Modern actor and producer Kit Harington is a collateral descendant of Robert Catesby. He, along with co-creators Ronan Bennett and Daniel West, produced a three-part dramatization called " Gunpowder" with BBC delving into his ancestor's role as the mastermind of the Gunpowder Plot, with Harrington himself starring as Catesby.
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Robert Catesby
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where did the gunpowder come from in the gunpowder plot
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They were discovered hidden under piles of faggots and coal.
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what was the main aim of this plot?
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To kill King James.
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this plot was led by whom?
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A group of provincial English Catholics led by Robert Catesby.
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what was to restore by killing the king?
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Elizabeth, was to be installed as the Catholic head of state.
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did they succeed in killing king?
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No, it was a failed assassination attempt.
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what was the outcome they faced when failed?
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Although Catesby and Percy escaped the executioner, their bodies were exhumed and decapitated, and their heads exhibited, some were tied to hurdles and dragged through the crowded streets of London, Thomas, Ambrose. Robert and Guy Fawkes were hanged
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when was he born the leader who led this plot?
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After 2 March 1572
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was he married?
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Yes, to Anne Throckmorton
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from which college did he finish his studies?
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Seminary college of Douai
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any notable relatives of him?
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Modern actor and producer Kit Harington is a collateral descendant of Robert Catesby. He, along with co-creators Ronan Bennett and Daniel West, produced a three-part dramatization called " Gunpowder" with BBC delving into his ancestor's role as the mastermind of the Gunpowder Plot, with Harrington himself starring as Catesby.
Robert Catesby | Notable relatives
This table sets out the ancestry of Robert Catesby, numbered according to the Ahnentafel genealogical numbering system.
Robert Catesby | Ancestry
He was born after 2 March 1572, the third and only surviving son and heir of Sir William Catesby of Lapworth in Warwickshire, by his wife Anne Throckmorton, a daughter of Sir Robert Throckmorton (c.1513-1581), KG, of Coughton Court in Warwickshire (by his second wife, Elizabeth Hussey). He was a lineal descendant of Sir William Catesby (1450–1485), the influential councillor of King Richard III who was captured at the Battle of Bosworth and executed. His parents were prominent recusant Catholics; his father had suffered years of imprisonment for his faith, and in 1581 had been tried in Star Chamber alongside William Vaux, 3rd Baron Vaux of Harrowden, and his brother-in-law Sir Thomas Tresham, for harbouring the Jesuit Edmund Campion.
Robert Catesby | Origins
Through his son Robert, he was a grandfather of another prominent New York jurist and attorney general, Richard Stockton Emmet (himself the father of Richard S. Emmet Jr.), and great-grandfather of the notable American portrait artist sisters Rosina Emmet Sherwood, Lydia Field Emmet and Jane Emmet de Glehn, as well as their first cousin Ellen Emmet Rand. Rosina's twin brother was West Point graduate and Medal of Honor winner Robert Temple Emmet. He is the great-great-grandfather of the playwright Robert Emmet Sherwood. His direct descendant, French human rights lawyer Valentin Ribet, died aged 26 in the terrorist attack on the Bataclan in Paris on Friday 13 November 2015.
Thomas Addis Emmet | Descendants and legacy
The Catesby family had been settled for some time in Northamptonshire and held the manor of Lapworth in Warwickshire. He was the son of Edmund Catesby. He was the uncle of William Catesby, another noted lawyer, and a member of the Inner Temple.
John Catesby | Family
His father was a grandson of New York Attorney General Thomas Addis Emmet. Two of his uncles, Richard Stockton Emmet and Christopher Temple Emmet, were married to sisters, Katharine "Kitty" Temple and Ellen James "Bay" Temple, both first cousins of British author Henry James. After preparing at Bishop's College School in Lennoxville, Quebec and Stevens High School, Emmet attended the Yale Forestry School and the Stevens Institute of Technology, where he graduated from with a M.E. degree in 1891.
C. Temple Emmet | Early life
His nephew was William Hellier Baily, the paleontologist. Some of Edward Baily's descendants still live in Bristol, East Grinstead, the Isle of Wight, and in Canada today. Also, Cambridge.
Edward Hodges Baily | Relatives
The head of the Throckmortons, Sir Thomas Throckmorton, was also fined for his recusancy, and spent many years in prison. Another relation, Sir Francis Throckmorton, had been executed in 1584 for his involvement in a plot to free Mary, Queen of Scots.
Robert Catesby | Origins
Among his grandchildren were Simon Fraser, 15th Lord Lovat and 4th Baron Lovat (1911–1995), Sir Hugh Fraser (1918–1984), the Secretary of State for Air from 1962 to 1964, David Fane, 15th Earl of Westmorland (1924–1993), Julian Fane (1927–2009), the author.
Thomas Lister, 4th Baron Ribblesdale | Descendants
He came from a long line of military personnel and another cousin, Robert Hope Moncrieff Aitken had already won a Victoria Cross.
