_Henry I, King of FRANCE ___________________+
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_Philip I, King of FRANCE ________________|_Anne of KIEV ______________________________
| (1053 - 1108) m 1072 (1024 - 1075)
_Louis VI ("the Fat"), King of FRANCE _|
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| |_Adelaide (or Alix) of SAVOY __________|
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| |_Gisele of BURGUNDY ______________________|_Etiennette ("Stephanie") of BARCELONA _____
| (.... - 1133) (.... - 1109)
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| | _Hildouin III DE RAMERU ____________________+
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| _Conrad I, Count of LUXEMBURG ______________+
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|_Ermesinde of LUXEMBURG __________________|_Clementia of AQUITAINE ____________________
(1084 - 1143) (1060 - 1142)
[6995] See Alison Weir, "Britain's Royal Family: A Complete Genealogy" (London, U.K.: The Bodley Head, 1999), page 61.
_Robert II ("the Pious"), King of FRANCE ________________+
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_Henry I, King of FRANCE _______________|_Constance DE TAILLEFER _________________________________
| (1006 - 1060) m 1044 (0986 - 1032)
_Philip I, King of FRANCE ________________|
| (1053 - 1108) m 1072 |
| | _Yaroslav I, Grand Prince of KIEV _______________________+
| | | (0979 - 1054) m 1019
| |_Anne of KIEV __________________________|_Inguigard OLOFSDOTTER __________________________________
| (1024 - 1075) m 1044 (.... - 1050)
_Louis VI ("the Fat"), King of FRANCE _|
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| | _Theodoric (Dirk)(Hierosolymitas) III, Count of HOLLAND _+
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| | _Florent I, Count of HOLLAND ___________|_Uthildis of SAXONY _____________________________________
| | | (1025 - 1061) m 1048 (.... - 1044)
| |_Bertha of HOLLAND _______________________|
| (.... - 1094) m 1072 |
| | _Bernhard II, Duke of SAXONY ____________________________+
| | | (0995 - 1059)
| |_Gertrude of SAXONY ____________________|_Elicia of SCHWEINFURT __________________________________
| (.... - 1113) m 1048
_Peter of FRANCE ________|
| (.... - 1183) m 1150 |
| | _Otto (or Oddone), Count of SAVOY _______________________+
| | | (1021 - 1059) m 1045
| | _Amadeus II, Count of SAVOY ____________|_Adelaide of TURIN ______________________________________
| | | (.... - 1080) (.... - 1091)
| | _Humbert II of Maurienne, Count Of SAVOY _|
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| | | | _Gerald I, Count of GENEVA ______________________________+
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| | _Raynald I (or Renaud I) of BURGUNDY ____________________+
| | | (0990 - 1057) m 1023
| | _William I OR "WILLIAM II" of Burgundy__|_Judith (or Alice) of NORMANDY __________________________
| | | (.... - 1087) (.... - 1038)
| |_Gisele of BURGUNDY ______________________|
| (.... - 1133) |
| | _Raymund II BERENGUER ___________________________________+
| | | (1023 - 1076) m 1053
| |_Etiennette ("Stephanie") of BARCELONA _|_Adelmode de La MARCHE __________________________________
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| _Jocelin DE COURTENAY __________________|_________________________________________________________
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| _Miles (Sire) DE COURTENAY _______________|
| | (.... - 1127) |
| | | _Guy I, Lord of MONTLHéRY ______________________________+
| | | | (.... - 1095)
| | |_Isabel of MONTLHéRY __________________|_Hodierne DE GOMETZ _____________________________________
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| | | _Renaud II, Count of Nevers & AUXERRE __|_Ermengarde of TONNERRE _________________________________
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| | |_Ermengarde DE NEVERS ____________________|
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| | | _Artald V, Count of FOREZ _______________________________
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[12799] http://www.thepeerage.com/p3043.htm: "She married, firstly, Guillaume de Brienne, son of Erard II, Comte de Brienne and Agnes de Montfaucon, before 1201. She married, secondly, Guillaume I de Champlitte, Prince of Achaea in 1201. She married, thirdly, Guillaume I de Champagne, Comte de Sancerre circa 1215." She and "William" de Brienne had Andre de Brienne (d. 1215) and Elvis de Brienne.
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[32855] Olene Forcey provides this unverified ancestry in http://familytreemaker.genealogy.com and offers: "John Henry Harris 1852 - 1935 son of James Meredith "Meridy" Harris 1814 - 1901 and Mary "Polly" Cagle 1818-1880. He had 2 brothers and 9 sisters and they were all red haired girls. He married Matha Elizabeth Frances Frizzell and had 8 children. He was tall and big. Pretty stern."
