James Stratman

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Image:Clan Tartans-115.jpg James Stratman has an interest in Clan MacQueen, part of the Scottish Clans Project. James Stratman has an interest in Clan MacKintosh, part of the Scottish Clans Project. James Stratman has English ancestors. James Stratman has Scottish Ancestors. James Stratman has Welsh ancestors. James Stratman has Irish ancestors. James Stratman has German Roots. James Stratman has French origins. Descendant of PGM migrant. James is a Friend (Quaker) Descendant James Stratman has ancestors who were part of William Penn's Pennsylvania Settlers community James Stratman is the descendant of a Huguenot emigrant. James Stratman is the descendant of a New Netherland settler. Descendant of Matthew Howard, Sr., James Warner, Thomas Hinton, Robert Clarke, Sr., Dugal McQueen, Mary Tattershall, Innocent Borden, and Richard Borden, Sr.. James is the 25th Great Grandson of Empress Maud, Lady of the English.

My Ethnicity

67% England and Northwestern Europe, 27% Germanic Europe, 4% Wales 2% Scotland

Biography

A little about myself. I was born and raised in Davenport, Iowa (Quad-Cities), so I'm a Midwesterner at heart. I have lived in Los Angeles, California for decades where I currently reside. I graduated from a private college in Kentucky (Berea College) and then completed my graduate studies at the University of Illinois. My employment in Los Angeles has been at UCLA. My interests are varied, including college football, soccer, cooking, technology. paranormal. wildlife, and environmental causes. Classical music is dear to me, in particular the Baroque period and the Italian composers, Tomaso Giovanni Albinoni and Arcangelo Corelli. Their music speaks to my soul. History is one particular interest that is close to my heart, and this is how my interest in genealogy ties in. I've always been fascinated how our past has influenced our present lives, and how our ancestors lived be they commoners or aristocrats. Currently, I'm becoming involved with the Magna Carta project on WikiTree, and that is where I will be spending most of my time here which I'm finding quite enjoyable.

My Genealogy

I became interested in my family genealogy in 1994 when I discovered the name of my paternal great great grandfather, Ferdinand Stratmann, in the family Bible. Back then, the Internet was just taking off but there weren't many resources for genealogy. Fortunately, I lived near a Family History Center and researched the old-fashioned way. I actually made a lot of great discoveries about my great great grandfather back then using the 'paper trail'. I was very narrowly focused on just certain particular ancestors.

Today, I have widen my research considerably, thanks to the advancements in Internet resources and DNA. In the past year I have become more focused on the DNA research side of things including Deep Ancestry, using primarily FamilyTree DNA. My recent discoveries with Deep Ancestry is through my Big-Y test at FTDNA which shows that my yDNA ancestors belonged to the Haplogroup R-U152-L2 (Italo-Celtic), around 1300 BCE, the Bronze Age.

My paternal, STRATMANN, side came from Wunnenberg, Germany in the Rhineland area.

The Ship Rebecca my great great grandfather sailed on to America.

My great great grandfather, Ferdinand Stratmann, arrived through the port of New Orleans in the mid 1800's. He was the only one in his family to leave Germany to begin a new life in America. He set sail from Bremen, Germany aboard the ship Rebecca in 1853.

I've only been able to take my German family back as far as the mid-1700s in Germany.

My father's maternal side were ancestors from Baden-Württemberg, Germany.

I find my richest discoveries on my maternal side, going back to times before our nation was founded. My mother's side is heavily English with a solid lineage from Scotland as well. It is from my mother's side that carries the following ancestors and notables.

Highland Chieftain from ca. 1680 by John Michael Wright

• Dugal McQueen, My 7th great grandfather, and my most prominent Scottish ancestor.

Dugal McQueen, a Highlander believed to have lived in Strathdearn at Corryborough on the Findhorn River near Inverness, participated in the Jacobite Rebellion or Jacobite Risings in 1715. This was the second major Jacobite Rebellion, the others taking place in 1689 and 1745. He was captured at Preston, England along with hundreds of others and held prisoner at Lancaster Castle. He was banished to America in chains aboard the ship, Friendship, sailing from Belfast. He landed at Baltimore, Maryland, where he was sold into indentured servitude for approximately seven years to William Holland, Esq., and then provided with land in Baltimore County, then Frederick County, and now known as Carroll County, Maryland, he began a new life and remarried. His family was close to the Brown and Logsdon families where the McQueen bloodline entered into my direct ancestral line.

• Robert Clarke, My 8th great grandfather

• Winifred Seybourne, My 8th great grandmother

Robert Clarke came from England and arrived within four years of the settlement of St. Mary's Maryland to provide shipment of goods for Indians, representing a Roman Catholic Missionary of the Jesuit order. Clarke sat as a freeman in the legislature and in 1648 he was appointed Survery-General of Maryland.

During the rise of Puritanism, and the Battle Severn in 1655 he was taken prisoner by the Puritans and sentenced to be hanged. However, he was saved by petition but lost much of his fortune and land holdings. A year later, his plantations were restored.

Winifred Seybourne emigrated to Maryland from England in 1638. On 30 July 1638 Lord Baltimore personally issued instructions for a warrant of 100 acres for Mistress Winifred Seyborne [Seaborne] for transporting herself. She became the wife of Robert Clarke upon the death of her husband, Thomas Greene, 2nd Propreitary Governor of Maryland.

Robert Clarke and Winifred Seybourne are my direct ancestors through my Clark ancestry.

