This person is part of a false pedigree of William Arnold, the immigrant to New England, created by Horatio G. Somerby in 1870. Individual parts of the pedigree may be correct, but many of the parts are incorrect and false.
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Annes Russell, daughter of Sir Peter Russell of Kentchurch, was the second wife of Seisyll ap Dyfnwal ap Carfadog ap Ynyr Fychan. She was the mother of jeffrey and Cadwaladr, both of whom were killed as children at the orders of William de Braiose of Abergavenny in 1175. [1]
Birth Year Estimation
Seisyll, father Dyfnwal was born, say 1095, so Seisyll's birth has been estimated as 1130. Make Annes Russel somewhat younger, born, say, 1145
Systyl ap Dyfnwall, Lord of Upper Gwent, married Annest. She was the daughter and heir of Sir Peter Russell, Knight, Lord of Kentchurch in the couty of Hereford[2][3]
From Wikipedia:
In 1870, genealogist Horatio G. Somerby compiled a pedigree[4] of the Arnold family. This pedigree, showed William Arnold as son of a Thomas Arnold and a descendant of a 12th-century King of Gwentland (in modern day Wales) whose name was Ynir. In 1915, Edson S. Jones on checking Somerby's information with his sources, discovered discrepancies in dates and places, mixed up generations and unrelated people. "This fabricated research was not an isolated incident; Mr. Somerby had also been implicated in other fraudulent research and was out to please his clients regardless of the veracity of his work"[5]
From Anderson's Great Migration:
In 1915 Edson Salisbury Jones published a brief account[6] of his research into the ancestry of immigrant William Arnold (NEHGR 69:64-69), which showed the problems of the supposed pedigree done by Somerby, which did not have the correct father or location of William Arnold the immigrant. Anderson states unequivocally, "The pedigree prepared by Somerby is completely erroneous, and William Arnold came from Ilchester, Somerset"[7]
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