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_Elijah LEIGHTON ____|_Martha Patty DENBOW _
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[54785] "The Bangor Daily News [Bangor, Maine]," 14 August 1991, p. 4: "Danforth - Floyd William Leighton, 64, died Aug. 12, 1991 at a Togus hospital. He was born Nov. 18, 1926 at Danforth, the son of Robert and Vidie (Boyington) Leighton. He attended Danforth schools and before his retirement he was a mill worker at Gillis Lumber Mill, Danforth. He was a veteran of World War II, serving in the National Guard, and he served in the U.S. Army Quartermaster Corps during the Korean War. He was past commander of the Rex L. McKenney American Legion Post and a member of the DAV Bernard Coro Post of Millinocket. He was also a member of the Danforth Baptist Church. Surviving are several nieces and nephews."
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[2527] Walravius V m. Chuno _____.
[25590] World Family Tree, Vol. 170, Tree 1765 provides her information and states "No tombstone for husband Christoph." Gene Burgess' web site at http://worldconnect.rootsweb.com states that Anna Margaretha was b. "in Wuertemberg, Germany."
[51799] George is son of George Henry Rand (1847-1926) & Jennie Emily Ames (b. in 1850; m. 1 December 1866).
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| _William Bruce (Jr.) GRINDLE _|_Eunice HOWARD _______________
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| _Ebenezer Hinckley GRINDLE _|
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| | |_Lydia BOWDEN ________________|_Elizabeth LORD ______________
| | (1780 - 1838) m 1802 (1749 - ....)
| _Hiram Leach GRINDALL _|
| | (1840 - 1913) m 1864 |
| | | _William HUTCHINGS ___________+
| | | | (1764 - 1866) m 1786
| | | _Charles HUTCHINGS ___________|_Mercy ("Mary?") WARDWELL ____
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| | |_Nancy HUTCHINGS ___________|
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| | |_Sally WARDWELL ______________|_Hannah WESCOTT ______________
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[48629] "Bangor Daily News [Bangor, Maine], 7 April 1982, p. 19: "Hallowell - Mrs. Doris Leach, 87, of 22 Pleasant Street, died April 6, 1982 in an Augusta nursing home after a long illness. She was born Feb. 18, 1895 in Hallowell, the daughter of Harry L. and Nancy (Grindell) Sands. She was the wife of the late Urban Leach. She was a member of the Cox Memorial United Methodist Church. She is survived by a son, Philip Leach of Hallowell; daughter, Mrs. Ralph (Marcia) Robertson of South Penobscot; a brother, Victor L. Sands of Gardiner; six grandchildren, 13 greatgrandchildren and several cousins."
[39780] The unverified Jones Family Tree in Ancestry.com in 2015 states "William Stiehle was born in 1700 in Germany. He married Kunigunda Barbara Kober on January 15, 1738, in Edenkoben, Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany. They had one child during their marriage. He died on May 11, 1751, in Bavaria, Germany, at the age of 51."
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| _Jacob S. (III) SHADE _____|_Catherine SCHMELTZ __
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| | |_Elizabeth Louisa RITZMAN _|_Susannah J. WOLF ____
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_Ephraim WHITCOMB ___+
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_Eleazer W. WHITCOMB _|_Sarah LANGLEY ______
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| |_Abigail Green JOY ___|_Abigail S. GREENE __
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| | |_Elizabeth SAWYER ____|_Susanna DAY ________
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"The Ellsworth American [Ellsworth, Maine]," 20 December 2023:
Eben Morrison Whitcomb Jr., 97, passed on May 13, 2023, in Middletown, Conn. Eben Jr. was a natural leader and mentor with an irrepressible zest for life that he expressed with graciousness, generosity, optimism and sense of humor. He was a master mariner, seaman, and navigator. He was a U.S. Coast Guard licensed Captain who frequently sailed as captain of his tall ships in New England, the Caribbean, and in-between.
Eben Morrison Whitcomb Jr. was born in Washington DC to Eben Morrison Sr. and Eleanor Gillette Whitcomb. His college education as an engineering student at the Stevens Institute of Technology, in Hoboken, N.J., was interrupted when he enlisted in the U.S. Navy on April 13, 1943, and subsequently served as an Ensign and Lieutenant in the U.S. Navy during World War II. He trained in the U.S. Navys V-12 program at the Stevens Institute of Technology and Yale University, and then served as a Lieutenant engineering officer on the Patrol Craft Escort USS PCE-873 in the Pacific Ocean. He was honorably discharged on Aug. 6, 1946. In 1947 he completed his bachelor of science in mechanical engineering at Yale University, where he also competed on the Varsity Swimming Team. From 1948 to 1968 he was an engineering manager for the Eastern Fine Paper Company and the Brown Company, manufacturers of fine paper.
