Margaret de Somery

Margaret married John de Sutton before 1308. John (son of Richard de Sutton and Isabel Patrick) was born in of Aston le Walls, Northamptonshire, England; died after 1339. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

John married Isabel de Cherleton before 1327. Isabel (daughter of John de Cherleton and Hawise de la Pole) died on 10 Apr 1397. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

He served in the army in France, which is probably where he died.

John married Joan de Clinton about 1361. Joan (daughter of John de Clinton and Joan Hillary) was born about 1341; died before 1386. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

He served in the king's fleet under Richard de Arundel, Earl of Arundel and Surrey.

Family/Spouse: Alice le Despenser. Alice (daughter of Philip le Despenser and Elizabeth) died after 1380. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: Constance Blount. Constance (daughter of Walter Blount and Sancha de Ayala) died on 23 Sep 1432. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Also called John Dudley. 1st Lord Dudley. Lieutenant of Ireland. Constable of Clun and Wigmore castles. Ambassador to Brittany and Burgundy. Treasurer of the Household to Henry VI. Constable of the Tower of London. Joint Chamberlain to Queen Elizabeth Woodville. Summoned to Parliament by writ from 15 Feb 1440 to 1 Sep 1487.

He served in France under Henry V and was a staunch Lancastrian under Henry VI, with whom he was taken prisoner at the 1st Battle of St. Albans in 1455. He was later wounded at the Battle of Blore Heath, 23 Sep 1459. Despite his loyalty to Henry VI, he was immediately received into favor on the accession of Edward IV.

John married Elizabeth Berkeley before 28 Jun 1421. Elizabeth (daughter of John Berkeley and Elizabeth Betteshorne) died before 8 Dec 1478; was buried in St. James's Priory, Dudley, Worcestershire, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Knight of the shire for Sussex, 1478. Sheriff of Surrey and Sussex 1483-84. Esquire of the Body to Henry VII, 1490-1500. Burgess (M.P.) for Arundel, 1491-92. Sheriff of Hampshire, 1493-94.

John married Elizabeth Bramshott before 1462. Elizabeth (daughter of John Bramshott and Katherine Pelham) died on 12 Oct 1498; was buried in Arundel, Sussex, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Anne married Robert Hall before 1496. Robert (son of Henry Hall and Anne Stokton) was born before 1475 in of Ore, Sussex, England; died on 30 Dec 1536. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Speaker of the House of Commons.

Edmund married Elizabeth Grey after 1500. Elizabeth (daughter of Edward Grey and Elizabeth Talbot) was born about 1484; died after 10 Aug 1530. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: Anne Erley. Anne (daughter of John Erley) died before 1544. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

1st Duke of Northumberland.

John married Jane Guildford before 1526. Jane (daughter of Edward Guildford and Eleanor West) was born about 1504; died on 22 Jan 1555 in Chelsea, Middlesex, England; was buried on 1 Feb 1555 in Chelsea, Middlesex, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Goddard married Cecily before 1542. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Guildford married Jane Grey, Queen of England on 21 May 1553 in Durham House, London, England. Jane (daughter of Henry Grey and Frances Brandon) was born in Oct 1537 in Bradgate, Leicestershire, England; died on 12 Feb 1554 in Tower Hill, London, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Robert married Anne on 3 Dec 1573 in Waltham Abbey, Essex, England. Anne died between 24 Jan 1620 and 25 Oct 1620. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: John Woodgate. John was born about 1577. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Alternate death: Aft 1646

Ursula married Francis Quarles on 28 May 1618 in St. Andrew's, Holborn, London, England. Francis (son of James Quarles and Joan Dalton) was born before 8 May 1592; was christened on 8 May 1592 in Romford, Essex, England; died before 11 Sep 1644; was buried on 11 Sep 1644 in St. Olave, Silver Street, London, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Joanna married Richard Smith on 2 Aug 1654 in Boston, Suffolk, Massachusetts. Richard (son of John Smith and Mary) was born about 1621; died after 1680 in Lyme, New London, Connecticut. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Alternate birth: of Lyme, New London, Connecticut

Elizabeth married John Lee on 8 Feb 1692 in Lyme, New London, Connecticut. John (son of Lt. Thomas Lee and Sarah Kirtland) was born on 21 Sep 1670; died on 17 Jan 1716. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Benjamin married Mary Ely on 25 Mar 1736. Mary (daughter of Maj. Daniel Ely and Mary Ann Champlin) was born in 1714. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Elizabeth married Joseph Chester on 22 Sep 1785. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

"He is said to have been the first Washington County (R.I.) physician. Previous to his time the ministers were the physicians. He died of yellow fever, contracted while visiting a patient on a vessel from a southern port. His tombstone recounts that 'He was a physician of eminence, a universal philanthropist, and a friend to the distressed. His death is greatly lamented by all who knew him.' Buried at first in Westerly, R.I., his remains were removed in 1856 to Grove street cemetery, New Haven, Conn." [Genealogy of the Descendants of John Eliot, citation details below.]

Daniel married Lydia Ann Eliot on 4 Feb 1784 in Westerly, Washington, Rhode Island. Lydia (daughter of John Eliot and Lydia Atwater) was born on 22 Jun 1760; died on 17 Sep 1836. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Joseph married Prudee Tracy on 10 Sep 1811. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Her monumental inscription ends: "Though dead, yet shall she live."

Nancy married John Bassett in Oct 1809. John (son of Benjamin Bassett and Molly Hinman) was born on 22 Sep 1779 in of Derby, New Haven, Connecticut; died on 16 Aug 1858. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

A pioneer of evidence-based genealogical research, he spent the last two decades of his life in England researching the English ancestry of various American families. In 1869 he was one of the founders of the Harleian Society. In 1877, Columbia University granted him an honorary LL.D in recognition of his genealogical work. Oxford University followed with another honorary degree in 1881. His literary executor was George Edward Cokayne, Norroy King of Arms, founder of the Complete Peerage.

