Please allow a moment for
the pictures on this page
to load. Thank You
POLITICALS
PAGE 2
7) SIR WINSTON LEONARD
SPENCER CHURCHILL (1874-1965
British Prime Minister and Statesman
In 1899 he sailed
to South Africa as a Correspondent
of the Morning
Post, to cover the Boer War.
He was captured
and spent his twenty-fifth birthday
as a Prisoner
of War. He escaped and made his
way
across the enemy
lines to Durban.
Churchill was
elected to Parliament in 1900,
as a Conservative
member for Oldham.
Four years later
he changed parties, and
joined the Liberals.
As President
of the Board of Trade, he helped to lay
the foundations
of the welfare state.
When the war
broke out in 1914, he was
First Lord of
the Admiralty.
In 1916 he was
appointed LT-Col, commanding
the 6th Battalion
Royal Scots Fusiliers.
Abt 1923, Churchill
left the Liberals and again
joined the Conservative
Party.
1924-1929
he was the Chancellor of the Exchequer.
He was defeated
in the 1945 General Election,
but regained
his title of Prime Minister in 1951.
He resigned
due to failing health in 1955.
This
is the family relationship
between
Sarah
Elizabeth Rose
and Sir Winston Leonard Spencer
Churchill:
Our common ancestor is
Edward
I Plantagenet
Winston Churchill's line
descends through
Plantagenet
and Catharine Roet's
son, John De Beaufort,
in this way;
John De Beaufort,
Margaret Beaufort, Henry VII of
England, Mary
Tudor, Eleanor Brandon,
Margaret Clifford,
William Stanley, James Stanley,
Lady Amelia
Sophia Stanley, Lord Charles Murray,
Anne Murray,
Lady Catherine Cochrane, George
Stewart, Lady
Susan Stewart, George Spencer Churchill,
John Winston
Spencer Churchill, Lord Randolph
Spencer Churchill,
Sir Winston
Leonard Spencer Churchill
Sarah Elizabeth
Rose' line
descends through Edward I Plantagenet's
son Henry Plantagenet
in this way;
Henry Plantagenet, Eleanor Plantagenet,
Hugh -5- Courtenay, Hugh -6- Courtenay,
Elizabeth Courtenay, Thomas Tretherff, Margaret
Tretherff, Francis (Sheriff) Buller, Sir Richard
Buller, Katherine Buller, Richard Parker,
Richard Parker, Elizabeth Parker, Parker
Adkins, Susanna Adkins, Margaret McGriff,
Susannah Harless, Suzanna Jane James,
Lydia Jane Snethen,
Bessie Susie Scheer,
then three more generations
down to myself.
Since Churchill,
and my ancestor, Bessie Susie
Scheer,
are half 19th cousins,
and since there
are 3 more
generations between
Churchill
and myself, Sir Winston Leonard Spencer
Churchill and I are therefore,
half 19th Cousins, three times removed.
8) WILLIAM CAVENDISH (1720-1764)
Fourth Duke of Devonshire (1756-1757)
And British Prime
Minister
William
Cavendish held his position
during a very
tumultous period in history.
It was in 1756
that Britain declared
war on
France, fighting
on two fronts in India
and North America.
In addition,
1756 also happened to be the
beginning of
the Seven Years' War
(1756-63) which
was a widening of the
conflict between
Britain and France, which
included Prussia
and Hanover on the British
side against
Austria, Russia, Saxony, Spain
and Sweden with
France.
This is
the family relationship
between
Sarah
Elizabeth Rose
and William Cavendish:
Our common ancestor is
Edward I
Plantagenet
William's line descends
through Edward I
Plantagenet's son, Edward II,
in this way;
Edward II
of England, Edward III of England,
John De Beaufort, John De Beaufort,
Thomasine
De Beaufort,
John Grey, Edmund Grey,
Elizabeth Grey,
Edmund Brydges, Giles Brydges,
Hon. Catherine
Brydges, William Russell, Lord
William Russell,
Lady Rachel Russell, William
Cavendish, 3rd
Duke of Devonshire,
Prime Minister
William Cavendish,
4th Duke of Devonshire
Sarah Elizabeth Rose'
line
descends
through Edward I Plantagenet's
son Henry Plantagenet
in this way;
Henry Plantagenet, Eleanor Plantagenet,
Hugh -5- Courtenay, Hugh -6- Courtenay,
Elizabeth Courtenay, Thomas Tretherff, Margaret
Tretherff, Francis (Sheriff) Buller, Sir Richard
Buller, Katherine Buller, Richard Parker,
Richard Parker, Elizabeth Parker, Parker
Adkins, Susanna Adkins, Margaret McGriff,
Then seven more
generations
down to myself.
Since William Cavendish,
and my ancestor, Margaret McGriff,
are half 15th cousins,
and since there
are
seven more generations
between William
and myself, William and I are
therefore,
half 15th Cousins, 7 times removed.