Robert Digby-Jones | Family
Through his daughter Caroline, he was the grandfather of Robert Remsen McKim (d. 1938), who married Helen Stagg in 1920; Katherine McKim, who married Frank C. L. Dettman; Caroline Remsen McKim (1903–1936), who married Claude Claire Vickrey, who courted Wallis Warfield (who was better known later in life as the Duchess of Windsor) at his graduating ball from the U.S. Naval Academy, and were the parents of painter Robert Remsen Vickrey (1926–2011). Caroline and Claude later divorced and she remarried to Caleb van Heusen Whitbeck III, in 1929.
Robert George Remsen | Descendants
His brothers included Andrew Douglas Maclagan and Rev William Maclagan, Archbishop of York. His children included Robert Smeiton Maclagan CIE, Sir Edward Douglas Maclagan KCIE. He was uncle to Robert Craig Maclagan.
Robert Maclagan | Family
His nephew is the lawyer and activist Lawrence Lessig. His granddaughter is technology entrepreneur Jennifer Arcuri.
Richard Cates | Family
They were called "cousins" by the children of the missionaries and considered part of the extended missionary family of Hawaiʻi. This first stepmother died in 1858 after giving birth to their father's fourth child, a daughter named Maria Kinoʻole (1858–1892). The Pitman family returned to Massachusetts in 1861 after his father remarried to his third wife Martha Ball, giving his four children another stepmother. Letters by traveler Sophia Cracroft, niece of Lady Jane Franklin, indicated that the Pitman family left for San Francisco, on June 25, 1861, aboard the ship "Comet" with Cracroft and Lady Franklin and that the elder Pitman "now has a third wife with a baby [Charles Brook Pitman]." According to an 1887 biography written by Robert G.
Henry Hoʻolulu Pitman | Education
NOTE: Robert M. Morgenthau is also grandnephew of U.S. Senator Herbert H. Lehman and cousin of U.S. Ambassador John Langeloth Loeb.
List of United States political families (M) | The Morgenthaus
Robert Shebbeare's descendants include Lieutenant Colonel Robert A Shebbeare, and his great great nephew Sir Tom Shebbeare, KCVO.
Robert Shebbeare | China
He married Eleanor Jauncey (née Elliot), daughter of Andrew Elliot, Lieutenant-Governor of New York. They had no children.
Robert Digby (Royal Navy officer) | Family
His elder brother James also served as a colonial officer on the island. Richard and James Rigby were sons of Edward Rigby of Mistley Hall, a London draper and landowner based in Covent Garden, and Anne Hyde, a close cousin of Queen Anne (Hyde), Queen Anne, Queen Mary, and the Earl of Clarendon. Edward and Ann had a London town house in the parish of St Andrews High Holborn. Rigby was educated at Corpus Christi College, Cambridge and the Middle Temple.
Richard Rigby | Background and education
Another descendant is American playwright Robert Emmet Sherwood. Golf course architect Devereux Emmet, electrical engineer William Le Roy Emmet, United States Army colonel Robert Temple Emmet, and attorney and sportsman C. Temple Emmet were among his great-grand-nephews.
Robert Emmet | Legacy
His maternal grandparents were William Heyward and Sarah (née Cruger) Heyward. Through his uncle Fulton Cutting and aunt Elise Bayard Cutting, he was a first cousin of attorney and merchant William Bayard Cutting and financier Robert Fulton Cutting. He studied at Columbia University in New York City followed by Harvard Law School in Cambridge, Massachusetts.He is shown on official documents as matriculating with the class of 1851 of Columbia College, but it is unsure whether he finished his degree.
William Cutting | Early life
In 1593 he married Catherine Leigh, granddaughter of Sir Thomas Leigh of Stoneleigh Abbey in Warwickshire. Catherine came from a wealthy Protestant family and brought with her a dowry of £2,000, but also a religious association that offered Robert some respite from the recusancy laws then in effect. From the death of his grandmother the following year he inherited a property at Chastleton, in Oxfordshire. The couple's first son William died in infancy, but their second son Robert survived, and was baptised at Chastleton's Protestant church on 11 November 1595. When Catesby's father died in 1598, his estates at Ashby St Ledgers were left to his wife, while Catesby and his family remained at Chastleton.
Robert Catesby | Adulthood
NOTE: J. Donald Cameron was also nephew by marriage of U.S. Secretary of War William Tecumseh Sherman. NOTE: Not related to Edward R. and Robert Madigan.
List of United States political families (M) | The MacVeaghs and Camerons
NOTE: Irving Lehman was also brother-in-law of New York State Senator Nathan Straus Jr. Robert M. Morgenthau is also grandson of U.S. Ambassador Henry Morgenthau Sr. and son of U.S. Secretary of the Treasury Henry Morgenthau Jr.. Orin Lehman was also nephew by marriage of Rhode Island Governor William Henry Vanderbilt III.
