I have listed here my gateway ancestors to European nobility along with the secondary sources where these lines can be traced. The full source citations for the abbreviated sources listed with each ancestor can be found at the bottom of the page. I have divided the presentation into two sections:
1) Proven lines that are recognized as legitimate
2) Potential lines that need more documentation
BULKELEY, Mrs. Jane (ALLEN) (never immigrated, 1st wife of Rev. Peter Bulkeley, of Massachusetts)
RD 500; MC5; RD600; PA3
BULKELEY, Rev. Peter, of Massachusetts
RD 500; MC5; AR7; RD600; PA3; MCA
COOKE, Mrs. Elizabeth (HAYNES), of Massachusetts
PA2; PA3
CONWAY, Mrs. Martha (ELTONHEAD), of Virginia
RD 500; RD600; PA3; MCA
EDWARDS, Mrs. Agnes (HARRIS) (SPENCER), of Connecticut
RD 500; AR7; RD600; MCA
GODDARD, William, of Massachusetts
RD 500; PA2; RD600; PA3; MCA
HUTCHINSON, Mrs. Anne (MARBURY), of Rhode Island
RD 500; MC5; AR7; PA2; RD600; PA3; MCA
HUTCHINSON, Mrs. Katherine (HAMBY), of Massachusetts
AR7; RD600; PA3; MCA
MAGRUDER, Alexander, of Maryland
RD 500; RD600
MAVERICK, Mrs. Mary (GYE), of Massachusetts
AR7; PA2; RD600; PA3; MCA
MELLOWES, Mrs. Martha (BULKELEY), of Massachusetts
MC5; AR7; RD600; PA3; MCA
STRATTON, John (never immigrated, husband of Anne Derehaugh)
RD 500; RD600; Bradley, Hal, "A Royal Descent for John Stratton," NEHGR 160:2 (Apr 2006)
STRATTON, Mrs. Anne (DEREHAUGH), of Massachusetts
Battle, Robert, "English Ancestry of Anne (Derehaugh) Stratton of Salem, Massachusetts," NEHGR 155:4 (Oct 2001); RD600; PA3; MCA
THORNDIKE, Mrs. Elizabeth (STRATTON), of Massachusetts
RD 500; RD600; Bradley, Hal, "A Royal Descent for John Stratton," NEHGR 160:2 (Apr 2006)
WILLIAMS, Mrs. Frances (DEIGHTON), of Massachusetts
RD 500; MC5; AR7; PA2; RD600; PA3; MCA
DILKE, Susan, of Virginia
Wilson, York Lowry, A Carolina-Virginia Genealogy (Aldershot, England: Gale & Polden, 1962.); Kingsbury, Susan Myra The Records of the Virginia Company of London (Washington, D.C.: Government Printing Office, 1906-1935.); Harvey, William, The Visitation of Norfolk in the Year 1563 (Norwich: s.n., 1878-1895.)
FAIRBANKS, Jonathan, of Massachusetts
Hunt, John G., "Notes on Families of the Parish of Halifax, Yorkshire...," The American Genealogist 40:4 (Oct 1964); Clay, C. T., "The Family of Lacy of Cromwellbottom and Leventhorpe," Miscellanea, v. 28 (Leeds, England: Publications of the Thoresby Society, 1928.)
GRISWOLD, Michael, of Connecticut
French, Robert Lewis & Esther Griswold, The Greswold Family: Twelve Generations in England (Wethersfield, Connecticut: The Griswold Family Association, 1999.); "Shuckburgh Pedigree," Miscellanea Genealogica et Heraldica, vol. 3, 2nd Series (London: 1890.)
HINTON, John, of Virginia and Maryland
Wilson, York Lowry, A Carolina-Virginia Genealogy (Aldershot, England: Gale & Polden, 1962.); RD500; RD600
WATERS, Richard, of Massachusetts
GGE; Threlfall, John B., The Ancestry of My Children (Madison, Wisc.: J.B. Threlfall, 1970.)
WINDHAM, Edward, of Virginia
Wyndham, Hugh Archibald, A Family History, 1688-1837: The Wyndhams of Somerset, Sussex and Wiltshire (London: Oxford University Press, 1950.); Windham, Amasa Benjamin, The Windham Family of England, Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina, Alabama, Mississippi, and Texas (Sandy Springs, Georgia: 1982.)
AR7: Weis, Frederick Lewis, Ancestral Roots of Certain American Colonists Who Came to America before 1700 (7th ed., Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Co., 1992.)
GGE: Waters, Henry Fitz-Gilbert, Genealogical Gleanings in England (Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Co., 1969.)
MC5: Weis, Frederick Lewis, The Magna Charta Sureties, 1215 (5th ed., Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Co., 1999.)
RD500: Roberts, Gary Boyd, The Royal Descents of 500 Immigrants to the American Colonies or the United States (Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Co., 1993.)
RD600: Roberts, Gary Boyd, The Royal Descents of 600 Immigrants to the American Colonies or the United States (Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Co., 2004.)
PA2: Faris, David, Plantagenet Ancestry of Seventeenth-Century Colonists (2nd ed., Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society, 1999.)
PA3: Richardson, Douglas, Plantagenet Ancestry: A Study in Colonial and Medieval Families (Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Company, 2004.)
MCA: Richardson, Douglas, Magna Carta Ancestry: A Study in Colonial and Medieval Families (Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Company, 2005.)
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