The book, the descents and the tree. From Drombeg, Damory Court and Domesday to twenty-three royal houses of Europe: seventeen centuries of ancestry, traced through the records that survive and graded rung by rung.
These pages are one descendant's ancestry: Damery and Jones on my father's side, Elliott and Bowdren on my mother's, four families carried as far as the records go, every join graded. The roads to the royal houses happen to run through the Joneses of Drombeg; that is a fact about the records, not a ranking of the families. The family's own pages, the Name, the branches and every person on the tree, are at damery.family.
The family book, Tu Ne Cede Malis, reproduced in full, a page per chapter.
One household of the name went digging up the female lines of my father's grandmother's people, and the ladders reached the crowned houses of Europe: the de Veres and the Clares, Edward I and Brian Boru, Charlemagne and the Kings of Kiev, graded every rung, with the two failures kept as failures.
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News from the research, as it happens: discoveries, letters and new branches.
Every road this tree takes to Brian Boru, to William the Lion and to the last king of Leinster crosses one rung: Constantia Piers, who married Rev. Vere Hunt in 1712.…
11 October 2026
The Damery name still cannot find its England. It turns out the family already had one, documented village by village in the Suffolk wool country, and it arrived throu…
4 October 2026
William Marshal, Earl of Pembroke and Regent of England, the man a contemporary poem calls the greatest knight who ever lived, already stood in the documented direct l…
27 September 2026
Expand branch by branch. Every name links to that person's page.
Every generation from the present day back, 1,625 direct ancestors across forty-six graded generations, with the tradition beyond marked as tradition.
Twenty-three royal houses and twenty-one sovereign crowns, each drawn to its gateway ancestor, with the doors that shut kept shut.
The ancient barry nebuly, the book arms, and the personal arms registered in 2026.
An Irish family, a Norman name, and eight centuries of not yielding. The story behind this whole site, for the wider world.
Family history is never finished. Corrections, photographs and stories are always welcome, and always credited.
