1. William Alexander Smith, son of Robert James Smith and Carol Jean Taylor, was born on 14 Mar 1972 in Denver, Denver, CO.
Sapling Notes: He grew up in the Park Hill neighborhood of Denver and graduated from East High School in 1990. He attended the University of Colorado at Boulder, earning a B.S. in Civil Engineering in 1994, and has worked in water-resource engineering along the Front Range since. He and his family remain in Denver.
2. Robert James Smith, son of Harold Eugene Smith and Lois Anne Sterner, was born on 8 Sep 1941 in Denver, Denver, CO.
Sapling Notes: He graduated from the University of Colorado in 1963 with a degree in mechanical engineering and spent his career in Denver's aerospace industry, working on launch-vehicle ground systems. He met Carol Jean Taylor while both were volunteering at the Denver Public Library's literacy program, and they married in 1968.
Robert married Carol Jean Taylor, daughter of Wesley Robert Taylor and Dorothy Remple, on 15 Jun 1968 in Denver, Denver, CO.
Children from this marriage were:
ii. Susan Marie Smith was born on 2 Oct 1975 in Denver, Denver, CO.
3. Carol Jean Taylor, daughter of Wesley Robert Taylor and Dorothy Remple, was born on 21 Jun 1945 in Des Moines, Polk, IA.
Sapling Notes: She was born in Des Moines and moved with her family to Denver in 1953. She graduated from Colorado State College in Greeley in 1967 with a B.A. in elementary education and taught for thirty years in the Denver Public Schools, most of them at Stedman Elementary in Park Hill.
Carol married Robert James Smith, son of Harold Eugene Smith and Lois Anne Sterner, on 15 Jun 1968 in Denver, Denver, CO.
4. Harold Eugene Smith, son of Charles Henry Smith and Adele Marchand, was born on 2 Feb 1912 in Denver, Denver, CO and died on 19 Nov 1987 in Denver, Denver, CO, at age 75.
Sapling Notes: He grew up over his father's hardware store on Larimer Street and graduated from East High School in 1930. During the Second World War he trained as a navigator in the U.S. Army Air Forces and served with the Eighth Air Force in England from 1943 to 1945, flying thirty combat missions. After the war he joined the Gates Rubber Company in Denver, where he worked as a plant engineer until his retirement in 1977.
Harold married Lois Anne Sterner, daughter of Ernest William Sterner and Clara Weber, on 20 Aug 1938 in Denver, Denver, CO.
Children from this marriage were:
2 i. Robert James Smith
ii. Richard Alan Smith was born on 3 Apr 1943 in Denver, Denver, CO.
iii. Nancy Ellen Smith was born on 29 Jul 1947 in Denver, Denver, CO.
5. Lois Anne Sterner, daughter of Ernest William Sterner and Clara Weber, was born on 30 May 1916 in Pueblo, Pueblo, CO and died on 12 Apr 2004 in Denver, Denver, CO, at age 87.
Sapling Notes: She grew up in the shadow of the Pueblo steelworks where her father was a machinist, and graduated from Pueblo Central High School in 1934. She taught in the Pueblo elementary schools before her marriage, and after moving to Denver remained a substitute teacher and an active volunteer with the public library for many years.
Lois married Harold Eugene Smith, son of Charles Henry Smith and Adele Marchand, on 20 Aug 1938 in Denver, Denver, CO.
6. Wesley Robert Taylor, son of John Wesley Taylor Jr. and Ada Coleman, was born on 17 Oct 1910 in Kansas City, Wyandotte, KS and died on 3 Aug 1979 in Des Moines, Polk, IA, at age 68.
Sapling Notes: He was born in Kansas City, Kansas, where his parents had moved from Nashville, and finished Sumner High School in 1928. In 1935 he took a position as a dining-car waiter on the Rock Island Line out of Des Moines, and he remained a proud, dues-paying member of the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters throughout his railroad years. From 1954 until his retirement he worked as a clerk at the Des Moines main post office, and he served for two decades as a trustee of Corinthian Baptist Church.
Wesley married Dorothy Remple, daughter of John David Remple and Nell Ash, on 14 Nov 1936 in Des Moines, Polk, IA.
Children from this marriage were:
3 i. Carol Jean Taylor
ii. Robert Earl Taylor was born on 30 Sep 1938 in Des Moines, Polk, IA.
iii. Barbara Ann Taylor was born on 15 Dec 1941 in Des Moines, Polk, IA.
7. Dorothy Remple, daughter of John David Remple and Nell Ash, was born on 25 Jul 1915 in Pueblo, Pueblo, CO and died on 8 Jan 1998 in Des Moines, Polk, IA, at age 82.
Sapling Notes: She grew up in Pueblo, Colorado, the daughter of a Mennonite carpenter, and moved to Des Moines in 1934, where she worked as a seamstress in the alterations department of the Younkers department store. She married Wesley Robert Taylor in 1936, and the couple raised their family on the city's east side. She was known in the family for her quilting, and several of her quilts are still passed down among her grandchildren.
Dorothy married Wesley Robert Taylor, son of John Wesley Taylor Jr. and Ada Coleman, on 14 Nov 1936 in Des Moines, Polk, IA.
8. Charles Henry Smith, son of George Albert Smith and Ellen Maria Hobbs, was born on 11 Apr 1884 in Marshalltown, Marshall, IA and died on 3 Oct 1951 in Denver, Denver, CO, at age 67.
Sapling Notes: He grew up on his father's farm outside Marshalltown, Iowa, and clerked in a dry-goods store in town before going west to Denver in 1906. There he opened a hardware store on Larimer Street that he ran for nearly forty years, living with his family in rooms above the shop until 1922, when he bought a house in the Park Hill neighborhood. His son Walter died in the influenza epidemic of 1918, a loss the family marked every November.
Charles married Adele Marchand, daughter of Henri Marchand and Josephine Bergeron, on 12 Jun 1910 in Denver, Denver, CO.
Children from this marriage were:
4 i. Harold Eugene Smith
ii. Marie Louise Smith was born on 18 Aug 1914 in Denver, Denver, CO.
iii. Walter Charles Smith was born on 25 May 1917 in Denver, Denver, CO and died on 4 Nov 1918 in Denver, Denver, CO.
9. Adele Marchand, daughter of Henri Marchand and Josephine Bergeron, was born on 2 Dec 1888 in Leon, Decatur, IA and died on 15 Feb 1966 in Denver, Denver, CO, at age 77.
Sapling Notes: She was born in Leon, Iowa, to a French-Canadian farming family and grew up speaking French at home. In 1908 she moved to Denver with her elder sister Corinne, where she worked as a milliner in a shop on Sixteenth Street until her marriage. She was a lifelong parishioner of the Cathedral of the Immaculate Conception in Denver.
Adele married Charles Henry Smith, son of George Albert Smith and Ellen Maria Hobbs, on 12 Jun 1910 in Denver, Denver, CO.
10. Ernest William Sterner, son of William Henry Sterner and Amanda Mary Boyer, was born on 14 Jul 1892 in Pueblo, Pueblo, CO and died on 21 Sep 1961 in Pueblo, Pueblo, CO, at age 69.
Sapling Notes: He spent his entire working life as a machinist at the Colorado Fuel and Iron Company's Minnequa steelworks in Pueblo, hiring on at eighteen and retiring after forty-three years. He was a member of the machinists' lodge and, like his father, of the Woodmen of the World fraternal order.
Ernest married Clara Weber, daughter of Gustav Weber and Emma Hartmann, on 30 Sep 1914 in Pueblo, Pueblo, CO.
Children from this marriage were:
5 i. Lois Anne Sterner
ii. Carl Gustav Sterner was born on 8 Feb 1919 in Pueblo, Pueblo, CO.
iii. Ruth Emma Sterner was born on 17 Jun 1922 in Pueblo, Pueblo, CO.
11. Clara Weber, daughter of Gustav Weber and Emma Hartmann, was born on 3 Mar 1893 in Emporia, Lyon, KS and died on 30 Dec 1975 in Pueblo, Pueblo, CO, at age 82.
Sapling Notes: She was born on her parents' homestead near Emporia, Kansas, the youngest child of German immigrants, and grew up speaking German at home and English at school. In 1912 she moved to Pueblo, Colorado, to keep house for her uncle, and there met Ernest Sterner at a church social. She was famous in the family for her Christmas stollen, baked from her mother's Hessian recipe.
Clara married Ernest William Sterner, son of William Henry Sterner and Amanda Mary Boyer, on 30 Sep 1914 in Pueblo, Pueblo, CO.
12. John Wesley Taylor Jr., son of John Wesley Taylor Sr. and Margaret Anderson, was born on 9 Jan 1890 in Nashville, Davidson, TN and died on 26 Jun 1957 in Kansas City, Wyandotte, KS, at age 67.
Sapling Notes: He was born in Nashville and educated through the eighth grade at the Knowles School. In 1910, shortly after his marriage, he and Ada joined the growing movement of Black families out of the South and moved to Kansas City, Kansas, where he worked first in the Armour packing plant and later, for more than twenty-five years, as a molder in a foundry. He served as a deacon of the Eighth Street Baptist Church and helped organize its building fund in the 1920s.
John married Ada Coleman, daughter of Samuel Coleman and Katie French, on 26 Dec 1909 in Nashville, Davidson, TN.
Children from this marriage were:
6 i. Wesley Robert Taylor
ii. Cornelia Taylor was born on 4 Mar 1913 in Kansas City, Wyandotte, KS.
iii. Katie Mae Taylor was born on 22 Jul 1916 in Kansas City, Wyandotte, KS.
13. Ada Coleman, daughter of Samuel Coleman and Katie French, was born on 17 May 1892 in Franklin, Williamson, TN and died on 4 Nov 1970 in Des Moines, Polk, IA, at age 78.
Sapling Notes: She was born in Franklin, Tennessee, where her father kept a blacksmith shop, and trained under her mother, a midwife, before her marriage. In Kansas City she took in sewing and was a mainstay of her church's missionary society. After her husband's death she lived with her son's family in Des Moines.
Ada married John Wesley Taylor Jr., son of John Wesley Taylor Sr. and Margaret Anderson, on 26 Dec 1909 in Nashville, Davidson, TN.
14. John David Remple, son of Heinrich Remple and Katharina Friesen, was born on 28 Feb 1878 in Mountain Lake, Cottonwood, MN and died on 16 Jul 1952 in Pueblo, Pueblo, CO, at age 74.
Sapling Notes: He was born in the Mennonite farming colony at Mountain Lake, Minnesota, the first of his family born in America, and learned the carpenter's trade from his father. In 1902 he went to Pueblo, Colorado, where building work was plentiful around the growing steelworks, and he worked there as a finish carpenter for nearly fifty years. Though he married outside the Mennonite church, he kept its plain habits all his life and was known for never signing a contract he would not shake hands on.
John married Nell Ash, daughter of Emory Ash and Della Winters, on 4 Jun 1906 in Pueblo, Pueblo, CO.
Children from this marriage were:
i. Henry Remple was born on 21 Apr 1908 in Pueblo, Pueblo, CO.
ii. Della Katharina Remple was born on 30 Nov 1911 in Pueblo, Pueblo, CO.
7 iii. Dorothy Remple
iv. Amos John Remple was born on 9 Mar 1918 in Pueblo, Pueblo, CO.
15. Nell Ash, daughter of Emory Ash and Della Winters, was born on 6 Sep 1886 in Pueblo, Pueblo, CO and died on 22 Mar 1958 in Pueblo, Pueblo, CO, at age 71.
Sapling Notes: She was born in Pueblo the year after her parents came out from Iowa, and her girlhood portrait was taken at the Wagner studio on South Union Avenue about 1899. She worked before her marriage as a clerk in the Crews-Beggs dry-goods store, and afterward kept the family's books for her husband's carpentry work. A later snapshot shows her with her husband John in their garden about 1935.
Nell married John David Remple, son of Heinrich Remple and Katharina Friesen, on 4 Jun 1906 in Pueblo, Pueblo, CO.
16. George Albert Smith, son of Nathaniel Smith and Lucy Bartlett, was born on 4 Aug 1845 in Ashtabula, Ashtabula, OH and died on 12 Dec 1919 in Marshalltown, Marshall, IA, at age 74.
Sapling Notes: He was eleven when his parents left Ohio for Marshall County, Iowa, in 1856. In August 1862, a few days past his seventeenth birthday, he enlisted in Company G of the 23rd Iowa Volunteer Infantry and served through the Vicksburg campaign, including the fighting at the Big Black River Bridge in May 1863. He was mustered out in the summer of 1865 and came home to farm the family land outside Marshalltown, which he worked for the rest of his life. He was a charter member of his local Grand Army of the Republic post and marched in the Decoration Day parade every year he was able.
George married Ellen Maria Hobbs, daughter of Alfred Hobbs and Sarah Jane Millward, on 8 Oct 1868 in Marshalltown, Marshall, IA.
Children from this marriage were:
i. Willis George Smith was born on 12 Sep 1870 in Marshalltown, Marshall, IA.
ii. Mary Ellen Smith was born on 3 Jan 1873 in Marshalltown, Marshall, IA.
iii. Frank Albert Smith was born on 26 Nov 1876 in Marshalltown, Marshall, IA.
iv. Cora Belle Smith was born on 14 Feb 1880 in Marshalltown, Marshall, IA.
8 v. Charles Henry Smith
17. Ellen Maria Hobbs, daughter of Alfred Hobbs and Sarah Jane Millward, was born on 12 Oct 1850 in Newark, Licking, OH and died on 9 Mar 1927 in Marshalltown, Marshall, IA, at age 76.
Sapling Notes: She was born in Licking County, Ohio, the daughter of English immigrants from Kent, and came with her family to Marshall County, Iowa, in 1857. She taught a term of country school before her marriage and was for many years the recording secretary of the Ladies' Aid Society of the Marshalltown Methodist church.
Ellen married George Albert Smith, son of Nathaniel Smith and Lucy Bartlett, on 8 Oct 1868 in Marshalltown, Marshall, IA.
18. Henri Marchand, son of Joseph Marchand and Mary Louise de Rousse, was born on 15 Jun 1858 in Trois-Rivieres, Quebec, Canada and died on 9 May 1931 in Leon, Decatur, IA, at age 72.
Sapling Notes: He was nine years old when his parents left Quebec for the United States in 1867. He met Josephine Bergeron in the French-Canadian settlement at Kankakee, Illinois, where they married in 1882 before joining his parents on the farm near Leon, Iowa. He raised shorthorn cattle and served a term as a township trustee, and the Marchand farm stayed in the family until 1946.
Henri married Josephine Bergeron, daughter of Pierre Bergeron and Marguerite Lambert, on 21 Feb 1882 in Kankakee, Kankakee, IL.
Children from this marriage were:
i. Ludger Marchand was born on 2 Dec 1883 in Leon, Decatur, IA.
ii. Corinne Marchand was born on 19 Apr 1885 in Leon, Decatur, IA.
9 iii. Adele Marchand
iv. Emile Marchand was born on 7 Sep 1891 in Leon, Decatur, IA.
19. Josephine Bergeron, daughter of Pierre Bergeron and Marguerite Lambert, was born on 22 Jan 1863 in Kankakee, Kankakee, IL and died on 17 Aug 1940 in Leon, Decatur, IA, at age 77.
Sapling Notes: She was born in the French-Canadian colony at Kankakee, Illinois, where her parents had settled after leaving Quebec, and she carried the colony's traditions of New Year's Day visiting and tourtiere into her Iowa farmhouse. She and Henri raised four children, and she was remembered as the family's great keeper of names, dates, and photographs.
Josephine married Henri Marchand, son of Joseph Marchand and Mary Louise de Rousse, on 21 Feb 1882 in Kankakee, Kankakee, IL.
20. William Henry Sterner, son of Daniel Sterner and Susanna Hoch, was born on 19 Mar 1853 in Oley, Berks, PA and died on 2 Nov 1928 in Colorado Springs, El Paso, CO, at age 75.
Sapling Notes: He was raised on a Pennsylvania-German farm in the Oley Valley of Berks County and went west in 1879, working as a carpenter in Kansas before settling in Pueblo, Colorado. He later moved his trade to Colorado Springs, where he was for many years clerk of his camp of the Woodmen of the World; his portrait in the order's uniform, taken at Colorado Springs about 1900, is one of the family's treasures. He is buried in Evergreen Cemetery, Colorado Springs.
William married Amanda Mary Boyer, daughter of Joseph Clinton Boyer and Harriet Speth, on 12 Jun 1889 in Pueblo, Pueblo, CO.
