Appendix A
The Earliest Known Documented Ancestors of Aynsley Damery, and Their Times
The furthest-back named ancestor in each documented line, with an approximate birth date and the reigning monarch of the day.
This table is the living edition, kept current as the research moves; the printed 2026 book holds its own snapshot. Several of these lines climb through women, and the deepest reach kings; how each was proven, and the two royal descents that were tested and rejected, are told rung by rung in Chapters 18 to 24 of the living edition.
| Line | Earliest known ancestor | Approx. born | Era / monarch | Relationship to me |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Leinster (Uí Dúnlainge) | Dunlaing mac Enda Niada (late 5th c.), founder of the Uí Dúnlainge of Naas, with his wife Cuach of the Uí Bairrche, the deepest woman in the whole tree; the Tripartite Life has their sons Ailill and Illann baptised by St Patrick at the well outside his fort, and the annals put the brothers in battle in 490; reached through Sadb of the Uí Faeláin, note-only above toward the legendary Cathair Mór | 5th-6th c. | the Kingdom of Leinster | 43× great-grandfather |
| Wessex | Ealhmund, King in Kent in 784, father of Egbert of Wessex, as the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle has it; Egbert's grandson Alfred the Great (d. 899) is reached via his daughter Ælfthryth of Flanders and again, as Eadgyth's grandfather, through the Ottonians | 8th c. | the Kingdom of Wessex | 36× great-grandfather |
| Scotland (Alpin & Dunkeld) | Kenneth MacAlpin, first King of Scots (d. 858), reached through Saint Margaret of Wessex, Matilda of Scotland and the Empress Matilda; the king-lists kept note-only above him; between them stand Malcolm II, Duncan I of the Scottish play, and Malcolm Canmore, all direct | 9th c. | the Kingdom of Scots | 34× great-grandfather |
| Wales (Deheubarth) | Merfyn Frych, King of Gwynedd (d. 844), his son Rhodri Mawr, King of Gwynedd and Wales (d. 878), Rhodri's grandson Hywel Dda the lawgiver, and Rhys ap Tewdwr (d. 1093), last King of Deheubarth, reached through Rhys's daughter Nest ferch Rhys and the FitzGeralds of Kildare | 9th c. | the Kingdom of Wales | 32× great-grandfather |
| Navarre (Pamplona) | Íñigo Arista (d. 851), founder-king of Pamplona, with Sancho III the Great (d. 1035) of the Jiménez house that followed; two houses, one crown, and nothing wired above the founder; the Jiménez road also carries El Cid, Rodrigo Díaz de Vivar (d. 1099), and his wife Jimena, through their daughter Cristina | 9th c. | the Kingdom of Navarre | 38× great-grandfather |
| Italy (Carolingian) | Pepin, King of Italy (d. 810), son of Charlemagne, whose line held the county of Vermandois; the kingdom's later Ivrea line stands here too in Berengar II (d. 966), its last independent king, direct | 8th-9th c. | the Kingdom of Italy | 35× great-grandfather |
| Leinster (Uí Cheinnselaig) | Cairpre mac Diarmata (d. 876), head of the Uí Cheinnselaig king-list as the annals carry it, reached by five obituary-attested rungs down through Diarmait mac Máel na mBó, High King 'with opposition' (d. 1072), to Diarmait Mac Murchada, King of Leinster (d. 1171), 'Diarmait na nGall', who brought the Normans into Ireland; the line comes down by two of his daughters, Aoife and Órlaith; the pedigrees run on below Cairpre but are not wired | 9th c. | the Kingdom of Leinster | 34× great-grandfather (Cairpre); 25× (Diarmait) |
