Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1892-02-28

mandy, tho conqueror OF England. and its
drst King OF the Norman line
TO HENRY VIII.
There Ia no "older" and better-known
family in Virginia than the Skipwiths. OF
Prestwould,r Mecklenburg county IN
1922 William Shipwith. Of " Prestwoult, IN
Leicestershire, was created osronet Oh
the United Kingdom. His descendants,
the third, fourth. sixth, and seventh bar
cnets, lived in Virginia, and now the tue
Is enjoyed by Sir Peyton Skipwitn' inc
tenth baronet. of "Prestwould,' IN Eng.
land. whose sou Grey il the heir apparent
TO the title. From Sir Peyton, the seventh
Baronet Skipwith, are descended the SKIP
withs OF our day IN Virginia and IN other
parts of the Union. and also many we'll
known people bearing other surnamts out
having the Skipwith blood in their veins.
The great-grsndfather of the first Baronet,
| also named william Skipwith. was knight
and sheriff Of Lincolnshire about looo. ne
married Lady Alice Dymoke, whose great
grandfather was Sir Lionel de "eiles,
sixth Lord welles and Lord-Lieutenant OF
| Ireland. who was slain IN the bat
tie of Towton Field, 1861. He
was iineal descendant OF Prince
Edmund, the crouchback. Earl OF Leices-
| ter, son of Henry III. King OF England.
| by his wife, Queen Eleanor OF PROVENCE,
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| hence the royal descent OF the Sklpviths
| of Virginia Should young Grey SkipwItn,
| the heir apparent to the baronetcy. died
without issue. the title would have been
inherited by Nathaniel Greene Sklpwith'
of Delton. La, only grandson OF the Sc
| cond son of the sixth baronet.
az tbis line and also descendants of the
Plantagenet kings of England are Mrs; DO
seph q. Cabell, of " Liberty Hall" va.
| Mrs. Edward Venable, of Petersburg;
Skipwitn Wilmer. of Baltimore; Peyton
| Skipwith. of st. Louis; Peyton Sklpwith.
of Memphis; Peyton Skipwith, OF OXFORD
Miss: Joseph Wilmer, OF lho HORSE
| Shoe" Culpeper county, va.
ROYALTY OF THE RIvEs.
Another prominent Virginia family in
| the hook whose descent Is deduced from
ROYALTY is Rives. of Castle Hill" Abe
marie county. Their royal descent IS de-
| rived through United States Senator Rives's
wife. Judith Walker, whose erandin9tIel
Page of North End" whose wife
was daughter to tho second
Colonel William Byrd, Of "westover,"
whose royal descent from the kings
| of England will be noticed hereafter. Seha-
tor Rives's son. the late Frames r.. hlves'
| of New York city, married Matilda par
| CLAY. of New York, who was descendane
| of James /. King of Scotland. In TINS me me
and also of royal descent from hing "a
ward III. of England. is the novelist Mrs.
| Amelis Riyes Chenler, whose mother was
| Sadie McMurdo, of Richmond. .,
| descendant of Speaker ROBINSON
president of the Virginia colony III 1874,
| Lieutenant Colonel Beverley Robinson
also married lady OF the BARCLAY, family Oh
| New York OfrOyal descent, but ana hot see
| that any Of his descendants live IN Virginia.
Il IL md Diners.
| De Lanceys. Astors, &C.. OF the 4OV.
HE spoTTswooDs.
| Descended from Robert H.. King OF
| Scotland's daughter. Princess Catherine,
| and her husband, Sir David LINDSAY. ere
ated Earl of Crawford, was the Right Rev.
| David Lindsay, d. d.. Bishop OF Ross,
whose daughter married the Most Rev.
| John Spottswood. Archbishop OF 81. An
| drews who crowned Charles J., OF Eng
| land. at Hollywood and was buried IN
| Westminster Abbey, and from them was
| descended Major-General Alexandes
| Spottswood, commsnder-ln-chlet OF the
Virginia colony, l7IO-Z5. hls "i'e, hnne
| Butler. was also descendant OF royalty,
TINS their descendants have double
| amount of the blood-royal. Their des-
| cendants in Virginia are very numerous.
| Among them | noted the Nelson's, of Clarke
| county. (who are also descended from
| Governor Thomas Nelson, OF 1orktown),
| the Claibornes of Liberty Hail." the
! Temples OF Fredericksburg, and Charles
| Campbell, the historian, OF Virginia. Mrs.
