Showing posts with label Castles of England. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Castles of England. Show all posts

Sunday, May 20, 2018

Kingsbury-The Town That Time Forgot

THE TOWN THAT TIME FORGOT
Kingsbury, an Old English Saxon town

As I am researching my family lines, I came across an 8th Great Grandmother with the maiden name of Kingsbury.
Well lo and behold, I then discovered that the ancient town of Kingsbury in Merry Old England was the home of her ancestral family line of that surname.

Come along as I take you on a trip to the town that time forgot and where my 8th Great Grandmother, Hannah Kingsbury Hyde's family line originated.....


Sunday, February 04, 2018

Alice of Saluzzo, Countess of Arundel

Family Tree History and Research
Sunday, Feb 4, 2018

Alice of Saluzzo, Countess of Arundel
23rd Great Grandmother
1269-1292

Another new discovery today.
And another noble ancestral Great Grandmother!
Through my mother's (Marlene Grace Dietz Repinski) family line comes a young lady who only lived for 23 years but it must have been a pretty awesome 23 years.
She comes from a very old Italian family line and married into a noble English line which would give her many descendants that would help shape the history of our world.

This line descends to my mother and my siblings and their children through her grandmother (our great grandmother), Grace Pope Dietz. From Grace's line, this branch would go back through her fathers Pope family line to my 5th great grandmother, Ruth Hammond Pope and through her mother, Sarah Holmes Hammond's line to her Clark family line and then the Strong family line (which I have not had a chance to research yet).
Eventually this line would lead back to the noble English Leigh and Strafford families to the Goushill and then finally the FitzAlan noble lines.
In this line would be knights and ladies, a Lord Mayor of London and other historic figures of English history.

Alice (or Alecia) Saluzzo FitzAlan is the 1st ancestor of Italian heritage I have discovered.


Shall we get to know this woman, who though she only lived a short 23 years, left descendants including me and my siblings and the Dukes of Norfolk, the English Queen Consorts of Henry the VIII, Winston Churchill, Princes Dianna and the current Royal Family.



Alice of Saluzzo, FitzAlan-Countess of Arundel