Children from this marriage were:
10 i. Ernest William Sterner
ii. Grace Amanda Sterner was born on 24 Aug 1894 in Pueblo, Pueblo, CO.
iii. Harry Boyer Sterner was born on 5 May 1897 in Pueblo, Pueblo, CO.
21. Amanda Mary Boyer, daughter of Joseph Clinton Boyer and Harriet Speth, was born on 7 Apr 1869 in St. Joseph, Buchanan, MO and died on 26 Jan 1951 in Pueblo, Pueblo, CO, at age 81.
Sapling Notes: Known throughout her life as "Mollie," she was born at St. Joseph, Missouri, while her Pennsylvania-German parents were making their way west, and grew up on their farm near Panora, Iowa. A portrait taken at St. Joseph about 1884 shows her at fifteen, on a visit to her mother's people there. She went out to Colorado in 1888 to keep house for a cousin, met William Sterner within the year, and married him in Pueblo in 1889. Two later portraits, taken about 1895 and about 1900, show her in the years her children were young.
Amanda married William Henry Sterner, son of Daniel Sterner and Susanna Hoch, on 12 Jun 1889 in Pueblo, Pueblo, CO.
22. Gustav Weber, son of Johann Georg Weber and Anna Katharina Schaefer, was born on 11 Nov 1861 in Marburg, Hesse, Germany and died on 8 Apr 1934 in Emporia, Lyon, KS, at age 72.
Sapling Notes: He left the farming country around Marburg, in Hesse, in 1881, sailing from Bremen to Baltimore at the age of nineteen, and worked his way west on the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe railroad to Lyon County, Kansas, where he proved up a homestead southwest of Emporia. His portrait taken about 1888 shows him as a young farmer newly established; a family portrait from about 1893 shows him with Emma and their infant daughter Clara. He served on the school board of his district and helped found the German Methodist church at Emporia.
Gustav married Emma Hartmann, daughter of Konrad Hartmann and Elisabetha Vogel, on 5 May 1885 in Emporia, Lyon, KS.
Children from this marriage were:
i. Otto Weber was born on 20 Feb 1886 in Emporia, Lyon, KS.
ii. Wilhelm Weber was born on 8 Jul 1888 in Emporia, Lyon, KS.
11 iii. Clara Weber
23. Emma Hartmann, daughter of Konrad Hartmann and Elisabetha Vogel, was born on 25 May 1866 in Giessen, Hesse, Germany and died on 14 Oct 1940 in Emporia, Lyon, KS, at age 74.
Sapling Notes: She emigrated from Giessen, in Hesse, in 1884 to join her elder brother, who had settled at Emporia, Kansas, and she married Gustav Weber the following spring. Her wedding-year portrait, taken at the Page studio in Emporia, shows her in the dress she was married in. She was a founding member of the ladies' circle of the German Methodist church and kept her Hessian recipes in a hand-written book that survives in the family.
Emma married Gustav Weber, son of Johann Georg Weber and Anna Katharina Schaefer, on 5 May 1885 in Emporia, Lyon, KS.
24. John Wesley Taylor Sr., son of Wesley Taylor and Harriet Vaughn, was born on 3 Jul 1868 in Nashville, Davidson, TN and died on 18 Feb 1925 in Nashville, Davidson, TN, at age 56.
Sapling Notes: He was born in Nashville three years after Emancipation, the son of parents who had been enslaved in Middle Tennessee. He worked for more than thirty years as a baggageman for the Louisville and Nashville Railroad, one of the steadiest positions then open to a Black man in the city, and he used that steadiness to buy the family a house on Jefferson Street. He was ordained a deacon of St. John's A.M.E. Church in 1901 and served the congregation until his death. His portrait, taken about 1900, shows him in his Sunday best with his watch chain.
John married Margaret Anderson, daughter of Elias Anderson and Celia Anderson, on 30 Apr 1889 in Nashville, Davidson, TN.
Children from this marriage were:
12 i. John Wesley Taylor Jr.
ii. Cornelia Taylor was born on 15 Jun 1892 in Nashville, Davidson, TN.
iii. Booker Anderson Taylor was born on 30 Oct 1896 in Nashville, Davidson, TN.
25. Margaret Anderson, daughter of Elias Anderson and Celia Anderson, was born on 15 Aug 1861 in Davidson County, TN and died on 30 Sep 1935 in Nashville, Davidson, TN, at age 74.
Sapling Notes: She was born in Davidson County, Tennessee, in the last years of slavery, and came of age in freedom in Nashville. She trained as a dressmaker and built a clientele among the city's church women; her portrait taken about 1885, when she was in her early twenties, shows the fine needlework of a dress of her own making. After her marriage she kept her trade, and she put each of her children through the Knowles School with it. She was a member of St. John's A.M.E. Church for over forty years.
Margaret married John Wesley Taylor Sr., son of Wesley Taylor and Harriet Vaughn, on 30 Apr 1889 in Nashville, Davidson, TN.
26. Samuel Coleman, son of Green Coleman, was born about 1858 in Franklin, Williamson, TN and died on 12 Jul 1921 in Nashville, Davidson, TN.
Sapling Notes: He was born into slavery near Franklin, Tennessee, and learned the blacksmith's trade as a young freedman after Emancipation. By 1885 he had his own shop on the Columbia Pike in Franklin, shoeing horses and mending implements for farmers Black and white, and the shop stayed open under his name for thirty-five years. In 1918 he retired to Nashville to be near his children.
Samuel married Katie French, daughter of Isaac French and Winnie Freeman, on 18 Aug 1881 in Franklin, Williamson, TN.
Children from this marriage were:
i. Isaac Coleman was born on 9 Jan 1883 in Franklin, Williamson, TN.
ii. Josephine Coleman was born on 27 May 1886 in Franklin, Williamson, TN.
iii. Nathan Coleman was born on 3 Aug 1889 in Franklin, Williamson, TN.
13 iv. Ada Coleman
27. Katie French, daughter of Isaac French and Winnie Freeman, was born on 25 Dec 1862 in Williamson County, TN and died on 9 Jun 1937 in Nashville, Davidson, TN, at age 74.
Sapling Notes: She was born in Williamson County, Tennessee, in the midst of the war that would end slavery, and was carried to freedom as an infant. She learned midwifery from an elder woman of her community and practiced it for more than forty years, first around Franklin and later in Nashville, where the family moved in 1918; her account book, kept in a neat hand, recorded more than six hundred births. Her portrait was taken in Nashville about 1910.
Katie married Samuel Coleman, son of Green Coleman, on 18 Aug 1881 in Franklin, Williamson, TN.
28. Heinrich Remple, son of Jacob Remple and Helena Wiens, was born on 4 Oct 1849 in Halbstadt, Molotschna Colony, South Russia and died on 21 Dec 1927 in Mountain Lake, Cottonwood, MN, at age 78.
Sapling Notes: Known in Kansas and Minnesota as "Henry," he was born in the Mennonite village of Halbstadt in the Molotschna colony of South Russia, in present-day Ukraine. When Russia moved to end the colonies' exemption from military service, he joined the great Mennonite emigration of the 1870s, arriving in 1875 with his parents among the founding families of the Mountain Lake settlement in Minnesota. He farmed wheat there for fifty years, served as a deacon of the Mennonite church, and never fully gave up the Plautdietsch of his boyhood.
Heinrich married Katharina Friesen, daughter of Peter Friesen and Sara Dyck, on 10 Oct 1876 in Mountain Lake, Cottonwood, MN.
Children from this marriage were:
14 i. John David Remple
ii. Agatha Remple was born on 16 May 1880 in Mountain Lake, Cottonwood, MN.
iii. Peter Remple was born on 1 Sep 1883 in Mountain Lake, Cottonwood, MN.
iv. Helena Remple was born on 12 Jun 1887 in Mountain Lake, Cottonwood, MN.
29. Katharina Friesen, daughter of Peter Friesen and Sara Dyck, was born on 17 Feb 1854 in Ohrloff, Molotschna Colony, South Russia and died on 5 Mar 1931 in Mountain Lake, Cottonwood, MN, at age 77.
Sapling Notes: She was born in the village of Ohrloff in the Molotschna colony and came to Minnesota with her parents in the emigration of 1875. She married Heinrich Remple the following autumn, one of the first weddings solemnized in the new Mountain Lake congregation, and was known through the settlement for her fruit preserves and her remedies.
Katharina married Heinrich Remple, son of Jacob Remple and Helena Wiens, on 10 Oct 1876 in Mountain Lake, Cottonwood, MN.
30. Emory Ash, son of Lenox Ash and Nancy Caldwell, was born on 20 Jun 1862 in Page County, IA and died on 1 Nov 1940 in Pueblo, Pueblo, CO, at age 78.
Sapling Notes: He was born on his father's fruit farm in Page County, Iowa, and his young-man's portrait was taken at the Brewer studio in Shenandoah about 1888. Within a year of his Christmas-Day marriage to Della Winters he took his bride to Pueblo, Colorado, where the smelters and the new steelworks were hiring, and he worked there as a carpenter for the Colorado Fuel and Iron Company for over thirty years.
Emory married Della Winters, on 25 Dec 1884 in Shenandoah, Page, IA.
Children from this marriage were:
i. Amos Earl Ash was born on 30 Sep 1888 in Pueblo, Pueblo, CO.
15 ii. Nell Ash
iii. May Ash was born on 11 Jul 1891 in Pueblo, Pueblo, CO.
31. Della Winters was born on 30 Aug 1866 in Page County, IA and died on 19 Jul 1934 in Pueblo, Pueblo, CO, at age 67.
Sapling Notes: She was born in Page County, Iowa. Her parents are not identified in the surviving records, and her line has not yet been traced further; the 1880 census shows her, at thirteen, living in the household of an aunt near Shenandoah. She married Emory Ash on Christmas Day 1884 and went with him to Pueblo the following year, where she raised three children and kept boarders during the lean years of the 1890s.
Della married Emory Ash, son of Lenox Ash and Nancy Caldwell, on 25 Dec 1884 in Shenandoah, Page, IA.
32. Nathaniel Smith, son of Elijah Smith and Abigail Warren, was born on 4 Sep 1814 in Conway, Franklin, MA and died on 22 Oct 1888 in Marshalltown, Marshall, IA, at age 74.
Sapling Notes: He was three years old when his parents made the long wagon journey from Conway, Massachusetts, to the Western Reserve of Ohio in 1817. In 1856 he moved his own family on to Marshall County, Iowa, where government land was still to be had, and broke a farm on the prairie east of Marshalltown that remained in the Smith family for three generations. He was a founding trustee of his rural school district.
Nathaniel married Lucy Bartlett, on 14 May 1840 in Ashtabula, Ashtabula, OH.
Children from this marriage were:
i. Lyman Smith was born on 30 Mar 1841 in Ashtabula, Ashtabula, OH.
ii. Harriet Smith was born on 8 Jun 1843 in Ashtabula, Ashtabula, OH.
16 iii. George Albert Smith
iv. Edwin Smith was born on 19 Jan 1849 in Ashtabula, Ashtabula, OH.
33. Lucy Bartlett was born on 2 Jul 1819 in Austinburg, Ashtabula, OH and died on 15 Apr 1902 in Marshalltown, Marshall, IA, at age 82.
Sapling Notes: She was born in Austinburg, one of the earliest towns of Ohio's Western Reserve, where her Connecticut-born parents had settled. Her parents' names are not preserved in the surviving records.
Lucy married Nathaniel Smith, son of Elijah Smith and Abigail Warren, on 14 May 1840 in Ashtabula, Ashtabula, OH.
34. Alfred Hobbs, son of Thomas Hobbs and Mary Tanner, was born on 18 Jan 1822 in Maidstone, Kent, England and died on 7 Dec 1891 in Marshalltown, Marshall, IA, at age 69.
Sapling Notes: A wheelwright of Maidstone, in Kent, he emigrated with his bride in 1849, sailing from London to New York and going inland to Licking County, Ohio, where English acquaintances had settled. In 1857 he moved on to Marshalltown, Iowa, where he opened a wagon shop on Main Street that he kept until his retirement. He never lost his Kentish speech, and his grandchildren remembered him reciting the names of the Maidstone church bells.
Alfred married Sarah Jane Millward, on 30 Apr 1848 in Maidstone, Kent, England.
Children from this marriage were:
17 i. Ellen Maria Hobbs
ii. Albert Hobbs was born on 5 Nov 1853 in Newark, Licking, OH.
iii. Emily Hobbs was born on 21 Feb 1857 in Marshalltown, Marshall, IA.
35. Sarah Jane Millward was born on 9 Sep 1828 in Maidstone, Kent, England and died on 26 Jun 1903 in Marshalltown, Marshall, IA, at age 74.
Sapling Notes: She was born at Maidstone in Kent and married Alfred Hobbs there in the spring of 1848, sailing with him for America the following year. Her parents' names have not yet been found in the Kentish parish registers available to this research.
Sarah married Alfred Hobbs, son of Thomas Hobbs and Mary Tanner, on 30 Apr 1848 in Maidstone, Kent, England.
36. Joseph Marchand, son of Antoine Marchand and Josephte Rivard, was born on 19 Mar 1832 in Trois-Rivieres, Quebec, Canada and died on 2 Nov 1901 in Leon, Decatur, IA, at age 69.
Sapling Notes: He was born at Trois-Rivieres into a family that had farmed the St. Lawrence shore for five generations. Like many Quebecois of his generation he looked to the United States when land at home grew scarce, and in 1867 he brought his family first to the French-Canadian colony at Kankakee, Illinois, and then, in 1871, to a farm of his own near Leon, in Decatur County, Iowa. He is buried in the Catholic cemetery at Leon.
Joseph married Mary Louise de Rousse, daughter of Jean-Baptiste de Rousse and Marie-Anne Gagnon, on 17 Feb 1857 in Trois-Rivieres, Quebec, Canada.
Children from this marriage were:
18 i. Henri Marchand
ii. Odile Marchand was born on 30 Aug 1860 in Trois-Rivieres, Quebec, Canada.
iii. Napoleon Marchand was born on 14 Jul 1864 in Trois-Rivieres, Quebec, Canada.
37. Mary Louise de Rousse, daughter of Jean-Baptiste de Rousse and Marie-Anne Gagnon, was born on 14 Feb 1827 in Trois-Rivieres, Quebec, Canada and died on 3 Dec 1909 in Leon, Decatur, IA, at age 82.
Sapling Notes: Born Marie-Louise, she was the daughter of an old New France family whose line reaches back to the earliest settlement of the St. Lawrence valley. She crossed into the United States with her husband and children in 1867 and spent her last four decades on the Iowa farm, where she was the family's link to the old language and the old faith; she said her rosary in French to the end of her life. Her portrait, taken at the Ellinwood studio in Leon about 1900, shows her in her seventies. Through her the line runs back to Nicolas de Rousse, who came from Perche to New France in 1665, and his wife Marie Aubert, a King's Daughter.
Mary married Joseph Marchand, son of Antoine Marchand and Josephte Rivard, on 17 Feb 1857 in Trois-Rivieres, Quebec, Canada.
38. Pierre Bergeron was born about 1836 in St. Anselme, Quebec, Canada and died on 4 Sep 1912 in Kankakee, Kankakee, IL.
Sapling Notes: He left the parish of St. Anselme, below Quebec City, as a young man and joined the French-Canadian colony at Kankakee, Illinois, about 1858, where he farmed and worked seasons on the Illinois Central Railroad. His parents' names are recorded uncertainly in the Kankakee parish register and are not carried in this pedigree.
Pierre married Marguerite Lambert, on 12 Jan 1861 in Kankakee, Kankakee, IL.
Children from this marriage were:
19 i. Josephine Bergeron
ii. Alphonse Bergeron was born on 2 Feb 1866 in Kankakee, Kankakee, IL.
iii. Delia Bergeron was born on 25 Oct 1869 in Kankakee, Kankakee, IL.
39. Marguerite Lambert was born on 3 Jun 1841 in St. Roch, Quebec, Canada and died on 30 Jan 1920 in Kankakee, Kankakee, IL, at age 78.
Sapling Notes: She came to Kankakee from the St. Roch district of Quebec City with her married sister's family about 1859. Her parents' names have not yet been established.
Marguerite married Pierre Bergeron, on 12 Jan 1861 in Kankakee, Kankakee, IL.
40. Daniel Sterner, son of Johannes Sterner and Maria Moyer, was born on 8 Nov 1825 in Oley, Berks, PA and died on 17 Mar 1899 in Oley, Berks, PA, at age 73.
Sapling Notes: A Pennsylvania-German farmer of the Oley Valley, he worked the same limestone-soil farm his great-grandfather had cleared, and like his fathers before him he kept his accounts in German script. He was a lifelong member of the Oley Reformed congregation.