John Maben of Richmond, Mrs. j. Dorsey
Cullen of Richmoud. Mrs. John Archer OF
| Gloucester. and Mrs. Lelper NJ. Robinson
OF Chelsea" are all descended from the
Stuart kings of Scotland. being descend
ants of General Alexander Spottswood, as
Is also the Keller family OF Iuscumbia,
Ala, and Louisville, Ky.
The Lindsay family of Fairfax county is
descended also from the above kt. Rev.
Lindsay, bishop of Ross. but through his
son Sir Hierome Lindsay. of The Mount"
near Edinburg Lion. King at Arms 10
james VI, whose son was minister NJ
Wicomico and died in Northumberland
county in 1867. lie was descendant OF
King Robert H., and from him descended
John Dawson, OF Fairfax Cour, house;
George William Triplett. of Round Hill,
| Fairfax county; Mrs. John w. Ellis, of
Macon, Ga: Charles T.. Davenport. of
Augusta, Ca; Mrs. John Carlisle, of Lau-
| derdale William NJ. Lindsay, of Birming-
ham. Ala, and the Lindsays of Washing
| ton city.
FROM MALCOLM II.
It is q long step from Malcolm H., King
| Of Scotts to CAPTAIN William Claiborne,
| of Romancock,n King William county,
| Va. who came TO Virginia in 1921, but the
| twenty -one generations that INTERVIEWED
| between them are recorded III Americans
| of ROYAL Descent" and there seems TO be
| no good reason to doubt that Captain
| Claiborne was a lineal descendant Of this
4 Scottish monarch, one of whose grand
sons was Madred, Lord OF the Isles, AN
| cestor of the ClaiDornes, and another was
| King Duncan, who was murdered IN l0il
by Macbeth. Captain Claiborne, who was
secretary and surveyor general OF the
Old Dominion, was of the family of Clal-
borne. of Claiborne Hall, Westmoreland-
shire. which intermarried with the roy
ally-descended Curwens, OF Workington
Hall. Cumberlandshire. A grandson of
Secretary Claiborne's. Captain Thomas
Claiborne, of " Sweet Ball." King William
county, was the father of twenty-seyen
children. 80 it is not surprising that there
is much Claiborne blood in Virginia, espe-
cially when one of his sons, Colonel Au-
CUISINE, of Windsor" himself had ff-
teen children. OF the many descendants
of King Malcolm In Virginia are DR.. John
Ii. Claiborne, Mrs. William b. Mcllwaine,
Mrs. Daniel G.. Butts. Mrs. Bernard Mann,
and Mrs. John Fl. Peterson. all of Peters
burg, and Philip II, Lightfoot, OF Port
Royal.
THE PLANTAGESETs.
Colonel William Byrd, the second, of
WestOyer," on the James. president OF
the Council of Virginia, derived the blood
royal through his mother, nee Maria Hors:
manden, in whose veins was the blood OF
the ST. Legers, the Neyills, and Beautorts,
and from this latter house 1t was but a
step TO the royal Plantagenets. Kings Ed,
ward l., H., and Ill.-Colonel Bvrd's royal
progenitors of the royal Plantagenet-
Byrd blood was Mary Page. wife of Pro-
lessor John Esten Cooke, of Clarke coun-
ty, and her brother. Robert Powell Page,
of Saratoga" whose half sister was the
mother of the well-known actress, Marie
Wainwright, DIR. Robert z. Page, of Ber-
ryyile: Miss Evelyn Page Meriwether, of
Kinlock; Colonel William Nelson. of Mill
wood. Clarke county; Henry III. Harrison,
of Berkeley; Herbert ii. Page, of
Pagebrook Mrs. Lewis Marshall, of
Williamsburg; Mrs. =. A. Talaferro, of
Gloucester; Mrs. William Voolfolk. of
Columbus, Ca, and the Burwells. of
Clarke county, Va.
THE PEYToSs.
Edward ILL.,. King of England. was the
royal projenitor of John Peyton who set
tied in Virginia in 1914, whose son, Henry
| Peyton of Acuuia Westmoreland county.