Show Americans a sis o of Royal 4 t records of or many American Ameri Ameri- G GENEALOGICAL can families are arc said to indicate that there are among the untitled and democratic citizens of the United States direct descendants and generally in quite legitimate lines of most of the famous sovereign dynasties dj and of many of the most famous famouS' sovereigns who ever occupied thrones They do not vaunt themselves upon their descent and there certainly is no likelihood that any of them will ever la lay claim to the royal succession But tho the fact tact of their royal relationship relationship rela rela- is an interesting illustration of the universal uni uni- universal versal kinship of or mankind There was recently perhaps still is l living ng in Delaware count county Pa a clergyman who was indisputably in indisputably indisputably in- in disputably descended directly from Brian Boru Born King Ring of Ireland in the generation The family is descended from Lu Maccon of the royal Irish house of Ith a dynasty which flourished in in the age of tho Pharaohs The Whelen family of of Philadelphia can claim as an ancestor the monarch of Ireland Descendants of William the Conqueror are said to be numerous They include American families named Adams Gordon Hamersley Woodhill and Sims Alfred the Great has stilt still stillmore more numerous descendants in many prominent American families including those of Ellery Pope Barclay Ives Horton Delafield Valentine Fairbanks Sylvester Thomas Lawrence Lawrenc Demott Carroll and Watts The famous Charles Chanes Carroll of signer of the Declaration of Inden Inde- Inde n J l was wa s one of Alfreds Alfred's s 50 60 times limos treat treat- g f grandsons The Roosevelt Van Alen and Schermerhorn families though of Dutch name and descent t claim as an nn ancestor James I I. I of Scotland Somei 1 T of the of New York are aro remote chil children N dren of or Cathair Mohr ohr King of Ireland The Darling Darling Dar Dar- ling famil family of Utica N. N Y is descended from fromi Charles Martel l who vanquished tho the Moslem in in-fi in i of France Franco at Chalons Families of Bourke Boarke Crozier Watts and others trace their d descent ent from irom Charlema Charlemagne ne Hugh Capet founder of the thes Cape in d dynasty of France was a 1 progenitor of the Thomas Morris and other American families From Henri I. I of France Franca France come the well known families of Langdon 1 il sl vert Rives Rues and others The Pell Pen family is descended from rom Edward I. I of England From William of f Nassau of the princely House of Orange came came tho the Van from Edward III of ot England tho the and The spring from Henry III of England the thi Russells Russella from Malcolm II of Scotland the gas and Littles from Robert Bruce King of Scot Scotland land the Jays from Henri Henril I. I of Franco France and Ro Bobert Rob Bob ert II of or Scotland the l from Ferdi nand III HI of Spain and tho the from Mar Mar- chud chud-ap-C chud chud ap ap nan King Ring of Wales Vales There Thero are arc many other Americans who cla they can trace ro royal nl descent descend and many more that thu descended but who have never raver taken ken the or perhaps been able to trace their genealogy genealogy- f i t |