9) LORD ROBERT ARTHUR TALBOT
GASCOYNE-CECIL (1874-1965
(also known as:
Lord Robert Cecil bef 1865)
British Prime Minister and Statesman
Earl of Salisbury
Baron Cecil of
Essendon
Viscount Cranborne
(1865-1868)
3rd Marquess of
Salisbury
In 1853 he entered
the House of Commons
as a Conservative.
In 1866 his
name changed to Viscount Cranborne
upon the death
of his older brother, and he became
the Secretary
of State for India.
In 1868, after
the death of his father, he was
admitted to the
House of Lords. In 1874 he again
became the Secretary
of State for India. In 1878 he
succeeded Lord
Derby, as Foreign Secretary and
helped lead Britain
to "peace with honor" at the
Congress of Berlin.
For this, he was rewarded
with the Order
of the Garter. In 1881 he
became leader
of the Conservative Party, and was
Prime Minister
from 1885-1886,
and again from
1895-1902.
This
is the family relationship
between
Sarah
Elizabeth Rose
and Lord Robert Arthur Talbot
Gascoyne-Cecil :
Our common ancestor is
Edward I
Plantagenet
Lord Robert's line
descends through
Edward I Plantagenet's
son, Edward II
Plantagenet, in this way;
Edward II Plantagenet,
Edward III Plantagenet,
John De Beaufort, John De Beaufort, Margaret Beaufort,
Henry VII of England, Mary Tudor, Eleanor
Brandon,
George Clifford,
Lady Anne Clifford, Lady
Margaret Sackville,
Thomas Tufton,
Lady Anne Tufton,
James Cecil, James
Gascoyne-Cecil
Robert Arthur
Talbot Gascoyne-Cecil
Sarah Elizabeth Rose'
line
descends
through Edward I Plantagenet's
son Henry Plantagenet
in this way;
Henry Plantagenet, Eleanor Plantagenet,
Hugh -5- Courtenay, Hugh -6- Courtenay,
Elizabeth Courtenay, Thomas Tretherff, Margaret
Tretherff, Francis (Sheriff) Buller, Sir Richard
Buller, Katherine Buller, Richard Parker,
Richard Parker, Elizabeth Parker, Parker
Adkins, Susanna Adkins, Margaret McGriff,
Then seven more
generations
down to myself.
Since Robert Gascoyne-Cecil,
and my ancestor, Margaret McGriff,
are half 15th cousins,
and since there
are
seven more generations
between robert
and myself, Robert and I are
therefore,
half 15th Cousins, 7 times removed.
10) Samuel Pomeroy Colt 1852-1921
searching for a photo of samuel Pomeroy
colt
Attorney General of Rhode
Island 1882-1885
Samuel Pomeroy Colt, "Pom" 1852-1921
Samuel was named for his fathers brother, Samuel Colt,
inventor of the Colt 45 Revolver, whom he lived with
after the death of his father when he was only three
years old. He stayed with his Uncle for ten years, until
his
mother, a descendant of the DeWolf mercantile family of
Bristol, Rhode Island, returned to Bristol to live in the
DeWolf family's ancestral home, now know as Linden
Place. (I believe the DAR now owns Linden Place.)
As an adult, he was an entrepreneur, politician, lawyer,
and philanthropist. He was the son of Christopher and
Theodora Goujand DeWolf Colt. His father was a dry
goods merchant in New York City and Connecticut.
He attended the Massachusetts Institute of
Technology (MIT), and graduated from Columbia Law
School. In 1877 he was quickly admitted to both, the
New York, and the Rhode Island bars. Samuel worked as
aide-de-camp to Rhode Island Governor Henry Lippitt
where he held the honorary rank of "colonel,"
a title he kept throughout his life. He
served on the Governor's staff until 1877. He was
elected to the Rhode Island House of Representatives from
Bristol, where he tried to regulate child labor and the
right
of women to hold and inherit property. He was a major
financial contributor to the Republican Party.
He served as Assistant Attorney General,
then was elected Rhode Island's Attorney General,
where he remained for seven years. He vigorously
prosecuted liquor law violations, and murders, often
leading the prosecution of these cases personally. In
his
private legal practice, he served as executor for the
estates of Cornelius J. Vanderbilt, and Ambrose
Burnside, former Rhode Island governor and Civil War
General. In 1886 Samuel founded the Industrial Trust
Company, a banking corporation which has grown into
today's Fleet/Norstar Corporation, which became the
largest bank in Rhode Island and one of the largest in
New England. He also held the position of receiver for
the bankrupt National Rubber Company which was located
in his hometown of Bristol. He merged National India
Rubber with a number of other rubber companies to
form U.S. Rubber, the forerunner of the present UNIROYAL
Corporation. He served as president of U.S. Rubber from
1901 to 1918 and oversaw its growth into one of the largest
corporations in the world. In addition to Industrial Trust
and U.S. Rubber, Samuel had a major financial or
personal interest in railroads, lumber, public utilities,
and
publishing. He served on the boards of directors of more
than forty companies and was one of the wealthiest men
in
the country. His 400 acre waterfront farm, North Farm,
at
Poppasquash Point in Bristol was open to the public during
his lifetime and after his death this farm was left to
the state
of Rhode Island and represents the bulk of the area now
known as Colt State Park. Samuel married Elizabeth
Bullock of Bristol in 1881, and the couple had three
sons. Samuel Pomeroy Colt, Jr., died of a viral
infection at the age of nine. Russell Griswold
and Roswell Christopher. Russell achieved some
notoriety when in 1909
he married the Actress, Ethel Barrymore.