List of United States political families (L) | The Lehmans
His only grandchild was Beatrice Bishop (1902–1993), an author and prominent physician who married Adolf A. Berle, Jr. (1895–1971), a diplomat. After his death, she married Dr. André Frédéric Cournand (1895–1988), a physician who was awarded the Nobel Prize for medicine in 1956. His nephew, Henry "Harry" Pelham Robbins (1874–1946), was married to Emily Welles (1888–1946), sister of Ambassador Sumner Welles (1892–1961), and a grandniece of the Mrs. Astor, Caroline Schermerhorn Astor (1830–1908). His niece, Maud Robbins, who married Harry Whitney McVicker (1860–1905), in 1891.
George H. Bend | Descendants
Amongst the descendants of Surcouf de Maisonneuve were Robert Surcouf and Joseph Potier.
Robert Surcouf de Maisonneuve | Legacy
Another descendant was Commodore Oliver Hazard Perry, American hero of the Great Lakes during the War of 1812. His younger brother Commodore Matthew C. Perry was sent by President Millard Fillmore to compel the opening of Japan to the West with the Convention of Kanagawa in 1854. Stephen Arnold Douglas debated Abraham Lincoln in 1858 before a senate race and later lost to him in the 1860 presidential election. Rhode Island colonial Deputy Governor George Hazard is another descendant.
Stukely Westcott | Children and descendants
Pomeroy's grandchildren include New York State Senator Robert Watson Pomeroy (1902–1989), Janet Pomeroy Avery (1891–1969), who married John Foster Dulles (1888–1959), the U.S. Secretary of State during the Eisenhower Administration, and Josephine Herrick (1897–1972), photographer and teacher. His great-grandchildren include John W. F. Dulles (1913–2008), a professor of history and specialist in Brazil at the University of Texas at Austin, Lillias Dulles Hinshaw (1914–1987), a Presbyterian minister, and Avery Dulles (1918–2008), who converted to Roman Catholicism, entered the Jesuit order, and became the first American theologian to be appointed a Cardinal.
Theodore M. Pomeroy | Descendants
Francis Tresham was brought into the plot on 14 October. Also descended from William Catesby, Tresham was Robert's cousin, and as young children the two had often visited White Webbs. Although his account of the meeting is weighted with hindsight (when captured he sought to distance himself from the affair), he asked Catesby what support for the Catholics would be forthcoming once the king had been killed. Catesby's answer, "The necessity of the Catholics [was such that] it must needs be done", in Fraser's opinion demonstrates his unwavering view on the matter, held at least since his first meeting with Thomas Wintour early in 1604.
Robert Catesby | Further recruitment
His grandson, Edward Kenneth Hoyt (1885-1938), who attended the Browning School in New York City and the Lawrenceville School and was a 1908 Yale graduate, who married Maria Augusta Daurer DeWust, the daughter of Francisco S. Daurer and Maria E. Kalhwoda, on June 5, 1926, in Paris.
Oliver Hoyt | Descendants
Through his son, he was the grandfather of Louisa Perkins, who married prominent Boston painter William Morris Hunt. Through his daughter Elizabeth, he was the grandfather of seven grandsons, including Edward Clarke Cabot (b. 1818), an architect and artist, James Elliot Cabot (b. 1821), a philosopher and author, and Samuel Cabot III, a surgeon and ornithologist. Through his daughter Mary Ann, he was the grandfather of Mary Cary, who married Harvard Professor Cornelius Conway Felton (later president of Harvard University), and Elizabeth Cabot Cary (1822–1907), the co-founder and first president of Radcliffe College, who married Louis Agassiz (1807–1873), a Swiss-American biologist and geologist.
Thomas Handasyd Perkins | Descendants
Through his son Robert, he was the great-great-great-grandfather of John Kerry, the U.S. Senator and U.S. Secretary of State.
Thomas L. Winthrop | Descendants
His eldest son Edward did not produce any children from his two marriages, however, he had a natural son, whom he recognized as his own and made him his heir, Peregrine Hoby (1602–1679) with Katherine Pinckney, a favourite of James I. Peregrine was himself the father of Sir Edward Hoby, 1st Baronet (1634–1675), whose baronetcy continued until the fifth Baronet died in 1766, and Thomas Hoby (1642–1706), an MP for Great Marlow and Salisbury As his second son Thomas died without issue, he left his manor of Hackness to John Sydenham of Brympton in Somerset, the son of his first cousin Alice Hoby, daughter of Sir William Hoby of Hayles, who was Hoby's uncle.
Thomas Hoby | Descendants
After attending Ellesmere College in Shropshire, where he studied Mathematics and Physics, he emigrated to Canada. His third cousin was New Zealand military aviator James Gowing Godwin and Lt. Sidney Godwin, who rode with Marshall's Horse, was his great-grandfather.
Robert Godwin | Personal information
A Thomas Westbrook Waldron, grandson of Colonel Thomas Westbrook Waldron, moved north to found a Canadian branch of the family in Charlotte County, New Brunswick. Two other grandsons, Richard Russell Waldron and Thomas Westbrook Waldron (consul) became members of the Wilkes Expedition and lent the family name to a Cape in the Antarctic, a landmark in Hawaii, and an island in the San Juan Islands of present-day Washington state. Another was an early Major of US Marines, and yet another a college principal.
