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WTC 2023 Work Space 8 Interesting Finds

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Interesting Finds

This is for Challenge 8 (Challenge 8 Space Page)

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Ocaan Ro (abt.0970-)

  1. Christian Chapman Monroe (1840-1864) was killed in battle fighting for the Union in the Civil War. He was 24 years old. Christian is 28 generations from Ocaan Ro, being his 26th great grandson.
  2. ✅ William (Munro) Munro XIIth Baron and XIVth of Foulis was born in 1455 in Ross-shire, Scotland. He was a Scottish Knight and Scottish clan chief of the highland Clan Munro, and the 11th Baron and 13th Laird of Foulis. He is 15 generations from Ocaan Ro, being his 13th great-grandson. Ocaan, of course, was an Irish nobleman whose son Donald aided in invading Scotland.

Katherine (Roet) Swynford (1350-1403)

  1. ✅ Alexander McDonald (1859-1928) died when he was struck by a train at Boston's Back Bay Station where he was working as a watchman. His remains were returned to his longtime home of Port Hood, Nova Scotia, where his funeral was presided over by his cousin Bishop Alexander McDonald, who not only shared his name but also his date of birth. Alexander is 14 generations from Katherine, being her 12th great grandson.
  2. ✅ Arthur Goring Thomas was born in Willingdon, England. He first appeared in a census at the age of one, where there were twenty-one people in the home; fourteen of them being servants. Arthur was an English composer of operas and songs, that was considered to "have remarkable abilities, some say genius.." He struggled with depression and mental illness, ending his life tragically on 20 March 1892, aged 41, when he committed suicide by jumping under a train at West Hampstead Station. Arthur is 17 generations from Katherine Swynford, being her 15th great grandson.
  3. ✅ Pierre de Bons, was involved in a hunting accident in 1713 that ended in the justice court. According to a declaration of Joseph Bastian, from Serdon in Bugey, "the gunshot which causes his bed rest was shot at him by Pierre de Bons... believing that it was the wolf". Pierre is 13 degrees from Katherine Swynford.

Catherine (Unknown) Strutt (abt.1520-bef.1578)

  1. Eunice Briggs Foote, an mtDNA descendant of Catherine (Unknown) Strutt, was an early member of the Reorganized Church of Latter Day Saints (26 Oct 1862). Eunice is 11 generations from Catherine, being her 10th great-granddaughter.
  2. ❤️ ✅ Betty Copsey Mount, an mtDNA descendant of Catherine Unknown Strutt, attended Duke University from 1936-1938. After graduating from Katherine Gibbs Secretarial School in New York City in 1939, she joined the editorial staff of Good Housekeeping magazine. This was followed by two years as editor of What's New in New York, published to attract out-of-towners to the 1939 World's Fair. She spent most of her life in New Jersey and moved to Brunswick in 1987. She counted more than 40 years of active involvement in local theater, both as an actress and later, after a swimming accident in 1958 that left her paralyzed from the waist down, as a drama reviewer for several suburban New Jersey publications. She was an active member of the Summit New Jersey, Playhouse, and YWCA, a founding member of Clearwater Swim Club in New Providence, New Hampshire, a ruling elder in the New Providence Presbyterian Church, and a Sunday School Teacher for 35 years. In 1974, she received the 1974 B'nai B'rith Americanism Award for Distinguished Community Service. Betty is 13 generations from Catherine, being her 12th great granddaughter.
  3. ✅ Shirl McArthur was a coal miner, a superintendent of the Deseret Coal Mine, the President and founder of American Coal Company, active in many coal mining organizations, and a public servant. He served in the CCC. He served as Mayor for three terms and formed the Castle Valley Mining Company. He was President of Rocky Mountain Coal Mining Institute and on the executive committee of the Rocky Mountain Coal Mining Institute. He was first vice president, president-elect, and president of the Utah Mining Association. A member of the Colorado Operator's Association, and president of the Utah Coal Section of the American Institute of Mining. He earned many top industrial awards and was chairman of AARP, a member of the board of directors of First Security Bank, Price District, and finance chairman for the Emery District Boy Scouts of America. Shirl was an active member of the LDS church and loved the Lord. He served in numerous callings. None he enjoyed more than serving with his wife in the Manti Temple and being called with his wife on a second mission to write the history of the Deseret Coal Mine. mtDNA descendant of Catherine (Unknown) Strutt. Shirl is 14 generations away from Catherine, being her 13th great grandson.

