Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1892-02-28
of punda. OF pudaiugton and Hamilton

of Cadyou.
FROM EDwARpI.
Sir Francis Wyatt. who was twice uov
ernor Of the Virginia colony, whose 5onj
the Rev. Havte Wyatt. was the aiieseu
ancestor Of the Wyatt family. OF ulourre1,
ter county, wac descendant OF hlns son
ward l.. of England. through ms son
Thomas, Earl OF Norfolk. Sir fran III,
grandfather was executed on 1own I'M
April II. 1854, :" for political reasons;
Although the present and eleventh Loru
Fairfax. of Cameron, resides at Bladens,
burg. Md. his ancestors, the eighth ana
ninth Lords Fairfax, lived IN NrgIin ,n
The title was acquired by THOMAS .a = az, ~
fax making perpetual loan OF
King james vi. of Scotland. IL Is through
the wife of the second son. Rev. Henry,
OF this first Baron Fairfax. Lady MARY
Choiinoneley. that the Virginia Fairin1Se,s -
arc descended from King Edward III.
two sops-Lionel, Duke OF Clarence anu
Iobn. Duke of Lancaster. Mrs. MARY ran
fl. who deceased 1919. was also o uesc tIp,
ant of Sir Henry Percy, the renowhea n,1
spur, and of Sir Henry Percy, n. w., iou n,,ri
earl of Northumberland. VINO was uanrv
dered in 1889 by command OF Ming nenty
VII Should DR.. John 9. Fairfax su.ns
nresent Baron Fairfax-two boys, hipe,e
and Charley. die without issue, the .,tIo ~
tbe Scotch barony of Cameron wouiu ~.
vert 10 the descendants or MS uncie, e.
orlsndo Fairfax. of Richmond whose VIE,
nee Mary Cary, is descendant OF tne o.ua,
kings of Scotland. OF the otheI VIZ ssn ,ra'ii
families of the Plantagenet,,r ~ Walnut
Grangep the Lees of Mt. Pheasant, in
Washinrtons of Logan county, n.y. anu 10 oa
Fauauier county. and branches C 1t e
ranaii Tapscott, Hyde, Cary. Catiet,,
Wiring. and Ragland families. WINE
Iohn q Hubert. Of Walnut Grange, Mds
a descendant of King Edward u tnIo nnw
the Fairfax family. his wlfe, MAY Vii Viii
den. was descendant OF houIa ,ar,,
Kiny Of France. through the Thomas la'n VI
H. r'D ~ lnne Arundel county, Md: one OF
,Ioir descendants is Colonel James H.
Herbert. of Baltimore. Nichoias onom-
dom of Harrisonburg, is also Oh the s"ino
descent as Mrs. Herbert.
IIYTAGE OF The LAWS.
Looking through the list of illustriouss
names which appear in the pedigree OF
General Robert T.. Lee 1t seems impossioie
60, MIN 10 have been anything but SOL
dior lie inherited the blood OF a score OF
oreat commanders. The Norman Kings OF
ingland from William the COnqueror 10
Edward Ill, father TO son. the Kings OF
France from Hugh Capet TO Phllip IL,
father TO son, Alfred the Great. the EN-
peror Charlemagne, Robert Bruce, hing OF
Scotland and the Stuarts. Kings ROBERT III.
and Ill. were all his ancestors. others
were Admens H., Count of Savoy. Edmund
the Iropsides. Godfrey de Boullion, Rich
ard de Burgh the Great. and Arnolph the
Great. Count of Flanders. And IN moro
recent times among his ancestors were
Maior.General Alexander Spottswood ana
John Carter commanders III chief or III
ginia colony. His father was the cele-
brated Lighthouse Harry" Lee, major
general in the Continental army.
General Lee derived his most illustrious
and royal ancestry through tys females i,
his mother (Anne Hull Carter, his grand
mother (Anne Butler Moore). his great
grandmother (Anne Cathun Spotswoods).
and his great great-grandmother (Anne
Butler Bryan, and her grandmother
Margaret Butler. but from her his line
runs through eight generations OF male
ancestors TO Elizabeth, daughter hing
Edward |.