Richard Waldron | Family legacy
The Gresley family of Drakelow, baronets, were descendants of the de Tosny family through their de Stafford ancestors, including Robert. As Cleveland (d.1901) relates in her "Battle Roll":
Robert de Stafford | Surviving direct descendants
His younger brother was His Eminence Prince Giacomo Giustiniani, President of the Congregation of the Reverend Basilica of Saint Peter.
Charlotte Maria Radclyffe, 3rd Countess of Newburgh | Death and descendants
His granddaughter, Gertrude Bayard, married Peter Kemble (1704–1789), a prominent New Jersey businessman and politician, and his great-granddaughter, Margaret Kemble (1734–1824), married Thomas Gage (1718/19–1787) who was General of the British Army during the American Revolutionary War. Descendants of this union are found in England, including amongst the Viscount Gages and the noble Bertie family in England (including those holding the title of Earls of Abingdon). A grandson, James DeLancey (1703–1760) became New York Governor, and granddaughter Susannah DeLancey (1707–1771) married Vice-Admiral Sir Peter Warren (1703–1752). Another grandson, Oliver De Lancey Sr. (1718–1785) married Phila Franks, daughter of a prominent New York Jewish family.
Stephanus Van Cortlandt | Descendants
Seelye is the brother of Laurenus Clark Seelye, first president of Smith College. He is the grandfather of J. Seelye Bixler, 16th president of Colby College, and of Elizabeth Seelye Bixler, third dean of the Yale School of Nursing. He is the great-grandfather of Former United States Ambassador Talcott Seelye and is the great-great-grandfather of National Public Radio reporter Kate Seelye
Julius Hawley Seelye | Family
Robert Fabyan was the son of John Fabyan and his wife, Agnes. He is said to have been born in London. He had a brother, John. His nephew, John Fabyan, married Anne Waldegrave, by whom he had a daughter, Mary Fabian, wife of Sir Thomas Spert.
Robert Fabyan | Family
Born in Colmonell near Girvan, South Ayrshire, he was the son of Rigby Wason and his wife Euphemia McTier. Rigby Wason was a barrister and a successful farmer who converted much of his Corwar estate from moor to arable land; he had also served as a Member of Parliament. He was educated at Laleham and at Rugby School. He came to Canterbury in New Zealand in 1868. Cathcart Wason had four siblings; three older brothers (Rigby, Eugene and James) and one younger sister (Catherine Rigby). Peter Cathcart Wason was Eugene's grandchild.
Cathcart Wason | Early life
His legacy is also carried on through his four grandchildren: Sarah, Alexander, Gabrielle, and Andrew.
Robert Clouse (professor) | Personal life
Robert Foliot was a relative of both Gilbert Foliot, Bishop of Hereford and Bishop of London, and of Robert de Chesney, Bishop of Lincoln. Another relative was Ralph Foliot, a royal justice. Robert Foliot's family appears to have been the branch of the Foliot family that owned the manor of Warpsgrove in Oxfordshire. This is made likely by Foliot's confirmation of a gift of land from Ralph Foliot of Warpsgrove to Ralph's son, and it is possible that Foliot was the brother or uncle of Ralph Foliot. There is no evidence of Foliot's education, but he likely received an education to fit him for his career in the church.
Robert Foliot | Early life
His sisters married Samuel Carter – a railway solicitor and MP – and sugar-refiner Peter Martineau, the son of Peter Finch Martineau. Another sister Emily epitomised the family's interest in social reform through her collaborations with early socialists Robert Owen and Fanny Wright. Nurseryman Hugh Ronalds was his uncle, and his nephews included chemistry professor Edmund Ronalds, artist Hugh Carter, barrister John Corrie Carter and timber merchant and benefactor James Montgomrey. Thomas Field Gibson, a Royal Commissioner for the Great Exhibition of 1851, was one of his cousins.
Francis Ronalds | Upbringing and family
Through his youngest surviving daughter, he was a grandfather of Margaret Johnston and Anne Johnston, who married William Burnet, only son of Gov. William Burnet and a grandson of George Stanhope, Dean of Canterbury. Margaret Johnston was married to Bowes Reed, the Secretary of State of New Jersey.
Caleb Heathcote | Descendants
Scott was a descendant of the commentator Thomas Scott; great nephew of Sir George Gilbert Scott; nephew of George Gilbert Scott Jr.; uncle of Elliot Dowell Tillard; cousin of Giles Gilbert Scott; and father of George Arbuthnot Scott.
Avison Scott | Notable relatives
His paternal grandfather's second cousin was the Reverend Professor Samuel Angus (1881–1943). His maternal grandfather, the Reverend Dr William Mitchell, was related to Dame Helen Porter Mitchell GBE, popularly known as Dame Nellie Melba (1861–1931). He is married, with children and grandchildren.
James Haire | Family
Preston's grandson, John Burgess Karslake, was a Member of Parliament from 1867-68 and 1873-76, Solicitor General in 1866, and Attorney General from 1867-86 and in 1874.
Richard Preston (MP) | Notable Relatives
He was the great-great-great-grandfather of Audrey Hepburn.