| Carolingian | Charlemagne, Emperor of the Romans (d. 814), reached along hundreds of braided roads, three of them wholly independent, by the Vermandois, by Flanders and by the Counts of Louvain; above him Pepin the Short, Charles Martel, Pepin of Herstal (whose own charter of 691 calls him son of Ansegisel), Ansegisel and Begga, and the two founders, St Arnulf, Bishop of Metz (d. 640), and Pepin of Landen, all attested by sources of their own centuries; the Roman and Merovingian ancestry the ninth-century Metz genealogies gave Arnulf is where the legend begins, and it is not wired. His grandson Lothair I (d. 855) stands in the line by a road graded probable | 7th-9th c. | the Frankish Empire | 40× great-grandfather (St Arnulf) |
| Burgundy (the Rudolphians) | Conrad the Elder, Count of Argengau and lay abbot of Auxerre (d. c. 864), of the elder Welfs; his grandson Rudolf I was proclaimed King of Upper Burgundy at Saint-Maurice in 888, and the crown ran by Rudolf II, King of Burgundy and briefly of Italy, to Conrad the Peaceful and his daughter Gerberga, Duchess of Swabia, mother of the Empress Gisela | 9th c. | Louis the German | 36× great-grandfather |
| France (Capetian) | Hugh Capet, King of France (d. 996), founder of the Capetian dynasty; his son Robert II 'the Pious' stands in the line by several braided roads | 10th c. | the Kingdom of France | 29× great-grandfather |
| Germany (Ottonian) | Henry the Fowler, King of Germany (d. 936), founder of the Ottonian dynasty, reached through his daughter Hedwig, mother of Hugh Capet; his son Otto the Great, the first Emperor, now stands in the line too by a second road through his daughter Liutgard and the Salians, with Eadgyth of Wessex, Alfred's granddaughter, as empress | 10th c. | the Kingdom of Germany | 31× great-grandfather |
| Osraige (the Fitzpatrick kings) | Cerball mac Dúnlainge (d. 888), King of Osraige, the Viking-age king the Icelandic sagas remember as Kjarvalr Írakonungr; reached through Aífe of Osraige, daughter of Gilla Pátraic (d. 996), eponym of the Fitzpatricks | 9th-10th c. | the Kingdom of Osraige | 33× great-grandfather |
| Desmond (MacCarthy Mór · Eóganacht Chaisil) | Saerbhreathach of the Eóganacht Chaisil (10th c.), a name in the Four Masters and nothing more; his son Carthach, king of Eóganacht Chaisil, burned to death in 1045, is the eponym of the whole MacCarthy family; below him Muireadhach (d. 1092), Cormac Mac Carthaigh, King of Munster (k. 1138), who built Cormac's Chapel on the Rock of Cashel, Diarmaid of Cill Baghain, Domhnall Mór na Curra, high-king of Munster, who 'never submitted to a foreigner' (d. 1206), Cormac Fionn, Domhnall Ruadh, who fought on the English side at Callan in 1261, Domhnall Óg and Tadhg na Mainistreach, King of Desmond (d. 1428), whose daughter Catherine married Patrick FitzMaurice, Lord Kerry, in 1422; and by a second road the MacCarthy Reagh, lords of Carbery, from Domhnall God Cairbreach (k. 1252), son of Domhnall Mór and founder of the Carbery line, through Domhnall Riabhach (d. 1414) to Cormac na hAoine, whose daughter Ellen MacCarthy Reagh married James Barry Roe, Viscount Buttevant; every rung stated in the Annals of Inisfallen, Mac Carthaigh's Book or the Four Masters; the pedigrees run on above Saerbhreathach to the kings of Cashel but are not wired | 10th c. | the Kingdom of Desmond (and Munster) | 28× great-grandfather (Saerbhreathach); 25× (Cormac, King of Munster) |
| Poland (Piast) | Mieszko I, Prince of the Polans (d. 992), the first historically attested ruler of Poland, baptised in 966; reached through his daughter, the wife first of Erik the Victorious of Sweden and then of Sweyn Forkbeard of Denmark, mother of Olof Skötkonung by the one and of Cnut the Great by the other, so that the line runs Poland to Sweden to Kiev to the de Veres; counted on the footing of the Grand Princes of Kiev, the crowned kingship coming only with his son Bolesław, who is not an ancestor; the three chronicle-tradition Piasts above him, Siemomysł, Lestek and Siemowit, are entered as probable and the stop is at Siemowit, where the legend begins | 10th c. | the Piast realm of Poland | 31× great-grandfather |