• Honora O'Flynn, My 7th great grandmother

• William Logsdon, My 7th great grandfather

As told through lore down through the generations, Honora O'Flynn was a beautiful, flaming red head Irish girl from County Kerry, Ireland who was kidnapped by the British off the coast of Ireland, and brought to Maryland for barter. Honora was bought by William Logsdon for a hogshead (barrel) of tobacco. They would marry in Baltimore, Maryland in 1702. William was transported as an indentured servant to Maryland in 1674 by Captain Samuel Smith of Virginia, where he took up land in Baltimore County. Honora was a pious Catholic and it was through her that the Catholic faith appears in the various family lines. She is known in Logsdon family lore as the "Captive Maiden".

• Jonathan Bozarth, My 5th great grandfather

Jonathan Bozarth or Bozorth, served in the 8th Pennsylvania Continental Line from Sep 1776 to Sep 1779 in the Revolutionary War. With the 8th Pennsylvania he spent the winter of 1777-1778 at Valley Forge. Jonathan served as a Captain in the Hardin County, Kentucky Militia in 1798.

• Capt. William Knox, My 6th great grandfather

Capt. William Knox of Rowan County, North Carolina served in the Revolutionary War and died when he was shot and killed accidently by his own men. He died on July 19, 1776.

• Thomas Logsdon, My 6th great grand uncle

• Joseph Logsdon, his son, and My 1st cousin

Thomas and Joseph Logsdon were personal friends and guides to George Washington. George Washington mentions them in his diary in September 1784.

My following ancestors were American Patriots in the Revolutionary War:

• Richard Langhorn Clarke.My 4th great grandfather

• Richard Mattingly Jr., My 4th great grandfather

• Vachel Hinton, My 5th great grandfather

• Abraham Bray, My 4th great grandfather

He was in the 8th Regiment (Wilcox's) Kentucky Militia in the War of 1812.

• Bennett Mattingly, My 3rd great grandfather

Also served for the 13 Regiment (Gray's) Kentucky Militia in the War of 1812.

• James M. Whitfill, My great great grand uncle

• Benedict J. Whitfill, My great great grand uncle

Both of my uncles were brothers that died in their early twenties serving in the 13th Kentucky Regiment for the Confederacy during the Civil War.

* Not 100% confirmed but has circumstantial evidence. More research is needed.
** Not certain. Needs more sources and research.