Ivar (Ivar II of Waterford) of Waterford (abt.0945-1000)

  1. ✅ Albert Nelson Monroe (1819-1902) was known throughout the country as the "Cattle King" and dealt in the export of cattle. Albert is 28 generations from Ivar II of Waterford, being his 26th great grandson. Albert is much closer to a few names we know: He is 17 generations from David Lambert, so fifth cousins five times removed, 18 generations from Scott Fisher, so 6th cousins four times removed, and 19 generations from Amy Johnson, so 6th cousins five times removed.
  2. ✅ Richard Graves Macdonnell KCMG CB (1814-1881), born in 1814 in Dublin, Ireland, was the 6th Governor of South Australia, the Lieutenant Governor of Nova Scotia, and the 17th McDonnell of Leinster (in Ireland). Several places around the world are named for him including MacDonnell Road in Hong Kong, and the MacDonnell Ranges and Sir Richard Peninsula in Australia. He is 28 generations from Ivar of Waterford, a Norse king also born in Ireland, being his 26th great grandson.

John Thorpe (abt.1608-abt.1633)

  1. ❤️ ✅ Marie Tharp (1920-2006), a descendant of Thomas Thorp (1695-abt.1779), was notable. She was an American geologist and oceanographic cartographer and is credited with creating the first map of the Atlantic Ocean floor. Marie is the 7th great granddaughter of John Thorpe, so 9 generations away, and the 8th cousin of Kevin Bacon.
  2. ✅ Zebulon (Thorpe) Tharp was born in 1707 in Woodbridge, New Jersey. He moved to Virginia late in life, changing the spelling of his surname to Tharp. Zebulon was listed in 1761, age 54, as being Militia led by Colonel George Washington. He is 3 generations from John Thorpe, being his great-grandson.

Michele Sauvagie (-aft.1632)

  1. ❤️ ✅ Lemma Barkeloo (1840-1870) is a notable. She passed the bar without finishing her law degree, and was the first woman to try a case in an American court. Lemma is 8 generations away from Michele Sauvagie, being her 7th great-granddaughter. Coincidentally she is 6th cousins 3x removed from Roberta Estes.
  2. ✅ Charles DeWitt Clinton (1769-1828) was the 6th Governor of New York. He was also the 47th, 49th, and 51st Mayor of New York City. His love for governing came from the assembling of the convention which formulated the Constitution of the United States. Clinton was the first Governor who -recommended the observance of days of public thanksgiving by the people of the State. He has counties named after him in six US States. Charles is 7 generations from Michele, being her fifth great grandson. He is also 11 degrees from George Washington.

Katharina (Pfannberg) von Pfannberg (bef.1332-aft.1374)

