1st husband.

You 
   →  Mom 
your mother →  Pvt. Garnett Hancock, WWII Veteran 
her father →  Burrell H Hancock 
his father →  Samuel Austin Hancock 
his father → Peter Hancock, CSA Soldier 
his father →  John Hancock 1785 
his father →  Benjamin Hancock 1759 
his father →  John Hancock 
his father →  Benjamin Hancock 
his father →  John Hancock 
his father →  William Hancock, III 
his father →  Elizabeth Hancock 
his mother →  Nicholas William Spencer 
her father →  Mary Spencer 
his mother → Thomas Elmes, Sir 
her father →  Alice St. John 
his mother →  Sir John St. John, Kt. 
her father →  Sybil Saint John 
his mother → Margred (Margaret) or Jane or Jonnet Mathew 
her mother →  Thomas Mathew, Esq., of Radyr, Glamorgan 
her brother →  Janet Stradling 
his daughter → Jane Stradling 
her daughter →  Dorothy Griffiths 
her daughter →  Jane Coytmore 
her daughter →  Captain Rowland Coytmore 
her son →  Elizabeth Coytemore 
his daughter → Anna Tyng 
her daughter →  Anna Quincy 
her daughter →  Colonel John Quincy 
her son →  Elizabeth Smith (Quincy) 
his daughter → Abigail Adams (Smith), First Lady of the United States 
her daughter → John Adams, 2nd President of the USA, Signer of the Declaration of Independence 
her husband

http://www.geni.com/people/John-Adams-2nd-President-of-the-USA-Signer-of-the-Declaration-of-Independence/6000000012593135757                               

John Adams, 2nd President of the USA, Signer of the Declaration of Independence is your 7th cousin 8 times removed.

You
→ Mom
your mother → Pvt. Garnett Hancock, WWII Veteran
her father → Burrell H Hancock
his father → Samuel Austin Hancock
his father → Elizabeth Edwards Hancock
his mother → Brice Edwards
her father → Ambrose Edwards, Jr.
his father → Ambrose Edwards, the Immigrant
his father → Isabel Edwards
his mother → Sir George Downing, 2nd Baronet
her father → Sir George Downing, 1st Baronet
his father → Lucy Downing (Winthrop)
his mother → Anne Winthrop (Browne)
her mother → Henry Browne
her father → Elizabeth Browne
his mother → Christopher Browne, lll, of Swan Hall
her father → Thomas Browne, of Hawkedon
his son → Edward Browne
his son → Ann Hawkes (Brown)
his daughter → Susanna Cogswell
her daughter → Susannah White (Cogswell)
her daughter → Ann Boylston (White)
her daughter → Susanna Adams (Boylston)
her daughter → John Adams, 2nd President of the USA, Signer of the Declaration of Independence
her son

Saturday, November 14, 2015

ISIS is attacking MUHAMMAD'S FAMILY

It truly is a small world and one that is being plagued by a brother on brother crime spree... Yes, we all are related and we all have common ancestors and the wave of murders being seen in the news now is nothing but a disgrace.

Did not Muhammad himself write "[47.2] And (as for) those who believe and do good, and believe in what has been revealed to Muhammad, and it is the very truth from their Lord, He will remove their evil from them and improve their condition."

Yet ISIS tries to claim to be doing Allah's work. I think not. We are all brothers and those who have the love of God in their hearts can have no hatred in them.

Last night, Syrian refugees attacked and killed over a hundred of their brothers and sisters on the streets of Paris, forever staining the reputation of Allah and Islam. We are family and killing your brother is sin. Islam itself should rise up and put an end to these disgraceful murderers for their own sakes and for the family.....


Prophet Muhammad of Islam (PBUH) is François Hollande, 24e Président de la République française's 10th great uncle's first cousin once removed's husband's 28th great grandfather.

