"Larry Cable" wrote in message
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"riverman"
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hat's pretty cool, especially considering that Drake had no children....
maybe the lineage isn't quite as direct right back there at the beginning?
:-) At least the water part runs in both your veins. I visit Tavistock
pretty regularly in the summer when I'm at summer school in
Plymouth; Sir
Francis is a legend around those parts.
OK, semi directly, since the only trackable lineage is through his
brother
Thomas.
ever wonder what happened to the other 9 children in his family.
The other 9 children in who's family: Drakes brothers and sisters? I bet
their descendants are still living all over Devonshire and the Plymouth
region.
Once, on a whim, I did an 'ego search' on my and my great-grandfather's name
(they're the same), and came across an incredibly thorough family tree back
to Robert Barlett who came over on the "Anne", the ship that followed the
Mayflower. He married a woman who came across on the Mayflower, and their
family tree is traceable all the way back to Wm the Conquerer. I once
calculated, at 2.5 kids per couple and at 25 years per generation, that I
was related to most of the known world.
--riverman