| Brittany (Rennes) | Juhel Berengar, Count of Rennes (d. 970), father of Conan I, Duke of Brittany; reached through Conan's daughter Judith of Brittany, wife of Duke Richard II of Normandy and the Conqueror's grandmother, and again through her brother Geoffrey I, Duke of Brittany, by way of the counts of Penthièvre and Stephen, Lord of Richmond | 10th c. | the Duchy of Brittany | 30× great-grandfather |
| Holy Roman Empire (Salian) | Konrad the Red, Duke of Lotharingia (killed on the Lechfeld, 955), and his wife Liutgard, daughter of Otto the Great; from them Otto of Worms, Duke of Carinthia, and the emperors Konrad II, Henry III and Henry IV of Canossa, reached through Henry IV's daughter Agnes, the Babenbergs of Austria, Montferrat and Saluzzo to the Percy earls and the de Veres | 10th c. | Otto the Great | 33× great-grandfather (Konrad the Red) |
| Austria (Babenberg) | Leopold I 'the Illustrious', first Babenberg Margrave of the Ostmark (d. 994), kept at probable; below him Adalbert the Victorious, Ernst, Leopold II and Saint Leopold III, whose wife was the Emperor Henry IV's daughter Agnes | 10th c. | Otto II | 31× great-grandfather (Leopold I) |
| Angoulême (Taillefer) | Guillaume II 'Taillefer', Count of Angoulême, father by a mistress of Arnaud Mancer (d. c. 990); the Taillefer counts run down to Guillaume VI, who died at Messina on pilgrimage in 1179, and by Marguerite de Turenne into the Lusignans | 10th c. | Hugh Capet | 32× great-grandfather |
| Montferrat and Saluzzo (Aleramici) | Aleramo, the marquess of the tenth century from whom the Aleramici take their name, and his father Count Guglielmo; with Oberto I Obizzo, Count Palatine and Count of Luni, founder of the Obertenghi from whom the Este descend, and Roger, Count of Auriate, father of Arduino Glabrio of Turin; the Aleramici marquesses of Montferrat and Saluzzo, with Adelaide of Susa and the Obertenghi, reach this family through Beatrix of Savoy and the Percys | 10th c. | the Kingdom of Italy | 31× great-grandfather (Oberto I) |
| Wettin and Meissen | Dietrich, Count in the Hassegau (d. before 976), 'a man of noble freedom', forebear of the Wettins, and Gunther, Margrave of Merseburg, killed fighting the Saracens at Cotrone in 982; with Ekkehard I of Meissen, candidate for the German throne in 1002, reached by Adelheid von Wettin, Margravine of Austria | 10th c. | Otto the Great | 33× great-grandfather |
| Lotharingia (the house of Ardenne) | Wigerich, Count Palatine (d. before 919), and Cunigonde, granddaughter of Louis the Stammerer; their line by Gozlin and Godfrey the Captive, Count of Verdun, to the dukes of Lower Lotharingia, and by Cunigonde alone to Siegfried of Luxembourg; reached through Oda of Verdun | early 10th c. | Charles the Simple | 31× great-grandfather |
| Lusignan | Hugues I 'the Huntsman', the tenth-century founder of the Lusignans named in the Chronicle of Saint-Maixent, and his son Hugues II, who built the first castle of Lusignan; the line runs by Hugues III, IV and IX to Hugh X, who married King John's widow Isabella of Angoulême, and so to the de Lusignans of England and the Warennes | 10th c. | Hugh Capet | 33× great-grandfather |
| Urgell and Barcelona | Borrell II, Count of Barcelona (d. 992), who let the Capetians have Paris without his homage, and his son Armengol I of Urgell, killed at Córdoba in 1010; by Armengol II the Pilgrim, who died at Jerusalem in 1039, to Armengol IV and the counts of Forcalquier, two rungs of which are kept at probable | 10th c. | the Caliphate of Córdoba | 32× great-grandfather (Borrell II) |