François Hollande, 24e Président de la République française
   →  Hollande
his father →  Gustave Léopold Henri Joseph Hollande
his father →  Zoé Grosdecoeur
his mother →  Elise Louise Grosdecoeur
her mother →  Elise Derécourt
her mother →  Pierre Martin Derécourt
her father → Anne Paquette Delannoy
his mother →  Marie Anne Françoise Goubet
her mother →  Ignace Goubet
her father →  Josse Goubet
his father →  Marguerite Mullet
his mother →  Anne MULLET
her sister →  Ponthus de LA TRAMERIE
her husband →  François de LA TRAMERIE
his father →  Robert, seigneur de La Tramerie
his brother → François de La Tramerie, baron de Roisin
his son →  Jeanne Anne de La Tramerie
his daughter →  Ernest van Oyenbrugge, comte de Duras
her husband → Yolande de Bourgogne
his mother →  Anthonie I van Boergondië-Bredam
her father →  Karel I van Boergondië, heer van Breedam
his father → Marina Maurice Manuel de Villena
his mother →  Juan Manuel, III. señor de Belmonte de Campos
her father → Juan Manuel, II. señor de Belmonte de Campos
his father →  Mécia Rodrigues da Fonseca
his mother →  Pedro Rodrigues da Fonseca
her father → Inês da Cunha
his mother →  João Martins da Cunha
her father →  Martim Lourenço da Cunha
his father →  Lourenço Fernandes da Cunha
his father → Fernão Pais da Cunha, 1° senhor de Tábua
his father →  Adosinda Ermigues
his mother →  Ermígio Aboazar
her father →  Aboazar Lovesendes
his father → Zayra Ibn Zayda, Zayra Ortega
his mother →  Zaydan Ibn Zayd
her father →  Zayd Ibn Abdullah
his father →  Oneca Fortúnez
his mother →  Oria Ibn Lopo ibn Musa
her mother →  Lope Ibn Musa
her father →  Musa II ibn Musa, valí de Tudela, Huesca y Zaragoza
his father →  Musa I ibn Fortún valì de Zaragoza y de Tudela
his father →  'A'isha bint Abdul of ibn Abdul
his mother →  'Abd al-'Aziz bin Musa al-Bekir
her father →  Amîna binte Marwân I bin al-Hakam
his mother → 'Aisha binte ʻUthmān
her mother →  Ruqayyah bint Muhammad
her mother →  Prophet Muhammad of Islam (PBUH)
her father

Friday, November 13, 2015

Zachary Scott Taylor #CousinOfTheWeek

Zachary S. Taylor, 12th President of the USA is your 9th cousin 7 times removed.  
You 
   →  Pop 
your father →  Mamie C. Nichols (Collins) 
his mother →  Martha Collins (BARTLETT) 
her mother →  Nancy Rachel Bartlett (KING) 
her mother → Sarah Ann King (Bartlett) 
her mother →  Reuben S. BARTLETT 
her father →  John Garner Bartlett 
his father →  WILLIAM BARTLETT 
his father →  WILLIAM BERKLEY 
his father →  Margaret (Brent) Bartlett 
his mother →  Richard Brent 
her father →  Elizabeth Brent 
his mother →  Katherine Reed 
her mother → Elizabeth Greville (Willoughby), Baroness Willoughby of Broke 
her mother →  Margaret Willoughby 
her mother →  Anne Neville, Baroness Latimer 
her mother → Joyce Constable 
her sister →  Sir Robert Constable 
her son →  Robert Constable 
his son →  Robert Constable, II 
his son →  Francis Constable 
his son → Anne Owen Lee 
his daughter →  Hon. Hancock Lee, of Ditchley 
her son →  Elizabeth Taylor 
his daughter →  Col. Richard Lee Taylor (Cont. Army) 
her son → Zachary S. Taylor, 12th President of the USA 
his son


http://www.geni.com/people/Zachary-S-Taylor-12th-President-of-the-USA/6000000002143404336

