I62911: COEL Hen 1st of Northern BritainKing (ABT 0350

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Biographies of monarchs & other royalty from those little known kingdoms that existed in Britain during the Age of King Arthur.
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The Early British Kings of what is now Northern England, descend from one of two dynasties commonly known as the Gwyr-y-Gogledd, a Welsh phrase meaning the "Men of the North". They were a P-Celtic people, like the Cymri, who retained their independence from Saxon oppression for a number of centuries, in the relative remote Northern regions of Britain.

Welsh tradition holds that they all had a common ancestor in Old King Cole of nursery rhyme fame. He appears in ancient records as Coel Hen (the Old) and his name seems to ultimately derive from the Roman, Coellius. This fits in well with the time period in which it has been calculated that he lived: right at the end of the Roman administration (very late 4th century).

Considering the regions over which Coel's supposed descendants ruled, his own sphere of influence must have covered a vast area from Hadrian's Wall to the Southern Pennines. In fact, the exact area that would have been governed at this time by the Dux Britanniarum, a Roman official in charge of the military defence of Northern Britain. With his headquarters at York, he would have been in an ideal position to extend some semblance of Roman-type authority into the 5th century, long after the army and administration had returned to Italy.

Traditional Celtic law insists upon the division of land amongst sons upon the death of the landowner and this situation can certainly be traced amongst the kingdoms which emerged from Coel's domain. However, whether these men were really sons and grandsons of this powerful dux or merely early founders, attached to the great man by later generations is unknown.

According to tradition and early records, the North thus split into many different kingdoms. Ebrauc or British York was centred on that city. Bryneich became the later Saxon kingdom of Bernicia. There were little known kingdoms in the Pennines and the oft-quoted Elmet, around Leeds, whose name is retained today in places like Sherburn-in-Elmet. Others moved further south to establish Calchfynedd. Most powerful was perhaps the kingdom of Rheged, later divided into North and South. Its Kings, such as Urien and Owein, were long celebrated in Welsh poetry and, in medieval times, found their way into the Arthurian tradition. The area they ruled is still called Cumbria today, a name meaning 'Land of the Welsh'.

By the mid-7th century, however, the local Germanic settlers had completely overrun the North. Internal squabbles had weakened the British position in the region and the relatively few Saxons warriors were easily able to take advantage of the situation. Eventually only Rheged was left and a dynastic marriage brought this too into the English fold.

Coel Hen, King of Northern Britain (c.350-c.420)
(Welsh-Coel, Latin-Coelius, English-Cole)

Coel Hen or Coel the Old is known to most of us through the famous nursery rhyme:

Old King Cole was a merry old soul
And a merry old soul was he.
He called for his pipe,
And he called for his bowl,
And he called for his fiddlers, three.

He is also a familiar figure in ancient Welsh genealogies, for most of the Celtic British monarchies claimed descent from him in one form or another. He appears to have lived around the turn from the 4th to the 5th century, the time when the Roman officials returned to Italy, leaving Britain and her people to fend for themselves. Coel's particular association with the north of Britain has led to the suggestion that he may actually have been the last of the Roman Duces Brittanniarum with his headquarters at York. He certainly imposed his power over a great swathe of the country, and can be considered the first King in Northern Britain.

(This Coel should not be confused with the legendary Coel Godhebog "the Magnificent", Lord of Colchester, whose daughter, St. Helen, supposedly married the Emperor Constantius Chlorus two centuries earlier.)

There is an old story told in the north about Coel's last campaign. What is now Scotland was originally inhabited by the Pictish race. It was during Coel's time that immigrant Irishmen from the Scotti tribe began to settle the Western coast around Argyle. Coel, fearing that the two peoples would unite against the British, sent raiding parties across his northern border to stir up discord between them. The plan, however, backfired for the Picts and the Scots were not taken in. Coel merely succeeded in pushing the two even closer together, and they began to attack the British Kingdom of Strathclyde. Coel declared all out war and moved north to expel the invaders. The Picts and Scots fled to the hills ahead of Coel's army, who eventually set up camp at what became Coylton alongside the Water of Coyle (Ayrshire). For a long time, the British were triumphant, while the Scots and Picts starved. Desperate for some relief, however, the enemy advanced an all-or-nothing attack on Coel's stronghold. Coel and his men were taken by surprise, overrun and scattered to the winds. It is said that Coel wandered the unknown countryside until he eventually got caught in a bog at Coilsfield (in Tarbolton, Ayrshire) and drowned. Coel was first buried in a mound there before being removed to the church at Coylton. The year was about AD 420. After his death, Coel's Northern Kingdom was divided between two of his sons, Ceneu and Gorbanian.