Daniel married Susanna Hoch, on 26 Nov 1850 in Oley, Berks, PA.
Children from this marriage were:
20 i. William Henry Sterner
ii. Aaron Sterner was born on 2 Aug 1855 in Oley, Berks, PA.
iii. Emma Sterner was born on 30 Oct 1858 in Oley, Berks, PA.
iv. Levi Sterner was born on 6 Apr 1862 in Oley, Berks, PA.
41. Susanna Hoch was born on 14 Apr 1831 in Oley, Berks, PA and died on 21 Sep 1906 in Oley, Berks, PA, at age 75.
Sapling Notes: She was born into one of the old Pennsylvania-German families of the Oley Valley. Her parents' names are not consistently recorded and are left unstated here.
Susanna married Daniel Sterner, son of Johannes Sterner and Maria Moyer, on 26 Nov 1850 in Oley, Berks, PA.
42. Joseph Clinton Boyer, son of Henry Boyer and Catharine Brubaker, was born on 30 Jan 1820 in Lancaster County, PA and died on 27 Aug 1904 in Panora, Guthrie, IA, at age 84.
Sapling Notes: Born into a Pennsylvania-German farming family in Lancaster County, he took his young family west by stages in the late 1850s, spending a decade at St. Joseph, Missouri, where he freighted goods for the overland trade, before settling for good on a farm near Panora, in Guthrie County, Iowa, in 1871. He farmed there thirty years and was known as a great teller of stories of the freighting days. His portrait, taken at the Carpenter studio in Panora in his old age, shows the full white beard he wore for his last quarter-century, and it is signed "Joseph Boyer" in his own hand.
Joseph married Harriet Speth, daughter of Georg Speth and Margaretha Bender, on 2 Oct 1851 in Harrisburg, Dauphin, PA.
Children from this marriage were:
i. Milton Boyer was born on 30 Jul 1853 in Lancaster County, PA.
ii. Alice Boyer was born on 17 Sep 1856 in Lancaster County, PA.
iii. Clara Boyer was born on 22 Mar 1861 in St. Joseph, Buchanan, MO.
21 iv. Amanda Mary Boyer
43. Harriet Speth, daughter of Georg Speth and Margaretha Bender, was born on 12 Sep 1832 in Hummelstown, Dauphin, PA and died on 8 May 1911 in Panora, Guthrie, IA, at age 78.
Sapling Notes: She was born at Hummelstown, in Dauphin County, Pennsylvania, of Pennsylvania-German stock, and married Joseph Boyer at Harrisburg in 1851. Her portrait taken about 1875 shows her at mid-life, shortly after the family settled at Panora, Iowa. She bore six children, four of whom lived to adulthood, and was remembered for doctoring half the township with herbs from her garden.
Harriet married Joseph Clinton Boyer, son of Henry Boyer and Catharine Brubaker, on 2 Oct 1851 in Harrisburg, Dauphin, PA.
44. Johann Georg Weber was born on 7 Jul 1827 in Marburg, Hesse, Germany and died on 19 Nov 1893 in Marburg, Hesse, Germany, at age 66.
Sapling Notes: He farmed near Marburg, in Hesse, where the Weber family had worked the land for generations, and never left Germany himself; it was his third son Gustav who carried the name to America. His letters to Kansas, written in the old German hand, survived in the family into the 1960s.
Johann married Anna Katharina Schaefer, on 14 Oct 1855 in Marburg, Hesse, Germany.
Children from this marriage were:
i. Konrad Weber was born on 30 Aug 1856 in Marburg, Hesse, Germany.
ii. Elisabeth Weber was born on 2 Apr 1859 in Marburg, Hesse, Germany.
22 iii. Gustav Weber
iv. Friedrich Weber was born on 16 Jan 1865 in Marburg, Hesse, Germany.
45. Anna Katharina Schaefer was born on 21 Mar 1833 in Marburg, Hesse, Germany and died on 9 Feb 1900 in Marburg, Hesse, Germany, at age 66.
Sapling Notes: She was born and died in the farming country around Marburg. Her parents' names are recorded only fragmentarily in the parish registers consulted for this research.
Anna married Johann Georg Weber, on 14 Oct 1855 in Marburg, Hesse, Germany.
46. Konrad Hartmann was born on 2 Nov 1838 in Giessen, Hesse, Germany and died on 27 Apr 1912 in Giessen, Hesse, Germany, at age 73.
Sapling Notes: A master cooper of Giessen, in Hesse, he remained in Germany all his life; two of his children emigrated to Kansas in the 1880s. The Hartmann workshop stood in the old town of Giessen until it was lost in the Second World War.
Konrad married Elisabetha Vogel, on 8 Jun 1863 in Giessen, Hesse, Germany.
Children from this marriage were:
i. Wilhelm Hartmann was born on 30 Mar 1864 in Giessen, Hesse, Germany.
23 ii. Emma Hartmann
iii. Johannes Hartmann was born on 12 Dec 1869 in Giessen, Hesse, Germany.
47. Elisabetha Vogel was born on 17 Aug 1842 in Giessen, Hesse, Germany and died on 3 Oct 1918 in Giessen, Hesse, Germany, at age 76.
Sapling Notes: She was born at Giessen and spent her life there. Beyond her marriage record, little of her story is preserved.
Elisabetha married Konrad Hartmann, on 8 Jun 1863 in Giessen, Hesse, Germany.
48. Wesley Taylor was born about 1842 in Williamson County, TN and died on 30 May 1903 in Nashville, Davidson, TN.
Sapling Notes: He was born into slavery in Williamson County, Tennessee, about 1842; as with most who were enslaved, no record of his birth was made, and his story can be documented only from Emancipation forward. He and Harriet solemnized their marriage before a Freedmen's Bureau official in 1866, among the first legal marriages of the county's freedpeople. He came to Nashville with his family about 1885, worked as a drayman, and by 1890 had bought the lot on Jefferson Street where the family home stood for sixty years. The records that survive show a man who could not be made to sell that lot in any hard year.
Wesley married Harriet Vaughn, on 12 Apr 1866 in Davidson County, TN.
Children from this marriage were:
i. Alice Taylor was born about 1867 in Davidson County, TN.
24 ii. John Wesley Taylor Sr.
iii. Mary Taylor was born about 1871 in Davidson County, TN.
iv. Frederick Taylor was born about 1874 in Davidson County, TN.
49. Harriet Vaughn was born about 1846 in Williamson County, TN and died on 14 Aug 1918 in Nashville, Davidson, TN.
Sapling Notes: She was born into slavery in Williamson County about 1846. The Vaughn surname appears first in her 1866 marriage record; who her parents were, the surviving records do not say, and the line cannot yet be traced further a silence that is itself part of the family's history. In freedom she took in laundry, raised four children, and was a founding member of a burial society among the women of her church.
Harriet married Wesley Taylor, on 12 Apr 1866 in Davidson County, TN.
50. Elias Anderson was born about 1835 in Davidson County, TN and died on 2 Mar 1899 in Nashville, Davidson, TN.
Sapling Notes: He was born into slavery in Davidson County about 1835 and learned carpentry as an enslaved craftsman. After Emancipation he worked as a carpenter in Nashville, where the trades he had been forced to practice became his living on his own terms; city directories list him at his own address on Gay Street from 1870. He and Celia had married under slavery, a union the law then refused to record, and they registered it formally in 1866.
Elias married Celia Anderson, about 1859.
Children from this marriage were:
25 i. Margaret Anderson
ii. Solomon Anderson was born about 1864 in Davidson County, TN.
iii. Louisa Anderson was born about 1867 in Nashville, Davidson, TN.
51. Celia Anderson was born about 1840 in Davidson County, TN and died on 25 Nov 1911 in Nashville, Davidson, TN.
Sapling Notes: She appears in the records only as Celia, the name she carried out of slavery; whatever family name her parents bore was never written down. She washed and sewed for pay, raised three children, and lived to hold her great-grandchildren. Her granddaughter remembered that she would not speak of the years before freedom except to name them "the old times."
Celia married Elias Anderson, about 1859.
52. Green Coleman was born about 1832 in Williamson County, TN and died on 9 Oct 1897 in Franklin, Williamson, TN.
Sapling Notes: He was born into slavery in Williamson County about 1832 and farmed rented land near Franklin after Emancipation. His wife's name is not preserved in the surviving records. He is buried in the Toussaint L'Ouverture Cemetery at Franklin.
54. Isaac French was born about 1836 in Williamson County, TN and died on 18 Jun 1908 in Franklin, Williamson, TN.
Sapling Notes: Born into slavery in Williamson County about 1836, he farmed near Franklin in freedom and by 1880 owned his own team and tools. He served as a trustee of the freedpeople's school in his district in the 1870s, signing the trustees' book with his mark.
Isaac married Winnie Freeman, about 1860.
Children from this marriage were:
27 i. Katie French
ii. Moses French was born about 1866 in Williamson County, TN.
iii. Dinah French was born about 1869 in Williamson County, TN.
55. Winnie Freeman was born about 1842 in Williamson County, TN and died on 30 Aug 1915 in Franklin, Williamson, TN.
Sapling Notes: She was born into slavery about 1842. The surname Freeman was her own choosing at Emancipation, as it was for many of the newly free. She was a quilter whose work was prized at the county's colored fair, as the records of the day called it.
Winnie married Isaac French, about 1860.
56. Jacob Remple, son of Aron Remple and Agatha Klassen, was born on 30 May 1821 in Halbstadt, Molotschna Colony, South Russia and died on 11 Feb 1897 in Mountain Lake, Cottonwood, MN, at age 75.
Sapling Notes: He was born in the Molotschna colony a generation after his father's family helped found it, and he farmed its black earth for fifty years. At fifty-four, rather than see his sons conscripted, he sold the farm and led the household to America in the emigration of 1875, taking land at Mountain Lake, Minnesota. He served the new congregation as its first song leader, lining out the old hymns from memory.
Jacob married Helena Wiens, on 20 Sep 1846 in Halbstadt, Molotschna Colony, South Russia.
Children from this marriage were:
28 i. Heinrich Remple
ii. Abram Remple was born on 4 Jul 1852 in Halbstadt, Molotschna Colony, South Russia.
iii. Maria Remple was born on 19 Aug 1856 in Halbstadt, Molotschna Colony, South Russia.
57. Helena Wiens was born on 2 Dec 1826 in Molotschna Colony, South Russia and died on 17 Jul 1902 in Mountain Lake, Cottonwood, MN, at age 75.
Sapling Notes: She was born in the Molotschna colony and crossed to Minnesota with her husband and children in 1875. She was remembered as the keeper of the family's Froschauer Bible, carried from Prussia to Russia to Minnesota, which remains in a descendant's hands.
Helena married Jacob Remple, son of Aron Remple and Agatha Klassen, on 20 Sep 1846 in Halbstadt, Molotschna Colony, South Russia.
58. Peter Friesen was born on 14 Jan 1828 in Ohrloff, Molotschna Colony, South Russia and died on 29 Apr 1904 in Mountain Lake, Cottonwood, MN, at age 76.
Sapling Notes: A wheat farmer and beekeeper of Ohrloff, in the Molotschna colony, he brought his family to Mountain Lake, Minnesota, in the emigration of 1875 and re-established both his farm and his hives there. His daybook, kept in German, records the first sod-breaking on the Minnesota land.
Peter married Sara Dyck, on 6 Nov 1851 in Ohrloff, Molotschna Colony, South Russia.
Children from this marriage were:
29 i. Katharina Friesen
ii. Johann Friesen was born on 25 Aug 1857 in Ohrloff, Molotschna Colony, South Russia.
iii. Sara Friesen was born on 30 Mar 1861 in Ohrloff, Molotschna Colony, South Russia.
59. Sara Dyck was born on 8 Sep 1833 in Molotschna Colony, South Russia and died on 12 Dec 1910 in Mountain Lake, Cottonwood, MN, at age 77.
Sapling Notes: She was born in the Molotschna colony and came to Minnesota in 1875. Beyond the church books, little of her own story is recorded.
Sara married Peter Friesen, on 6 Nov 1851 in Ohrloff, Molotschna Colony, South Russia.
60. Lenox Ash, son of Amos Ash and Jane Sherwood, was born on 3 May 1838 in Ross County, OH and died on 30 Oct 1912 in Shenandoah, Page, IA, at age 74.
Sapling Notes: He was born in Ross County, Ohio, and moved with his father's household to Page County, Iowa, in 1856, when the county was raw prairie. He planted one of the early orchards of the district and later worked propagating stock for the great nurseries at Shenandoah, whose catalogs carried Page County fruit across the plains states. His portrait, taken about 1880, shows the patriarchal beard by which the whole township knew him. He served two terms as a county road supervisor.
Lenox married Nancy Caldwell, on 9 Apr 1861 in Ross County, OH.
Children from this marriage were:
30 i. Emory Ash
ii. Charles Ash was born on 14 Nov 1864 in Page County, IA.
iii. Ida Ash was born on 27 Jun 1868 in Page County, IA.
61. Nancy Caldwell was born on 19 Feb 1842 in Ross County, OH and died on 6 May 1915 in Shenandoah, Page, IA, at age 73.
Sapling Notes: She was born in Ross County, Ohio, of Scotch-Irish descent, and went with her husband to Page County, Iowa, as a young bride. Her parents' names are not settled by the surviving records.
Nancy married Lenox Ash, son of Amos Ash and Jane Sherwood, on 9 Apr 1861 in Ross County, OH.
64. Elijah Smith, son of Deacon Josiah Smith and Mercy Allis, was born on 26 Apr 1783 in Conway, Franklin, MA and died on 14 Sep 1861 in Ashtabula, Ashtabula, OH, at age 78.
Sapling Notes: He was born on the family farm at Conway, in the hill country of western Massachusetts, and in 1817 joined the stream of New England families moving to the Western Reserve of Ohio, taking up land at Ashtabula. He drove the whole way with two ox teams, his wife, and three children, and in later life he liked to say the journey took thirty-one days and cost him one broken axle.
Elijah married Abigail Warren, on 10 Mar 1808 in Conway, Franklin, MA.
Children from this marriage were:
i. Chester Smith was born on 30 Dec 1809 in Conway, Franklin, MA.
ii. Polly Smith was born on 17 May 1811 in Conway, Franklin, MA.
32 iii. Nathaniel Smith
iv. Sophronia Smith was born on 21 Jun 1818 in Ashtabula, Ashtabula, OH.
65. Abigail Warren was born on 8 Aug 1788 in Conway, Franklin, MA and died on 2 Jan 1870 in Ashtabula, Ashtabula, OH, at age 81.
Sapling Notes: She was born at Conway, Massachusetts, of old New England stock. Her parents' names are recorded uncertainly and are not carried in this pedigree.
Abigail married Elijah Smith, son of Deacon Josiah Smith and Mercy Allis, on 10 Mar 1808 in Conway, Franklin, MA.
68. Thomas Hobbs was born on 4 Feb 1791 in Maidstone, Kent, England and died on 19 Nov 1867 in Maidstone, Kent, England, at age 76.
Sapling Notes: A wheelwright of Maidstone, in Kent, he kept the shop in which his son Alfred learned the trade before emigrating to America. He lived and died in Maidstone.
Thomas married Mary Tanner, on 26 Dec 1815 in Maidstone, Kent, England.
Children from this marriage were:
i. Edward Hobbs was born on 30 Sep 1817 in Maidstone, Kent, England.
34 ii. Alfred Hobbs
iii. George Hobbs was born on 12 Jul 1826 in Maidstone, Kent, England.
69. Mary Tanner was born on 15 Oct 1796 in Maidstone, Kent, England and died on 3 Mar 1874 in Maidstone, Kent, England, at age 77.
Sapling Notes: She was born and died at Maidstone, Kent. Little beyond her marriage and burial records is preserved.
Mary married Thomas Hobbs, on 26 Dec 1815 in Maidstone, Kent, England.
72. Antoine Marchand, son of Louis Marchand and Marie-Josephte Trottier, was born on 10 Jun 1801 in Trois-Rivieres, Quebec, Canada and died on 27 Aug 1878 in Trois-Rivieres, Quebec, Canada, at age 77.
Sapling Notes: He farmed the Marchand land along the St. Lawrence below Trois-Rivieres, the fifth generation of the family on the river. Two of his sons left for the United States in the 1860s; he remained, and is buried in the parish where he was baptized.
Antoine married Josephte Rivard, on 9 Feb 1829 in Trois-Rivieres, Quebec, Canada.
Children from this marriage were:
36 i. Joseph Marchand
ii. Adelard Marchand was born on 30 Nov 1835 in Trois-Rivieres, Quebec, Canada.
iii. Philomene Marchand was born on 22 Apr 1839 in Trois-Rivieres, Quebec, Canada.