Friday, November 06, 2015

JAMES K. POLK #CousinOfTheWeek

James K. Polk, 11th President of the USA is your 13th cousin twice removed.  
You 
   →  Pop 
your father →  Rufus S. Nichols 
his father →  Tressie (King) Nichols 
his mother →  Michael O. King 
her father →  Margaret (Wright) King 
his mother → James G Wright 
her father →  Mary Whitledge Grant 
his mother →  William Grant, of Crichie 
her father →  Elizabeth Grant 
his mother → William Leslie, X. Baron of Balquhain 
her father →  Janet "Jane" Forbes, Countess of Athlon 
his mother →  John Forbes, 6th Lord Forbes 
her father → Lady Christine Forbes (Gordon) 
his mother →  Alexander Gordon (Seton), 1st Earl of Huntly 
her father →  Alexander Seton, Lord Gordon 
his father → Sir John Seton, 2nd Lord Seton 
his brother →  Sir William Seton of Seton 
his son →  Marion Seton 
his daughter →  Margaret Hamilton 
her daughter →  Elizabeth Hamilton 
her daughter →  Janet Mure 
her daughter →  Sir Robert Bruce de Pollock, 1st Baron of Ireland 
her son →  Sir Robert Bruce Pollock, 2nd Baron of Ireland 
his son → Capt. Robert Bruce Polk 
his son →  William Bruce Polk 
his son →  William Polk, Jr 
his son →  Ezekiel F. Polk 
his son →  Samuel Ezekiel Polk 
his son → James K. Polk, 11th President of the USA 
his son


http://www.geni.com/people/James-K-Polk-11th-President-of-the-USA/6000000002926000992

Saturday, October 31, 2015

Vincent Price #CousinoftheWeek #FamilyHistoreen

Vincent Price is your 8th cousin four times removed.
You
   →  Pop
your father →  Mamie C. Nichols (Collins)
his mother →  Daniel JOSHUA COLLINS
her father →  John Henry Collins
his father →  Elizabeth Boothe
his mother →  Abner Boothe
her father →  Isaac Abner Boothe, Sr.
his father →  George Boothe, Sr.
his father →  Stephen Boothe, I
his father →  Dea. Joseph Booth
his father →  Hannah Boothe
his mother →  John Wilcoxson
her father →  Obadiah Wilcoxson, Sr.
his brother →  John Wilcoxson
his son →  John Wilcox
his son → John Wilcox
his son →  Charles Wilcox
his son →  Eban North Wilcox
his son →  Henry Cole Cole Wilcox
his son →  Marguerite Cobb Price
his daughter → Vincent Price
her son

http://www.geni.com/people/Vincent-Price/6000000004138493752

Friday, October 30, 2015

Twitter lists for fun and research.

RESEARCH is a priority in many things, including family history...
One good way to get all your research team together is to create a twitter list. In other words, you take a bunch of tweeps with a similar theme and create a list on Twitter so that all their tweets are displayed on the same page. This helps you find new articles and posts and tips that interest you every day and may help to further your own research in the process.

On my list FAMILY HISTORY CHANNEL you will find lots of family historians who constantly share their news and updates in the form of tweets and the tweets of other family historians they follow as well. This list is not only useful for my own research but is often times just fun to read.

Listing can be useful in many fields like genealogy, arts, crafts, news, sports, poetry, and entertainment. On my art blog is a list of #ART tweets that helps me find new artists and enjoy their work first hand. The same is true with any list, and a list is more focused on a single subject than the home page feed itself.

Once you are added to a list everyone who sees that list becomes a potential reader of your work and shares, and a potential fan and follower. Keep calm and keep tweeting!

Peace

Vlad the Impaler AKA Dracula, the Dark Prince #FamilyHistoryFriday

Vlad III, Prince of Wallachia, more commonly known as the Impaler or Dracula, was a three-time voivode of Wallachia, ruling mainly from 1456 to 1462. Historically, Vlad is best known for his resistance against the Ottoman Empire and its expansion and for the cruel punishments he imposed on his enemies. In the English-speaking world, Vlad III is most commonly known for inspiring the association of the name of the vampire in Bram Stoker's 1897 novel, "Dracula." Vlad suffered from porphyria (thought to be the source of the legend that vampires are allergic to sunlight).     