Royalty, Nobility and Aristocracy		Relationship	Common Ancestors
	Elizabeth Verney* (Not Certain)	11th Great-Grandmother	Through my 10th great grandmother, Catherine Palmer
	Sir Thomas Palmer II* (Not Certain)	12th Great-Grandfather	Through my 10th great grandmother, Catherine Palmer
	Sir Edward Stradling IV* (Not Certain)	13th Great-Grandfather	Through my 10th great grandmother, Catherine Palmer
	Sir Thomas Wheeler, Knighted by King Henry VII for bravey in the last battle of War of the Roses, Battle of Stoke Field.	14th Great-Grandfather	Through my 9th great-grandparents, Thomas Lawton and Elizabeth Salisbury
	Adeliza of Louvain, Queen of England* (Not Certain), wife of William D'Aubigny and Henry I, King of England	25th Great-Grandmother	Through my 8th great-grandmother, Mary Tattershall
	William D"Aubigny, 1st Earl of Arundel* (Not Certain), husband of Queen Adeliza of Louvain	25th Great-Grandfather	Through my 8th great-grandmother, Mary Tattershall
	Godgifu (Godiva) of Mercia* (Not Certain)	31st Great-Grandmother	Through my 12th great-grandmother, Catherine Stradling
	John Farquharson, 9th Laird of Invercauld, Chief of Clan Farquharson. He was the father of Lady Anne Farquharson	1st Cousin	William McIntosh and Margaret Graham
	Richard III (York), King of England* (Not Certain)	2nd Cousin	John (Plantagenet) of Gaunt and Katherine (Roet) de Swynford
	Henry VIII, King of England* (Not Certain)	4th Cousin	John (Plantagenet) of Gaunt and Katherine (Roet) de Swynford
	Anne Boleyn, Queen of England* (Not Certain)	5th Cousin	Sir Richard FitzAlan and Elizabeth de Bohun
	Bessie Wallis Warfield, Duchess of Windsor, wife of King Edward VIII	8th Cousin	Matthew Howard Sr. and Anne
	Princess Julia Dent Cantacuzene Spiransky-Grant, wife of Prince Mikhail Mikhailovich Cantacuzene, and grand daughter of President Ulysses S. Grant	8th Cousin	Matthew Howard Sr. and Anne
	Alfred Ernle Montacute Chatfield, 1st Baronet Chatfield	12th Cousin	Thomas Chatfield
	Lady Diana Spencer, Princess of Wales* (Not Certain)	13th Cousin	Thomas Stradling and Janet Mathew
Magna Carta Surety Barons		Relationship	Common Ancestors
	Hugh le Bigod* (Not Certain)	24th great-grandfather	Through my 13th great-grandfather, Sir Edward Stradling
	Saher de Quincy* (Not Certain)	24th great-grandfather	Through my 13th great-grandfather, Sir Edward Stradling
	Robert de Vere* (Not Certain)	24th great-grandfather	Through my 13th great-grandfather, Sir Edward Stradling
	Roger le Bigod* (Not Certain)	25th great-grandfather	Through my 13th great-grandfather, Sir Edward Stradling
Presidents of the United States		Relationship	Common Ancestors
	James Knox Polk, 11th President	2nd Cousin	John Knox and Jeane Sinclair Gracey
	William Howard Taft, 27th President	7th Cousin	Edward Riggs and Elizabeth Holmes
	Harry S. Truman, 33rd President * (Not Certain)	8th Cousin	Adam Mott and Grace Thurgar
	Herbert Hoover, 31st President	8th Cousin	Bartholomew Coppock and Marjeri Whilton
	Warren G. Harding, 29th President	9th Cousin	Adam Mott and Elizabeth Creel
	Leslie Lynch King Jr. (Gerald R. Ford), 38th President	9th Cousin	Adam Mott II and Mary Lott
	Dwight D. Eisenhower, 34th President	9th Cousin	Nicklaus Stauffer and Cathrina Lehman
	Chester A. Arthur, 21st President	10th Cousin	Thomas Wheeler and Joan Buckingham
	John Quincy Adams, 6th President* (Not Certain)	10th Cousin	Thomas Stradling and Janet Mathew
	Calvin Coolidge, 30th President, *(Not Certain)	10th Cousin	Thomas Grover and Elizabeth Wilks
	George H.W. Bush, 41st President	13th Cousin	Thomas Wheeler and Joan Buckingham
	George W. Bush, 43rd President	14th Cousin	Thomas Wheeler and Joan Buckingham
Vice-Presidents of the United States		Relationship	Common Ancestors
	Leslie Lynch King Jr. (Gerald R. Ford), 40th Vice-President	9th Cousin	Adam Mott II and Mary Lott
	Nelson Aldrich Rockefeller, 41st Vice-President	9th Cousin	Thomas Lawton and Elizabeth Salisbury
	William Almon Wheeler, 19th Vice-President	10th Cousin	Thomas Wheeler and Joan Buckingham
	Charles Warren Fairbanks, 26th Vice-President	10th Cousin	Thomas Wheeler and Joan Buckingham
	Calvin Coolidge, 29th Vice-President, * (Not Certain)	10th Cousin	Thomas Grover and Elizabeth Wilks
	Garret Augustus Hobart, 24th Vice-President	12th Cousin	Thomas Wheeler and Joan Buckingham
	George H.W. Bush, 43rd Vice-President	13th Cousin	Thomas Wheeler and Joan Buckingham
First Ladies of the United States		Relationship	Common Ancestors
	Ellen Louise Axson, wife of President Woodrow Wilson	7th Cousin	James Grover Sr. and Rebecca Chesseman
	Margaret Woodrow Wilson, daughter of President Woodrow Wilson, served as social hostess (First Lady) after the death of her mother, Ellen Louise Axson.	8th Cousin	James Grover Sr. and Rebecca Chesseman
	Frances Folsom, wife of President Grover Cleveland	9th Cousin	Richard Borden Sr. and Joan Fowle
	Abigail Quincy Smith* (Not Certain), wife of President John Adams	9th Cousin	Thomas Stradling and Janet Mathew
	Mamie Doud, wife of President Dwight Eisenhower	9th Cousin	Edward Riggs and Elizabeth Holmes
	Rosalynn Smith, wife of President Jimmy Carter	10th Cousin	Matthew Howard Sr. and Anne