Samuel Pomeroy Colt died of complications from
a stroke on August 13, 1921, at his beloved Linden
Place in Bristol. His passing was front page news in
the newspapers of the state and his funeral was attended
by major political and business figures from around the
country. In his will, he provided for each of his two
surviving sons and their families through trusts established
in their names, yet by creating a tontine will he left
the
bulk of his estate to his last surviving grandchild
without knowing who that would be.
This is the
family relationship
between
Sarah Elizabeth Rose
and Samuel Pomeroy COLT:
Our common
ancestor is Balthazar DeWolf
Samuel's line
descends through
Balthazar DeWolf in this
way;
Balthazar DeWolf's son, Edward DeWolf,
Charles -3- DeWolf, Charles-4- DeWolf,
Mark Anthony DeWolf, Charles DeWolf,
George DeWolf, Christopher Colt,
Samuel
Pomeroy Colt
Sarah
Elizabeth Rose' line
descends through Balthazar
DeWolf
in this way;
Balthazar DeWolf's son, Stephen DeWolf,
Aaron Huntley Jr., Phebe Huntley, Bethuel
Miller, Eber Miller, Bethuel -2- Miller,
Samuel
Eber Miller, Walter Harris Miller,
Then three
more generations down to myself
Since Samuel
Pomeroy Colt,
and my ancestor, Walter Harris Miller
are 7th cousins, and
since there are
three more generations
between Samuel
and myself, Samuel and I
are therefore,
7th Cousins, 3 times
removed.
(This data is from: The Twentieth
Century Biographical
Dictionary of Notable Americans: Volume
II C)
11) LE BARON BRADFORD COLT
(I'm searching for a photo)
US Senator (brother
of Samuel Pomeroy Colt
Le Baron Bradford
Colt, jurist, was born in
Dedham, Mass.,
June 25, 1846; son of
Christopher and Theodora G. (DeWolf)
Colt; nephew of Samuel Colt, inventor;
and grandson of Gen. George DeWolf of
Bristol, R. I. He was prepared for college
at
Williston seminary, Mass., was graduated
from
Yale in 1868, and from Columbia college
law
school in 1870. In the latter year he was
admitted to the New York bar. He was in
Europe, 1870-71, practised law in Chicago,
1872-74, and in 1875 removed to Bristol,
R. I.; continued the practice of law at
Providence, R. I., and served in the state
legislature in 1879. In March, 1881, he
was
appointed by President Garfield U.S. district
judge of Rhode Island and in July, 1884,
President Arthur made him U.S. circuit
judge
for the first circuit. Brown university
conferred upon him the degree of A.M.
in
1882. More can be found relating to
LeBaron Bradford Colt through the
University of Rhode Island Special
Collections at; http://www.uri.edu/library/
special_collections/registers/colt/seriesVI.htm
This is
the family relationship
between
Sarah Elizabeth
Rose
and LeBaron Bradford
COLT :
Our common
ancestor is Balthazar
DeWolf
Samuel's line descends
through
Balthazar DeWolf in
this way;
Balthazar DeWolf's son, Edward DeWolf,
Charles -3- DeWolf, Charles-4- DeWolf,
Mark Anthony DeWolf, Charles
DeWolf,
George DeWolf, Christopher Colt,
Lebaron Bradford Colt
Sarah Elizabeth Rose'
line
descends through Balthazar
DeWolf
in this way;
Balthazar DeWolf's son, Stephen DeWolf,
Aaron Huntley Jr., Phebe Huntley, Bethuel
Miller, Eber Miller, Bethuel -2- Miller,
Samuel
Eber Miller, Walter Harris Miller,
Then three
more generations down to myself
Since Lebaron Bradford Colt,
and my ancestor, Walter Harris Miller
are 7th cousins, and
since there are
three more generations
between Lebaron
and myself, Lebaron and
I are therefore,
7th Cousins, 3 times removed.
(This data is from: The Twentieth
Century Biographical
Dictionary of Notable Americans: Volume
II C)
E MAIL
back to page 1 of Politicals
OTHER EXCELLENT SITES
NOTE:
I am in the process
of seeking documented proof
for these
recorded lines. If you have
anything you'd be
willing
to share, please contact me.
Until the proof of
these
lines has been documented
and authenticated,
you are
advised to regard them as your
beginning point
of reference
for your research, and not
as your ending point.