Vlad the Impaler Dracula, Prince of Wallachia is your fourth cousin 21 times removed's husband's second great grandson.
You 
   →  Pop 
your father →  Rufus S. Nichols 
his father →  Tressie (King) Nichols 
his mother →  Michael O. King 
her father →  Margaret (Wright) King 
his mother → James G Wright 
her father →  Mary Whitledge Grant 
his mother →  William Grant, of Crichie 
her father →  Elizabeth Grant 
his mother → William Leslie, X. Baron of Balquhain 
her father →  Janet "Jane" Forbes, Countess of Athlon 
his mother →  John Forbes, 6th Lord Forbes 
her father → William "Gray Willie" Forbes, 3rd Lord Forbes 
his father →  Egidia Forbes 
his mother →  Marjorie Fraser 
her mother →  Alexander Fraser of Lovat 
her father → Hugh Fraser 
his father →  Margaret of Orkney, Heiress of Lovat 
his mother →  Magnus Orkney, V 
her father →  nn Magnusdatter, Prinsesse av Norge 
his mother → Ingeborg Eriksdatter af Danmark, Dronning av Norge 
her mother →  Erik IV Plovpenning, Konge af Danmark 
her father → Valdemar II "Sejr" Valdemarsøn af Danmark, Konge af Danmark 
his father →  Valdemar I "den store" Knudsøn, Konge af Danmark 
his father → Ingebor Mstislawna, Prinsessa av Kiev 
his mother →  Rostislav-Michael Mstislavich Smolenski 
her brother →  Roman Rostislavovich Grand Prince 
his son → ? Смоленский 
his son →  Wsewolod Mstislawitsch Смоленский 
his son →  Olga Vsevolodovna Рюриковичи Смоленские, Princess of Smolensk 
his daughter →  Gediminas, Grand Duke of Lithuania 
her husband →  Kęstutis, Lietuvos didysis (submonarchas) kunigaikštis 
his son →  rymgajla anna Rimgailė 
his daughter →  Vasilissa Catuna Chiejna Muşata 
her daughter →  Vlad the Impaler Dracula, Prince of Wallachia 
her son

http://www.geni.com/people/Vlad-the-Impaler-Dracula-Prince-of-Wallachia/6000000002447338054

Tuesday, October 27, 2015

Anton LaVey, the Black Pope #FamilyTreeTuesday

Anton Szandor LaVey (born Howard Stanton Levey) was an American author, occultist, and musician. He was the founder of the Church of Satan as well as the author of The Satanic Bible and the founder of LaVeyan Satanism, a synthesized system of his understanding of human nature and the insights of philosophers who advocated materialism and individualism, for which he claimed no supernatural or theistic inspiration.


Anton Szandor LaVey is your 7th great aunt's first cousin four times removed's husband's nephew's ex-wife's late partner.

You
   →  Pop
your father →  Rufus S. Nichols
his father →  James "Jim" Ira Nichols
his father →  Harriet Isabelle Maywood Nichols
his mother → Clarissa "Betty" (Richards) Williams
her mother →  Christopher Richards, Sr.
her father →  Waitman F. Richards
his father →  Elizabeth Richards
his mother → John Stewart of Fourth Creek
her brother →  Margaret McKee Stewart (Potts)
his wife →  Moses Potts
her father →  Henry Potts
his brother → James Purviance Potts, Sr.
his son →  mary potts
his daughter →  nellie m. hayes
her daughter →  reina hayes
her daughter →  lillie b schell
her daughter →  Oliver Edward Schell
her husband →  Blanche Evangeline Gunderson
his sister →  Theodore L. Gunderson
her son →  Diane Hegarty
his ex-wife →  Anton Szandor LaVey
her partner