| Kiev (Rurikid) | Vladimir the Great, Grand Prince of Kiev (d. 1015), and his grandson Yaroslav the Wise, reached through Anne of Kiev, Queen of France, and the Vermandois; Igor of Kiev wired above | 10th-11th c. | Kyivan Rus | 29× great-grandfather |
| Sweden | Olof Skötkonung, first christian King of Sweden (d. 1022), father of Ingegerd who married Yaroslav of Kiev | 10th-11th c. | the Kingdom of Sweden | 29× great-grandfather |
| Munster (Dál gCais) | Brian Boru (Brian Boroimhe), High King of Ireland (d. at Clontarf 1014), Chief of the Dál gCais; the line comes down through the O'Briens of Thomond and Lady Honora O'Brien; the Dalcassian stem kept note-only above him | 10th-11th c. | himself, High King of Ireland | 29× great-grandfather |
| Northumbria (Bamburgh) | Siward, Earl of Northumbria (d. 1055), Macbeth's vanquisher and Waltheof's father; through his wife the house of Bamburgh runs up, graded probable, to Uhtred the Bold (d. 1016) | 10th-11th c. | the Earldom of Northumbria | 28× great-grandfather (Siward) |
| Normandy (the baronial houses) | Yves de Bellême (d. 1005), the deepest of the Norman baronial floors wired in October 2026, with Roger I de Montgomery, Amaury I de Montfort (d. 1053) and Walkelin de Ferrières (d. 1040); their houses gave Shrewsbury its earls, Mabel de Bellême her terrible reputation and Derby its Ferrers | 10th-11th c. | the Dukes of Normandy | 30× great-grandfather (Bellême) |
| Brittany (Porhoët) | Guethenoc, Vicomte of Thro (d. 1046), founder of the house of Porhoët; his descendant Alain 'Ceoche', brother of Duke Eudes of Brittany, is the Alan la Zouche of the English baronage, named as Geoffroy de Porhoët's son in his brother's charter of 1153; Eudes I's wife and Guethenoc's left unwired where the sources disagree | 11th c. | the Duchy of Brittany | 27× great-grandfather |
| Welles (Lincolnshire) | Ragemer (d. before 1115), Domesday tenant of Gilbert de Gant at Claxby, Withern and Well in 1086, whose son Walter took the name; the Lords Welles descend from him, and by Walter de Gant's wife Maud the road climbs again into the counts of Brittany | 11th c. | William the Conqueror | 27× great-grandfather |
| FitzJohn and Vescy (Normandy) | Ranulf the Moneyer (fl. 1035), 'whose antecedents are unknown', who bought the mill of Vains from the abbot of Mont-Saint-Michel; from his son Richard descend the FitzJohns of Alnwick and the Lords Vescy | 11th c. | Robert I of Normandy | 29× great-grandfather |
| Montfort-sur-Risle | Turstin de Bastembourg, father of Hugh 'with the beard', vicomte, killed in single combat with Walchelin de Ferrers; his grandson Hugh II brought fifty ships to Hastings; reached through Alice de Montfort, wife of Gilbert de Gant | early 11th c. | the Dukes of Normandy | 30× great-grandfather |
| Hastings of Allerston | Ughtred de Allerston, who held Cayton and Allerston under Prior Serlo of Whitby (c. 1090 to 1109); above him Gospatric, son of the pre-Conquest thegn Aschil, kept at probable | late 11th c. | William II | 26× great-grandfather |
| FitzAlan of Bedale | Scolland, steward of the honour of Richmond under its Breton earls (fl. 1093 to 1135); the older claim that the Bedale FitzAlans were a cadet of the earls themselves was withdrawn by the Complete Peerage and is not followed here | late 11th c. | the Breton earls of Richmond | 25× great-grandfather |
| Brienne (Jerusalem and Constantinople) | Érard I, Count of Brienne, a crusader of 1096, and Alix de Montdidier; their grandson Érard II died on the Third Crusade, and his son John of Brienne was King of Jerusalem by marriage and crowned Latin Emperor of Constantinople; reached by John's son Jean d'Acre, Blanche de Brienne, Marguerite de Fiennes and the Mortimers to the de Veres | 11th c. | Philip I of France | 27× great-grandfather |