  1. Carel Johan Spiering (1705-1757)'s daughter, Christina Spiering (1741-1762) married Pieter Opperdoes (1735-1803). Pieter's brother Reinier Opperdoes, a member of the Hoorn council, died an unfortunate death. He was 33 years old in 1767 and had 'conversed' in Monnickendam with the eldest daughter of a mayor there. Then he had visited another Monnickendam regent, from whom he had taken leave between nine and ten in the evening. His body was found in a ditch the next morning. Immediately the rumor spread that he had been deliberately made to walk into the canal by moving a lantern that guided people in the dark to the other side of the canal. It was about this accident that it was asserted: "How well does this cold-blooded murder characterize the manners of the regents! That a suitor from Hoorn would take away a rich and dignified bride from Edam is in the eyes of the Edam people a crime that should be punished with death. However, there is no evidence that a murder was committed (in Monnickendam and not in Edam).” (From: Onder Regenten p 151). Carel is 12 generations away from Katharina, being her 12th great grandson.
  2. ❤️ ✅ Anna von Sachsen (1544-1577), wife of Prince Willem van Oranje Nassau, could not get used to life in the chilly Castle Dillenburg and therefore, after the birth of her daughter Emilia, she went to Cologne, where she could lead the by her desired opulent live. She lived in Cologne so exuberant that her husband was allowed to separate from her in 1571, which was unusual at that time. She was accused to have had an affair with Jan Rubens (the father of the painter) and was imprisoned in the palace of the Elector of Saxony in Dresden, not allowed to see her children. She died six years later. But we know that her husband Willem was far from being a saint, as from the beginning of the marriage he had many mistresses. Anna is 9 generations from Katharina, being her seventh great granddaughter.
  3. Emilia van Nassau (1569-1629), daughter of Anna von Sachsen, married secretly Manuel of Portugal in 1597 because she was a Calvinist and he was a Catholic. Manuel was a Portuguese prince in exile. Manuel's father seized the throne of Portugal but he was forced to flee 20 days later after his defeat against Spanish king Felipe II at the battle of Alcantara. It took 10 years to Emilia's family to accept this marriage. Emilia and Emanuel lived separately during the last years of their marriage. Emanuel sold his rights to the Spanish king and moved to Brussels ; Emilia bought the estate of Prangins near Geneva, where she died in 1629 at the age of 59. This castle is now the Swiss National Museum. Emilia is 10 generations away from Katharina, being her eighth great granddaughter.
  4. ❤️ Maria Belgia Portugal (1598-1647) the daughter of Emilia van Nassau, was supposed to marry a wealthy Calvinist nobleman. But she fell in love with a young German Colonel Jean Theodore de Croll, a native of Heidelnerg, who had moved to Geneva at the service of the Margrave of Baden-Durlach. The intention to get married with the German colonel was strongly opposed by his uncle and the General States of the Netherlands, who with the authorities of Bern, who administered the entire Canton of Vaud, were threatening to arrest Colonel Croll. Fearing the worst, Maria Belgia and Theodore de Croll fled through the night, to Vevey. Although she expected them to also be opposed to union, Maria Belgia, making use of her influence, was finally able to marry in the church of Bümpliz, in Bern, but because he was below her status her new husband was seen as an opportunist. They had six children, one boy and five girls but the marriage proved to be an unhappy one and Maria Belgia was planning to divorce when, in 1640, Theodore de Croll was murdered in Venice, where he had retired to. Maria Belgia was obliged to sell a large part of her goods to pay de Croll's many debts. Maria is 11 generations from Katharina, being her ninth great granddaughter.
  5. Juliane Catherine Damond (1659- ), a descendant of Prince Willem of Orange , was one among the between fifteen and twenty or so candidates that put themselves forward as potential choices to become the new Prince of Neuchâtel when the Princess Marie de Nemours died in 1707 without an heir. But she was not selected and Neuchâtel was granted to Frederick I of Prussia. Juliane is 13 generations from Katharina, being her 11th great granddaughter.
  6. ❤️ Johann Georg, Duke of Mecklenburg died as a result of a poison that had been accidentally administered to him instead of medicine. Johann is 11 generations away from Katharina Pfannberg, being her 9th great grandson.
  7. ✅ Karl von Holnstein (1877-1916)'s love affair played out in the newspapers. Apparently, when he was introduced to Mildred Harrison, a Philadelphia heiress, he was smitten at first sight. The story, according to the newspapers, was that he chased her all around the US until she finally agreed to marry him. They actually married about 9 months after they met and he said the stories were false, that they had an understanding from the beginning. Then, of course, the story took a twist. The had a daughter that died young, the wife moved in with her parents and the newspapers said she just wanted the title. It is more likely that she was distraught after losing her daughter. The Count then left to return to Germany to fight in WWI since he held a commission in the German Army. He was killed in 1916. Mildred never remarried.

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Connections to each other

  1. Ocaan Ro (abt.0970-) is 19 degrees from Katherine Swynford
  2. ✅ Katherine Swynford is not related by blood to any of the others, but is only 8 degrees from Katharina Pfannberg and 14 degrees from Catherine Strutt
  3. Catherine Strutt is 14 degrees from Katherine Swynford and also 14 degrees from John Thorpe.
  4. ✅ Ivar II of Waterford is 17 degrees from Katherine Swynford and 18 degrees from Katharina von Pfannberg.
  5. ✅ John Thorpe is only 13 degrees from Michele Sauvagie and 14 degrees from Catherine Strutt.
  6. Michele Sauvagie is 13 degrees from John Thorpe.
  7. Katharina von Pfannberg is 8 degrees from Katherine Swynford and 18 degrees from Ivar II of Waterford

