Descendants of William the Conqueror

[Meridian Line]

William the Conqueror

Just found this site,by Alan Freer, which lists the descendents of William the Conqueror.

not as daft as it sounds...this chap seems to have spent 25 years researching it, & is a member of the Society of Genealogists.

I found my way in backwards...ie googled a name, & came upon the site. Unfortunately I'm not descended from you know who, it was a sideways name I was following, & he married a descendant. Ho hum, back to my ag. labs.

[Merry Monty Montgomery]

There are nine entries for the name Holden!! lol

[Heather Positive Thinker]

Blimey, how do you find any names on there, I keep going round in circles past a photo of a jolly man with a beard. I wanted to see if the Le Strange family are on there (they are my ancestors through the Acton line - well the Actons were the Le Strange family until they were given the Acton estate in Salops).

[Merry Monty Montgomery]

Blimey, how do you find any names on there,

I scrolled down about a third of the page, clicked genealogy and entered Le Strange. 10 matches

[Heather Positive Thinker]

Im blowed if I can find where to enter a search - back I go past the jolly photo again.


Do you mean that little search box on the left hand side - "search this site"? I put in Le Strange but it brought up people even in the last century?

Im giving up and going for a drink - see you later

[Olde Crone Holden]

Merry

Ah, but they are all 20th century Holdens!

As far as I am aware, the Holdens had nothing to do with William the Conk and completely ignored him.

OC

[Merry Monty Montgomery]

Merry

Ah, but they are all 20th century Holdens!

As far as I am aware, the Holdens had nothing to do with William the Conk and completely ignored him.

OC

So, are you related to Harold?

[Olde Crone Holden]

Do get it right Merry - is Harold related to ME, you mean!

The Holdens were around long before Harold, lol.

What worries me about that site...none of the immediate descendants were in England, and although that is neither here nor there at generation 30, or whatever William the Conqueror is, the vast majority of your ancestors may have been English at that point. I'm not quite sure what I'm trying to say, unless I mean it is largely irrelevant whther W the C is in your tree or not - you are most unlikely to be a direct descendant.

OC

[Harrys mum]

I found some...................of course they didn't arrive in the tree until 1980 and the fellow concerned died in 1901????

So I've either got another family (all with the same weird names) or something is wrong.

Don't know if I want to be related......what would my favourite teacher, Sr Mary Angela say??????

[garstonite]

ok..please explain...there are plenty of "oakes".. about 30...what does it mean? are these oakes members descendants of will??...allan

[Olde Crone Holden]

You'll have to track them back through the tree to find that out - good luck, see you in about ten years, lol.

OC

[garstonite]

thanks oc...so what does the "conqueror 42 " or "conqueror A1 "mean next to the listing?? any ideas??...allan

[Olde Crone Holden]

If you go to the home page and click on descendants of William the Conqueror, it gives you umpteen numbered trees from one to ???.

Click on tree 42 and you will see where it fits into the main tree.

OC

[KiteRunner]

the vast majority of your ancestors may have been English at that point.

Hmmm, let me see... a quarter of mine were German, and there's a Frenchman way back in my tree - my 7xg-grandfather, then my great-grandmother was Irish, my great-great-grandmother was Welsh, and my 3xg-grandfather was Scottish. I think that makes mine roughly half English and half not English! Though of course I don't know if some of the Irish, Welsh etc were descended from people who were English centuries before... or vice versa.

[Olde Crone Holden]

Kate

I did say I wasn't quite sure what I was trying to say, lol!

I think I meant that he didn't have much impact on the British bloodlines at the time, so for most of us, if there is a connection at all, it will be through non- British lines. I don't seem to have many of those in my tree! (As far as I know)

OC

[Phoenix]

I have one bloodline (of which that branch of the family were EXTREMELY proud) back to Edward I. My royal genealogical knowledge is a bit shaky, but I think that makes me a descendant of William the Conqueror. Along, I suspect, with at least a couple of million others.
I worked out that the genealogical input was probably less than a nail paring. And the actual genes probably zilch!

[Jen Red Purple]

Blimey, I am dizzy after wandering up and down the names in that site!

:o

It's one I came across when I first started in Dec 04. It includes OH's father but I am sure I have gone wrong tracking his rellies.

If anyone fancies a challenge let me know!

[Michael]

Plenty of Joneses - and I know some people who would immediately conclude from that fact that I was certain to be connected...

[Jen Red Purple]

Hope you don't mean me, Michael; I'm only a partial numpty you know!

This guy is listed in Burke's Irish Peerage anyway; I haven't just picked a matching surname and assumed.

[Vicky the Viking]

I have one bloodline (of which that branch of the family were EXTREMELY proud) back to Edward I. My royal genealogical knowledge is a bit shaky, but I think that makes me a descendant of William the Conqueror. Along, I suspect, with at least a couple of million others.
I worked out that the genealogical input was probably less than a nail paring. And the actual genes probably zilch!

I guess that makes us distant cousins then!