	Julia Gardiner, wife of President John Tyler	10th Cousin	Thomas Wheeler and Joan Buckingham
Second Ladies of the United States		Relationship	Common Ancestors
	Carrie Babcock, wife of Vice-President James Schoolcraft Sherman	9th Cousin	George Lawton and Isabell Smith
Patriots		Relationship	Common Ancestors
	Samuel Prescott, American Revolutionary War Patriot best known for his role in Paul Revere's "midnight ride" to warn the townspeople of Concord.	7th Cousin	Thomas Wheeler and Joan Buckingham
	Capt. Isaac Davis, gunsmith and militia officer who commanded a company of Minutemen from Acton, Massachusetts during the first battle of the American Revolutionary War.	8th Cousin	Thomas Wheeler and Joan Buckingham
Politics		Relationship	Common Ancestors
	Philip Doddridge, U.S. Representative from Virginia, (1829-1832).	2nd Cousin	George Brown and Mary Stevenson
	Mary Borden, wife of Gov. Thomas McKean.	2nd Cousin	Benjamin Borden and Abigail Grover
	Ann Borden, wife of Francis Hopkinson.	2nd Cousin	Benjamin Borden and Abigail Grover
	Joseph Hopkinson, son of Francis Hopkinson and Ann Borden, He was a member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Pennsylvania, and later a United States federal judge.	3rd Cousin	Benjamin Borden and Abigail Grover
	William Ellery, Signer of the Declaration of Independence.	3rd Cousin	Thomas Lawton and Elizabeth Salisbury
	Arthur Fenner, 4th Governor of Rhode Island.	3rd Cousin	Richard Borden Sr. and Jane Fowle
	Abraham Clark, Signer of the Declaration of Independence.	4th Cousin	Henry Chatfield and Jane Sheppard
	James Fenner, 7th, 11th and 17th Governor of Rhode Island.	4th Cousin	Richard Borden Sr. and Jane Fowle
	Charles Carnan Ridgely, 15th Governor of Maryland.	4th Cousin	Matthew Howard Sr. and Anne
	Samuel Ward King, 15th Governor of Rhode Island.	4th Cousin	Richard Borden Sr. and Jane Fowle
	Samuel Stevens Jr., 18th Governor of Maryland.	4th Cousin	Christopher Thomas and Juliana Stacy
	Jabez Bowen, a militia colonel during the American Revolutionary War, and served as Deputy Governor of Rhode Island and Chief Justice of the Rhode Island Supreme Court.	4th Cousin	Richard Borden Sr. and Jane Fowle
	Albert C. Greene, United States Senator and Attorney General of Rhode Island.	4th Cousin	Adam Mott and Sarah Jennings
	Samuel Frost Haviland, Cónsul General to Chile.	4th Cousin	Adam Mott II and Mary Lott
	Richard 'Dick' Durbin, Illinois Senator	4th Cousin	John J. Durbin and Patience Logsdon
	Samuel Lewis Southard, Governor and Senator of New Jersey	4th Cousin	Edward Riggs III and Mary Munn
	Winfield T. Durbin, Indiana Governor.	5th Cousin	Thomas William Durbin and Mary Downs
	Salmon P. Chase, 25th US Secretary of the Treasury, 6th Chief Justice of the US Supreme Court.	5th Cousin	Edward Riggs and Elizabeth Holmes
	William Lewis Dayton, U.S. Senator of New Jersey, Minister to France	5th Cousin	Edward Riggs III and Mary Munn
	Sir Robert Laird Borden, 8th Prime Minister of Canada	6th Cousin	Richard Borden Sr. and Jane Fowle
	Jabez Comstock Knight, Mayor of Providence, Rhode Island.	6th Cousin	Adam Mott and Elizabeth Creel
	Lemuel Hastings Arnold, 12th Governor of the State of Rhode Island.	6th Cousin	Adam Mott and Elizabeth Creel
	Joseph D. Bedle, 23rd Governor of New Jersey.	6th Cousin	James Grover Sr. and Rebecca Chesseman
	Phillips Lee Goldsborough, 47th Governor of Maryland	7th Cousin	Matthew Howard Sr. and Anne
	Stephen Harper, 22nd Prime Minister of Canada	7th Cousin	Daniel Lawton and Rebecca Mott
	Nelson W. Aldrich, U.S. Senator from Rhode Island	7th Cousin	Thomas Lawton and Elizabeth Salisbury
	Amos Kendall, 8th United States Postmaster General.	8th Cousin	Thomas Wheeler and Joan Buckingham
	Jeanette Jerome, mother of Sir Winston Churchill.	8th Cousin	Richard Borden Sr. and Jane Fowle
	Sir Winston Churchill, British Prime Minister	9th Cousin	Richard Borden Sr. and Jane Fowle
	James Youngs Smith, 29th Governor of Rhode Island	9th Cousin	Thomas Wheeler and Joan Buckingham
	Boris Johnson, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom	10th Cousin	Edward Riggs and Elizabeth Holmes
Military		Relationship	Common Ancestors
	Lady Anne Farquharson-Mackintosh, known as "Colonel Anne" was a heroine who led The Route of Moy during the Jacobite Rising of 1745 saving Prince Charles Edward Stuart.	2nd Cousin	William McIntosh and Margaret Graham
	Commodore Joshua Barney, American Navy officer who served in the Continental Navy during the Revolutionary War and served in the War of 1812.	2nd Cousin	Edward Stevenson and Mary King
	Nathanael Greene, Major General of the Continental Army.	3rd Cousin	Adam Mott and Sarah Jennings
	Sir Leonard Greenwell, Major General in the British Army and Knight Commander of the Order of the Bath, and the Royal Guelphic Order.	5th Cousin	William Greenwell and Alice Claxton
	Brig. General Thomas R. Williams, Brigadier General in the Union Army during the Civil War. He was killed as he commanded the Union troops at the Battle of Baton Rouge.	5th Cousin	Richard Borden Sr. and Jane Fowle
	Gen. Omar Nelson Bradley	5th Cousin	Edward Logsdon I and Sarah