http://www.geni.com/people/Anton-Szandor-LaVey/6000000013374432686

Friday, October 23, 2015

The Blood Countess, Elizabeth Bathory #CousinoftheWeek

Countess Elizabeth Báthory de Ecsed (Báthory Erzsébet in Hungarian, Alžbeta Bátoriová in Slovak; 7 August 1560 – 21 August 1614) was a countess from the renowned Báthory family of Hungarian nobility. Although in modern times she has been labelled the most prolific female serial killer in history, her guilt is debated. She is nevertheless remembered as the "Blood Countess" or "Blood Queen."
After her husband's death, she and four collaborators were accused of torturing and killing hundreds of girls, with one witness attributing to them over 650 victims, though the number for which they were convicted was 80. Elizabeth herself was neither tried nor convicted. In 1610, however, she was imprisoned in the Csejte Castle, now in Slovakia and known as Čachtice, where she remained bricked in a set of rooms until her death four years later.
Later writings about the case have led to legendary accounts of the Countess bathing in the blood of virgins in order to retain her youth and subsequently also to comparisons with Vlad III the Impaler of Wallachia, on whom the fictional Count Dracula is partly based, and to modern nicknames of the Blood Countess and Countess Dracula. 
http://www.geni.com/people/Countess-Erzs%C3%A9bet-Elizabeth-B%C3%A1thory/340215485610011209 

Countess Erzsébet - Elizabeth Báthory is my 9th cousin 15 times removed.

You
   →  Mom
your mother →  Pvt. Garnett Hancock, WWII Veteran
her father →  Ida Mae Hancock
his mother →  Robert Lee Linville
her father → Moses Linville, Jr.
his father →  Hannah Scarlett Linville
his mother →  Elizabeth Margaret Morgan
her mother →  John Jarman
her father →  Arthur Jarman
his father → John Jarman
his father →  Thomas Jarman
his father →  Gwen Jarmen
his mother →  Sir Rhys Gruffydd, MP
her father →  Jane Stradling
his mother → Thomas Stradling Esq
her father →  Sir Henry Stradling
his father →  Jane [Joan] Stradling
his mother →  Cardinal Henry Beaufort, Bishop of Winchester
her father → John of Gaunt, 1st Duke of Lancaster
his father →  Philippa of Hainault, Queen consort of England
his mother →  Jeanne de Valois
her mother → Charles de France, comte de Valois
her father →  Isabelle d'Aragon, reine consort de France
his mother →  Violante de Hungría, reina consorte de Aragón
her mother →  ÁRPÁD(házi) II. András - Andrew II, King of Hungary
her father →  ÁRPÁD(házi) András, Prince of Hungary
his son → ÁRPÁD(házi) Erzsébet ► Szabina, hercegnő / Princess
his daughter →  Erzsébet Darai de Dáró
her daughter →  Anna Medgyesi (Moricz)
her daughter → Szaniszló Báthori de Somlyó
her son →  István II Báthory de Somlyó
his son →  Miklós Báthory
his son →  István Báthory
his son →  Anna Báthory
his daughter → Countess Erzsébet - Elizabeth Báthory
her daughter

Tuesday, October 20, 2015

Mary Perkins Bradbury, Salem Witch #CousinoftheWeek

MARY BRADBURY TRIED AND CONVICTED OF WITCHCRAFT
Mary (PERKINS) BRADBURY was one of those unfortunate people who, in the dark days of witchcraft delusion, was among the accused. Among those accused of assuming animal forms (most were beasts common to the pioneers) Mary's most unusual metamorphosis was that of a blue boar. Her specialty was supposedly in casting spells upon ships, and Massachusetts merchant Samuel ENDICOTT testified that two firkins of butter , purchased from Mary by one of his captains, had been bewitched and caused dire effects on the seamen's voyage. As the ship sped through the warm waters of the Caribbean, the butter turned sour just before an unexpected storm arose. One night soon after ENDICOTT was sitting on deck and happened to glance upward in the moonlight and there perched jauntily on the windlass was none other than Mary BRADBURY, or her spirit, dressed as she customarily appeared, in a white cap and neckcloth. His testimony and that of others proved costly and she was found guilty of practicing magic and was sentenced to be executed.
The conviction could not be reversed, but by the efforts of her friends her execution was delayed, the horrid delusion passed away, and she was discharged. By some accounts she was allowed to escape, 'though not officially released she did return to her home.
The papers connected with her trial , as well as those of others, who were (some of them) less fortunate, have been preserved, and are to be seen on the files in the Clerk of Courts Office in Salem, Massachusetts.        
Over a hundred of her neighbors and townspeople testified on her behalf, but to no avail and she was found guilty of practicing magic and sentenced to be executed.
Through the ongoing efforts of her friends, her execution was delayed. After the witch frenzy had passed, she was released. By some accounts she was allowed to escape. Others claim she bribed her jailer.
Another account claims that her husband bribed the jailer and took her away to Maine in a horse and cart. They returned to Massachusetts after the witch hysteria had died down.
Mary Bradbury died of natural causes in her own bed in 1700.        

