It appears that I do have a common ancestor that was a passenger or seaman on the Mayflower
"Very little is known of John Turner. Although there has been much speculation, I will only include in this bio what is supported by facts in order to preserve the integrity of genealogical research. John Turner is only mentioned in one Leiden record, on September 27, 1610, when he guaranteed citizenship to Peter Boey and William Lisle. No evidence has been found to support his English origins, but he may have been from Great Yarmouth where there are several Turner Families. He was referred to as a merchant. He sometimes acted as a courier for the Leiden congregation, delivering letters from Leiden to London.
According to William Bradford, John Turner came on the Mayflower with his two sons, but their names and his wife's name are unknown. John Turner signed the Mayflower Compact, but his sons did not, presumably because they were under the age of 21. John Turner and his sons all died the first winter in Plymouth colony. Long after Turner's death in 1651, William Bradford wrote that John Turner had "a daughter still living in Salem, wll married and approved of." Robert S. Wakefield noted that a "Lysbet Turner", orphan from England, is found in the Leiden poll tax of 1622. In October 1635, an Elizabeth Turner witnessed a property deed between William Lord and John Woolcott of Salem, Massachusetts, and a few months later Elizabeth Turner joined the Salem church. Who Elizabeth Turner married in Salem remains unknown. If John Turner does have any living descendants they would have to be through Elizabeth Turner, but given that there is no documentation of her marriage or children, anyone claiming to be a descendant of Pilgrim John Turner would be using quite the stretch of imagination."
As of 2020, I have finally broke through on my Swedish side due to ancestry. com DNA project.
I just found the great grandfather of Alfred Noble.
Bishop Johannes Rudbeckius, my 12th GGF, or Johannes Rudbeck (April 3, 1581–August 8, 1646), bishop at Västerås, Sweden from 1619 until his death, and personal chaplain to King Gustavus II Adolphus
Johannes Rudbeck was born in Ormesta, Almby parish, outside Örebro, Sweden. He was the son of clergyman Nicolaus Johannis Rudbeck (1622-1676) and Christina Pedersdtr Bose. He was a student at Uppsala University in 1598 and at University of Wittenberg received his Master of Philosophy in 1693. He was a professor of mathematics at Uppsala from 1604, professor of Hebrew from 1609 and professor of theology from 1611.He was made Bishop in the Diocese of Västerås in 1618. In his capacity of bishop, he was restlessly active in organising. He founded the Swedish system of parish registers, ordering his parsons to file comments on every person in the parish. In 1623 he founded the first gymnasium, a school of secondary education in Västerås. He also founded the first school for girls in Sweden; Rudbeckii flickskola in 1632. Rudbeckius was considered politically suspect by his superiors but his reforms were gradually introduced in the whole country.[With his second wife Magadalena Malin Carlsdotter (1602-1649) he had a son Olaus Rudbeck (1630–1702), who was a noted scientist of the 17th century. His grandson Olof Rudbeck the Younger (1660–1740) was scientist, botanist and ornithologist. Bishop Rudbeckius' granddaughter, Wendela Rudbeck (1668–1710), married Peter Olai Nobelius (1655–1707) from whom descended Alfred Nobel (1833–1896).
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Johannes_Rudbeckius
He is a great grandfather of my Great-grandmother, Anna Manson who emigrated from Sweden
I stated before that my last English King as a direct ancestor was Edward III, now I have found another. The next source dates from the late 17th Century - nearly two hundred years after Jasper Tudor's death. William Dugdale's Baronage of England (1675-6) states that Jasper Tudor "departed this Life ... leaving no other Issue than one Illegitimate Daughter, called Ellen, who became the Wife of William Gardner, Citizen of London
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jasper_Tudor
I have found my 25th GGM who was a welsh warrior princess
I have found my 25th GGM who was a welsh warrior princess
Gwenllian, daughter of Gruffydd, ( c. 1100 – 1136) was Princess consort of Deheubarth in Wales, and married to Gruffydd ap Rhys, Prince of Deheubarth. Gwenllian was the daughter of Gruffudd ap Cynan (1055–1137), Prince of Gwynedd and Angharad ferch Owain, and a member of the princely Aberffraw family of Gwynedd. Gwenllian's "patriotic revolt" and subsequent death in battle at Kidwelly Castle contributed to the Great Revolt of 1136.
There are several notable artistic depictions of Gwenllian, often depicting her with a sword in hand, or riding a chariot into battle.
Gwenllian joined her husband at his family seat of Dinefwr in Deheubarth. Deheubarth was struggling against the Norman invasion in South Wales, with Norman, English, and Flemish colonists in footholds throughout the country. While the conflict between the Normans and the Welsh continued, the princely family were often displaced, with Gwenllian joining her husband in mountainous and forested strongholds. From here, she and Gruffydd ap Rhys led retaliatory strikes, aka "lightning raids" against Norman-held positions in Deheubarth.
While her husband was in Gwynedd seeking an alliance with her father against the Normans, Maurice of London and other Normans led raids against Deheubarth's Welsh and Gwenllian was compelled to raise an army for their defence. In a battle fought near Kidwelly Castle, Gwenllian's army was routed, she was captured in battle and beheaded by the Normans.[8] In the battle her son Morgan was also slain and another son, Maelgwyn captured and executed.
Though defeated, her patriotic revolt inspired others in South Wales to rise. The Welsh of Gwent, led by Iowerth ab Owain (grandson of Caradog ap Gruffydd, Gwent's Welsh ruler displaced by the Norman invasions), ambushed and slew Richard Fitz Gilbert de Clare, the Norman lord who controlled Ceredigion.
When word reached Gwynedd of Gwenllian's death and the revolt in Gwent, Gwenllian's brothers Owain and Cadwaladr invaded Norman controlled Ceredigion, taking Llanfihangel, Aberystwyth, and Llanbadarn
The best known of my close cousins, was Edwin Powell Hubble (November 20, 1889 – September 28, 1953) who was an American astronomer. He played a crucial role in establishing the fields of extragalactic astronomy and observational cosmology and is regarded as one of the most important astronomers of all time.
Hubble discovered that many objects previously thought to be clouds of dust and gas and classified as "nebulae" were actually galaxies beyond the Milky Way He used the strong direct relationship between a classical Cepheid variable's luminosity and pulsation period (discovered in 1908 by Henrietta Swan Leavitt) for scaling galactic and extragalactic distances
He provided evidence that the recessional velocity of a galaxy increases with its distance from the Earth, a property now known as "Hubble's law", despite the fact that it had been both proposed and demonstrated observationally two years earlier by Georges Lemaître. The Hubble–Lemaître law implies that the universe is expanding. A decade before, the American astronomer Vesto Slipher had provided the first evidence that the light from many of these nebulae was strongly red-shifted, indicative of high recession velocities.
Hubble's name is most widely recognized for the Hubble Space Telescope, which was named in his honor, with a model prominently displayed in his hometown of Marshfield, Missouri.
His 6th GGF was my 7th GGF and GGM. Samuel Hubble (1657- 1713) from Guilford, Connecticut, and his wife Temperance Nichols (17 May 1662-10 Jun 1714) from Stratford, Connecticut,
my GGM was Etta May Hubble.(1870-1925)
Another legendary 32nd GGF
Another legendary 32nd GGF
Lydéric and Phinaert were semi-legendary figures tied to the foundation of the French city of Lille.