	Lt. Gen. James Longstreet Jr., Foremost Confederate general of the American Civil War.	6th Cousin	James Grover Sr. and Rebecca Chesseman
	Maj. Gen. George Cadwalader, General in the United States Army during the Mexican–American War and American Civil War.	6th Cousin	George Lawton and Isabell Smith
	Brig. General Isaac P. Rodman, Union Army Brigadier General in the American Civil War, mortally wounded at the Battle of Antietam.	7th Cousin	Adam Mott and Elizabeth Creel
	Brig. General Allen Thomas, Confederate Army Brigadier General . Thomas was captured in the fall of Vicksburg on July 4, 1863.	7th Cousin	Matthew Howard Sr. and Anne
	Major Gen Ulysses Simpson Grant III, United States Army Major General and grandson of President Ulysses S. Grant.	8th Cousin	Matthew Howard Sr. and Anne
	David Sinton Ingalls, US Navy Flying Ace during WW I.	9th Cousin	Edward Riggs and Elizabeth Holmes
	Gen. George B. McClellan, Union Army	10th Cousin	Thomas Wheeler and Joan Buckingham
Native American		Relationship	Common Ancestors
	Jane Ozahshinquah "Yellow Leaf", Jane Slocum was the daughter of Chief She-Po-Can-Ah "Deaf Man" and Mac-On-A-Quah "Frances Slocum". She was a Miami Indian with the indian name of "O-zah-shin-quah" or "Yellow Leaf" so named because born in autumn, when the leaves are changing.	6th Cousin	Adam Mott and Elizabeth Creel
	Chief William "Taskanugi Hatke" McIntosh, Chief of the Creek Nation. His father was Scottish, Capt. William McIntosh and his mother was Senoia,Henneha a full blooded Creek Nation.	7th Cousin	Lachlan Mackintosh and Agnes Mackenzie
Indian Captives		Relationship	Common Ancestors
	Frances "Maconaquah" Slocum, In 1778, when Frances Slocum was five years old, she was captured by three Delaware warriors at the Slocum family farm near Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania. Slocum was raised among the Delaware in what is now Ohio and Indiana. With her marriage to Shepoconah (Deaf Man), who later became a Miami chief, Slocum joined the Miami and took the name Maconaquah.	5th Cousin	Adam Mott and Elizabeth Creel
Law		Relationship	Common Ancestors
	Joshua Babcock, Supreme Court Justice of Rhode Island.	3rd Cousin	George Lawton and Isabell Smith
	Jacob Peck, Supreme Court Justice of Tennessee.	3rd Cousin	Benjamin Borden and Abigail Grover
	William Howard Taft, 10th Chief Justice of the United States.	7th Cousin	Edward Riggs and Elizabeth Holmes
	Francis Biddle, U.S. Attorney General.	8th Cousin	George Lawton and Isabell Smith
	J. Edgar Hoover, first director of the FBI.	10th Cousin	Matthew Howard Sr. and Anne
	John Paul Stevens, associate justice of the United States Supreme Court from 1975 until his retirement in 2010.	10th Cousin	Adam Mott and Elizabeth Creel
Physician		Relationship	Common Ancestors
	Jonathan Arnold, served in the Continental Army as a surgeon, and directed the army hospital at Providence, Rhode Island. He was the father of Lemuel Hastings Arnold.	5th Cousin	Adam Mott and Elizabeth Creel
	William A. Hammond, Brig. General in the Civil War. Surgeon General of the United States Army and the first American physician to devote himself entirely to the medical field of neurology. He was the father of Clara Lanza.	6th Cousin	Matthew Howard Sr. and Anne
Religion		Relationship	Common Ancestors
	Saint Swithin Wells* (Not Certain), English Catholic Martyr during Elizabethan era.	12th Great Uncle	Thomas Wells and Mary Mompesson
	Rev. Elisha John Durbin, Patriarch and Pioneer Priest.	3rd Great Uncle	John J. Durbin and Patience Logsdon
	Archbishop Martin John Spalding, Bishop of Louisville, Kentucky and Archbishop of Baltimore, Maryland.	3rd Cousin	John Mattingly and Grace Brewer
	Mother Catherine Spalding, Co-Founder of Sister's of Charity of Nazareth.	3rd Cousin	Thomas Spalding and Katherine Hall
	Rev. John Price Durbin, Methodist preacher and Chaplain of the U.S. Senate.	4th Cousin	Thomas William Durbin and Mary Downs
	Bishop Philander Chase, Episcopal Church bishop, educator, and pioneer.	4th Cousin	Edward Riggs and Elizabeth Holmes
	Archbishop William Henry Elder, Catholic Archbishop who served as the Bishop of Natchez from 1857 to 1880 and the Archbishop of Cincinnati between 1883 and 1904..	4th Cousin	Thomas Spalding and Catherine Hall
	William Ellery Channing, Unitarian theologian of the early 19th century	5th Cousin	Thomas Lawton and Elizabeth Salisbury
	Benjamin Breckinridge Warfield, Presbyterian theologian and professor of theology at Princeton Seminary.	7th Cousin	Matthew Howard Sr. and Anne
Activists and Reformers		Relationship	Common Ancestors
	Catherine White Coffin, an active leader in the Underground Railroad she was the wife of Levi Coffin, an American Quaker, abolitionist, and humanitarian.	5th Cousin	Richard Borden Sr. and Jane Fowle
	Dame Hohepine Te Wake Cooper, Māori leader in New Zealand, often referred to as 'Mother of the Nation', who worked for many years for the rights of her people, and particularly to improve the lot of Māori women, and protect the land for Maori people. In 1981 she was bestowed with the title of Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire for her many achievements for the Maori people..	6th Cousin	Daniel Lawton and Rebecca Mott