| Boulogne | Eustace I, Count of Boulogne (d. 1049), and his son Eustace II 'aux Grenons', who fought at Hastings and was the father of Godfrey of Bouillon and King Baldwin I of Jerusalem; this family descends not from the crusader brothers but from their natural half-brother Geoffroy de Boulogne, by Faramus of Boulogne, lord of Carshalton, and Sibylle de Tingry | 11th c. | the Conqueror | 29× great-grandfather (Eustace I) |
| Montbéliard and Bar | Richwin, Count of Charpeigne (living 1019), and Frederick II, Duke of Upper Lotharingia, with Mathilde of Swabia, the Empress Gisela's sister; their children Louis de Mousson and Sophie, heiress of Bar, were the parents of Thierry I, Count of Bar, whose wife Ermentrude was Count William the Great's daughter; the line runs by Montbéliard and the Montfaucons to Agnès, mother of John of Brienne | early 11th c. | the Emperor Henry II | 30× great-grandfather (Richwin) |
| Normandy / England | William the Conqueror, King of England, and Matilda of Flanders, reached through an acknowledged son of Henry I and again through the Empress Matilda; the ducal line now wired above him to Rollo (d. c.930) | 11th c. | himself | 26× great-grandfather |
| Giffard | Walter Giffard, lord of Longueville, named by William of Poitiers among the combatants of Hastings, 14 October 1066 | 11th c. | William the Conqueror | 26× great-grandfather |
| de Clare | Richard FitzGilbert de Clare, Domesday tenant-in-chief of ~170 lordships, joint Justiciar of England (d. abt 1090; the Domesday rung uncautioned, Hastings itself kept as tradition) | 11th c. | William the Conqueror | 25× great-grandfather |
| de Vere | Aubrey de Vere, Domesday tenant-in-chief (d. 1112; the 1086 rung keeps Cokayne's caution) | 11th c. | William the Conqueror | 25× great-grandfather |
| Berkeley (from Eadnoth) | Eadnoth the Staller (killed 1068), officer of the Confessor and of Harold, head of one of the only great English houses with a proven male line through the Conquest; thence the Berkeleys, and Sir Maurice Berkeley of Bruton, the royal standard-bearer | 11th c. | Edward the Confessor to Henry VIII | 26× great-grandfather (Eadnoth) |
| Aragón | Petronilla (d. 1173), Queen of Aragón in her own right, whose marriage to the Count of Barcelona united the crown with that house; her father Ramiro II the Monk and grandfather Sancho Ramírez now stand above her | 12th c. | the Kingdom of Aragón | 27× great-grandmother |
| Jerusalem (Crusader) | Fulk V of Anjou (d. 1143), King of Jerusalem, Henry II's grandfather; the crown was his own, worn in the East, and the descent runs through the Anjou he left behind; a second house holds the same crown below, the Briennes | 12th c. | the Crusader Kingdom of Jerusalem | 25× great-grandfather |
| Wales (Powys · Mathrafal) | Bleddyn ap Cynfyn, King of Powys and Gwynedd (d. 1075), and Madog ap Maredudd (d. 1160), last king of a united Powys, reached through the Powys Fadog princes to Owain Glyndŵr and his daughter Alys | 11th-12th c. | the Kingdom of Powys | 27× great-grandfather (Bleddyn) |
| England (Angevin) | The Empress Matilda and her son Henry II (d. 1189), now reached by four separate roads, the newest through William Longespée, Henry's acknowledged natural son by Ida de Tosny | 12th c. | England, Normandy and Anjou | 23× great-grandfather (Henry II) |
| Bunbury (Cheshire) | The Bunburys of Bunbury and Stanney in Cheshire, wired documented (Ormerod's History of Chester) to Henry de Boneberi in the reign of King Stephen (1135-54); their descent from a younger son of the house of St Pierre in Normandy is kept note-only above him | 12th c. | reached through the Lanes of Lanespark | 28× great-grandfather |