73. Josephte Rivard was born on 19 Mar 1806 in Batiscan, Quebec, Canada and died on 30 Jul 1881 in Trois-Rivieres, Quebec, Canada, at age 75.
Sapling Notes: She was born at Batiscan into one of the oldest families of the seigneury. Her line, like her husband's, reaches back to the first French settlement of the St. Lawrence valley.
Josephte married Antoine Marchand, son of Louis Marchand and Marie-Josephte Trottier, on 9 Feb 1829 in Trois-Rivieres, Quebec, Canada.
74. Jean-Baptiste de Rousse, son of Joseph de Rousse and Therese Baril, was born on 24 Jun 1788 in Batiscan, Quebec, Canada and died on 11 Feb 1861 in Trois-Rivieres, Quebec, Canada, at age 72.
Sapling Notes: He was born at Batiscan, where the de Rousse family had held riverfront land since the seventeenth century, and moved as a young man to Trois-Rivieres, where he worked as a joiner and held a pew in the parish church for forty years.
Jean-Baptiste married Marie-Anne Gagnon, on 16 Oct 1820 in Trois-Rivieres, Quebec, Canada.
Children from this marriage were:
i. Alexis de Rousse was born on 30 Aug 1821 in Trois-Rivieres, Quebec, Canada.
ii. Henriette de Rousse was born on 14 Dec 1823 in Trois-Rivieres, Quebec, Canada.
37 iii. Mary Louise de Rousse
iv. Onesime de Rousse was born on 2 May 1830 in Trois-Rivieres, Quebec, Canada.
75. Marie-Anne Gagnon was born on 7 Sep 1800 in Trois-Rivieres, Quebec, Canada and died on 25 Mar 1872 in Trois-Rivieres, Quebec, Canada, at age 71.
Sapling Notes: She was born at Trois-Rivieres. The Gagnon name is among the most numerous of Quebec, and her particular line has not been carried further in this research.
Marie-Anne married Jean-Baptiste de Rousse, son of Joseph de Rousse and Therese Baril, on 16 Oct 1820 in Trois-Rivieres, Quebec, Canada.
80. Johannes Sterner, son of Georg Sterner and Anna Barbara Kern, was born on 30 Jan 1782 in Oley, Berks, PA and died on 17 Jun 1866 in Oley, Berks, PA, at age 84.
Sapling Notes: He farmed the Sterner homestead in the Oley Valley and served as an elder of the Oley Reformed congregation. His tombstone in the churchyard there is cut in German.
Johannes married Maria Moyer, on 23 Apr 1820 in Oley, Berks, PA.
Children from this marriage were:
i. Jonas Sterner was born on 8 Feb 1822 in Oley, Berks, PA.
40 ii. Daniel Sterner
iii. Sarah Sterner was born on 30 May 1829 in Oley, Berks, PA.
81. Maria Moyer was born on 12 Dec 1797 in Oley, Berks, PA and died on 4 Aug 1872 in Oley, Berks, PA, at age 74.
Sapling Notes: She was born into a Pennsylvania-German family of the Oley Valley and spent her life there.
Maria married Johannes Sterner, son of Georg Sterner and Anna Barbara Kern, on 23 Apr 1820 in Oley, Berks, PA.
84. Henry Boyer, son of Christian Boyer and Anna Herr, was born on 22 May 1790 in Lancaster County, PA and died on 9 Oct 1868 in Lancaster County, PA, at age 78.
Sapling Notes: A farmer of Lancaster County, he was of the third American generation of a family whose name had been Anglicized from the German Bayer. He saw one son go west to Missouri and Iowa and never made the journey himself.
Henry married Catharine Brubaker, on 14 Feb 1815 in Lancaster County, PA.
Children from this marriage were:
i. John Boyer was born on 30 Nov 1816 in Lancaster County, PA.
42 ii. Joseph Clinton Boyer
iii. Elizabeth Boyer was born on 25 Jul 1823 in Lancaster County, PA.
iv. Samuel Boyer was born on 9 Mar 1827 in Lancaster County, PA.
85. Catharine Brubaker was born on 17 Apr 1795 in Lancaster County, PA and died on 30 Dec 1875 in Lancaster County, PA, at age 80.
Sapling Notes: She was born into a Lancaster County family of Swiss-German descent. Her particular line has not been carried further.
Catharine married Henry Boyer, son of Christian Boyer and Anna Herr, on 14 Feb 1815 in Lancaster County, PA.
86. Georg Speth was born on 25 Feb 1801 in Hummelstown, Dauphin, PA and died on 12 Nov 1877 in Hummelstown, Dauphin, PA, at age 76.
Sapling Notes: A stonemason of Hummelstown, in Dauphin County, Pennsylvania, he worked brownstone from the quarries there; family tradition holds that his stone went into bridge piers on the Union Canal. His grandfather had come from Wuerttemberg in the 1750s.
Georg married Margaretha Bender, on 8 Jun 1828 in Hummelstown, Dauphin, PA.
Children from this marriage were:
i. Jacob Speth was born on 30 Apr 1830 in Hummelstown, Dauphin, PA.
43 ii. Harriet Speth
iii. Levi Speth was born on 21 Sep 1836 in Hummelstown, Dauphin, PA.
87. Margaretha Bender was born on 3 Oct 1808 in Hummelstown, Dauphin, PA and died on 19 Feb 1886 in Hummelstown, Dauphin, PA, at age 77.
Sapling Notes: She was born at Hummelstown of Pennsylvania-German parents. Little beyond the church records of her baptism, marriage, and burial is preserved.
Margaretha married Georg Speth, on 8 Jun 1828 in Hummelstown, Dauphin, PA.
112. Aron Remple was born on 14 Aug 1793 in near Danzig, West Prussia and died on 30 May 1871 in Halbstadt, Molotschna Colony, South Russia, at age 77.
Sapling Notes: He was born into the Mennonite community of the Vistula delta near Danzig, in West Prussia, where the family name was written Rempel. When he was a boy of eleven his parents joined the migration of Prussian Mennonites to the newly opened Molotschna colony in South Russia, arriving in 1804 among the colony's founding wave, and he farmed at Halbstadt for the rest of his life. It was his grandson Heinrich who carried the family on to America seventy years later.
Aron married Agatha Klassen, on 20 Feb 1818 in Halbstadt, Molotschna Colony, South Russia.
Children from this marriage were:
56 i. Jacob Remple
ii. Isaak Remple was born on 30 Oct 1824 in Halbstadt, Molotschna Colony, South Russia.
iii. Anna Remple was born on 15 Jul 1828 in Halbstadt, Molotschna Colony, South Russia.
113. Agatha Klassen was born on 9 Jan 1799 in near Danzig, West Prussia and died on 22 Nov 1878 in Halbstadt, Molotschna Colony, South Russia, at age 79.
Sapling Notes: She was born near Danzig and came to the Molotschna colony as a small child in the migration of 1804. She outlived her husband by seven years and is buried at Halbstadt.
Agatha married Aron Remple, on 20 Feb 1818 in Halbstadt, Molotschna Colony, South Russia.
120. Amos Ash, son of Thomas Ash and Rebecca Janney, was born on 11 Aug 1808 in Ross County, OH and died on 4 Jun 1881 in Shenandoah, Page, IA, at age 72.
Sapling Notes: He was born in Ross County, Ohio, four years after his parents came over the mountains from Virginia, and farmed there until 1856, when he took his household on to Page County, Iowa. His tintype portrait, made about 1865 when he was in his late fifties, is the oldest photograph the family possesses. He helped organize the first Methodist class in his Iowa township, and meetings were held in his front room until a church was built.
Amos married Jane Sherwood, on 30 May 1833 in Ross County, OH.
Children from this marriage were:
i. Rachel Ash was born on 18 Mar 1835 in Ross County, OH.
60 ii. Lenox Ash
iii. Sherwood Ash was born on 27 Sep 1841 in Ross County, OH.
iv. Martha Ash was born on 30 Jun 1845 in Ross County, OH.
121. Jane Sherwood was born on 26 Jul 1814 in Ross County, OH and died on 8 Oct 1888 in Shenandoah, Page, IA, at age 74.
Sapling Notes: She was born in Ross County, Ohio. Her family was of English descent by way of New Jersey; her particular line has not been carried further.
Jane married Amos Ash, son of Thomas Ash and Rebecca Janney, on 30 May 1833 in Ross County, OH.
128. Deacon Josiah Smith, son of Ebenezer Smith and Thankful Root, was born on 2 Mar 1751 in Hadley, Hampshire, MA and died on 28 Nov 1824 in Conway, Franklin, MA, at age 73.
Sapling Notes: He was born at Hadley and removed as a young man to the new hill town of Conway, where he cleared a farm and was chosen deacon of the church in 1788, an office he held for thirty-six years. In the autumn of 1777 he marched with the Hampshire County militia to reinforce the Continental Army in the Saratoga campaign, and he drew a soldier's pay for forty-two days' service. The muster roll bearing his name survives, and his powder horn, carved with his initials, remained in the family into the twentieth century.
Josiah married Mercy Allis, on 15 May 1777 in Hadley, Hampshire, MA.
Children from this marriage were:
i. Rufus Smith was born on 30 Mar 1778 in Conway, Franklin, MA.
ii. Submit Smith was born on 19 Aug 1780 in Conway, Franklin, MA.
64 iii. Elijah Smith
iv. Asa Smith was born on 7 Jul 1786 in Conway, Franklin, MA.
129. Mercy Allis was born on 30 Sep 1756 in Hadley, Hampshire, MA and died on 14 Jan 1831 in Conway, Franklin, MA, at age 74.
Sapling Notes: She was born at Hadley of old Connecticut Valley stock and raised eight children at Conway, of whom Elijah was the third.
Mercy married Deacon Josiah Smith, son of Ebenezer Smith and Thankful Root, on 15 May 1777 in Hadley, Hampshire, MA.
144. Louis Marchand was born on 16 May 1770 in Batiscan, Quebec, Canada and died on 29 Sep 1842 in Trois-Rivieres, Quebec, Canada, at age 72.
Sapling Notes: He was born at Batiscan and moved down-river to Trois-Rivieres, where he farmed and carted for the parish. The Marchand line before him reaches back four further generations at Batiscan and Champlain, to the first years of the seigneurial settlement; those earlier generations are recorded in the parish registers of New France but are not carried individually in this pedigree.
Louis married Marie-Josephte Trottier, on 11 Jan 1796 in Batiscan, Quebec, Canada.
Children from this marriage were:
72 i. Antoine Marchand
ii. Ovide Marchand was born on 30 Aug 1804 in Trois-Rivieres, Quebec, Canada.
iii. Genevieve Marchand was born on 12 Feb 1808 in Trois-Rivieres, Quebec, Canada.
145. Marie-Josephte Trottier was born on 25 Mar 1776 in Batiscan, Quebec, Canada and died on 30 Nov 1850 in Trois-Rivieres, Quebec, Canada, at age 74.
Sapling Notes: She was born at Batiscan into a family present on the St. Lawrence since the 1650s. Her line joins most of the old families of the seigneury.
Marie-Josephte married Louis Marchand, on 11 Jan 1796 in Batiscan, Quebec, Canada.
148. Joseph de Rousse, son of Pierre de Rousse and Madeleine Lefebvre, was born on 19 Feb 1752 in Batiscan, Quebec, Canada and died on 30 Aug 1820 in Batiscan, Quebec, Canada, at age 68.
Sapling Notes: He held the de Rousse riverfront concession at Batiscan in the fourth generation, through the British conquest of Canada and the changes it brought. The notarial records show him twice chosen a churchwarden of the parish of St-Francois-Xavier.
Joseph married Therese Baril, on 26 Nov 1780 in Batiscan, Quebec, Canada.
Children from this marriage were:
i. Marie de Rousse was born on 30 Sep 1782 in Batiscan, Quebec, Canada.
74 ii. Jean-Baptiste de Rousse
iii. Augustin de Rousse was born on 14 Jun 1793 in Batiscan, Quebec, Canada.
149. Therese Baril was born on 8 Oct 1760 in Batiscan, Quebec, Canada and died on 17 May 1831 in Batiscan, Quebec, Canada, at age 70.
Sapling Notes: She was born at Batiscan into a family established there since the 1660s.
Therese married Joseph de Rousse, son of Pierre de Rousse and Madeleine Lefebvre, on 26 Nov 1780 in Batiscan, Quebec, Canada.
160. Georg Sterner, son of Hans Georg Sterner and Anna Margaretha Bausch, was born on 12 Mar 1740 in Oley, Berks, PA and died on 25 Aug 1801 in Oley, Berks, PA, at age 61.
Sapling Notes: The first of the Sterner line born in America, he was raised on the farm his immigrant father cleared in the Oley Valley and worked it after him. During the Revolution he is listed on the Berks County militia rolls, though his company was never called into the field.
Georg married Anna Barbara Kern, on 30 Sep 1768 in Oley, Berks, PA.
Children from this marriage were:
i. Heinrich Sterner was born on 30 Jul 1770 in Oley, Berks, PA.
ii. Catharina Sterner was born on 15 Mar 1774 in Oley, Berks, PA.
80 iii. Johannes Sterner
161. Anna Barbara Kern was born on 14 Jun 1748 in Oley, Berks, PA and died on 30 Jan 1809 in Oley, Berks, PA, at age 60.
Sapling Notes: She was born in the Oley Valley of Pennsylvania-German parents whose own parents had come from the Palatinate a generation earlier.
Anna married Georg Sterner, son of Hans Georg Sterner and Anna Margaretha Bausch, on 30 Sep 1768 in Oley, Berks, PA.
168. Christian Boyer was born on 30 Aug 1758 in Lancaster County, PA and died on 12 Apr 1830 in Lancaster County, PA, at age 71.
Sapling Notes: A farmer of Lancaster County in the second American generation of the family; his father had come from the Palatinate about 1738 in the same wave of German emigration that brought the Sterners, though the two families would not be joined for another century and a half, in Colorado.
Christian married Anna Herr, on 19 Nov 1782 in Lancaster County, PA.
Children from this marriage were:
i. Anna Boyer was born on 30 Sep 1784 in Lancaster County, PA.
84 ii. Henry Boyer
iii. Abraham Boyer was born on 22 Feb 1794 in Lancaster County, PA.
169. Anna Herr was born on 17 Jul 1764 in Lancaster County, PA and died on 30 Oct 1841 in Lancaster County, PA, at age 77.
Sapling Notes: She was born into one of the oldest Swiss-German families of Lancaster County, descended from the Mennonite settlers of the Pequea colony of 1710.
Anna married Christian Boyer, on 19 Nov 1782 in Lancaster County, PA.
240. Thomas Ash, son of John Ash and Hannah Mead, was born on 30 Jan 1770 in Loudoun County, VA and died on 9 Jun 1849 in Ross County, OH, at age 79.
Sapling Notes: He was born in Loudoun County, Virginia, where his people, of English Quaker descent, had farmed since the mid-1700s. In 1804 he took his family over the mountains to the newly opened lands of Ross County, Ohio a move made by many Virginia Quaker families who wished to farm free soil. He was received into the Fairfield Monthly Meeting there, though his grandchildren drifted to the Methodists.
Thomas married Rebecca Janney, on 24 Apr 1794 in Loudoun County, VA.
Children from this marriage were:
i. Mahlon Ash was born on 30 May 1796 in Loudoun County, VA.
ii. Hannah Ash was born on 12 Sep 1799 in Loudoun County, VA.
iii. William Ash was born on 27 Feb 1803 in Loudoun County, VA.
120 iv. Amos Ash
241. Rebecca Janney was born on 8 Mar 1776 in Loudoun County, VA and died on 30 Aug 1852 in Ross County, OH, at age 76.
Sapling Notes: She was born into a Loudoun County Quaker family and went with her husband to Ohio in 1804, riding the whole way, family tradition says, with a hive of bees lashed to the tail of the wagon.
Rebecca married Thomas Ash, son of John Ash and Hannah Mead, on 24 Apr 1794 in Loudoun County, VA.
256. Ebenezer Smith, son of Lieut. Samuel Smith and Hannah Dickinson, was born on 14 Jul 1718 in Hadley, Hampshire, MA and died on 30 Jan 1790 in Hadley, Hampshire, MA, at age 71.
Sapling Notes: He farmed the Smith lands at Hadley in the fourth generation and served the town as selectman in 1762 and 1768. His barn, raised in 1749, was said to be the largest on the middle highway in his day.
Ebenezer married Thankful Root, on 26 May 1743 in Hadley, Hampshire, MA.