Art		Relationship	Common Ancestors
	Rembrandt Peale, an American artist and prolific portrait painter. He was very well known for his portraits of presidents George Washington and Thomas Jefferson. Peale's style was influenced by French Neoclassicism.	5th Cousin	Matthew Howard Sr. and Anne
	Norman Rockwell	7th Cousin	Edward Riggs III and Mary Munn
	William Thorne, American portrait artist	7th Cousin	Richard Borden Sr. and Jane Fowle
	Ansel Adams** (Not Certain)	12th Cousin	Thomas Wheeler and Joan Buckingham
Socialite		Relationship	Common Ancestors
	Kate Chase, daughter of Salmon P. Chase, and wife of Gov. William Sprague IV.	6th Cousin	Edward Riggs and Elizabeth Holmes
	Marjorie Merriweather Post, mother of Dina Merrill	7th Cousin	Matthew Howard Sr. and Anne
	Allene Tew	8th Cousin	Richard Borden Sr. and Jane Fowle
	Paris Hilton	8th Cousin	James Greenwell and Grace Taylor
	Roberta Brooke Russell, Philanthropist and socialite who marred Vincent Astor. She would be the daughter-in-law of John Jacob Astor IV.	8th Cousin	Matthew Howard Sr. and Anne
	Abigail Greene Aldrich, Philanthropist and socialite who marred John D. Rockefeller Jr.. She is the daughter of Sen. Nelson W. Aldrich.	8th Cousin	Thomas Lawton and Elizabeth Salisbury
Acting		Relationship	Common Ancestors
	Lucy Maud Durbin, American actress, protégé of Helena Modjeska, wife of American stage actor, Otis Skinner	3rd Cousin	Christopher Durbin and Margaret Brown
	Cornelia Otis Skinner, Actress, playwright, author. Daughter of Maud and Otis Skinner.	4th Cousin	Christopher Durbin and Margaret Brown
	Florence Henderson	6th Cousin	Vachel Hinton and Margaret Howard
	Dick Van Dyke	6th Cousin	Johann Heinrich Strader and Anna Margaret Stauffer
	Steve McQueen	7th Cousin	Dugal McQueen and Grace Brown McClain
	Debbie Reynolds	7th Cousin	Johann Matthias Theiss and Susanna Barbara Lauer
	Carrie Fisher	7th Cousin	Johann Matthias Theiss and Susanna Barbara Lauer
	Steven R. McQueen, Grandson of Steve McQueen	8th Cousin	Dugal McQueen and Grace Brown McClain
	Lana Turner	8th Cousin	Benjamin Borden and Abigail Grover
	Nedenia Marjorie Hutton (Dina Merrill)	8th Cousin	Matthew Howard Sr. and Anne
	Kathryn Grayson	8th Cousin	Hans Jost Theiss and Maria Muller
	Felicity Huffman	8th Cousin	Thomas Spalding and Catherine Hall
	Oliver "Burgess" Meredith	8th Cousin	Matthew Howard Sr. and Anne
	Lucille Ball	8th Cousin	Henry Short and Miriam Ingram
	Brad Pitt	8th Cousin	Edward Riggs III and Mary Munn
	Blake Brown Lively	8th Cousin	James Warner and Ann
	Olive Borden, Silver screen actress	9th Cousin	Richard Borden Sr. and Joan Fowle
	Norma Jean Baker (Marilyn Monroe)	9th Cousin	Richard Borden Sr. and Jane Fowle
	Jessica Biel	9th Cousin	Thomas Spalding and Katherine Hall
	Edie Minturn Sedgwick	9th Cousin	Thomas Lawton and Elizabeth Salisbury
	Gladys Georgianna "Jean Arthur" Greene, an American actress and a film star of the 1930s and 1940s.	9th Cousin	Adam Mott and Elizabeth Creel
	Spangler Arlington "Robert Taylor" Brugh	9th Cousin	Thomas Jost Thies and Margaret Bollenbacher
	Paget Brewster	10th Cousin	Richard Borden Sr. and Jane Fowle
	James Todd Spader	10th Cousin	George Lawton and Isabell Smith
	Barbara Babcock	10th Cousin	George Lawton and Isabell Smith
	Lucille Fay LeSueur "Joan Crawford"	10th Cousin	James Grover Sr. and Rebecca Chesseman
	Mary Lamar Rickey "Lara Parker"	10th Cousin	James Grover Sr. and Rebecca Chesseman
	Dorothy Stickney, *(Not Certain)	10th Cousin	Thomas Grover and Elizabeth Wilks
	Lillian Gish	12th Cousin	Thomas Wheeler and Joan Buckingham
	Katherine Hepburn	12th Cousin	Thomas Wheeler and Joan Buckingham
	Bill Bixby	13th Cousin	Thomas Grover and Elizabeth Wilks
Music		Relationship	Common Ancestors
	Patsy Cline	7th Cousin	Hans Matthes Theiss and Maria Margretha Engel
	Stefani Germanotta (Lady Gaga)	7th Cousin	Samuel S. Durbin and Ann Logsdon
	Jimmie Lloyd Logsdon, American country and rockabilly singer.	7th Cousin	William Logsdon and Honora O'Flynn
	Jenny Twitchell Kempton, American contralto opera solo singer starting from 1850.	7th Cousin	Edward Riggs and Elizabeth Holmes
	Buddy Holly, Iconic American Rock n Roll star from 1950s..	7th Cousin	Thomas Jenkins and Ann Spalding
	Woody Guthrie, American folk singer.	7th Cousin	William Logsdon and Honora O'Flynn
	Christina Aguilera	8th Cousin	Hans Matthes Theiss and Maria Margretha Engel
	Wilie Nelson	9th Cousin	Benjamin Borden and Abigail Grover
	Mary Chapin Carpenter	9th Cousin	Benjamin Borden and Abigail Grover
	Cole Porter	9th Cousin	Henry Chatfield and Jane Sheppard
	Reba McEntire	10th Cousin	James Grover Sr. and Rebecca Chesseman
	Kurt Cobain	10th Cousin	Richard Borden Sr. and Jane Fowle
	Don Glen Vliet "Captain Beefheart"	10th Cousin	Matthew Howard Sr. and Anne
Literature		Relationship	Common Ancestors
	Sarah Helen Power Whitman, Poet, transcendentalist, spiritualist and the love interests of Edgar Allan Poe whom she was engaged to marry.	5th Cousin	Richard Borden Sr. and Jane Fowle