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Will: 2 Feb 1789; Will proved: 25 Sep 1789 Executor: Bros. George and Benjamin Crump. Will of John Crump dated 2 February, 1789, Farquier County, Virginia:
Names as heirs: Sons George, Daniel, and John (unless he married a certain woman by the name of Mary Westall.) Daughters Elizabeth Utterback, Mary Waugh, Hannah Branon, Ann Lewis, Sarah Green, and Catherine Crump.
Executors: brothers George and Benjamin Crump. William Eustace, Jr. and John James. Witnesses: John James, John Shumate and Mason Shumate.

Children:
George Crump b. After. 1740
Elizabeth Crump b. 1750
Mary Crump b. About. 1755
Hannah Crump b. After. 1740
Ann Crump b. After. 1740
Sarah Crump b. After. 1740
Catherine Crump b. After. 1740
John Crump III b. After. 1740
Daniel Crump b. After. 1740

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Submitter: Lew H Sarchet Subject: LEWELLEN:

Jacob Lewell, b-unk in Wales. 1st marriage to Jane Unk, in Ralls Co., Mo. 2nd marriage to Unk Rackeby in Ralls Co., MO. The 9 children of Jacob Lewellen and Jane unk were:

Samuel, John, Hannah, Jacob, Martha, JAMES, Robert, Rachel, and Joseph.

The Custer Co., OK Lewellen's I know about are decendents of NAPOLEON B. LEWELLEN, including my wife Mary Rose Bradley, daughter of Harold Bradley and Velma Janette Lewellen.

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Theodore3 Pearl (James2, JOHN WILLIAM1) was born September 09, 1814 in Hardin County, Ky, and died August 25, 1896 in Hardin County, Ky. He married Eliza Jane Spink May 09, 1845 in Hardin County, Ky. She was born November 1825, and died Unknown.

Children of Theodore Pearl and Eliza Spink are:
i. Benjamine Elisha4 Pearl, born Abt. 1846; died Abt. 1946.
ii. Mary Josephine Pearl, born February 02, 1848 in Hardin County, Ky; died October 14, 1918 in Hardin County, Ky. She married Charles Dugan May 25, 1867 in Hardin County, Ky; born Unknown; died Unknown.
iii. Charles Matthew Pearl, born Abt. 1850 in Hardin County, Ky; died Abt. 1940 in Hardin County, Ky.
iv. Sarah Alice Pearl, born Abt. 1852 in Hardin County, Ky; died 1926. She married James M. Judd March 21, 1872 in Hardin County, Ky; born Unknown; died Unknown.
v. Elisha S. Pearl, born Abt. 1854.
vi. George C. Pearl, born December 1858 in Hardin County, Ky; died Abt. 1949. He married Ella
vii. Albert A. Pearl, born September 1861 in Hardin County, Ky; died Abt. 1951.

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SUSAN PICKETT, (5--10), of Loudoun Co., Va., the youngest dau. of William Sanford and Martha (Metcalfe) Pickett, of Fauquier Co., Va., was b. 1773, in Fauquier Co., Va,; m. (first) about the year of 1788, Perry Brady, of Virginia; (second) about the year of 1801, Dr. James Charmell, of Loudoun Co., Va., Issue by first marriage:
6--1. John, untraced.
6--2. SARAH, b. 1790; see later.
6--3. William, of Tennessee; he located near Nashville; m. unknown, and had issue; untraced.
[p.435] Issue by second marriage:
6--4. ELIZABETH, b.1803; of whom later.

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Children:
2 Mattie Logan SMOOT b: 1863
2 Samuel Tombs SMOOT b: 1864
2 Eliza Jane SMOOT b: 1866 d: abt 1960 + Robert Pinson MITCHELL b: 25 Dec 1855 d: 13 Jan 1912
2 Mary Elizabeth SMOOT b: 1868
2 Carolyn Powell SMOOT b: 1869
2 Annie Victoria SMOOT b: 7 MAR 1874 d: 2 OCT 1948 + Unknwn BRAY
2 Fannie SMOOT b: UNKNOWN

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My Southern Family

King COEL Hen 1st of Northern Britain

ABT 0350 - ABT 0420

ID Number: I62911

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Sarah

ABT 1720 - ____

ID Number: I27536

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Elizabeth "Lizzie" Annie BURDG

13 Jul 1860 - 6 Jun 1908

ID Number: I14932

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John CRUMP Jr.

21 Aug 1720 - ABT 1789

ID Number: I75515

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Sarah Anne HARRELL

15 Mar 1812 - 8 May 1886

ID Number: I88119

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Napoleon Bonaparte LEWELLEN

29 Dec 1827 - 7 Nov 1904

ID Number: I31452

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Moses PAINE

ABT 1790 - ____

ID Number: I77885

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Theodore PEARL

9 Sep 1814 - 25 Aug 1896

ID Number: I104392

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Susan PICKETT

1773 - ____

ID Number: I102022

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Dr. Benjamin Sylvester SMOOT

24 May 1835 - 14 Feb 1908

ID Number: I1383

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Marion TINKLEPAUGH