General Lees wife, and the mother Of
his seven children. was Mary Randolph,
only child OF q. w. T. Curtis, of Airing
tom the adopted child of President
Washington. She was. like her husband,
a descendant also OF King Edward l., OF
England. through her grandmother
family, the Calyerts, Lords Baltimore ana
NONtIUOIS VI lUO liOFllANU VI -hNt ie'AN'
Her grandfather, John Curtis, was step
son of President Washington.
TIE HARRIsoNs.
President Harrison, who is a VIrginlan
by descent from the Harrsons, of :" Berke-
lew Is described in this book as a de-
scendant of Alfred the Great King OF
England. From Alfred the Great to Ben
iamin the Little there are thirty-two gene
rations. and, wonderful to relate, this
long line OF ancestors passes through only
three females to such royalty; Anna
Symmes (wlfe of the first President Har-
rlson). Joan Grafton wife Of Richard
Tuthlll, of London. and Lady Lucia (wlie
of the Earl of CHESTER, who was only
four removes from King Alfred. Presi-
dent Harrison derives his royal descent
through his paternal grandmother, daush.
ter of Judge John Cleves Symmes. one OF
the founders of Cincinnati.
Dolly PAYNE, who married a. her second
husband President Madison. and her SIS
ter Lucy, who married first George Step
toe Washington, a son of Samuel Washing
ton. and one of his five wives. and mar
ried secondly Chief-Justice Todd, OF Ken
lucky, are entered among the descendants
of Robert Bruce. King OF Scotland,
through their ancestors, the Flemings OF
Kent county. Va, who traced to this we'll
known historical character.
Rev. George Woodbridge, ID. d., OF Rich
mond. has his ancestry traced 10 Henry l.,
King Of France. one Of his ancestors.
Rev. John Wood bridge, of Newbury, Mass.
assistant of Massachusetts colony, 1888,
married Mercy Dudley. a daughter OF
| Thomas Dudley, Governor OF Massachu-
sets colony. and 1t is through Miss Dud
lev that the Rev. DIR. Woodbridge Is en-
abled to trace to royalty.
PAT cLEBUgNT.
Major General Patrick K. Cleburne, Con
| federate States army, who was killed III the
battle at Franklin, Tenn, and DR.. Christie
pher j. Cleburne, United States navy, are
put down as descendants of King Edward
Ill, though his son Lionel, Duke of Cla-
renee. and the Barons Clifford, one OF
whom was 1.-THE Shepherd Lord" the
tenth Lord Clifford. His father was a
| Lancastrian and lost his life in the battle
| OF Teuton when his heir was only years
| old. The House of York then prevailing
| the little lord was disguised as a shepherd
| boy. and so lived, deprived OF his lands
and honors and uneducated for twenty
| four wears, till the Lancastrian interests
prevailed. Herbert A. Claiborne and Major
| John Hayes Claiborne. of Richmond, and
| DR.. James w. Claiborne. OF Petersburg
| have their descent given from King Louis
/ lii VI anu lsINhAh LII
| the latter descent being through their an.
| cestor, Herbert Claiborne. of the Virgins
| family, and the former through his wife
| Mary Burnet Broune. of "Elsing Greene,
| descendant of William Broune, an early
settler at Salem. Mass. who was q cadet o.
the House of Broune, of Beechworth Cas-
| Ito in Surrey, which traced its lineage t
| KING Louis VIII. of France. Mrs. Vincent
| Branham and Mrs. Philip A. Branham, o.
Richmond, were also of this royal descent
The Tayloe family of King George coun.
| ty, the probable head" of which Il
| Colonel James Tayloe, of Charleston. hay,
| in their veins the blood of PROUD
| Howards,n Dukes of Norfolk, and tn,
Plantagenets. Kings of England, for which
they are indebted to an ancestry Ann Ogle
sister of Benjamin Ogle. Governor o
Maryland. and a granddaughter OF samue
Ogle, thrice Governor of the Province o
Maryland. Mrs. Melora Clarkson, wife o
the Right Rev. Bishop GARRISON, Is als'
down in the book as a descendant of tn
Ogles, and therefore also of the Plentage
| nets.
Nathaniel Burwell Hay and James Hay
| of Clarke county, whose wife was Con
stance Tatem, of Richmond, and Morde
cal Lewis, of Clarksburg, w. Va, ar
| of royal descent from William, the Con
aueror. through the Smiths of Franklin
Park" Burlington county, n. j., their an
ceStors.