	Louisa May Alcott, Novelist, poet, transcendentalist, and feminist.	6th Cousin	Henry Chatfield and Jane Sheppard
	Thomas Lanier "Tennessee" Williams III, American playwright.	7th Cousin	Robert Clarke Jr. and Sarah Combs
	F. Scott Fitzgerald, American fiction writer and one of the greatest American writers of the 20th century.	7th Cousin	Matthew Howard Sr. and Anne
	Clara Hammond Lanza, an American novelist whose realist fiction often centered on troubled marriages. Her father was Dr. William A. Hammond, Surgeon General of the United States Army.	7th Cousin	Matthew Howard Sr. and Anne
	Mary Borden, Early 20th-century, Anglo-American novelist.	8th Cousin	Richard Borden Sr. and Jane Fowle
	Vachel Lindsay, American poet	8th Cousin	Matthew Howard Sr. and Anne
	Willa Sibert Cather, American novelist	8th Cousin	Klaus Seibert and Else Jung
	Charlotte Porter, American poet, translator, and literary critic. She is the great great aunt of UK Prime Minister, Boris Johnson.	8th Cousin	Edward Riggs and Elizabeth Holmes
	Thornton Wilder, American playwright and novelist.	9th Cousin	Edward Riggs and Elizabeth
	Emily Dickinson, American poet	11th Cousin	Thomas Wheeler and Joan Buckingham
Sports		Relationship	Common Ancestors
	Blaine Alphonsus "Kid" Durbin, Left-handed Major League Baseball outfielder and pitcher. Played for Chicago Cubs and Pittsburgh Pirates.	3rd Cousin	Christopher Durbin and Margaret Brown
	Edward Grant Barrow, American manager and executive in Major League Baseball for Detroit Tigers, Boston Red Sox, and New York Yankees.	5th Cousin	James Borden and Mary Ann Lawton
	Laurence Earl Mattingly, Pitcher in Major League Baseball for the Brooklyn Robins.	6th Cousin	John Mattingly and Grace Brewer
	Don Mattingly	6th Cousin	Richard Mattingly Sr. and Mary Catherine Spalding
	William Harrison "Jack" Dempsey	6th Cousin	Philip Howard and Sarah Warner
	Bobby Riggs	6th Cousin	Edward Riggs III and Mary Munn
	Joseph Emley Borden, A starting pitcher in professional baseball for two seasons and first pitcher to throw a no-hitter in a professional game in 1875.	6th Cousin	Richard Borden Sr. and Jane Fowle
	A.W. Tillinghast, American golf course architect	7th Cousin	Richard Borden Sr. and Jane Fowle
Infamous		Relationship	Common Ancestors
	William Anderson "Devil Anse" Hatfield	5th Cousin	Philip Howard Sr. and Sarah Warner
	Dr. Samuel Alexander Mudd, an American physician who was imprisoned for conspiring with John Wilkes Booth in the assassination of President Abraham Lincoln. He performed surgery on John Wilkes Booth's fractured leg.	5th Cousin	Thomas Spalding and Catherine Hall
	Lizzie Borden	7th Cousin	Richard Borden Sr. and Jane Fowle
	Jesse James	8th Cousin	Matthew Howard Sr. and Anne
	Hawley Harvey Crippen	13tth Cousin	Thomas Wheeler and Joan Buckingham
Business		Relationship	Common Ancestors
	Gail Borden, Land surveyor, newspaper publisher, and inventor; he is most known as the developer of condensed milk.	5th Cousin	Richard Borden Sr. and Jane Fowle
	Joseph Wharton, Founded Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania.	5th Cousin	Richard Borden Sr. and Jane Fowle
	Henry Nicholas Greenwell, an English merchant who established Kona coffee as an internationally known brand. His family became major land-holders in the Kona District of the island of Hawaii. His grand daughter was Amy B.H. Greenwell, Hawaiian botanist.	6th Cousin	William Greenwell and Alice Claxton
	Hugh Hefner	9th Cousin	Klaus Seibert and Elizabeth Else Jung
Inventor		Relationship	Common Ancestors
	Melvil Dewey, American librarian and educator, inventor of the Dewey Decimal system of library classification.	7th Cousin	Thomas Lawton and Elizabeth Salisbury
	Willis Haviland Carrier, Inventor of modern air conditioning.	8th Cousin	Adam Mott and Mary Lott
Science		Relationship	Common Ancestors
	Amy B.H. Greenwell, a well-known Hawaiian Botanist who served as a nurse in World War II. She performed archaeology studies of early habitation sites of Hawaii including Ka Lae (South Point), and wrote other books on tropical plants. Later in her lifetime she transformed her property by planting native and Polynesian-introduced plants in the extant Hawaiian agricultural areas. She is the grand daughter of English Kona coffee merchant, Henry Nicholas Greenwell.	8th Cousin	William Greenwell and Alice Claxton
Space/Aviation		Relationship	Common Ancestors
	Amelia Earhart, Aviation pioneer and famous aviatrix of the 1930s.	5th Cousin	George Brown and Mary Stevenson
	Sally Kristen Ride, Astronaut and Physicist. She was the first American woman in space.	7th Cousin	Dugal McQueen and Grace Brown McClain
	Jeanette Ridlon Piccard, American high-altitude balloonist	8th Cousin	Adam Mott and Elizabeth Creel
	Story Musgrave, NASA Astronaut	10th Cousin	Henry Chatfield and Jane Sheppard
Titanic		Relationship	Common Ancestors
	John Borland Thayer Jr., First Class passenger on the Titanic. He perished in the sinking and his body was never recovered. His wife, Marian Longstreth Morris Thayer and their son, John Borland Thayer III survived the Titanic sinking.	8th Cousin	George Lawton and Isabell Smith

