Jeffersonian Republican. [volume] (Stroudsburg, Pa.) 1840-1853, 1849-12-06
From the Miners Journal
queen Victoria and her Ancestors

sASsVHld anu Mcr ANCESTORS.
Guelph is the name of the family that has oc.
cupied the British Throne since I7I3, a period o
l36 years
victoria, who Is now thirty years of age, of a
remarkable youthful appearance, of pleasing and
affable manners, distinguished for all the virtues
which adorn lady, a wife and mother, is the
Granddaughter of George III. Her father, Ed
ward Guelph, Duke of Kent, died January 23d,
1890, a few months after her birth, and six days
before the death of George Ill Her husband
Prince Albert of SAKE Gotha, very nearly of her
own age, possesses a handsome person and a fine
address, and speaks the English language in great
purity, and is distinguished for his social and do
mestlc virtues. No man in Great Britain is more
universally popular. Her eldest son, Prince of
Wales and heir apparent to the Throne, is about
eight years old. Twelve years since, she as a
sovereign succeeded her Uncle William, who died
June 2Oth, 1897.
William ~ regned ?years. Consequently he
ascended the Throne in 1880, upon the death of
his brother George. His widow, adelaide the
Qeen- n-dowager. is still living and receives from
government yearly income OF 100000.
George w. reigned 10 years, from the death of
his father, George Ill. in 1890.
George III. reigned so years from the year 1850,
succeeding his Grandfather George ii. His
father Frederick, Prince of Wales, died several
years before.
George the II. filled the throne 33 years from
1927 He was the son of George |. Both he
and his father were born and educated in GeIma-
ny.
George Guelph l. reigned Is years from l7l4
when Queen Anne, the last Of the Stuarts, expired
in the twelfth year of her distinguished reign. He
could not speak the English language. He was
the Grand Of James |.
James (Stuart) |. in whose reign the translation
of the Bible now in general use was made, was
crowned in 1903. He was the first English King
Of the family of Stuart. In 1909, one hundred
years after, wanting one year, the last sovereign
of that family ascended the Throne. James :
was the Great Great Grand son of Henry VII the
first monarch of the Tudor family
Henry CTudor) VII. began to reign in 1855,
seven years before the discovery of America and
one generation before the Reformation. He bull,
dt MS own expense, Tue HIST snip Ol tue DFIllSU
Navy, and called 1.-THE Great Harry. This is
the beginning of the greatest naval power ever
known. From Henry VII. to Victoria are twelve
generations, as follows: Henry (Tudor) VII
Margaret Queen Of Scotland, James V. of Scot
land, Mary Queen of Scots, (beheaded,) James
(Stuart,) l. of England VI. of Scotland, Princess
Elizabeth, Princess Sophia, George (Guelph) l
George II. Frederick Prince of Wales, George
III. Edward Duke of Kent, Victoria.
From the death of Henry VII. in 1909, to the
death of Queen Anne, space of 205 years, no ar
cestor of Queen Victoria was Oil the Throne o.
England, except James l.
Queen Victoria is descendant of Henry II
who through his mother was descendant of Eg
bert, the first King of England, crowned in e27
All her ancestors through this period of more than
thousand years have place in history. D. S