That Royal Conection

Jo All -

Purely for Roy's annoyance I give below proof positive that I am of
royal blood that I have just come upon, as researched but apparently

Graeme Wall...

[snip]

unpublished in the USA. It so happens that I do know of a William Sellon
of Yateley / Eversley who, in perhaps about 1650, married a Margaret
Spier, she having a Castillion as her mother. Surely this must be
positive enough proof for anybody!

Lesley Robertson...

We're not worthy.....
Lesley Robertson

"Lydia M. Latrobe of N.Y., wife of engineer and steamboat builder
Nicholas J. Roosevelt, was the daughter of the architect and civil
engineer Benjamin Henry Latrobe (1764-1820) and his first wife Lydia
Sellon (who died in England), subject of an unpublished typescript by
NEHGS colleague Henry B. Hoff that traces Lydia’s descent through Speir,
Castillion, St. John, Iwardby, and Carew to Sir Roger Fiennes and
Elizabeth Holand. This last is identified in the new Plantagenet
Ancestry of Seventeenth-Century Colonists as a daughter of John Holand,
1st Duke of Exeter (half-brother of Richard II), and Elizabeth
Plantagenet, daughter of John of Gaunt and his cousin Blanche of
Lancaster, and granddaughter of Edward III."

Graeme Wall...

To further annoy Roy, that makes you a cousin of my wife who is also
descended from John of Gaunt, by his mistress, later wife, Katherine Roet.
More interestingly, Katherine was sister-in-law to Geoffrey Chaucer.

Yours Aye Andrew Sellon