More Notable Connections

Military

  • World War I: PFC Dale Tharp served in the US Army during WWI. He served overseas with the 118th Engineers, which shipped out of New York to Liverpool on the British troopship SS Cretic, a former ocean liner taken over by the British government under their Liner Requisition Scheme. On 19 December 1918, just five weeks after the armistice, the 118th Engineers were reorganized into railway companies in the Transportation Corps. PFC Tharp served in this capacity overseas until 13 July 1919, when he returned to the United States and was honorably discharged.
  • ✅ Major General Robert Lynn Copsey, husband of Vivian McNamara, an mtDNA descendant of Catherine Unknown Strutt: According to the obituary of Retired USAF Maj. Gen. Robert Lynn Copsey was a pioneer in civilian and military aviation, he held a pilot's license signed by Orville Wright. He also held the 29th pilot's license issued in the United States. He left the University of Nebraska to fly during World War I. He served in the Air Corps during World War II and was recalled for Air Force duty at the Pentagon during the Korean Conflict. His awards and decorations included the Legion of Merit.
  • Philip von Nassau, a descendant of Katharina von Pfannberg, enlisted in the Dutch States Army and in 1585 he became colonel of the infantry. From 1586 to 1587, Philip was governor of Gorinchem, then in 1591, after the Siege of Nijmegen, he was governor of Nijmegen. From Nijmegen Philip started a campaign in Luxembourg, where he engaged the Spanish enemy. In 1594, he participated in the Reduction of Groningen. Then, on 2 September 1595, he commanded more than 500 cavalry, in the battle on the Lippe, along with his brothers Louis Gunther and Ernst Casimir. During the battle, Philip got seriously injured. The next day, on 3 Sep 1595, he passed away in Rheinberg .
  • ✅ Major Arthur Dow Newman, mtDNA descendant of Catherine Unknown, served the U.S. Army from 1910-1920. He graduated from West Point Military Academy in 1914; served overseas during the World War involved with the Cavalry. He died at age 32 from injuries sustained when his horse threw him during a polo match. He is buried at Arlington Cemetery with a beautiful headstone. His findagrave memorial has nice photographs of him Newspapers across the Country carried the news of his death.
  • ✅ Christian von Sachsen-Weissenfels, who as the third son could hardly hope for his father's inheritance, dedicated himself to the military, befitting his status . In 1673 he recruited an infantry regiment and fought with it on the Upper Rhine. On February 4, 1677, he was appointed general sergeant of the Electorate of Saxony . He also took part in the relief of Vienna in 1683 . In the Great Turkish War, Duke Christian led the Saxon Auxiliary corps in Hungary of 4,200 men at the siege of Ofen (1684/1686) and distinguished himself there together with his brother Heinrich. In the subsequent Palatinate War of Succession , an imperial war against expanding France , he took part from 1688 on the side of Elector Johann Georg III. of Saxony . He was very successful as a commander, as evidenced by his appointment as Field Marshal Lieutenant in the Electorate of Saxony . On August 24, 1689, at the age of 37, he was fatally wounded by a musket ball during the siege of Mainz.
  • ❤️ ✅ Lillian Frost, an mtDNA descendant of Catherine Unknown Strutt, served as a Nurse in the Army Nurse Corps during World War I. She served in France with the American Expedition Forces. Her military headstone and documentation reflects her military service. Two of her brothers, Sherman W. Frost and Alan Beede Frost also served with Sherman serving in Germany and Alan in France.
  • ✅ William Joseph MacDonald (1895-1963), a Y-DNA descendant of Ivar II of Waterford, served in the U.S. Navy as a Seaman 2nd Class for about a year during World War I. (added by Sullivan-17177)
  • Joseph Alexander MacDonald (1933-2005), a Y-DNA descendant of Ivar II of Waterford, served in the U.S. Air Force during the Korean War.
  • Juste Henri Benjamin de Bons was appointed captain of the regiment of the Swiss by the King of France Louis XV and in 1747 he received a gratification from the King after the Battle of Lansfelt. He was named Colonel-General of the regiment of the Swiss in 1752, and was made Knight of Military Merit in 1760.




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