| Toledo (the Mozarabic alcaldes) | Melendo Lampader (d. 1181), alcalde of the Mozarabs of Toledo, who signed in Arabic, and his wife María Peláez, daughter of the caid of Frómista; reached by the Blount road through seven generations of Toledo's magistrates, Sancha de Ayala and Sir Walter Blount; the 1125 alcalde Abu al-Asbag kept as a note above him | 12th c. | the Kingdom of Castile | 24× great-grandfather |
| Châteaudun and Sablé | Hugues IV, Vicomte de Châteaudun (fl. 1163), and his wife Marguerite, by their own charters; three generations down, Geoffroy VI married Clémence des Roches, daughter of William des Roches, Seneschal of Anjou, and Marguerite de Sablé, daughter of Robert IV de Sablé, Grand Master of the Temple; reached through Jeanne de Châteaudun, mother of Blanche de Brienne | 12th c. | Louis VII of France | 27× great-grandfather |
| Portugal (Burgundy) | Afonso I Henriques (d. 1185), first King of Portugal, who won its independence at Ourique in 1139; reached through his daughter Urraca, Queen of León, and Alfonso IX to Eleanor of Castile and the Butlers; his father Henri of Burgundy and his mother Teresa, natural daughter of Alfonso VI, stand above him | 12th c. | himself, King of Portugal | 26× great-grandfather |
| Marshal | William Marshal, 1st Earl of Pembroke, Regent of England, who reissued Magna Carta | 12th c. | Henry II to Henry III | 23× great-grandfather |
| England (Plantagenet) | Edward I 'Longshanks', King of England (d. 1307), reached by two daughters: Elizabeth through the de Bohuns and the Butlers, and Joan of Acre through the Clares, the Despensers and the Raleighs to the Kingsmills; behind him Henry II, Eleanor of Aquitaine and the Empress Matilda | 13th c. | himself | 22× great-grandfather |
| Castile & León | Ferdinand III, Saint Ferdinand (d. 1252), who united the two crowns; reached through his daughter Eleanor of Castile, Queen of Edward I; behind him Alfonso VII, crowned 'Emperor of All Spain' in 1135, and Alfonso III the Great of Asturias, the mountain kingdom that became León; behind Asturias, Fruela of Cantabria and his father Pedro, 'leader of the Cantabrians and of the royal line' in the Chronicle of Alfonso III, the deepest Iberian rung | 12th-13th c. | the crowns of Castile and León | 23× great-grandfather |
| Torres (Sardinia) | Comita, Judge of Torres (d. 1218), of the house of Lacon, one of the four sovereign giudici of Sardinia, styled king in the Latin charters; reached through his daughter Maria, wife of Bonifacio di Saluzzo | 12th-13th c. | himself, Judge of Torres | 25× great-grandfather |
| FitzMaurice | Maurice fitz Thomas, 1st Baron Kerry (summoned to Parliament 1295, d. 1305) | 13th c. | Edward I | 22× great-grandfather |
| Wales (the four houses) | Beside Rhodri Mawr and Hywel Dda now stand Gruffudd ap Llywelyn (d. 1063), the only king of all Wales, Owain Gwynedd and Llywelyn the Great of Aberffraw, and Owain Glyndŵr (d. c.1415) of Mathrafal, the last Welsh Prince of Wales, reached through his daughter Alys | 9th-15th c. | the Welsh kingships | 18× great-grandfather (Glyndŵr) |
| Ryves | Robert Ryves of Damory Court/Damery Corte, Blandford | c. 1490 | Henry VII / Henry VIII | 13× great-grandfather |
| Freke | Frank (Francis) Freke of Thorncombe, Devon | c. 1500 | Henry VII / Henry VIII | 12x great-grandfather |
| Swayne | John Swayne of Blandford | c. 1509 | Henry VII / Henry VIII | 12× great-grandfather |
| Hunt (de Vere) | William Hunte of Gosfield, Essex (d. 1552) | early 16th c. | Henry VIII | 12× great-grandfather |
| Piers | Capt. William Piers of Tristernagh (d. 1603) | 16th c. | Henry VIII to Elizabeth I | 12× great-grandfather |
| Loftus | Edward Loftus of Swineshead, father of the Archbishop | early 16th c. | Henry VIII | 13× great-grandfather |
| Westropp | Thomas Westropp of Cornborough, Yorkshire (d. by 1657) | late 16th c. | Elizabeth I / James I | 10× great-grandfather |
| Travers | Bryan Travers of Nateby, Lancashire | c. 1550 | Elizabeth I (1558–1603) | 11x great-grandfather |