His connection to the maintainers of this database is that, under the sponsorship of Chicago mayor and sometime congressman John Wentworth,* he performed the primary research establishing with reasonable certainty the medieval ancestry of the New England immigrant William Wentworth (1616-1697), one of TNH's "gateway ancestors."

His other connection, mostly demonstrating that all of human history is a gigantic tangled knot, is that his first published literary work was a volume of poetry entitled Greenwood Cemetery and Other Poems (1843), the title poem of which is absolutely about Green-Wood Cemetery in Brooklyn, New York, whose bounds stand half a block from where this database's maintainers lived from 2004 to 2018.

I stand upon Mount WASHINGTON, and gaze
Enraptured on the view within my sight:
The city's spires--its broad and noble bay--
Lie, like a vivid panorama, spread
By master hands in lines of glowing life:--
Turning, the restless ocean meets my eye
And faintly, when the southern breeze is full
I hear thy roar, far sounding Rockaway!


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* In an entirely gratuitous Mormon connection, before entering electoral politics this John Wentworth was a journalist, and in that capacity he wrote to Mormon founder and prophet Joseph Smith with several inquiries about Mormonism. Smith's answer, known in church history as the "Wentworth Letter," is now considered one of the foundational documents of LDS belief.

Jane married Rev. Charles Wells Clapp on 16 Aug 1849. Charles (son of Russell Clapp and Louisa Strong) was born on 22 Jan 1817 in Southampton, Hampshire, Massachusetts; died on 12 Aug 1884; was buried in Godfrey Cemetery, Godfrey, Madison, Illinois. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Alternate birth: of Berkeley, Alameda, California
• Alternate birth: Abt 1857
• Alternate death: 7 Feb 1919, Alameda, Alameda, California
• Alternate death: 9 Feb 1919

Notes:

Ph.D, Yale, 1886.

"Clapp arrived at Berkeley when it was a small school of some 400 students. By his efforts the department began the first major graduate program on the West Coast, but Greek was also widely taught throughout the state high schools as well. A genial and robust figure until ill health befell him at the age of fifty, his teaching was generally at the graduate level and centered around Pindar and Plato and his, many articles covered a range of subjects. He was a founder of the Philological Association of the Pacific States and served as president for two terms. At the time of his death he was at work on an edition of Pindar that was to be the summary of his life's work on that author." [Rutgers Database of Classical Scholars]

Edward married Mary Mattoon Wolcott on 22 Dec 1886 in Morgan, Illinois. Mary (daughter of Elizur Wolcott and Martha Lyman Dwight) was born on 14 May 1863 in Jacksonville, Morgan, Illinois; died on 22 Aug 1949 in Alameda, Alameda, California; was buried in Diamond Grove Cemetery, Jacksonville, Morgan, Illinois. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Alternate birth: 10 Oct 1890, Illinois

Miriam married Maj. Richard Stewart Dyer-Bennet on 17 Feb 1912 in Christchurch, Hampshire, England, and was divorced in 1955. Richard (son of Frederick Stewart Hotham Dyer and Adelaide Annie Taylor) was born on 6 Oct 1886 in The Lyons, Enville, Staffordshire, England; was christened in Enville, Staffordshire, England; died in 1983. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

From Britannica.com (accessed 11 Sep 2020):

Richard Dyer-Bennet, (born October 6, 1913, Leicester, Leicestershire, England—died December 14, 1991, Monterey, Massachusetts, U.S.), British-born American tenor and guitarist who helped to revive the popularity of folk music through his concert performances, recordings, compositions, and teaching.

Though born in England, Dyer-Bennet grew up in Canada and California and attended the University of California at Berkeley (1932–35), where he studied English and music. (He became a naturalized U.S. citizen in 1935.) After visiting Swedish folklorist Sven Scholander in 1935, Dyer-Bennet adopted Scholander’s trinity of song interpretation—poetry, melody, and lute accompaniment. In 1944, though, he switched to the Spanish guitar and gave the first of what would become annual solo concerts at New York City’s Town Hall; the impresario Sol Hurok signed him for national and foreign tours for many years. He gained a cult following with his approximately 800 songs (including about 100 of his own composition) that ranged through British and French ballads, European medieval songs, Swedish shepherd tunes, and American cowboy songs. Curiously, though identified as a folk singer, he preferred the label minstrel or troubadour.

Dyer-Bennet stopped giving concerts after a stroke in 1972 limited use of his left hand. From 1970 to 1983 he taught at the State University of New York at Stony Brook.

Notes:

One of DDB's six proven "gateway ancestors." DDB is unique in this database in that one of his gateway ancestors is a parent.

John married Mary Abby Randall on 14 Jun 1951 in San Francisco, San Francisco, California. Mary (daughter of George Burdett Randall and Hester Worth) was born on 24 Nov 1923 in Los Angeles, California; died on 31 Aug 2012 in Northfield, Rice, Minnesota. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Heir apparent to the Swinnerton-Dyer baronetcy, most recently held by Peter Swinnerton-Dyer, who died 26 Dec 2018.

Family/Spouse: Lydia Drew Nickerson. Lydia (daughter of Ronald Whitman Nickerson and Lorna Mae Nickerson) was born on 24 May 1962 in New Castle, Lawrence, Pennsylvania. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

David married Pamela Collins Dean on 30 Dec 1982 in Hennepin County, Minnesota. Pamela was born on 18 Jan 1953 in Illinois. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]