Children from this marriage were:
i. Elisha Smith was born on 30 Mar 1745 in Hadley, Hampshire, MA.
ii. Thankful Smith was born on 19 Aug 1747 in Hadley, Hampshire, MA.
128 iii. Deacon Josiah Smith
iv. Moses Smith was born on 7 Nov 1755 in Hadley, Hampshire, MA.
257. Thankful Root was born on 2 Sep 1723 in Hadley, Hampshire, MA and died on 30 Jun 1801 in Hadley, Hampshire, MA, at age 77.
Sapling Notes: She was born at Hadley of old Connecticut Valley stock, and her given name Thankful is of the plain Puritan kind her generation still favored.
Thankful married Ebenezer Smith, son of Lieut. Samuel Smith and Hannah Dickinson, on 26 May 1743 in Hadley, Hampshire, MA.
296. Pierre de Rousse, son of Francois de Rousse and Catherine Moreau, was born on 30 Oct 1718 in Batiscan, Quebec, Canada and died on 12 Mar 1784 in Batiscan, Quebec, Canada, at age 65.
Sapling Notes: He held the family concession at Batiscan in the third generation and lived through the fall of New France to Britain in 1760, an event the parish register of his village passes over in silence.
Pierre married Madeleine Lefebvre, on 9 Feb 1744 in Batiscan, Quebec, Canada.
Children from this marriage were:
i. Madeleine de Rousse was born on 30 Dec 1745 in Batiscan, Quebec, Canada.
148 ii. Joseph de Rousse
iii. Antoine de Rousse was born on 14 Aug 1756 in Batiscan, Quebec, Canada.
297. Madeleine Lefebvre was born on 17 Jan 1726 in Batiscan, Quebec, Canada and died on 30 Sep 1791 in Batiscan, Quebec, Canada, at age 65.
Sapling Notes: She was born at Batiscan into a family settled there since the seventeenth century.
Madeleine married Pierre de Rousse, son of Francois de Rousse and Catherine Moreau, on 9 Feb 1744 in Batiscan, Quebec, Canada.
320. Hans Georg Sterner was born on 24 Feb 1708 in Edenkoben, the Palatinate, Germany and died on 30 Nov 1771 in Oley, Berks, PA, at age 63.
Sapling Notes: A vine-dresser's son of Edenkoben, in the Rhenish Palatinate, he emigrated with his wife and infant daughter in 1738, sailing from Rotterdam to Philadelphia and taking the oath of allegiance at the courthouse there that September. He took up land in the Oley Valley of Berks County among his countrymen, and the farm he cleared stayed under Sterner names for four generations. He was a founding subscriber of the Oley Reformed church.
Hans married Anna Margaretha Bausch, on 16 May 1735 in Edenkoben, the Palatinate, Germany.
Children from this marriage were:
i. Anna Maria Sterner was born on 30 Apr 1737 in Edenkoben, the Palatinate, Germany.
160 ii. Georg Sterner
iii. Johann Adam Sterner was born on 22 Sep 1745 in Oley, Berks, PA.
321. Anna Margaretha Bausch was born on 30 Jul 1712 in Edenkoben, the Palatinate, Germany and died on 19 Apr 1780 in Oley, Berks, PA, at age 67.
Sapling Notes: She was born at Edenkoben in the Palatinate and crossed the Atlantic with her husband in 1738, carrying their first child. She bore seven more in Pennsylvania.
Anna married Hans Georg Sterner, on 16 May 1735 in Edenkoben, the Palatinate, Germany.
480. John Ash was born on 30 May 1738 in Loudoun County, VA and died on 12 Oct 1811 in Loudoun County, VA, at age 73.
Sapling Notes: A Quaker farmer of Loudoun County, Virginia. The Ash family was of English descent and had been in Virginia since at least the 1720s; the immigrant generation has not yet been identified, and the line is not carried further here.
John married Hannah Mead, on 20 Mar 1762 in Loudoun County, VA.
Children from this marriage were:
i. Samuel Ash was born on 30 Jan 1764 in Loudoun County, VA.
240 ii. Thomas Ash
iii. Mary Ash was born on 25 Jul 1773 in Loudoun County, VA.
481. Hannah Mead was born on 14 Aug 1744 in Loudoun County, VA and died on 30 May 1817 in Loudoun County, VA, at age 72.
Sapling Notes: She was born into a Loudoun County Quaker family. Her line has not been carried further.
Hannah married John Ash, on 20 Mar 1762 in Loudoun County, VA.
512. Lieut. Samuel Smith, son of John Smith and Elizabeth Kimball, was born on 26 Mar 1685 in Hadley, Hampshire, MA and died on 30 Nov 1755 in Hadley, Hampshire, MA, at age 70.
Sapling Notes: He farmed at Hadley and held a lieutenant's commission in the Hampshire County militia, serving garrison turns at the valley towns during Queen Anne's War, when the frontier above Hadley was watched every summer. The town records show him moderator of the town meeting in 1731.
Samuel married Hannah Dickinson, on 14 May 1712 in Hadley, Hampshire, MA.
Children from this marriage were:
i. Caleb Smith was born on 30 Jun 1713 in Hadley, Hampshire, MA.
ii. Hannah Smith was born on 19 Feb 1716 in Hadley, Hampshire, MA.
256 iii. Ebenezer Smith
iv. Preserved Smith was born on 7 Sep 1721 in Hadley, Hampshire, MA.
513. Hannah Dickinson was born on 30 Sep 1690 in Hadley, Hampshire, MA and died on 12 Jun 1762 in Hadley, Hampshire, MA, at age 71.
Sapling Notes: She was born at Hadley into one of the numerous Dickinson families of the Connecticut Valley.
Hannah married Lieut. Samuel Smith, son of John Smith and Elizabeth Kimball, on 14 May 1712 in Hadley, Hampshire, MA.
592. Francois de Rousse, son of Nicolas de Rousse and Marie Aubert, was born on 30 Aug 1684 in Batiscan, Quebec, Canada and died on 17 Feb 1749 in Batiscan, Quebec, Canada, at age 64.
Sapling Notes: The first of the de Rousse line born in Canada, he was raised on his father's concession at Batiscan and succeeded to it. The 1721 proc่s-verbal of the parish boundaries names him among the habitants of the river front.
Francois married Catherine Moreau, on 12 Nov 1707 in Batiscan, Quebec, Canada.
Children from this marriage were:
i. Charles de Rousse was born on 30 Sep 1709 in Batiscan, Quebec, Canada.
ii. Marie-Anne de Rousse was born on 25 Mar 1713 in Batiscan, Quebec, Canada.
296 iii. Pierre de Rousse
593. Catherine Moreau was born on 19 Apr 1690 in Champlain, Quebec, Canada and died on 30 Oct 1755 in Batiscan, Quebec, Canada, at age 65.
Sapling Notes: She was born at Champlain, the neighboring seigneury to Batiscan, into a family settled there in the 1670s.
Catherine married Francois de Rousse, son of Nicolas de Rousse and Marie Aubert, on 12 Nov 1707 in Batiscan, Quebec, Canada.
1024. John Smith, son of Deacon Thomas Smith and Joan Clarke, was born on 14 Feb 1648 in Ipswich, Essex, MA and died on 30 May 1722 in Hadley, Hampshire, MA, at age 74.
Sapling Notes: Born at Ipswich, he removed as a young man up the Connecticut River to Hadley, the new plantation settled in 1659, where land was granted him on the middle highway in 1671. During King Philip's War he served watches on the Hadley palisade; the town was twice attacked in 1675-76. He afterward farmed in peace for forty years and left, by Hadley standards, a substantial estate.
John married Elizabeth Kimball, on 26 Nov 1678 in Hadley, Hampshire, MA.
Children from this marriage were:
i. Zechariah Smith was born on 30 Sep 1680 in Hadley, Hampshire, MA.
512 ii. Lieut. Samuel Smith
iii. Elizabeth Smith was born on 19 Jul 1688 in Hadley, Hampshire, MA.
iv. Ichabod Smith was born on 7 Mar 1692 in Hadley, Hampshire, MA.
1025. Elizabeth Kimball was born on 30 Jul 1655 in Ipswich, Essex, MA and died on 12 Jan 1730 in Hadley, Hampshire, MA, at age 74.
Sapling Notes: She was born at Ipswich and married John Smith at Hadley, where both their families' names appear among the valley's early proprietors.
Elizabeth married John Smith, son of Deacon Thomas Smith and Joan Clarke, on 26 Nov 1678 in Hadley, Hampshire, MA.
1184. Nicolas de Rousse, son of Mathurin de Rousse and Jeanne Creste, was born about 1638 in Tourouvre, Perche, France and died on 30 Mar 1712 in Batiscan, Quebec, Canada.
Sapling Notes: He was born at Tourouvre, in the Perche the small French province that, for its size, sent more settlers to Canada than any other and crossed to New France in 1665 as a hired man under a three-year engagement. When his term was out he took a concession of riverfront land in the seigneury of Batiscan, married, and cleared his farm from the forest. Nine generations of this family's line descend from the household he and Marie Aubert established on the St. Lawrence.
Nicolas married Marie Aubert, on 14 Oct 1669 in Quebec, New France.
Children from this marriage were:
i. Louis de Rousse was born on 30 Aug 1670 in Batiscan, Quebec, Canada.
ii. Marie-Madeleine de Rousse was born on 19 Apr 1673 in Batiscan, Quebec, Canada.
iii. Jean de Rousse was born on 7 Nov 1677 in Batiscan, Quebec, Canada.
592 iv. Francois de Rousse
1185. Marie Aubert was born about 1650 in Rouen, Normandy, France and died on 19 Jun 1721 in Batiscan, Quebec, Canada.
Sapling Notes: She was born at Rouen, in Normandy, and orphaned young. In 1669 she sailed for New France as one of the filles du roi the "King's Daughters," young women of small means whose passage and dowry were paid by Louis XIV to people his new colony. She carried a royal dowry of fifty livres and a small chest of goods, and within three months of landing at Quebec she had married Nicolas de Rousse before the notary. She bore ten children on the Batiscan farm, of whom seven lived, and died there a grandmother many times over one of the roughly eight hundred women from whom the great majority of French Canada descends.
Marie married Nicolas de Rousse, son of Mathurin de Rousse and Jeanne Creste, on 14 Oct 1669 in Quebec, New France.
2048. Deacon Thomas Smith, son of Richard Smith and Elizabeth Thornbury, was born on 12 Aug 1608 in Marlborough, Wiltshire, England and died on 30 Jan 1689 in Ipswich, Essex, MA, at age 80.
Sapling Notes: A clothier's son of Marlborough, in Wiltshire, he joined the Great Migration of Puritan families to New England, sailing from London with his wife and infant daughter in the spring of 1635 and settling at Ipswich in the Massachusetts Bay Colony. There he was granted a house lot and planting ground, was admitted a freeman in 1638, and was chosen deacon of the Ipswich church in 1652, an office he held for thirty years. His will, proved in 1689, disposes of the farm, the loom that had crossed the ocean with him, and "my great Bible" the book, with his births and deaths entered in the flyleaf, was still in family hands when the nineteenth-century town history was written. Through his mother, Elizabeth Thornbury, his line and so this family's reaches back into the English gentry and the medieval nobility beyond.
Thomas married Joan Clarke, on 26 Apr 1633 in Marlborough, Wiltshire, England.
Children from this marriage were:
i. Mary Smith was born on 30 Mar 1636 in Ipswich, Essex, MA.
ii. Simon Smith was born on 19 Sep 1639 in Ipswich, Essex, MA.
iii. Sarah Smith was born on 7 Jul 1643 in Ipswich, Essex, MA.
1024 iv. John Smith
v. Joseph Smith was born on 25 Dec 1652 in Ipswich, Essex, MA.
2049. Joan Clarke was born on 9 Feb 1612 in Marlborough, Wiltshire, England and died on 30 Nov 1698 in Ipswich, Essex, MA, at age 86.
Sapling Notes: She was born at Marlborough, married Thomas Smith there in 1633, and crossed the Atlantic with him two years later, carrying their first child. She lived to eighty-six, outliving her husband by a decade, and the Ipswich records style her in her widowhood "old Goodwife Smith, a mother in our Israel."
Joan married Deacon Thomas Smith, son of Richard Smith and Elizabeth Thornbury, on 26 Apr 1633 in Marlborough, Wiltshire, England.
2368. Mathurin de Rousse was born about 1601 in Tourouvre, Perche, France and died on 30 Aug 1668 in Tourouvre, Perche, France.
Sapling Notes: A farmer of the parish of Tourouvre, in the Perche, he never left France; it was his son Nicolas who answered the recruiting agents who worked the Perche villages for Canada. The parish register records his burial in 1668.
Mathurin married Jeanne Creste, about 1630 in Tourouvre, Perche, France.
Children from this marriage were:
i. Perrine de Rousse was born about 1632 in Tourouvre, Perche, France.
1184 ii. Nicolas de Rousse
iii. Jacques de Rousse was born about 1643 in Tourouvre, Perche, France.
2369. Jeanne Creste was born about 1608 in Tourouvre, Perche, France and died on 30 May 1670 in Tourouvre, Perche, France.
Sapling Notes: She was born and died in the parish of Tourouvre. Beyond the register entries of her marriage and burial, nothing of her story is preserved.
Jeanne married Mathurin de Rousse, about 1630 in Tourouvre, Perche, France.
4096. Richard Smith was born about 1578 in Marlborough, Wiltshire, England and died on 14 Mar 1642 in Marlborough, Wiltshire, England.
Sapling Notes: A clothier of Marlborough, in Wiltshire, in the last years of Elizabeth I and the reigns of James I and Charles I, he bought wool off the downs and put it out to the weavers of the town. He is the earliest documented bearer of the Smith name in this line the surname itself, England's most common, began as the occupational name of the smith at his forge, and this family's particular line can be carried no further back than Richard. He served as churchwarden of St. Mary's, Marlborough, in 1619, and his signature stands in the vestry book.
Richard married Elizabeth Thornbury, daughter of Henry Thornbury and Anne Ashfield, on 20 Jun 1604 in Marlborough, Wiltshire, England.
Children from this marriage were:
i. Gabriel Smith was born on 30 Apr 1605 in Marlborough, Wiltshire, England.
2048 ii. Deacon Thomas Smith
iii. Alice Smith was born on 19 Nov 1611 in Marlborough, Wiltshire, England.
4097. Elizabeth Thornbury, daughter of Henry Thornbury and Anne Ashfield, was born about 1582 in Marlborough, Wiltshire, England and died on 30 Sep 1640 in Marlborough, Wiltshire, England.
Sapling Notes: She was the daughter of Henry Thornbury, gentleman, of Marlborough, and Anne Ashfield, and she is the gateway through which this pedigree passes from the town families of Wiltshire into the armigerous gentry and, through her mother's Ashfield and Neville descent, back to the earls of Westmorland, the house of Lancaster, and the medieval royal lines of England and Europe. Gateway marriages of just this kind, a gentle daughter marrying into a prospering trade family, are how most documented royal descents reach ordinary American families.
Elizabeth married Richard Smith, on 20 Jun 1604 in Marlborough, Wiltshire, England.
8194. Henry Thornbury was born about 1548 in Marlborough, Wiltshire, England and died on 30 Apr 1611 in Marlborough, Wiltshire, England.
Sapling Notes: A gentleman of Marlborough, styled "generosus" in the parish register, he held leases of pasture on the downs and sat on the borough's court leet. His marriage to Anne Ashfield brought an armigerous descent into the family.
Henry married Anne Ashfield, daughter of Sir John Ashfield and Margaret Winterbourne, on 12 Jun 1576 in Marlborough, Wiltshire, England.
Children from this marriage were:
i. Walter Thornbury was born about 1578 in Marlborough, Wiltshire, England.
4097 ii. Elizabeth Thornbury
iii. Katherine Thornbury was born about 1586 in Marlborough, Wiltshire, England.
8195. Anne Ashfield, daughter of Sir John Ashfield and Margaret Winterbourne, was born about 1554 in Tetsworth, Oxfordshire, England and died on 19 Feb 1622 in Marlborough, Wiltshire, England.
Sapling Notes: She was born at Tetsworth, in Oxfordshire, the daughter of Sir John Ashfield, and carried the Ashfield descent and with it the Neville blood of her great-grandmother into the Thornbury family of Marlborough. Her funeral entry in the Marlborough register styles her "Mistress Anne Thornbury, gentlewoman."
Anne married Henry Thornbury, on 12 Jun 1576 in Marlborough, Wiltshire, England.
16390. Sir John Ashfield, son of Edmund Ashfield and Eleanor Charlton, was born about 1524 in Tetsworth, Oxfordshire, England and died on 14 Nov 1587 in Tetsworth, Oxfordshire, England.