| Beamish | first Beamish settler (Munster Plantation) | c. 1560 | Elizabeth I | 10× great-grandfather |
| Pennefather | Abraham Pennefather, of Staffordshire (father of the Cornet) | c. 1590 | Elizabeth I | 10x great-grandfather |
| Bernard | Francis Bernard, settler of Castle Mahon | c. 1600 | James I / Charles I | 9x great-grandfather |
| Herrick | John Herrick, to Ireland with Ormonde, 1641 | 1612 | James I | 8x great-grandfather |
| Wright | Ambrose Wright of Lawshall, Suffolk | 1617 | James I | 8x great-grandfather |
| Townsend | Col. Richard Townsend of Castletownshend | 1618 | James I | 8x great-grandfather |
| Lucas | Jasper Lucas, merchant of Youghal | c. 1620 | (tradition: c.1580) Charles I | 7x great-grandfather |
| Lane | William Lane, "49 officer", granted Killeens/Lanes Park 1666, d. 1672. (Bentley Hall kinship claimed by arms and by Burke's, unproven see Ch. 12) | c. 1620 | James I / Charles I | 9x great-grandfather |
| Ivers | Henry IversIver, clerk to the King's Commissioners, Co. Clare | c. 1640 | Charles I | 8x great-grandfather |
| Riggs (via Herrick) | Edward Riggs of Riggsdale, Co. Cork | c. 1640 | Charles I | 9x great-grandfather |
| White | Simon White, Mayor of Limerick | c. 1645 | Charles I / Commonwealth | 8x great-grandfather |
| Jones | Edward Jones of Drombeg (m. a Honner), in the house by the later seventeenth century; the instrument of 1708 that confirmed the family's holding at Drombeg in perpetuity names him, his son Henry being named in the deeds by 1709; above him stands Henry Jones, 'a major in Cromwell's army, who settled in Bandon', named by Cole in 1903; the family's Cromwellian settler origin at Bandon is secure, a Henry Jones of Bandon, gentleman, being attainted by James II's parliament in 1689, but the major himself is in no record yet found, so he keeps the tradition grade | c. 1645 | Charles II | 7× great-grandfather |
| Brady | Henry Brady of Raheen, Co. Clare | c. 1650 | Commonwealth / Charles II | 7x great-grandfather |
| Lambley | William Lambley, alderman of Cork | c. 1655 | Charles II | 7x great-grandfather |
| Clarke | Joseph Clarke of Glemsford, Suffolk | 1682 | Charles II / James II | 7x great-grandfather |
| Webb | George Webb of Trumpington, Cambridgeshire | 1690 | William III / Anne | 6x great-grandfather |
| Ely | Jonathan Ely of Great Whelnetham, Suffolk | 1692 | William III | 6x great-grandfather |
| Newport (Suffolk) | John Newport of Horringer, Suffolk | 1697 | William III | 6x great-grandfather |
| Huleatt | Arthur Huleatt of Co. Clare | 1714 | Anne / George I | 6x great-grandfather |
| Damery | Richard Damery of Ballymodan | c. 1720 | George I / II | 5x great-grandfather |
| Hickey | Noah Hickey (father of the Rev. Ambrose Hickey) | c. 1720 | George I / II | 5x great-grandfather |
| Symonds | Thomas Symonds of Lawshall, Suffolk | 1723 | George I | 5x great-grandfather |
| Channell | Thomas Channell of Ixworth, Suffolk | 1725 | George I / II | 5x great-grandfather |
| Moore | Ven. Edward Moore of Mooresfort, Archdeacon of Emly | c. 1730 | George II | 6x great-grandfather |
| Elliott | John Elliott (m. Elizabeth Evans, Killaloe bond 1771) | c. 1750 | Birr, Co. Offaly | 5x great-grandfather |
| Evans | Elizabeth Sheehan | c. 1750 | Killaloe diocese | 5x great-grandmother |
| Smyth | Richard Smyth of Castle Dooneen | c. 1763 | George III | 4x great-grandfather |
| Acres | Henry Acres | c. 1765 | Ettagh, Offaly/Tipperary border | 5x great-grandfather |
| Charles | Sarah Charles | c. 1765 | Ettagh, Offaly/Tipperary border | 5x great-grandmother |
| Connors | Julianna Connors (m. Robert Elliott, Golden 1836) | c. 1815 | Golden, Co. Tipperary | 3x great-grandmother |
