Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1905-01-18
POOR RELATIONS OF ROYALTY.
Descendants of Monarchs Who Have
Come Down in the World.

descendants of Monarchs Who Have
Come Down in the World.
According to recently published
work on genealogy, there are 11,723
persons Of British royal blood now liv-
ing in Great Britain and on the Con-
tinent. Most Of these persons are
members of royal or princely houses,
and are to be found in the Almanach
de Gotha, Debrett, or Burkes County
Families.
But there is not a sovereign in Eu-
rope who cannot boast of number Of
poor relations.
There is chemist in Liverpool who
is descended from the Plantagenet
kings, and who is cousin, seventeen
times removed, of the Emperor Fran
els Joseph of Austria. This gentleman
is we'll aware of his descent.
A greater fall from grandeur still
is that of carpenter, named Emsley,
who died not long ago, near Ports
mouth, without being aware of his
kinship with King Victor Emmanuel
III.
There is a whole family of prosper
GUS farmers in Cumberland who can
claim descent from Mary Tudor,
youngest daughter and co-heiress Of
Henry VII, and in a suburb Of Hull
lives the eX-master of q small coasting
steamer, who is descended from James
III. of Scotland
London boasts quite a number of
humble inhabitants, who, If about ten
thousand other claimants We're sud-
denly wiped out, might put in claims
to sit on the British throns.
One OF these, nicknamed Forty
Pockets" was some years ago the butt
of the Clerkenwell street boys owing
to his unkingly appearance. He kept
a small general shop, and was often to
be seen running after his tormentors,
armed with a cudgel, which, had Fate
been kinder, might have been a scep-
ter.
The West Central district of London
claims a prosperous butcher Of royal
BLOOD and i'll one of the slumS Of
Lisson Grove lives a gentleman Of
German name and mo settled occupa-
tlon," who is descended from James I.
OF England through his daughter Elz-
abeth, and her husband, Frederick v,
Elector Palatine and King of Bohemia.
This gentleman is also distant cousin
Of the present Kaiser.
Descendants of irish kings are NUN.
berless in the Emerald Isle, but Ire
land also possesses at least two lowly
scions Of British royalty.
One, woman named Hammond,
was lately living near Waterford,
where she was cook to a well-known
resident magistrate Her name before
marriage was the curiously Irish one
of Cullen, and she was descended in
the female line from Edward w. The
pedigree of the other, a farmer in Kill
kenny, is not SO well substantiated,
but he claimed AS ancestor "Bluff King
Hail." whose lawful issue, better au-
thorities assert, was extinct in 1853.
Descendants Of Mary Queen Of Scots
can be counted by hundreds, but most
are settled on the Continent. Her son
by Lord Darnley was James l. of Eng
land, whose humblest descendant is
tailor at Bonn, in Germany.
There is, however, a Pole from the
Duchy of Posen now living in the East
End of London who shares the blood
of the beautiful and unfortunate
Queen through her -granddaugh-
ter Sophia.
Mary's eldest grandson was ancestor
Of the French Dukes of Orleans. and
genuine poor relation Of the present
Duke of Orleans now lives in Mont
martre, where he is employed as a
model by art students.
All these poor relations of royalty''
share the blood of the PIantagenets.
through their common ancestor. ES-
ward ~, but most Of that Kings
known descendants are members of
the peerage, or of county families al
lied to the peerage. About thirty, how
ever, are scattered over England and
Scotland