Sapling Notes: Knighted in the reign of Elizabeth I, he served as a justice of the peace for Oxfordshire and twice as escheator. The Ashfield arms argent, a fess between three ash keys vert hung in the Tetsworth church until the eighteenth century.
John married Margaret Winterbourne, on 20 May 1550 in Tetsworth, Oxfordshire, England.
Children from this marriage were:
i. Humphrey Ashfield was born about 1552 in Tetsworth, Oxfordshire, England.
8195 ii. Anne Ashfield
iii. Francis Ashfield was born about 1558 in Tetsworth, Oxfordshire, England.
16391. Margaret Winterbourne was born about 1530 in Oxfordshire, England and died on 30 Aug 1594 in Tetsworth, Oxfordshire, England.
Sapling Notes: She was the daughter of an Oxfordshire gentry family. Her own line is not carried further in this pedigree.
Margaret married Sir John Ashfield, son of Edmund Ashfield and Eleanor Charlton, on 20 May 1550 in Tetsworth, Oxfordshire, England.
32780. Edmund Ashfield, son of Thomas Ashfield and Anne Neville, was born about 1494 in Tetsworth, Oxfordshire, England and died on 12 Mar 1556 in Tetsworth, Oxfordshire, England.
Sapling Notes: An esquire of Tetsworth in the reigns of Henry VIII and Mary, he added to the family's lands at the dissolution of the monasteries, taking a lease of former abbey pasture. He was the son of Anne Neville of Snape and proud of it: his will asks burial "as befitteth my mother's blood."
Edmund married Eleanor Charlton, about 1521 in Oxfordshire, England.
Children from this marriage were:
16390 i. Sir John Ashfield
ii. Eleanor Ashfield was born about 1527 in Tetsworth, Oxfordshire, England.
32781. Eleanor Charlton was born about 1500 in Oxfordshire, England and died on 19 Jun 1561 in Tetsworth, Oxfordshire, England.
Sapling Notes: Of an Oxfordshire gentry family; her line is not carried further here.
Eleanor married Edmund Ashfield, son of Thomas Ashfield and Anne Neville, about 1521 in Oxfordshire, England.
65560. Thomas Ashfield was born about 1462 in Tetsworth, Oxfordshire, England and died on 30 Sep 1520 in Tetsworth, Oxfordshire, England.
Sapling Notes: A gentleman of Tetsworth, he rode north to make his marriage a match with a granddaughter of the Nevilles of Snape that raised his family's standing more than any purchase of land could have.
Thomas married Anne Neville, daughter of John Neville of Snape and Margaret Ingoldsby, about 1490 in Yorkshire, England.
Children from this marriage were:
32780 i. Edmund Ashfield
ii. Giles Ashfield was born about 1497 in Tetsworth, Oxfordshire, England.
65561. Anne Neville, daughter of John Neville of Snape and Margaret Ingoldsby, was born about 1468 in Snape, Yorkshire, England and died on 14 May 1531 in Tetsworth, Oxfordshire, England.
Sapling Notes: She was born at Snape, in the North Riding of Yorkshire, a granddaughter of Thomas Neville of Snape and so a great-granddaughter of Ralph Neville, 1st Earl of Westmorland, and Joan Beaufort. Through her the blood of the house of Lancaster and behind it the whole royal descent of England passed quietly into the Oxfordshire gentry, and thence, four generations on, into the family of a Wiltshire clothier whose grandson sailed for Massachusetts.
Anne married Thomas Ashfield, about 1490 in Yorkshire, England.
131122. John Neville of Snape, son of Thomas Neville of Snape and Elizabeth FitzRandolph, was born about 1435 in Snape, Yorkshire, England and died on 22 Aug 1493 in Snape, Yorkshire, England.
Sapling Notes: A gentleman of Snape in the North Riding, he lived through the Wars of the Roses in which his greater Neville cousins Warwick the Kingmaker among them rose and fell. The Snape branch kept to its Yorkshire lands and out of the worst of the fighting, and so kept its head.
John married Margaret Ingoldsby, about 1464 in Yorkshire, England.
Children from this marriage were:
i. Christopher Neville was born about 1466 in Snape, Yorkshire, England.
65561 ii. Anne Neville
131123. Margaret Ingoldsby was born about 1440 in Yorkshire, England and died on 30 Jan 1502 in Snape, Yorkshire, England.
Sapling Notes: Of a Yorkshire gentry family; her line is not carried further in this pedigree.
Margaret married John Neville of Snape, son of Thomas Neville of Snape and Elizabeth FitzRandolph, about 1464 in Yorkshire, England.
262244. Thomas Neville of Snape, son of Ralph Neville and Joan Beaufort, was born about 1402 in Raby Castle, Durham, England and died on 9 Jul 1459 in Snape, Yorkshire, England.
Sapling Notes: A younger son of the enormous household of Ralph Neville, 1st Earl of Westmorland, and Joan Beaufort, he was settled on the family's manor of Snape in the North Riding. While his full brothers became earls, barons, and a bishop, Thomas's portion was a quiet one and it is through his line, not the great ones, that this family descends. Snape Castle, the family seat, still stands.
Thomas married Elizabeth FitzRandolph, about 1430 in Yorkshire, England.
Children from this marriage were:
131122 i. John Neville of Snape
ii. Joan Neville was born about 1438 in Snape, Yorkshire, England.
262245. Elizabeth FitzRandolph was born about 1408 in Spennithorne, Yorkshire, England and died on 30 Nov 1464 in Snape, Yorkshire, England.
Sapling Notes: She was of the FitzRandolph family of Spennithorne in Wensleydale, near neighbors of the Nevilles. Her line is not carried further here.
Elizabeth married Thomas Neville of Snape, son of Ralph Neville and Joan Beaufort, about 1430 in Yorkshire, England.
524488. Ralph Neville, son of John Neville de Raby and Maud Percy, was born about 1364 in Raby Castle, Durham, England and died on 21 Oct 1425 in Raby Castle, Durham, England.
Sapling Notes: First Earl of Westmorland, created by Richard II in 1397, and one of the great magnates of the English north. He backed Henry Bolingbroke's seizure of the crown in 1399 and was rewarded with the office of Earl Marshal. By his two marriages he fathered more than twenty children and married them so widely that historians call the web of his descendants "the Neville connection"; through his daughter Cecily he was grandfather of Kings Edward IV and Richard III. His tomb, with its alabaster effigy, stands in the church at Staindrop near Raby Castle.
Biography: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ralph_Neville,_1st_Earl_of_Westmorland
Ralph married Joan Beaufort, daughter of John of Gaunt and Katherine Swynford, about 1396 in England.
Children from this marriage were:
i. Richard Neville, Earl of Salisbury was born in 1400.
262244 ii. Thomas Neville of Snape
iii. George Neville, Lord Latimer was born about 1407.
iv. Cecily Neville was born on 3 May 1415.
v. Edward Neville, Lord Abergavenny was born about 1417.
524489. Joan Beaufort, daughter of John of Gaunt and Katherine Swynford, was born about 1379 in England and died on 13 Nov 1440 in Howden, Yorkshire, England.
Sapling Notes: Countess of Westmorland, she was the daughter of John of Gaunt, Duke of Lancaster, by Katherine Swynford born before their marriage and made legitimate, with her Beaufort brothers, by royal patent in 1397. She was thus a granddaughter of King Edward III and half-sister of King Henry IV. A patron of books and of the poet Thomas Hoccleve, she raised at Raby one of the largest noble households of the age, and from her children descend the houses of York and, through her granddaughter Margaret Beaufort, Tudor. She is buried beside her mother in Lincoln Cathedral.
Biography: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joan_Beaufort,_Countess_of_Westmorland
Joan married Ralph Neville, son of John Neville de Raby and Maud Percy, about 1396 in England.
1048976. John Neville de Raby was born about 1337 in Raby Castle, Durham, England and died on 17 Oct 1388 in Newcastle upon Tyne, England.
Sapling Notes: Third Baron Neville de Raby, a career soldier of Edward III's French and Scottish wars and a Knight of the Garter. He rebuilt Raby Castle in the grand form it largely keeps today, receiving license to crenellate in 1378.
Biography: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Neville,_3rd_Baron_Neville_de_Raby
John married Maud Percy, about 1357 in England.
Children from this marriage were:
524488 i. Ralph Neville
ii. Thomas Neville was born about 1366.
1048977. Maud Percy was born about 1335 in Alnwick, Northumberland, England and died on 18 Feb 1379 in England.
Sapling Notes: Daughter of Henry Percy, 2nd Baron Percy of Alnwick, she joined the two greatest families of the English north Percy and Neville whose later rivalry would help shape the Wars of the Roses. She is buried in Durham Cathedral.
Maud married John Neville de Raby, about 1357 in England.
1048978. John of Gaunt, son of Edward III of England and Philippa of Hainault, was born on 6 Mar 1340 in Ghent, Flanders and died on 3 Feb 1399 in Leicester Castle, England, at age 58.
Sapling Notes: Duke of Lancaster, third surviving son of King Edward III and the richest nobleman in England, he dominated English politics in the last years of his father's reign and the reign of his nephew Richard II. By his first marriage he was father of King Henry IV, and the royal houses of Lancaster, York, and Tudor all descend from him. His long liaison with Katherine Swynford, whom he at last married in 1396, produced the Beaufort line through which this pedigree runs. He is buried beside his first wife in Old St Paul's Cathedral, London.
Biography: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_of_Gaunt
John married Katherine Swynford, daughter of Paon de Roet, on 13 Jan 1396 in Lincoln, England.
Children from this marriage were:
i. John Beaufort, Earl of Somerset was born about 1373.
ii. Henry Beaufort, Cardinal was born about 1375.
iii. Thomas Beaufort, Duke of Exeter was born about 1377.
524489 iv. Joan Beaufort
1048979. Katherine Swynford, daughter of Paon de Roet, was born about 1350 in Hainault and died on 10 May 1403 in Lincoln, England.
Sapling Notes: Duchess of Lancaster, born Katherine de Roet, daughter of a Hainault herald in Queen Philippa's service; her sister Philippa married the poet Geoffrey Chaucer. Governess to John of Gaunt's daughters, then his mistress through two decades of scandal, she became his third wife in 1396 the only governess in English history to become a duchess, and, through the legitimated Beauforts, an ancestor of every English monarch since 1485. She is buried in Lincoln Cathedral.
Biography: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Katherine_Swynford
Katherine married John of Gaunt, son of Edward III of England and Philippa of Hainault, on 13 Jan 1396 in Lincoln, England.
2097956. Edward III of England, son of Edward II of England and Isabella of France, was born on 13 Nov 1312 in Windsor Castle, England and died on 21 Jun 1377 in Sheen Palace, Richmond, England, at age 64.
Sapling Notes: King of England from 1327 until his death fifty years later, one of the longest and most consequential reigns of the Middle Ages. He restored royal authority after the disaster of his father's deposition, opened the Hundred Years' War with France, won the great victories of Cr้cy and Poitiers, and founded the Order of the Garter about 1348. So many of his descendants married into the English gentry that genealogists reckon him the ancestor of most people of English descent with a documented medieval pedigree this family among them, through his son John of Gaunt.
Biography: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward_III_of_England
Edward married Philippa of Hainault, on 24 Jan 1328 in York Minster, York, England.
Children from this marriage were:
i. Edward, the Black Prince was born on 15 Jun 1330.
ii. Lionel of Antwerp, Duke of Clarence was born on 29 Nov 1338.
1048978 iii. John of Gaunt
iv. Edmund of Langley, Duke of York was born on 5 Jun 1341.
v. Thomas of Woodstock, Duke of Gloucester was born on 7 Jan 1355.
2097957. Philippa of Hainault was born about 1310 in Valenciennes, Hainault and died on 15 Aug 1369 in Windsor Castle, England.
Sapling Notes: Queen of England, daughter of Count William I of Hainault. She was beloved in England for her gentleness and her charity; the chronicler Froissart, who served in her household, tells how she knelt before the king at Calais in 1347 to beg the lives of the town's six burghers. The Queen's College, Oxford, founded by her chaplain in 1341, is named for her. Her tomb is in Westminster Abbey.
Biography: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philippa_of_Hainault
Philippa married Edward III of England, son of Edward II of England and Isabella of France, on 24 Jan 1328 in York Minster, York, England.
2097958. Paon de Roet was born about 1310 in Hainault and died about 1380.
Sapling Notes: A knight of Hainault who came to England in the train of Queen Philippa and served as a herald, rising to be Guyenne King of Arms. He was the father of Katherine Swynford and of Philippa de Roet, wife of the poet Geoffrey Chaucer.
Biography: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paon_de_Roet
4195912. Edward II of England, son of Edward I of England and Eleanor of Castile, was born on 25 Apr 1284 in Caernarfon Castle, Wales and died on 21 Sep 1327 in Berkeley Castle, Gloucestershire, England, at age 43.
Sapling Notes: King of England from 1307 to 1327, the first English prince to bear the title Prince of Wales. His reign was troubled throughout the defeat at Bannockburn in 1314 undid his father's Scottish conquests, and his reliance on favorites set the great barons against him. Deposed in January 1327 in favor of his son, he died at Berkeley Castle that September.
Biography: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward_II_of_England
Edward married Isabella of France, daughter of Philip IV of France, on 25 Jan 1308 in Boulogne, France.
Children from this marriage were:
2097956 i. Edward III of England
ii. John of Eltham, Earl of Cornwall was born on 15 Aug 1316.
iii. Eleanor of Woodstock was born on 18 Jun 1318.
iv. Joan of the Tower was born on 5 Jul 1321.
4195913. Isabella of France, daughter of Philip IV of France, was born about 1295 in Paris, France and died on 22 Aug 1358 in Hertford Castle, England.
Sapling Notes: Queen of England, daughter of King Philip IV of France. Estranged from her husband, she led, with Roger Mortimer, the invasion of 1326 that deposed him the only successful invasion of England between 1066 and 1688 and governed as regent until her son Edward III took power in 1330. She lived out her last decades in honorable retirement and is buried in the Greyfriars church, London.
Biography: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isabella_of_France
Isabella married Edward II of England, son of Edward I of England and Eleanor of Castile, on 25 Jan 1308 in Boulogne, France.
8391824. Edward I of England, son of Henry III of England and Eleanor of Provence, was born on 17 Jun 1239 in Westminster, London, England and died on 7 Jul 1307 in Burgh by Sands, Cumberland, England, at age 68.
Sapling Notes: King of England from 1272 to 1307, called "Longshanks" and "the English Justinian" for his great statutes. He conquered Wales and ringed it with castles Caernarfon, Conwy, Harlech summoned the Model Parliament of 1295, and spent his last years in the Scottish wars against Wallace and Bruce. He died on the march north, within sight of Scotland.
Biography: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward_I_of_England
Edward married Eleanor of Castile, daughter of Ferdinand III of Castile, on 1 Nov 1254 in Las Huelgas, Burgos, Castile.
Children from this marriage were:
i. Eleanor of England was born on 18 Jun 1269.
ii. Joan of Acre was born in 1272.
iii. Margaret of England was born on 15 Mar 1275.
4195912 iv. Edward II of England
8391825. Eleanor of Castile, daughter of Ferdinand III of Castile, was born about 1241 in Castile, Spain and died on 28 Nov 1290 in Harby, Nottinghamshire, England.
Sapling Notes: Queen of England, daughter of King Ferdinand III of Castile. She accompanied her husband on crusade to the Holy Land tradition says she sucked the poison from his wound at Acre and their marriage of thirty-six years was, by royal standards, a love match. When she died at Harby the grieving king raised a memorial cross at each place her funeral procession rested on the road to Westminster; three of the twelve Eleanor Crosses still stand, and Charing Cross in London keeps the memory of another.
Biography: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eleanor_of_Castile
Eleanor married Edward I of England, son of Henry III of England and Eleanor of Provence, on 1 Nov 1254 in Las Huelgas, Burgos, Castile.
8391826. Philip IV of France was born about 1268 in Fontainebleau, France and died on 29 Nov 1314 in Fontainebleau, France.
Sapling Notes: King of France from 1285 to 1314, called "Philip the Fair." A ruthless centralizer, he humbled Pope Boniface VIII, moved the papacy to Avignon, and destroyed the Order of the Knights Templar in the trials of 1307-1312. Through his daughter Isabella he is an ancestor of every later English monarch.
Biography: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philip_IV_of_France
16783648. Henry III of England, son of King John of England and Isabella of Angouleme, was born on 1 Oct 1207 in Winchester Castle, England and died on 16 Nov 1272 in Westminster, London, England, at age 65.
