Volume I Fam Ilies & Dy Nastie S Joust a L’Outrance by Mark D
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The Family Volume I Fam ilies & Dy nastie s Joust a l’outrance by Mark D. Dennis In May 1390 during a truce in the long running state of war between Scotland and England, Sir David de Lindsay and the English baron, John de Welles, kept a pledge to joust a l’outrance, to the death, with pointed and edged weapons. Other Scots and English knights participated in the tournament held on London Bridge before King Richard II and his court. Lindsay, later first Earl Crawford, is shown in this interpretation at the point he unhorsed de Welles. They then fought on foot, and again de Lindsay prevailed. With Lord de WelIes’ life on the point of the Scot's dagger and the English king having declined to intervene to spare him, the chivalrous Sir David relented and helped the Englishman to his feet rather than slay him. The Scots carried the day and were presented with rich gifts by the English king. It was a medieval version of Twickenham. ii Contents Volume 1 Frontpiece .............................................................................................................................................ii Contents ................................................................................................................................................iii Forward ................................................................................................................................................ iv Families & Dynasties ...................................................................................................................1-585 A ............................................................................................................................... 1 B ............................................................................................................................ 39 C .......................................................................................................................... 124 D .......................................................................................................................... 172 E ........................................................................................................................... 201 F ........................................................................................................................... 207 G ......................................................................................................................... 234 H ............................................................................................................................ 260 I ...............................................................................................................................307 J ........................................................................................................................... 314 K .......................................................................................................................... 315 L ............................................................................................................................ 323 M ......................................................................................................................... 355 N ......................................................................................................................... 403 O .......................................................................................................................... 418 P .......................................................................................................................... 424 Q ........................................................................................................................... 450 R .......................................................................................................................... 452 S .......................................................................................................................... 467 T ......................................................................................................................... 524 U .......................................................................................................................... 538 V ........................................................................................................................... 541 W ........................................................................................................................ 554 Y ..........................................................................................................................558 Z ......................................................................................................................... 558 Bibliography ........................................................................................................................................593 Index......................................................................................................................................................601 iii Forward or centuries our family history has been passed down through record-keepers who have added to the family’s genealogy. In keeping with the tradition, my maternal grandparents, Kate Lawn Ligon McGarvey and William Bowman McGarvey, continued the search for historical documents for more than half a century to obtain confirmation of the family’s existing records. And during their long search, they discovered not only dates and places of births, and marriages and deaths, but all-important marriage alliances, opening yet other paths to family connections. My cousin, Patricia Alicia McGarvey Rosendahl, took up where our grandparents left off, continuing the research and organizing their accumulated information. When she later entered university in preparation for her law degree, she gave me a copy of the work she had completed to date. Then, continuing as a family record-keeper, I also took records my parents had accumulated and added that information. I have retained the format Patricia had developed. The names on each family page, with few exceptions, are paternal descendants. The first name is the earliest known ancestor, and each successive generation shows the son and heir or, in some cases, a younger son from which our family branch descended. The nobility’s jockeying for position and power through arranged marriages was phenomenal, but a way of life for nobility of Medieval Europe. Traditionally, upon the father’s death, whatever he had owned, including his titles, etc., was usually inherited by his eldest son. In some instances the heir died before his father and the title often went to a younger brother or to the grandson. But in some of the wealthier and more powerful families, younger sons and daughters married well and gained titles. For example, Roger d’Aubigny married Amice de Mowbray. His son, Nele d’Aubigny became lord of Mowbray. There are separate family pages for the two family branches. If our connection to a particular family happened to be through the marriage of a daughter, the family she married into is indicated at the end of that entry. Then, turning to her husband’s family name, we find successive generations as well as his earliest known ancestors. If more than one sibling married into a family which also contains our ancestors, that entry is listed below as an additional succession, indicating that family’s name to reference within this work. Also, it is important to note if our family has direct ties to more than one sibling, or because of a second marriage of either of the parents, those successive generations are also listed with the pertinent family name to reference. Occasionally, we find more than one sibling marrying siblings of another family, for example, a man marrying his wife’s sister after his wife died, or 2 brothers marrying 2 sisters of another family. Surnames as we know them today were virtually nonexistent in Medieval and earlier times, people usually being identified by the location of their birth or subsequent relocation, or possibly a particular deed, occupation or, in some cases, even a nickname. Often names evolved from father's names. So John Robert would have a child called Donald Robertson, who would have a child called John Donaldson who would have a child called Peter Johnson and so on. Daughters usually kept the surnames of their fathers, so if John FitzJames had a daughter named Catherine, she would generally, but not always, be known as Catherine FitzJames. In some cases, sons and/or daughters took the mother’s family name. For the most part, established surnames generally became more prevalent during the late 14th and early 15th centuries. There were many family alliances between French, Scotch and British families, depending, of course, on what the particular political situation was at the time. Consequently, a sibling who relocated to Britain from France may have kept the “foreign” name or may have changed the spelling somewhat to reflect his adopted country, or, in some cases, may have chosen a totally “new” surname, which, at first observation, would seem to be unrelated iv to the previous family name. There are considerable variations in spellings of both given names and surnames – Isabel, Isobel, Isabella, Elizabeth, Elisabeth, or Maud, Maude, Matilda, Mathilde, Margaret, or Eleanor, Elinor, Eleanore, Eleanora, Alianor, Alianore, and so on. How a name was recorded may give a researcher a hint as to the origin of a particular family,