Interesting Connections To History

• Miriam Ingram Short, my 8th great grandmother
• Miriam Short, my 7th great grandmother

Miriam Ingram Short was a passenger aboard the Welcome ship along with William Penn as part of William Penn's Pennsylvania Settlers community. She died on board from the smallpox outbreak in 1682. Her daughter, Miriam Short, my 7th great grandmother, was also a passenger and she settled in Chester, Pennsylvania.

• Mary Victorine Hunter, my 8th cousin

She was the wife of John Harrison Surratt, accused and tried for conspiracy to assassinate President Abraham Lincoln but was set free. John Surratt's mother, Mary Jenkins Surratt, was hanged for conspiracy to assassinate President Lincoln. Mary Jenkins Surratt was the mother-in-law of Mary Victorine Hunter. Mary Victorine Hunter was also the second cousin of Francis Scott Key.

• Mary Boarman, my 1st cousin

Mary Boarman was marrred, as his second wife, to John Gardiner. John Gardiner was the great great grandfather of Francis Scott Key. This connection would make Francis Scott Key my step 5th cousin but not a blood relation.

• Sarah Borden, my 9th great aunt

Sarah Borden was the wife of Jonathan Holmes, son of Obadiah Holmes. Jonathan Holmes' sister Lydia Holmes married John Bowne Sr. and they would be the 4th great grandparents of President Abraham Lincoln. So, Sarah Borden's sister-in-law, Lydia Holmes, was the 4th great grandmother of President Abraham Lincoln.

• Richard Henry Dana, III, my 7th cousin

Richard Henry Dana, III married Edith Longfellow, daughter of the great American poet, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow would be the father-in-law of Richard Henry Dana, III.

• Barclay Coppock, and Edwin Coppock, my 4th cousins

These Coppock brothers were followers of John Brown and they participated in Brown's raid on Harpers Ferry. The Coppock brothers were raised in Springdale, Iowa, where they met Brown while he was raising support for his Kansas anti-slavery raids. Edwin was hanged in Charlestown, Virginia. Barclay escaped, returning to Springdale and eventually escaping to Canada. Barclay later joined the Union Army during the American Civil War and served as a recruiting officer. He was killed in action when Confederate sabotage derailed his train over the Platte River.

• Elizabeth Savory Thurston, my 1st cousin

Elizabeth Savory Thurston was the wife of John Irish, Jr.. John Irish, Jr. was the servant of the great pilgrim and Mayflower passenger, Myles Standish.

• Phebe Cowperthwaite, my 1st cousin

Phebe Cowperthwaite married as her second husband, William Bassett. William Bassett's great grandparents, Sgt. William Bassett and Sarah were caught up in the Salem Witchcraft Trials. My 1st cousin's husband, William's great aunt, Elizabeth Bassett, was accused and tried for witchcraft. Her husband, John Proctor, was executed for witchcraft. Their son, Benjamin Proctor along with his wife, Mary Buckley, were also accused of witchcraft. His great uncle's wife, Sarah Hood, was accused of witchcraft, and his great aunt, Mary Bassett, was also accused of witchcraft.

• Susannah Lawton, my 1st cousin

Susannah Lawton married Thomas Cornell the son of Thomas Cornell Jr., (father-in-law of Susannah Lawton), who was accused, tried, convicted and hanged for the alleged murder of his mother, Rebecca Briggs Cornell (grandmother-in-law of Susannah Lawton), in Portsmouth in 1673. He was convicted using spectral evidence, where witnesses recounted dreams involving ghosts pointing to his alleged guilt. This case and its history has been the subject of the book Killed Strangely: The Death of Rebecca Cornell (2002) by Elaine Forman Crane.

• Countess Muriel White von Seherr-Thoss, my 8th cousin

Countess Muriel White von Seherr-Thoss (1880 - 1943) was an American, daughter of U.S. Ambassador Henry White. Muriel White married Count Herman von Seherr-Thoss, from an historic German family of nobility. With the impending clouds of Nazi Germany and War on the horizon, Muriel White relocated her two sons to America in Connecticut. At this time Countess Muriel White was residing at Castle Burgwasser aka Dobrau Palace in Poland. She was often followed and harrassed by the Nazi gestapo and on March 1943 as the Nazi gestapo was approaching her palace. Muriel White committed suicide by jumping from the second story window of her palace.

• Edward Mecom, my 6th cousin

Edward Mecom was the husband of Jane Franklin, the sister of Benjamin Franklin making him the brother-in-law of Benjamin Franklin.

• David Gardiner, my 9th cousin

David Gardiner a politiican, was the father of First Lady, Julia Gardiner Tyler. He died in an explosion aboard the USS Princeton on February 28, 1844. David Gardiner and his daughters Julia and Margaret were aboard a pleasure cruise on the Potomac River. As the USS Princeton neared Mount Vernon, the world's biggest naval gun, The Peacemaker that was being demonstrated exploded, killing Gardiner and six others.

• Elizabeth Durbin, My great great aunt

I am extremely proud of many in my family tree who were hard working farmers. We often give recognition to the 'notables' but overlook those in our families who toiled and worked hard to raise their families and make all our lives better. This family is one example, Elizabeth Durbin, my great great aunt, (front center) and her family from Kentucky. I figure this photo to be circa 1860's, Civil War era.

Closing Comments

I know for each of us genealogy has a specific purpose. In my case, my goals are to take my genealogy as far back in history as I can. I have always been a historian at heart and I become excited when I can link my family to historical events and people. Probably my biggest goals are to discover a direct gateway ancestor, and my English and Scottish roots which make up a majority of my autosomal DNA.

I welcome anyone to contact me with additional information or discrepancies. If I can ever assist anyone please contact me. Genealogy is always a work in progress and we are all in this together.

Current Personal Projects

• Knight Templar of the Crusades

• Héloïse d'Argenteuil and Peter Abelard

• Silver Screen Actors/Actresses: Clara Bow, Peg Entwistle

• Actress Helena Modjeska

• Barrymore Acting Dynasty

• Romulus Zachariah Linney Lineage

• Burdett Lineage

• The Lovett Family Lineage

• Chaplains of the United States Senate

• Honourable Caroline (Ponsonby) Lamb

• Jeanne De Belleville Montaigu

• Christina Anna Skytte

• Sir Henry Mainwaring

• Thomas Bruce, 2nd Earl of Ailesbury, Diana Grey, Countess of Ailesbury

• Thomas Vaux, 2nd Lord Vaux of Harrowden and Family

• Lady Jane Digby

• Dugal McQueen

• Borden Ancestors

• Tattershall Ancestors

• Poldark Free-Space Profile

• James Stratman Images Free-Space Profile

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Sources

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