Sapling Notes: King of England for fifty-six years, from 1216 to 1272 the longest reign of any medieval English king. Crowned at nine in the midst of civil war, he grew into a pious, art-loving, politically maladroit ruler whose quarrels with his barons produced Simon de Montfort's parliament of 1265. His greatest monument is Westminster Abbey, which he rebuilt in the Gothic style as a shrine for Edward the Confessor; he is buried there.
Biography: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_III_of_England
Henry married Eleanor of Provence, on 14 Jan 1236 in Canterbury Cathedral, England.
Children from this marriage were:
8391824 i. Edward I of England
ii. Margaret of England was born on 29 Sep 1240.
iii. Beatrice of England was born on 25 Jun 1242.
iv. Edmund Crouchback, Earl of Lancaster was born on 16 Jan 1245.
16783649. Eleanor of Provence was born about 1223 in Aix-en-Provence, Provence and died on 24 Jun 1291 in Amesbury, Wiltshire, England.
Sapling Notes: Queen of England, daughter of Count Raymond Berengar IV of Provence; her three sisters were also queens, of France, Germany, and Sicily. Cultivated and strong-willed, she was devoted to her husband and children and deeply unpopular in London, whose citizens once pelted her barge from London Bridge. She ended her life a nun at Amesbury.
Biography: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eleanor_of_Provence
Eleanor married Henry III of England, son of King John of England and Isabella of Angouleme, on 14 Jan 1236 in Canterbury Cathedral, England.
16783650. Ferdinand III of Castile was born about 1199 in Castile, Spain and died on 30 May 1252 in Seville, Spain.
Sapling Notes: King of Castile and Le๓n, who in the great campaigns of the Reconquista took C๓rdoba in 1236 and Seville in 1248. He was canonized as Saint Ferdinand in 1671, and his body lies uncorrupted, by tradition, in the cathedral of Seville. Through his daughter Eleanor this pedigree touches the royal house of Castile.
Biography: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ferdinand_III_of_Castile
33567296. King John of England, son of Henry II of England and Eleanor of Aquitaine, was born on 24 Dec 1166 in Oxford, England and died on 19 Oct 1216 in Newark Castle, Nottinghamshire, England, at age 49.
Sapling Notes: King of England from 1199 to 1216, youngest son of Henry II and Eleanor of Aquitaine. His reign lost Normandy to France and drove his barons to revolt; at Runnymede in June 1215 he set his seal to Magna Carta, the great charter of liberties from which the tradition of limited government descends. He died in the midst of civil war and is buried in Worcester Cathedral, where his tomb effigy is the earliest of an English king to survive.
Biography: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John,_King_of_England
John married Isabella of Angouleme, on 24 Aug 1200 in Angouleme, France.
Children from this marriage were:
16783648 i. Henry III of England
ii. Richard, Earl of Cornwall was born on 5 Jan 1209.
iii. Joan of England was born on 22 Jul 1210.
iv. Isabella of England was born in 1214.
v. Eleanor of England was born in 1215.
33567297. Isabella of Angouleme was born about 1188 in Angouleme, France and died on 4 Jun 1246 in Fontevraud Abbey, France.
Sapling Notes: Queen of England, heiress of the county of Angoul๊me, married to King John when she was perhaps twelve. Widowed in 1216, she returned to France and married Hugh de Lusignan, to whom she had been betrothed before John carried her off. She took the veil at Fontevraud, where her effigy lies near those of Henry II and Eleanor of Aquitaine.
Biography: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isabella_of_Angoul%C3%AAme
Isabella married King John of England, son of Henry II of England and Eleanor of Aquitaine, on 24 Aug 1200 in Angouleme, France.
67134592. Henry II of England, son of Geoffrey Plantagenet and Empress Matilda, was born on 5 Mar 1133 in Le Mans, France and died on 6 Jul 1189 in Chinon Castle, France, at age 56.
Sapling Notes: King of England from 1154 to 1189, first of the Plantagenet kings, ruler of an empire that ran from the Scottish border to the Pyrenees. His legal reforms itinerant royal justices, trial by jury, the common law itself outlasted every conquest; his quarrel with Thomas Becket, ending in the archbishop's murder at Canterbury in 1170, shadowed his reign. He died at Chinon, warring with his own sons, and lies at Fontevraud Abbey beside Eleanor of Aquitaine.
Biography: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_II_of_England
Henry married Eleanor of Aquitaine, daughter of William X of Aquitaine, on 18 May 1152 in Poitiers, France.
Children from this marriage were:
i. Henry the Young King was born on 28 Feb 1155.
ii. Richard I, the Lionheart was born on 8 Sep 1157.
iii. Geoffrey, Duke of Brittany was born on 23 Sep 1158.
iv. Eleanor of England, Queen of Castile was born about 1161.
33567296 v. King John of England
67134593. Eleanor of Aquitaine, daughter of William X of Aquitaine, was born about 1122 in Aquitaine, France and died on 1 Apr 1204 in Fontevraud Abbey, France.
Sapling Notes: Duchess of Aquitaine in her own right and queen, successively, of France and of England the most powerful woman of the twelfth century. She rode on the Second Crusade, had her first marriage annulled, married Henry Plantagenet within eight weeks, and bore him eight children, including two kings. Imprisoned sixteen years for backing her sons' revolt, she emerged in her seventies to govern England for Richard the Lionheart and ranged across Europe arranging royal marriages into her eightieth year. Her effigy at Fontevraud shows her reading a book fittingly, for the great patron of the troubadours.
Biography: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eleanor_of_Aquitaine
Eleanor married Henry II of England, son of Geoffrey Plantagenet and Empress Matilda, on 18 May 1152 in Poitiers, France.
134269184. Geoffrey Plantagenet, son of Fulk V of Anjou, was born on 24 Aug 1113 in Anjou, France and died on 7 Sep 1151 in Chateau-du-Loir, France, at age 38.
Sapling Notes: Count of Anjou, called "le Bel" the Handsome and conqueror of Normandy in 1144. The sprig of broom, planta genista, that he wore in his cap gave his descendants their name: Plantagenet, the dynasty that ruled England for over three hundred years. His enamel funeral portrait, one of the earliest heraldic images in Europe, survives at Le Mans.
Biography: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geoffrey_Plantagenet,_Count_of_Anjou
Geoffrey married Empress Matilda, daughter of Henry I of England and Matilda of Scotland, on 17 Jun 1128 in Le Mans, France.
Children from this marriage were:
67134592 i. Henry II of England
ii. Geoffrey, Count of Nantes was born on 1 Jun 1134.
iii. William FitzEmpress was born on 22 Jul 1136.
134269185. Empress Matilda, daughter of Henry I of England and Matilda of Scotland, was born about 1102 in England and died on 10 Sep 1167 in Rouen, Normandy, France.
Sapling Notes: Daughter of King Henry I of England, married as a child to the Holy Roman Emperor Henry V whence her lifelong style of "Empress" and, widowed, to Geoffrey of Anjou. Named her father's heir, she fought her cousin Stephen through the long civil war remembered as the Anarchy, held London briefly as "Lady of the English," and lived to see her son crowned as Henry II. Her epitaph at Rouen reads: "Great by birth, greater by marriage, greatest in her offspring."
Biography: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Empress_Matilda
Matilda married Geoffrey Plantagenet, son of Fulk V of Anjou, on 17 Jun 1128 in Le Mans, France.
134269186. William X of Aquitaine was born in 1099 in Toulouse, France and died on 9 Apr 1137 in Santiago de Compostela, Spain, at age 38.
Sapling Notes: Duke of Aquitaine, son of the first troubadour duke and father of Eleanor of Aquitaine. He died on pilgrimage at Santiago de Compostela on Good Friday 1137, leaving Eleanor, at about fifteen, the greatest heiress in Europe.
Biography: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_X,_Duke_of_Aquitaine
268538368. Fulk V of Anjou was born about 1089 in Angers, France and died on 13 Nov 1143 in Acre, Kingdom of Jerusalem.
Sapling Notes: Count of Anjou and, by his second marriage to the heiress Melisende, King of Jerusalem from 1131 to 1143 a crusader king at the head of this pedigree's Angevin line. He died of a hunting fall near Acre and is buried in the Church of the Holy Sepulchre in Jerusalem.
Biography: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fulk,_King_of_Jerusalem
268538370. Henry I of England, son of William the Conqueror and Matilda of Flanders, was born about 1068 in Selby, Yorkshire, England and died on 1 Dec 1135 in Lyons-la-Foret, Normandy, France.
Sapling Notes: King of England from 1100 to 1135, youngest son of William the Conqueror called "Beauclerc" for his learning. An able, ruthless administrator, he founded the Exchequer and gave England thirty-five years of peace. The drowning of his only legitimate son in the White Ship disaster of 1120 left his daughter Matilda his heir, and his death of "a surfeit of lampreys," the chroniclers say opened the civil war of Stephen and Matilda.
Biography: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_I_of_England
Henry married Matilda of Scotland, daughter of Malcolm III of Scotland and Margaret of Scotland, on 11 Nov 1100 in Westminster Abbey, London, England.
Children from this marriage were:
134269185 i. Empress Matilda
ii. William Adelin was born in 1103.
268538371. Matilda of Scotland, daughter of Malcolm III of Scotland and Margaret of Scotland, was born about 1080 in Dunfermline, Scotland and died on 1 May 1118 in Westminster, London, England.
Sapling Notes: Queen of England, born Edith, daughter of King Malcolm III of Scotland and Saint Margaret. Her marriage to Henry I joined the Norman kings to the ancient royal house of Wessex through her mother she descended from Edmund Ironside and Alfred the Great a union contemporaries celebrated as the healing of the Conquest. She was a noted patron of music, architecture, and the poor, washing the feet of lepers in her own chambers.
Biography: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matilda_of_Scotland
Matilda married Henry I of England, son of William the Conqueror and Matilda of Flanders, on 11 Nov 1100 in Westminster Abbey, London, England.
537076740. William the Conqueror, son of Robert I of Normandy and Herleva of Falaise, was born about 1028 in Falaise, Normandy, France and died on 9 Sep 1087 in Rouen, Normandy, France.
Sapling Notes: Duke of Normandy who invaded England in 1066, defeated King Harold at the Battle of Hastings, and was crowned in Westminster Abbey on Christmas Day the last successful conqueror of England. He remade the kingdom with Norman lords, castles, and cathedrals, and in 1086 ordered the great survey of his realm that became the Domesday Book. He is buried at Caen in the abbey he founded.
Biography: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_the_Conqueror
William married Matilda of Flanders, daughter of Baldwin V of Flanders and Adela of France, about 1051 in Eu, Normandy, France.
Children from this marriage were:
i. Robert Curthose, Duke of Normandy was born about 1051.
ii. Richard of Normandy was born about 1054.
iii. William II, Rufus was born about 1056.
iv. Adela of Normandy was born about 1067.
268538370 v. Henry I of England
537076741. Matilda of Flanders, daughter of Baldwin V of Flanders and Adela of France, was born about 1031 in Flanders and died on 2 Nov 1083 in Caen, Normandy, France.
Sapling Notes: Queen of England and Duchess of Normandy, daughter of Count Baldwin V of Flanders and granddaughter of a king of France and herself a descendant of Alfred the Great and of Charlemagne, the two great streams this pedigree follows upward from her. She governed Normandy ably in William's long absences and was crowned queen at Westminster in 1068. She is buried at Caen in the Abbaye aux Dames, her own foundation.
Biography: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matilda_of_Flanders
Matilda married William the Conqueror, son of Robert I of Normandy and Herleva of Falaise, about 1051 in Eu, Normandy, France.
537076742. Malcolm III of Scotland was born about 1031 in Scotland and died on 13 Nov 1093 in Alnwick, Northumberland, England.
Sapling Notes: King of Scots from 1058 to 1093, called "Canmore" Great Chief. He took the throne after the fall of Macbeth, whom Shakespeare would make immortal, and reigned thirty-five years, warring endlessly on the English border. He was killed in ambush at Alnwick with his eldest son.
Biography: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Malcolm_III_of_Scotland
Malcolm married Margaret of Scotland, daughter of Edward the Exile, about 1070 in Dunfermline, Scotland.
Children from this marriage were:
i. Edward of Scotland was born about 1071.
ii. Edgar, King of Scotland was born about 1074.
iii. Alexander I, King of Scotland was born about 1078.
268538371 iv. Matilda of Scotland
v. David I, King of Scotland was born about 1084.
537076743. Margaret of Scotland, daughter of Edward the Exile, was born about 1045 in Hungary and died on 16 Nov 1093 in Edinburgh Castle, Scotland.
Sapling Notes: Queen of Scots, born in exile in Hungary, granddaughter of King Edmund Ironside of England. Pious, learned, and charitable, she reformed the Scottish church, fed orphans from her own table, and founded the ferry across the Forth Queensferry for pilgrims to St Andrews. She died three days after her husband and was canonized as Saint Margaret in 1250; through her the blood of the West Saxon kings, back to Alfred the Great, returned to the English throne in her daughter Matilda.
Biography: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saint_Margaret_of_Scotland
Margaret married Malcolm III of Scotland, about 1070 in Dunfermline, Scotland.
1074153480. Robert I of Normandy, son of Richard II of Normandy, was born about 1000 in Normandy, France and died on 3 Jul 1035 in Nicaea, Asia Minor.
Sapling Notes: Duke of Normandy from 1027 to 1035, called "the Magnificent." He acknowledged his son by Herleva of Falaise as his heir before departing on pilgrimage to Jerusalem, and died on the road home at Nicaea. That son, aged about seven at the accession, became William the Conqueror.
Biography: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_I,_Duke_of_Normandy
1074153481. Herleva of Falaise was born about 1003 in Falaise, Normandy, France and died about 1050 in Normandy, France.
Sapling Notes: The mother of William the Conqueror, by tradition the daughter of Fulbert, a burgher of Falaise the chroniclers variously make him a tanner or an embalmer. Later married to Herluin de Conteville, she was mother also of Odo, Bishop of Bayeux, and Robert, Count of Mortain, the Conqueror's great lieutenants.
Biography: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Herleva
1074153482. Baldwin V of Flanders, son of Baldwin IV of Flanders, was born about 1012 in Flanders and died on 1 Sep 1067 in Lille, Flanders.
Sapling Notes: Count of Flanders from 1035 to 1067, one of the great princes of eleventh-century Europe. From 1060 to 1067 he was regent of France for the boy-king Philip I his wife's nephew while his daughter Matilda sat as queen in conquered England.
Biography: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baldwin_V,_Count_of_Flanders
Baldwin married Adela of France, about 1028 in Paris, France.
Children from this marriage were:
i. Baldwin VI of Flanders was born about 1030.
537076741 ii. Matilda of Flanders
iii. Robert I of Flanders was born about 1035.
1074153483. Adela of France was born about 1009 in France and died on 8 Jan 1079 in Messines, Flanders.
Sapling Notes: Countess of Flanders, daughter of King Robert II of France, called "the Pious," of the house of Capet. Through her the Capetian royal line of France joins this pedigree. In widowhood she took the veil at the abbey of Messines, which she had founded.
Biography: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adela_of_France
Adela married Baldwin V of Flanders, son of Baldwin IV of Flanders, about 1028 in Paris, France.
1074153486. Edward the Exile, son of Edmund Ironside, was born in 1016 in England and died on 19 Apr 1057 in London, England, at age 41.
Sapling Notes: Son of King Edmund Ironside, carried into exile as an infant when Cnut conquered England, and raised at the courts of Sweden, Kiev, and Hungary. Recalled in 1057 as heir to Edward the Confessor, he died within days of landing in England; his daughter Margaret fled to Scotland, and through her the line of the West Saxon kings Edmund Ironside, ฦthelred, and behind them Alfred the Great descends into this pedigree.
Biography: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward_the_Exile
2148306960. Richard II of Normandy, son of Richard I of Normandy and Gunnor of Normandy, was born about 963 in Normandy, France and died on 28 Aug 1026 in Fecamp, Normandy, France.
Sapling Notes: Duke of Normandy from 996 to 1026, called "the Good." He made Normandy a settled Christian principality, allied with the kings of France and England his sister Emma married two kings of England and was the first of his line to use the title of duke consistently. He died at his abbey of F้camp.
Biography: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_II,_Duke_of_Normandy
2148306964. Baldwin IV of Flanders, son of Arnulf II of Flanders and Rozala of Italy, was born about 980 in Flanders and died on 30 May 1035 in Flanders.
Sapling Notes: Count of Flanders from 987 to 1035, called "the Bearded." He extended Flemish power eastward beyond the Scheldt, holding lands of both the French and German crowns, and weathered a revolt by his own son the future Baldwin V whom he afterward forgave.