Gijsbert Karel van Hogendorp | Other relatives
Perry, who compelled the opening of Japan to the West with the Convention of Kanagawa in 1854; and Stephen Arnold Douglas who debated Abraham Lincoln in 1858 before a senate race and later lost to him in the 1860 presidential election. Rhode Island colonial Deputy Governor George Hazard is also a descendant.
Samuel Wilbore | Family and descendants
His niece, Anna Flynt, and her husband, Timothy Dwight, were members of the Dwight family and the ancestors of Timothy Dwight IV, Timothy Dwight V, and Theodore Dwight Woolsey, presidents of Yale University.
Leonard Hoar | Life
Robert de Montesquiou was a scion of the French Montesquiou-Fézensac family. His paternal grandfather was Count Anatole de Montesquiou-Fézensac (1788–1878), "aide-de-camp" to Napoleon and grand officer of the "Légion d'honneur"; his father was Anatole's third son, Thierry, who married Pauline Duroux, an orphan, in 1841. With his wife's dowry, Thierry bought a Charnizay manor, built a mansion in Paris, and was elected Vice-President of the Jockey Club. He was a successful stockbroker who left a substantial fortune. Robert was the last of his parents' children, after brothers Gontran and Aymery, and sister Élise. His cousin, Élisabeth, Countess Greffulhe (1860–1952), was one of Marcel Proust's models for the Duchess of Guermantes in "À la recherche du temps perdu".
Robert de Montesquiou | Biography
His father's older brother was Howard Hammond Baldrige, a Nebraska state senator, Howard Hammond was the father of Howard Malcolm, a Nebraska congressman. Howard Malcolm was the father of Howard Malcolm, Jr., and Letitia, Jacqueline Kennedy's Social Secretary.
Thomas J. Baldrige | Notable relatives
Through his grandson Sir Thomas Hoby, 3rd Baronet (1685–1730), the High Sheriff of Hampshire in 1715, he was a great-grandfather of Sir Thomas Hoby, 4th Baronet (–1744) and the Rev. Sir Philip Hoby, 5th Baronet (–1766), who both died unmarried at which time the baronetcy became extinct.
Peregrine Hoby | Descendants
Whatever doubt may attend this traditionary relation, none can exist as to the origin and descent of the family, which are fully ascertained by the testimony of antiquaries, by ancient stone sculptures and monuments, still remaining, and from the genealogies of the Geraldines, whose arms the Bodkin family bore for many generations, and whose motto, Crom aboo, they retain to this day.
Tomás Bobhdacing | Biography
There was a family of Fotherbys in Grimsby, Lincolnshire. Robert Fotherby may have belonged to this Grimsby stock.
Robert Fotherby | Family ties
His nephew was Hugh Birley (1817–1883), a businessman and Conservative politician, and his great-grandson was Oswald Birley (1880–1952), the portrait painter and royal portraitist prominent in the early part of the 20th century.
Hugh Hornby Birley | Descendants
His paternal family, the Robertians, were powerful landowners in the Île-de-France. His grandfather had been King Robert I. King Odo was his granduncle and Emma of France, the wife of King Rudolph, was his aunt. Hugh's paternal grandmother Beatrice of Vermandois was a patrilineal descendant of Charlemagne.
Hugh Capet | Descent and inheritance
The Rokebys were a prominent landowning family from Mortham in North Yorkshire; Thomas was probably the son of Thomas de Rokeby, who died in 1318 (some sources name his father as Alexander). His nephew, also named Thomas, was closely associated with him in his later years and the elder Thomas was often called "l'oncle" to distinguish him from his nephew. It was almost certainly the nephew, not the uncle, who was the grandfather of the second Sir Thomas de Rokeby, who died sometime after 1423.
Thomas de Rokeby (died 1356) | Background
A New York City native, he is a graduate of Middlebury College. He now lives in Alexandria, Virginia, with his wife and their two sons. He is the youngest son of the late historian Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr. and the brother of Stephen Schlesinger and Christina Schlesinger. He is a descendant of the Irish revolutionaries Robert Emmet (for whom he is named) and Thomas Addis Emmet.
Robert Schlesinger | Biography
He was the nephew of Benjamin Franklin Bache and Richard Bache, Jr. He is a cousin of Richard Wainwright and Richard Wainwright, Jr., both naval officers as well, and Alexander Dallas Bache, Superintendent of the United States Coast Survey.
Andrew A. Harwood | Relatives
His eldest surviving son Samuel Nowell (1634–1688) graduated from Harvard College in 1653, and was chaplain under General Josiah Winslow in King Philip's War. The founder of Radcliffe College in Cambridge, Massachusetts, Elizabeth Cabot Cary Agassiz, was a descendant of Nowell.
Increase Nowell | Descendants
Arthurs brother Tom Dorward was also capped for Scotland. The New Zealand lock, Ali Williams', maternal grandfather was his cousin.