Her descendants include:
Ray Bradbury, American science fiction writer.
Bradbury Robinson (1752-1801), a great-great grandson, fought for the patriots at the Battle of Concord (1775) and testified that the British fired first.[2][3]
Bradbury Robinson (1884-1949), threw American football's first legal forward pass.
Ralph Waldo Emerson, transcendentalist,a fourth great-grandson of Mary Bradbury, descendant through her daughter Judith.

Mary Perkins Bradbury, Salem Witch is my 7th cousin 12 times removed.   

You 
   →  Pop 
your father →  Rufus S. Nichols 
his father →  Tressie (King) Nichols 
his mother →  Michael O. King 
her father →  Margaret (Wright) King 
his mother → James G Wright 
her father →  William Wright 
his father →  John Wright Jr 
his father →  John Wright, Sr. 
his father →  Anne Minor - Wright 
his mother → Col. John Washington 
her father →  Reverend Lawrence Washington 
his father → Lawrence Washington, Sr., Esquire of Sulgrave Manor, Mayor of Northampton 
his father →  Elizabeth Lyte 
his mother →  Ursula Light 
her mother → Elizabeth Blount 
her mother →  Sir Richard Blount, Kt., of Iver, Sherriff of Buckingham and Bedfordshire 
her father →  Sir Thomas Blount, Kt. 
his father → Margaret Blount 
his mother →  Joan Astley 
her sister →  Thomas Astley, Esq., Sheriff of Staffordshire 
her son →  Alys Perkins 
his daughter →  Henry Perkins 
her son → Thomas Perkins, Sr. 
his son →  Henry Perkins 
his son →  John Perkins, Sr. 
his son →  Mary Perkins Bradbury, Salem Witch Trials 
his daughter

Friday, October 16, 2015

CHARLIE MANSON #CousinoftheWeek

Charles Milles Scott Manson, (born Charles Milles Maddox) is your 13th cousin twice removed.

You
   →  Pop
your father →  Rufus S. Nichols
his father →  James "Jim" Ira Nichols
his father →  Harriet Isabelle Maywood Nichols
his mother → Clarissa "Betty" (Richards) Williams
her mother →  Nancy (Moore) Richards
her mother →  Jacob Moore
her father →  Isaac Moore
his father → Thomas Preston Moore
his father →  Margaret Moore
his mother →  Rachel Preston
her mother →  Thomas Lloyd, Governor of PA.
her father →  Elizabeth Lloyd
his mother →  Sarah Stanley
her mother →  Thomas Burton
her father →  Francis Burton
his brother →  Richard Burton, Sr.
his son →  Thomas Christian Burton, Sr
his son → Susannah Burton
his daughter →  John Stovall, Sr.
her son →  Delilah Pinson
his daughter →  Thomas Pinson
her son →  William Pinson
his son →  Margaret PINSON
his daughter →  Henderson Scott
her son →  Garfield Scott
his son →  Walker Henderson Scott
his son →  Henderson Scott
his son → Charles Milles Scott Manson, (born Charles Milles Maddox)
his son