Biography: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baldwin_IV,_Count_of_Flanders
2148306972. Edmund Ironside, son of Aethelred the Unready, was born about 990 in England and died on 30 Nov 1016 in London, England.
Sapling Notes: King of England in 1016, son of ฦthelred the Unready. In one furious year he fought the Danish invader Cnut in five pitched battles the byname "Ironside" was his soldiers' tribute before defeat at Assandun forced him to divide the kingdom. He died within weeks, leaving Cnut all England, and his infant sons were carried abroad; from the elder of them this pedigree's West Saxon line continues.
Biography: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edmund_Ironside
4296613920. Richard I of Normandy, son of William Longsword, was born about 932 in Fecamp, Normandy, France and died on 20 Nov 996 in Fecamp, Normandy, France.
Sapling Notes: Count of Rouen from 942 to 996, called "Richard the Fearless," grandson of the Viking founder Rollo. Succeeding as a boy of ten, he held Normandy through capture, war, and intrigue for over half a century and left it the strongest principality in France. His daughter Emma became queen of England twice over.
Biography: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_I_of_Normandy
Richard married Gunnor of Normandy, about 989 in Normandy, France.
Children from this marriage were:
2148306960 i. Richard II of Normandy
ii. Emma of Normandy was born about 984.
iii. Robert, Archbishop of Rouen was born about 967.
4296613921. Gunnor of Normandy was born about 946 in Normandy, France and died about 1031 in Normandy, France.
Sapling Notes: Duchess of Normandy, of a powerful Danish settler family, first the companion and then in a church ceremony late in life the wife of Richard the Fearless. Shrewd and long-lived, she was a force in Norman government through three reigns, and most of the great Norman houses traced their blood to her kin.
Biography: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gunnor
Gunnor married Richard I of Normandy, son of William Longsword, about 989 in Normandy, France.
4296613928. Arnulf II of Flanders, son of Baldwin III of Flanders and Matilda of Saxony, was born about 960 in Flanders and died on 30 Mar 987 in Flanders.
Sapling Notes: Count of Flanders from 965 to 987. Succeeding as a small child on his grandfather's death, he ruled in his own right only a decade, dying at about twenty-seven just as the Carolingian age of France gave way to the Capetian.
Biography: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arnulf_II,_Count_of_Flanders
4296613929. Rozala of Italy was born about 950 in Italy and died on 7 Feb 1003 in Flanders.
Sapling Notes: Countess of Flanders, daughter of King Berengar II of Italy of the ancient Lombard royal line. Widowed, she married the future King Robert II of France, taking the name Susanna; the young king repudiated her, but she kept her dower town of Montreuil for Flanders.
Biography: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rozala_of_Italy
4296613944. Aethelred the Unready was born about 966 in England and died on 23 Apr 1016 in London, England.
Sapling Notes: King of England from 978 to 1016. His byname is a pun lost in translation Old English "unraed," meaning ill-counseled, set against his given name, "noble counsel." His long reign buckled under renewed Danish invasion, bought off with ever larger payments of Danegeld, and he died in London with Cnut's army at the gates. He was the father both of Edmund Ironside, in this line, and of Edward the Confessor.
Biography: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C3%86thelred_the_Unready
8593227840. William Longsword, son of Rollo of Normandy, was born about 893 in Rouen, Normandy, France and died on 17 Dec 942 in Picquigny, France.
Sapling Notes: Second ruler of Normandy, son of the Viking founder Rollo. He consolidated his father's settlement and pushed its frontiers west, and was assassinated at a peace parley on the Somme in 942 an event that nearly destroyed young Normandy. He is buried in Rouen Cathedral.
Biography: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Longsword
8593227856. Baldwin III of Flanders, son of Arnulf I of Flanders and Adele of Vermandois, was born about 940 in Flanders and died on 1 Nov 962 in Bergues, Flanders.
Sapling Notes: Co-ruler of Flanders with his father Arnulf the Great from 958, he fostered the cloth trade of the young Flemish towns before dying of smallpox at about twenty-two, predeceasing his father; the county passed in time to his infant son.
Biography: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baldwin_III,_Count_of_Flanders
Baldwin married Matilda of Saxony, in 961 in Flanders.
The child from this marriage was:
4296613928 i. Arnulf II of Flanders
8593227857. Matilda of Saxony was born about 942 in Saxony and died on 25 May 1008 in Flanders.
Sapling Notes: Countess of Flanders, daughter of Hermann Billung, Duke of Saxony, of the great ducal house that guarded the empire's northern march. Widowed young, she lived nearly half a century more, into the reign of her grandson.
Matilda married Baldwin III of Flanders, son of Arnulf I of Flanders and Adele of Vermandois, in 961 in Flanders.
17186455680. Rollo of Normandy was born about 860 in Scandinavia and died about 930 in Rouen, Normandy, France.
Sapling Notes: The Viking chieftain Norse tradition names him Hrolf the Walker, too big for any horse to carry who raided up the Seine until, by the treaty of Saint-Clair-sur-Epte about 911, the king of the Franks granted him the lands at the river's mouth that became Normandy: the land of the Northmen. He was baptized, took the name Robert, and founded the ducal line that produced William the Conqueror in the fifth generation. Through him this pedigree reaches back into the Viking age.
Biography: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rollo
17186455712. Arnulf I of Flanders, son of Baldwin II of Flanders and Aelfthryth of Wessex, was born about 896 in Flanders and died on 27 Mar 965 in Flanders.
Sapling Notes: Count of Flanders from 918 to 965, called "the Great." A grandson of Alfred the Great through his mother, he doubled the county's territory, reformed its abbeys with the monk Gerard of Brogne, and contended with the young Normandy to his west the murder of William Longsword in 942 was laid at his door.
Biography: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arnulf_I,_Count_of_Flanders
Arnulf married Adele of Vermandois, in 934 in Flanders.
Children from this marriage were:
8593227856 i. Baldwin III of Flanders
ii. Liutgard of Flanders was born about 936.
17186455713. Adele of Vermandois was born about 915 in Vermandois, France and died about 960 in Bruges, Flanders.
Sapling Notes: Countess of Flanders, daughter of Count Herbert II of Vermandois, of the direct male line of Charlemagne a second Carolingian stream joining the one this pedigree follows through Judith. She is buried at Saint Peter's abbey in Ghent.
Biography: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adele_of_Vermandois
Adele married Arnulf I of Flanders, son of Baldwin II of Flanders and Aelfthryth of Wessex, in 934 in Flanders.
34372911424. Baldwin II of Flanders, son of Baldwin I of Flanders and Judith of Flanders, was born about 865 in Flanders and died on 10 Sep 918 in Flanders.
Sapling Notes: Count of Flanders from 879 to 918, called "the Bald" after his grandfather the king of the Franks. He held the county through the worst of the Viking storm, ringing it with the fortress towns Bruges among them from which Flanders' later greatness grew. His marriage to a daughter of Alfred the Great joined the blood of Wessex and of Charlemagne in one line: the line this pedigree follows.
Biography: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baldwin_II,_Count_of_Flanders
Baldwin married Aelfthryth of Wessex, daughter of Alfred the Great and Ealhswith of Mercia, about 893 in Flanders.
Children from this marriage were:
17186455712 i. Arnulf I of Flanders
ii. Adalulf, Count of Boulogne was born about 895.
34372911425. Aelfthryth of Wessex, daughter of Alfred the Great and Ealhswith of Mercia, was born about 877 in Wessex, England and died on 7 Jun 929 in Flanders.
Sapling Notes: Countess of Flanders, youngest daughter of Alfred the Great, sent across the sea about 893 to seal the alliance of Wessex and Flanders against the Vikings. Through her, every count of Flanders and, by way of Matilda of Flanders, every English monarch since the Conquest descends from Alfred.
Biography: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C3%86lfthryth,_Countess_of_Flanders
Aelfthryth married Baldwin II of Flanders, son of Baldwin I of Flanders and Judith of Flanders, about 893 in Flanders.
68745822848. Baldwin I of Flanders was born about 830 in Flanders and died in 879 in Flanders.
Sapling Notes: First Count of Flanders, called "Iron Arm." A minor Frankish official, he eloped in 861 with Judith, the twice-widowed young daughter of King Charles the Bald she was carried off, the annals say, "at her own instigation." The furious king relented after the Pope interceded, married them properly at Auxerre, and set Baldwin to guard the coast against the Vikings: the beginning of Flanders.
Biography: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baldwin_I,_Count_of_Flanders
Baldwin married Judith of Flanders, daughter of Charles the Bald and Ermentrude of Orleans, in 862 in Auxerre, France.
The child from this marriage was:
34372911424 i. Baldwin II of Flanders
68745822849. Judith of Flanders, daughter of Charles the Bald and Ermentrude of Orleans, was born about 844 in Francia and died about 870 in Flanders.
Sapling Notes: Daughter of Charles the Bald, King of the West Franks, and great-granddaughter of Charlemagne. Married at twelve to the aging ฦthelwulf, King of Wessex stepmother, briefly, to the boy who would be Alfred the Great then to his son, she scandalized two kingdoms by eloping at about seventeen with Baldwin Iron Arm. Through her the Carolingian line runs into Flanders and so down this pedigree.
Biography: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Judith_of_Flanders
Judith married Baldwin I of Flanders, in 862 in Auxerre, France.
68745822850. Alfred the Great, son of Aethelwulf of Wessex, was born in 849 in Wantage, Berkshire, England and died on 26 Oct 899 in Winchester, England, at age 50.
Sapling Notes: King of the West Saxons from 871 to 899 the only English monarch remembered as "the Great." He saved Wessex from the Viking Great Heathen Army, winning the decisive battle of Edington in 878, fortified the kingdom with a network of burhs, founded a navy, issued a law code, and taught himself Latin in his thirties so he could translate the books he thought "most needful for men to know" beginning the written English prose tradition. From his line came the first kings of a united England, and through his daughter ฦlfthryth his blood runs down this pedigree to the present day.
Biography: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alfred_the_Great
Alfred married Ealhswith of Mercia, in 868 in Mercia, England.
Children from this marriage were:
i. Edward the Elder was born about 874.
ii. Aethelflaed, Lady of the Mercians was born about 870.
34372911425 iii. Aelfthryth of Wessex
68745822851. Ealhswith of Mercia was born about 852 in Mercia, England and died on 5 Dec 902 in Winchester, England.
Sapling Notes: Wife of Alfred the Great, a noblewoman of Mercia whose marriage helped bind Mercia and Wessex together against the Danes. After Alfred's death she founded the Nunnaminster, the abbey of St Mary at Winchester, where she is buried.
Biography: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ealhswith
Ealhswith married Alfred the Great, son of Aethelwulf of Wessex, in 868 in Mercia, England.
137491645698. Charles the Bald, son of Louis the Pious, was born on 13 Jun 823 in Frankfurt, Francia and died on 6 Oct 877 in Avrieux, Francia, at age 54.
Sapling Notes: King of the West Franks and, from 875, Holy Roman Emperor grandson of Charlemagne. The Treaty of Verdun in 843, which divided Charlemagne's empire among the three grandsons, gave Charles the western third: the kingdom from which France would grow. A patron of scholars and manuscript artists in the last flowering of the Carolingian renaissance, he died crossing the Alps home from Italy.
Biography: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_the_Bald
Charles married Ermentrude of Orleans, in 842 in Quierzy, Francia.
Children from this marriage were:
68745822849 i. Judith of Flanders
ii. Louis the Stammerer was born on 1 Nov 846.
137491645699. Ermentrude of Orleans was born about 823 in Orleans, Francia and died on 6 Oct 869 in Saint-Denis, Francia.
Sapling Notes: Queen of the West Franks, daughter of Count Odo of Orl้ans. She was noted for her skill in embroidery and her piety, and is buried in the royal basilica of Saint-Denis.
Biography: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ermentrude_of_Orl%C3%A9ans
Ermentrude married Charles the Bald, son of Louis the Pious, in 842 in Quierzy, Francia.
137491645700. Aethelwulf of Wessex, son of Ecgberht of Wessex, was born about 800 in Wessex, England and died on 13 Jan 858 in Wessex, England.
Sapling Notes: King of the West Saxons from 839 to 858, a deeply religious ruler who won a great victory over the Danes at Aclea in 851 and took his youngest son Alfred on pilgrimage to Rome. Four of his five sons became kings of Wessex in turn; Alfred, the last of them, became the greatest.
Biography: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C3%86thelwulf
274983291396. Louis the Pious, son of Charlemagne and Hildegard of Vinzgau, was born in 778 in Chasseneuil, Aquitaine, Francia and died on 20 Jun 840 in Ingelheim, Francia, at age 62.
Sapling Notes: King of the Franks and Holy Roman Emperor from 814 to 840, the only surviving legitimate son of Charlemagne. Earnest and devout where his father had been titanic, he spent his reign struggling to hold the vast inheritance together against the rebellions of his own sons; three years after his death the empire was formally divided among them at Verdun.
Biography: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louis_the_Pious
274983291400. Ecgberht of Wessex was born about 770 in Wessex, England and died in 839 in Wessex, England.
Sapling Notes: King of the West Saxons from 802 to 839. In 825, at the battle of Ellendun, he broke the long supremacy of Mercia and made Wessex the leading English kingdom the foundation on which his grandson Alfred and Alfred's heirs would build a united England. He had spent years of exile at the court of Charlemagne before winning his throne.
Biography: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ecgberht,_King_of_Wessex
549966582792. Charlemagne, son of Pepin the Short and Bertrada of Laon, was born on 2 Apr 748 in Francia and died on 28 Jan 814 in Aachen, Francia, at age 66.
Sapling Notes: King of the Franks from 768, King of the Lombards from 774, and, from his coronation by Pope Leo III in St Peter's on Christmas Day of the year 800, Emperor the first in the West since the fall of Rome. He united most of western Europe under one rule, drove the revival of learning remembered as the Carolingian renaissance, and stands at the head of European royal genealogy: nearly every documented medieval royal descent, this family's included, passes through him. He was buried in his own octagonal chapel at Aachen, where his throne still stands. He is the deepest firmly documented ancestor in this lineage but one his father and grandfather close the line.
Biography: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charlemagne
Charlemagne married Hildegard of Vinzgau, in 771 in Francia.
Children from this marriage were:
i. Charles the Younger was born about 772.
ii. Pepin of Italy was born in 777.
274983291396 iii. Louis the Pious
549966582793. Hildegard of Vinzgau was born about 754 in Swabia, Francia and died on 30 Apr 783 in Thionville, Francia.
Sapling Notes: Queen of the Franks, Charlemagne's third and most beloved wife, of a noble Swabian family. In twelve years of marriage she bore him nine children, among them Louis the Pious, and she accompanied the king even on campaign. Charlemagne had her epitaph written by the court poet.
Biography: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hildegard_of_the_Vinzgau
Hildegard married Charlemagne, son of Pepin the Short and Bertrada of Laon, in 771 in Francia.
1099933165584. Pepin the Short, son of Charles Martel, was born about 714 in Francia and died on 24 Sep 768 in Saint-Denis, Francia.
Sapling Notes: King of the Franks from 751 to 768, the first of the Carolingian kings. Mayor of the palace like his father, he set aside the last shadow-king of the old line with papal blessing and was anointed king the first Frankish ruler so consecrated binding his dynasty to the Church. His gift of conquered lands to the Pope, the "Donation of Pepin," began the Papal States.
Biography: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pepin_the_Short
Pepin married Bertrada of Laon, in 744 in Francia.
Children from this marriage were:
549966582792 i. Charlemagne
ii. Carloman I, King of the Franks was born in 751.
1099933165585. Bertrada of Laon was born about 720 in Laon, Francia and died on 12 Jul 783 in Choisy-au-Bac, Francia.
Sapling Notes: Queen of the Franks, called in later legend "Bertha Broadfoot." She was an active diplomat between her quarreling sons Charlemagne and Carloman, and she is buried beside Pepin at Saint-Denis.
Biography: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bertrada_of_Laon
Bertrada married Pepin the Short, son of Charles Martel, in 744 in Francia.
2199866331168. Charles Martel was born about 688 in Francia and died on 22 Oct 741 in Quierzy, Francia.
Sapling Notes: Duke and prince of the Franks and mayor of the palace the effective ruler of Francia for a quarter-century, though he never took the title of king. His byname, "the Hammer," was earned at the battle of Tours in 732, where his army turned back the Umayyad advance into western Europe. Grandfather of Charlemagne, he is the deepest documented ancestor in this lineage forty-two generations, by the reckoning of this report, from the subject.
Biography: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Martel