Arthur Dorward | Famous relatives
his conversation and manners were peculiarly attractive and imposing, and that by the dignity of his character he exercised an irresistible influence over the minds of those who associated with him." Fellow conspirator Ambrose Rookwood, shortly before his own death, said that he "loved and respected him [Catesby] as his own life", while Catesby's friend, Father John Gerard, claimed he was "respected in all companies of such as are counted there swordsmen or men of action", and that "few were in the opinions of most men preferred before him and he increased much his acquaintance and friends." Author Mark Nicholls suggests that "bitterness at the failure of Essex's design nevertheless seems to have sharpened an already well-honed neurosis."
Robert Catesby | Background
His maternal grandparents were James Hooker, a Yale graduate and Erie Canal Commissioner, and Helen Sarah (née Reade) Hooker. Through this grandmother, Hamersley was a fifth generation descendant of Robert Livingston the Elder, the Scottish immigrant who was granted the Livingston Manor by royal charter. Thomas Gordon, a Scottish immigrant who became a judge in New Jersey, was another fifth-generation ancestor. Hamersley graduated from Columbia University in 1865, and later, from the Columbia Law School in 1867.
J. Hooker Hamersley | Early life
Robert and Phoebe Land are the Fifth Great Grandparents of Charles Lindbergh. https://sites.google.com/site/niagarasettlers/1787-census
Robert Land (1739–1818) | Family Relationships
NOTE: John Page's grandson, Mann Page I, was also son-in-law of Virginia Colony Governor Robert Carter I; Page's great-grandson, John, was also grandson-in-law of Virginia House of Burgesses member William Byrd I. Thomas Nelson Page is also a direct descendant of Continental Congressional Delegate Thomas Nelson, Jr..
List of United States political families (P) | The Pages
His many descendants include brothers Leonard Gansevoort (1751–1810), a New York politician, and Brigadier General Peter Gansevoort (1749–1812) and novelist Herman Melville (1819–1891).
Harmen Harmense Gansevoort | Descendants
Through his youngest daughter, he was a grandfather of Countess Delphine Marie de Foras, who married Baron Joseph Humbert de Viry. When in America, the Baron and Baroness de Viry lived at Emily Read Spencer's home, Shipton Court, Lenox, Massachusetts (today the Seven Hills Inn). They were the parents of Pernette de Viry (1918–2006), who married Jacques Siemons of the Manoir de Breuil-en-Auge, Calvados; Julie Maxilienne de Viry (1919–2000), who married Woodbridge Strong (a son of New Jersey State Senator Theodore Strong); Roselyne de Viry (1920–2014), who became the wife of sculptor Thomas Talmadge Kinney Frelinghuysen (a son of Frederick Frelinghuysen) in 1949.
J. Meredith Read | Descendants
Bush, the entire Fish and Kean families, First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt, First Lady of New York Anna Morton, actors Montgomery Clift and Michael Douglas, actress Jane Wyatt, poet Robert Lowell, cinematographer Floyd Crosby and his son David Crosby, author Wolcott Gibbs, and almost the entire Astor family.
Robert Livingston the Elder | Descendants
In 1586 Robert was educated at Gloucester Hall in Oxford, a college noted for its Catholic intake. Those either studying at university or wishing to take public office could not do so without first swearing the Oath of Supremacy, an act which would have compromised Catesby's Catholic faith. Presumably to avoid this consequence, he left without taking his degree, and may then have attended the seminary college of Douai. In 1588 Robert was imprisoned at Wisbech Castle along with Francis Tresham.
Robert Catesby | Education
He made further bequests to other members of the Sydenham family, and he also left each of his servants three years' wages.
Thomas Hoby | Descendants
NOTE: Robert Witherspoon Hemphill was also great-great-grandson of U.S. Representative Robert Witherspoon.
List of United States political families (H) | The Hemphills
They lived in Glasgow, where her husband was a professor, but spent summers in Cambridge until the death of Benjamin Hall Kennedy vacated the Regius Professor of Greek at Cambridge. Her social circle included Robert Browning, Thomas Carlyle, Charles Darwin, Benjamin Disraeli, George Eliot, Charles Hale, Oliver Wendell Holmes, James Russell Lowell, Alfred Lord Tennyson, Ellen Terry, Mark Twain, and William Thackeray. Her niece, Maud du Puy, daughter of her sister Ellen followed her to England and she took the role of proxy mother, helping to arrange her 1884 marriage to George Darwin, the astronomer son of the naturalist Charles Darwin.
Caroline Jebb | Biographical notes
He was the first to arrive in North America with his surname. Most people today with his surname (and its variants) in North America trace their family roots back to him. His descendants have held esteemed positions in private industry, Church and State in both Canada and the United States and include notable patriots, writers, artists, humanitarians, explorers and adventurers. While there are currently many Laberges in the town of L'Ange-Gardien where Maison Laberge is located, many Laberges migrated to Montreal and the town of Châteauguay, just south of it. When Robert arrived in 1658 he was illiterate but soon learned to read and write, most likely from Françoise.
Robert de La Berge | De La Berge surname and notable descendants
He was the nephew of US Treasury Secretary Alexander J. Dallas and was the first cousin of the US Senator and vice president George M. Dallas. He was the maternal grandfather of Edward Seymour, 16th Duke of Somerset. His Father was related by marriage to Lord Byron and a friend of his. Alexander compiled a book of recollections and correspondence between his father and Lord Byron.