| Sheehan | Cornelius Sheehan, labourer (named 1865) | early 19th c. | Castlemagner?, North Cork | 3x great-grandfather |
| Condon | John Condon, farmer | early 19th c. | Kilmalooda, West Cork | 3x great-grandfather |
| Dineen | Patrick Dineen, farmer | early 19th c. | Kilmalooda, West Cork | 3x great-grandfather |
| Bowdren | Michael Bowdren, mason | early 19th c. | (Wexford stock → Cork) | 3x great-grandfather |
| Callaghan | John Callaghan, farmer | early 19th c. | Co. Cork | 3x great-grandfather |
| Treacy | Benjamin Treacy, tradesman | early 19th c. | Cork city | 3x great-grandfather |
| Farrell | John Farrell | early 19th c. | Cork city | 3x great-grandfather |
THE LIVING EDITION, OCTOBER 2026
The deeper claim above is printed as the family told it. One link in it has since failed: the Damer Earls of Dorchester do not descend from the Oxfordshire d'Amories in the male line or any other, the barons' line having ended in 1375 and the Damer pedigree having been manufactured in the 1760s and refuted in 1901. The d'Amories themselves remain the name's documented beginning in England, and kin by marriage; the road from them to Bandon remains, as the printed page says, unearned and open. See Damery before Cork.
⟡ FAMILY TRADITION: THE DEEPER CLAIM
My Damery line carries a tradition reaching far beyond this table, the Norman d’Amories of Oxfordshire (Sir Robert, Sir Richard and Roger), the Damer Earls of Dorchester who descend from them in the male line, and beyond that the French and Frisian legend of Part I. Earliest and noblest bearers of a rare name: most probably the well my own line sprang from, though no record yet joins us to them.
And one more deep claim once stood beside it, entered in the same spirit: through Anne Hamilton Lane, the family claimed kinship with the Lanes of Bentley Hall (Jane Lane's people) and, behind them, the Bagots of Blithfield, a line documented as far back as Domesday itself. Chapter 12 explains how I tested that claim and where it broke down.
When the printed book went to press there were two roads to Domesday, one through my father's name and one through a Limerick wedding, "both cherished, neither yet earned." Both are now overtaken by a third, which was hiding inside the same Limerick wedding all along, and it did not stop at Domesday. It ran through the bride, not the groom: Jane Hunt descended from Jane Vere of Gosfield, whose descent from the Earls of Oxford is proven three times over, and up through the Clare earls and an acknowledged son of King Henry I the documented line climbs, graded at every rung, past the Conquest to William the Conqueror, Alfred the Great and Charlemagne. Two further royal roads, one to the Plantagenets and one to Edward III, were tested in the same weeks and failed inspection, and the site keeps them as failures, which is what lets the council of crowns that held be believed. The whole ascent is told in Chapters 22 to 24 of the living edition.
So my father's dream of a line to the Conquest is answered, and answered larger than he dared, but not down the road he searched. The d'Amory road, the one through our own surname, remains unearned and open, the true prize still waiting at a Bandon Damery of about 1690, whose very trade is still a guess. And yet even that road has been brushed, three times, the last of them exact: Roger d'Amory's wife, Elizabeth de Clare, was the first cousin of my direct ancestress Margaret de Clare, both granddaughters of one earl, which makes the baron my own surname points at the husband of my ancestress's first cousin. Proven kinship by marriage; the name itself still a question. The pattern is turned in the light in the Journal: the family reached the Conquest, and the crown beyond it, not through the rare name it hunted, but through a bride nobody had thought to check.