In June of 1958, Eben Jr. married Shirley Litchfield, a school teacher originally from Ellsworth. For their honeymoon, they took a years leave of absence from their jobs and, with Eben Sr. and two other crew members, sailed Eben Sr.s 40' schooner Maryleigh on a year-long adventure circumnavigating the North Atlantic Ocean. From Northeast Harbor in Maine, they sailed to Newfoundland, Scotland, Norway, Denmark, the Netherlands, England, Portugal, Gibraltar, Spain, France, the Mediterranean Ocean, the Canary Islands, recrossing the Atlantic to the Caribbean Sea, including port stops at Antigua, Puerto Rico, Hati, the Bahama Islands, then North along the East Coast of North America, returning to Northeast Harbor, Maine, in summer 1959. During this trip they met many people whose families remain close friends of the Whitcomb family to the present, including Hendrick Fasmer VII and his family of Alvøen, Norway, and the late Jens Duborg, from Germany, who sailed with Eben and Shirley to the U.S. aboard Maryleigh in 1958-9. Duborg emigrated to the US and built a successful precision machining business and raised a family in Massachusetts.
Eben Jr. and Shirley had three boys between 1960 and 1966: Eben III, Louis and Ruel. From 1959 to 1969 the family relocated to many paper factory towns including Brewer, Lincoln, Gorham, Kalamazoo, Mich., and Holyoke, Mass., with Shirley and the boys spending summers at their camp on Branch Lake in Ellsworth. They relocated to Guilford, Conn. in 1969, when Eben became a senior engineer at the George Schmitt Company, a company specializing in high-tech precision rotogravure printing. In 1970 Shirley and Eben Jr. moved to their residence at Waterside Lane, Clinton, Conn., where they lived for the next 52 years and developed many close friendships.
In 1970 Eben Jr. and Shirley incorporated Dirigo Cruises Ltd., a limited partnership corporation, together with 14 private investors, and commissioned the building of a 94-ton, 131-foot, gaff-rigged wooden schooner at the Harvey F. Gamage Shipyard in South Bristol. Launched in 1973, they named her Harvey Gamage in honor of the master shipwright who oversaw her construction and fitting out. For the next 21 years the Harvey Gamage offered vacation and sail training school cruises in Maine and New England in the summers, and in the Caribbean in the winter.
In 1976 Eben Jr. created the SeaMester program in partnership with Southampton College of Long Island University, with a South-bound SeaMester aboard the Harvey Gamage every fall from New England to St. Thomas, and a reciprocal North-bound SeaMester each spring. In 1984 Dirigo Cruises acquired the 105-foot ferrocement schooner Rachel and Ebenezer and operated her for several years with the Harvey Gamage.
Hundreds of crew members and SeaMester students found their experiences on Ebens tall ships to be transformative and life changing. He provided countless young men and women the opportunity to serve as crew members, and mentored their advancement from cook and deckhand, to officer, and captain. Eben is remembered by them for his generosity, his professionalism, his graciousness, and his willingness to place his faith in them. Ebens tall ships were training ships not just because of SeaMester; they were training ships because he set an example of quiet competence, then delegated responsibilities, and entrusted many with their first commands. He was awarded the 2017 Tall Ships America Lifetime Achievement Award, which is awarded annually by Tall Ships America to an individual who has dedicated their lifes work to getting people to sea under sail and has worked to preserve the traditions and skills of sail training. Eben Jr. and Shirley made many close friends and touched many lives.
In 1994 Eben Jr. and Shirley retired from the windjammer business and sold the Harvey Gamage. He continued to closely follow her ongoing development and continued operation as a sail training ship.
Eben Jr. is survived by his wife Shirley Litchfield Whitcomb of Haddam, Conn.; his sister Ann Whitcomb Hessler Johnson of Holden; his son Eben Morrison Whitcomb III and his partner Belinda Jones of Westbrook, Conn.; and his son Louis Litchfield Whitcomb and his wife Jennifer Lynn Forrence of Baltimore, Md. He was predeceased by his son Ruel Whitney Whitcomb of Clinton, Conn.
[26242] Deborah Willard is daughter of George Willard and Dorothy Dunster.
[48893] Emma is daughter of Martin George Woodard (1848-1917) & Martha Jane Dill (1850-1917; m. 19 July 1866 in Springfield, Penobscot Co., ME).