Alexander Dallas (priest) | Famous relatives
Although Walter Cowley, Principal Solicitor for Ireland, is recorded as Robert's brother he was in fact Roberts son. Records show that two Walter and Robert Colley originated from Glaston in Rutland, England, and that Walter's son was the distinguished soldier Sir Henry Colley of Carbury Castle. Henry was an ancestor of Richard Colley, who adopted the surname Wesley, was created Baron Mornington and was grandfather of the 1st Duke of Wellington.
Robert Cowley (judge) | Descendants
His grandson through his son Leonard was Guert Gansevoort, who had a distinguished naval career that spanned 45 years. Through his daughter Maria, he was the maternal grandfather of author Herman Melville (1819–1891). His eldest son, Herman, built the Gansevoort Mansion in 1813 on his father's tract at Gansevoort in Saratoga County, New York. The house was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1976.
Peter Gansevoort | Descendants
NOTE: Graham N. Fitch was also brother-in-law of Michigan State Senator Henry J. Alvord.
List of United States political families (D) | The Denbys
He married Elizabeth Green, daughter of William Green of Hayes, Middlesex with whom he had seven sons and two daughters; Robert Catesby, the leader of the Gunpowder Plot, was a direct descendant.
John Catesby | Personal life
He was cousin to the younger Robert Rattray Tatlock
Robert Tatlock Thomson | Family
Through his eldest son John, he was a grandfather of Sarah Carnes Weeks (1863–1956), the first wife of Francis L. V. Hoppin, an architect and artist. Through his daughter Julia, he was a grandfather of Henry Wheeler DeForest (1855–1938), who became a railroad executive, capitalist and industrialist, and Robert Weeks DeForest (1848–1931), a lawyer, financier, and philanthropist. Weeks was buried at Green-Wood Cemetery in Brooklyn.
Robert Doughty Weeks | Descendants
Though Bunch was a diplomat and a spy for the British, he and his sister were actually born in America. The two were even baptized in New York's Trinity Church. However, he did all of his schooling in England and attended Oxford University. His mother's side was very well-connected, and respected as a prominent family who had close ties to the Roosevelt and Van Cortlandt families. In addition to this, his mother's lineage also includes Tories who spied for the British in the American Revolution and the War of 1812. [1]His first foreign service related job was as a secretary for the British envoy in Columbia, then in Peru.
Robert Bunch | Family and Early Life
He is a great-grandson of author W. Somerset Maugham and great-great-grandson of Thomas John Barnardo. His stepmother is Susan Rose "Sukie" Phipps (born 1941), who was brought up by Fitzroy Maclean, one of the models for James Bond. His cousins include food writer Tom Parker Bowles and his sister Laura Lopes.
Derek Paravicini | Family
His first cousins included Alice Lalor (1769–1846), the American religious leader, Dr Joseph Lalor (1811–86) the reformist Medical Superintendent of the Richmond District Lunatic Asylum, and Joseph O'Lawlor (1768–1850) the Spanish general and military Governor of Granada.
Patrick &quot;Patt&quot; Lalor | Introduction
Through his eldest son, André, he was a grandfather of Jacqueline de Neuflize, who married Baron Jean de Watteville-Berckheim of Paris in 1937, Marie Madeleine de Neuflize, who married the Baron Christian de Turckheim (and resided at Château de Blanant in Lorraine), and Genevieve de Neuflize (1907–1938), who married Count Costa de Beauregard (later the Marquis de Beauregard), the son of Ferdinand Costa, Marquis de Beauregard. Through his daughter, the Countess of Bessborough, he was a grandfather of four, including: Frederick Edward Neuflize Ponsonby, 10th Earl of Bessborough (1913–1993), the Hon. Desmond Neuflize Ponsonby (1915–1925), who died young, Lady Moyra Ponsonby (1918–2016), and Lt.
Jean de Neuflize | Descendants
NOTE: William B. Umstead was also distant cousin of U.S. Senator Isaac S. Pennybacker, U.S. Representative Green Berry Samuels, and Pennsylvania Governor Samuel W. Pennypacker.
List of United States political families (U) | The Umsteads
Robert and Maria's daughters, Maria (1764–1824) and Lucy (1771–1854) married Richard Randolph's two grandsons. They were lineal descendants of Pocahontas.
Robert Beverley Jr. | Ancestry and family
His elder brother, John Williams, also studied at Jesus College and became a barrister. One of John Williams' grandsons was Ralph Champneys Williams, who later became Governor of the Windward Islands and Governor of Newfoundland.
James Williams (priest) | Other family members
NOTE: William C. Emmet was also grandson of New York Attorney General Thomas Addis Emmet and first cousin once removed of U.S. Minister Greenville T. Emmet.