http://www.geni.com/people/Charles-Manson/6000000008511991787

Tuesday, October 13, 2015

Dr. H. H. Holmes, Master of Murder Castle #CousinoftheWeek

Dr. Holmes was born Herman Webster Mudgett on May 16, 1860, in Gilmantown, New Hampshire. Herman was often beaten regularly by his drunken father, and the local neighborhood bullies. At an early age he was fascinated by all aspects of surgery. He would often capture stray animals and perform strange and crude experiments on them.
Herman graduated high school at the age of 16, and in 1878 married Clara A. Lovering at, at the age of 18, whom he soon abandoned with one child in New Hampshire.
He graduated medical school at the University of Michigan, located in Ann Arbor in 1884 at the age of 24. While studying medicine at the University of Michigan, He would steal corpses, render them unrecognizable with acid, and then collect on the life insurance policies he had previously taken out under fictitious names. Herman got away with several of these frauds before a nightwatchman caught him removing a female corpse, hence he was kicked out of the university for "unusual activities".
In 1886 Herman Mudgett moved to the Chicago suburb of Englewood, Ill, after abandoning his wife and committing a variety of felonies, even defrauding one of his own in-laws. He was know as a swindler, and decided it was time for a new lease on life and took on the alias: Henry Howard Holmes, AKA: "DR H.H. Holmes".
Holmes eventually amassed a nice fortune through his frauds and schemes, using multiple aliases and often failing to follow through on payments for his many deals arranged on credit and with work perfomred by unpaid laborers.

Dr. Henry Howard Holmes is your 11th cousin thrice removed.
You 
   →  Mom 
your mother →  Pvt. Garnett Hancock, WWII Veteran 
her father →  Burrell H Hancock 
his father →  Rhoda Lawrence Hancock 
his mother → Susan Frances Lawrence 
her mother →  Rhoda O'Bryan 
her mother →  Pvt. Drury Holland, Revolutionary Soldier 
her father →  Charles Holland 
his father →  Peter Holland 
his father →  Nehemiah Holland 
his father →  Gabriel Francis Holland 
his father →  Mary Mollenax 
his mother →  John Molyneux 
her father →  Lawrence Mollenaux 
his father → Sir William Molyneux, Kt., of Sefton 
his father →  Sir Richard Molyneux, Sheriff of Lancaster 
his son →  Alice Prescott 
his daughter →  John Prescott, Esquire 
her son → James Prescott, III 
his son →  James Prescott, IV 
his son →  Jonathan Prescott, Sr. 
his son →  Captain Johnathan Prescott 
his son →  Jonathan Prescott, III 
his son →  Samuel Prescott 
his son →  Nancy Mudgett 
his daughter →  Levi Horton Mudgett 
her son →  Dr. Henry Howard Holmes 
his son

Friday, October 09, 2015

JEFF DAHMER, The Milwaukee Cannibal #CousinoftheWeek

Jeffrey Lionel Dahmer (May 21, 1960 – November 28, 1994) was an American serial killer and sex offender. Dahmer murdered 17 men and boys – many of whom were of African or Asian descent – between 1978 and 1991, with the majority of the murders occurring between 1987 and 1991. His murders were particularly gruesome, involving rape, torture, dismemberment, necrophilia and cannibalism. On November 28, 1994, he was beaten to death by an inmate at the Columbia Correctional Institution, where he had been incarcerated.  

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeffrey_Dahmer                                                



Jeffrey Lionel Dahmer is your 15th cousin.

You
   →  Mom
your mother →  Pvt. Garnett Hancock, WWII Veteran
her father →  Ida Mae Hancock
his mother →  Robert Lee Linville
her father → Moses Linville, JR.
his father →  Moses Linville, Sr.
his father →  Hannah Scarlett Linville
his mother →  Elizabeth Margaret Morgan
her mother →  John Jarman
her father →  Arthur Jarman
his father →  John Jarman
his father →  Thomas Jarman
his father →  Gwen Jarmen
his mother →  Sir Rhys Gruffydd, MP
her father → Jane Stradling
his mother →  Sir Edward Stradling
her brother →  Catherine Palmer
his daughter →  John Palmer, Knight
her son →  Sarah Smith (Palmer)
his daughter → Henry Rowley
her son →  Moses Rowley, Sr
his son →  Mehitable Fuller
his daughter →  Benjamin Fuller, Sr.
her son →  Jemima Warren
his daughter →  Cynthia Flint
her daughter →  Cyrus Flint
her son →  Abner Flint
his son →  James Ernest Flint
his son →  Floyd "Rocky" Flint, Sr.
his son →  Joyce Annette Dahmer (Flint)
his daughter → Jeffrey Lionel Dahmer
her son

http://www.geni.com/people/Jeffrey-Lionel-Dahmer/6000000013374977536 


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