List of United States political families (S) | Slidells and Emmets
Among his large extended family was aunt Matilda Griswold Frelinghuysen, (wife of Henry Winthrop Gray), Charlotte Louisa Frelinghuysen; uncle Frederick Frelinghuysen, uncle Theodore Frelinghuysen; and aunt Sarah Helen Frelinghuysen, (wife of John Davis and, later, Charles L. McCawley). After attending the Morristown School, he graduated from Princeton University in 1904, followed by Columbia Law School, where he was a classmate of future President Franklin D. Roosevelt.
Peter H. B. Frelinghuysen | Early life
Robert was the son of John Aitken and Jane Christie, of Cupar, Fife, Scotland. He came from a long line of army personnel. His cousin Robert Digby-Jones also received the Victoria Cross (posthumously) for actions at Ladysmith in 1900.
Robert Hope Moncrieff Aitken | Family
Still he has been described as the "poorer cousin", and is believed to have emigrated to Beverwijck in the Hudson Valley circa 1650. The Pieter Bronck House is a registered historic place in Coxsackie, New York. The American poet William Bronk reported that he was a descendant of Pieter Bronck. The American biophysicist (and president of Rockefeller University) Detlev Bronk claimed to have been a Bronck descendant, but no evidence of lineage to Pieter's line was ever found or indicated.
Jonas Bronck | Descendants and relations
His son, Peter P. Goelet, added to his real estate holdings and had four children, Peter (1800–1879), Jean Buchanan (1802–1882), Hannah Green (1806–1895), who married Capt. Thomas Russell Gerry, USN (a son of U.S. Vice President Elbridge Gerry), and Robert Goelet (1809–1879). Peter and for a time, his sister Hannah lived in a mansion on the northeast corner of Broadway and 19th Street, which grounds were known for peacocks, storks, and other exotic birds. Robert was the father of Robert Goelet and Ogden Goelet, who were both prominent in New York and grew the Goelet wealth further. Peter Goelet's great-grandson George Goelet Kip was also a prominent landowner in Manhattan and a business associate of his cousins Robert and Ogden.
Peter Goelet | Descendants
With perfect confidence in her principles, and a persuasion that she would make my brother happy, he was pleased with her being, like my mother, a Norfolk woman, and interested himself much in procuring for them an house at Hampstead that they might be established near him." His descendants included Sir Samuel Hoare, M.P., and Viscount Templewood. His banking firm later merged with those of Joseph John Gurney and Barclays to form part of Barclays Bank. The archaeologist Francis Pryor is his four times great-grandson.
Samuel Hoare Jr | Children and descendants
McLaren suggest that this might be the will of 'a grandson of Robert'; however Baldwin's statement that Robert Fabyan had a nephew, John Fabyan, whose daughter Mary married Sir Thomas Spert (see above), suggests that the 1541 will was the will of the son of Robert Fabyan's nephew.
Robert Fabyan | Marriage and issue
Woodson Ratcliffe Oglesby (February 9, 1867 – April 30, 1955) was a U.S. Representative from New York, cousin of Richard James Oglesby.
Woodson R. Oglesby | Introduction
Other cousins were Alice Lalor (1768–1846) of Ballyragget, founder of the Order of Visitation Sisters in the United States. and Peter Lalor, the revolutionary Australian political leader. Joseph's brother, Richard J Lalor, served a term in the New York State Assembly (1860–62) and was editor of the "Irish American" newspaper.
Joseph Lalor | Early life
Catesby had enlisted the aid of other Catholics, but had borne much of the scheme's financial cost and was running out of money. The group had therefore agreed to expand their numbers. To this end Catesby had recruited Ambrose Rookwood—a young and wealthy Catholic with a stable of fine horses—and a wealthy cousin, Francis Tresham. The extent of Digby's knowledge of the plot is unknown, but in the opinion of author Alan Haynes, Digby was shocked by what he heard, and asked what would become of some of their Catholic friends. Catesby replied "Assure your selfe that such of the nobilitie as are worth the saving shalbe preserved and yet knowe not of the matter." None of their friends would be caught in the explosion.
Everard Digby | Robert Catesby
Descendants through his son Caleb Arnold include Commodore Oliver Hazard Perry, American hero of the Great Lakes during the War of 1812, and his younger brother Commodore Matthew C. Perry, who compelled the opening of Japan to the West with the Convention of Kanagawa in 1854. Senator Stephen Arnold Douglas is also descended through this line, who debated Abraham Lincoln in 1858 before a senate race and later lost to him in the 1860 presidential election. Rhode Island colonial Deputy Governor George Hazard is another descendant.
Benedict Arnold (governor) | Family and descendants
Through his daughter Catherine, he was a grandfather of Nicholas William Stuyvesant Catlin (1829–1897), who worked in marine insurance for fifty years who was "was well known as a scholarly man of wide reading and many acquirements, but save an occasional appearance at the many clubs and societies with which he was connected, he lived in retirement, satisfied with the companions of his leisure—his books." Through his daughter Helen, he was a grandfather of Henry Dudley (1837–1900), a "a gentleman of wealth and leisure, who employed the opportunities thus given him for doing good in charitable work with an unstinted hand." He married Anna Mott Fellows.
Nicholas William Stuyvesant | Descendants