Category Archives: Royalty

Who was Eleanor Whitney’s mother?

Posted on April 28, 2021 by Daniel (@DSRGenealogist)

To most of you, the name Eleanor Whitney probably doesn’t mean a thing – and why should it? She was a late Medieval woman about whom extremely little is known. She is not even known to have done anything particularly … Continue reading →

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Victorian mourning

Posted on June 29, 2019 by Daniel (@DSRGenealogist)

We are all familiar with the quintessential image of Queen Victoria in her widow’s weeds, dressed from head to foot in deep mourning for her beloved Albert, the Prince Consort. “Why may the earth not swallow me up?”, wrote an … Continue reading →

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Divorced, beheaded, died…

Posted on March 1, 2019 by Daniel (@DSRGenealogist)

Today we’re taking a slight detour from my own family tree to delve into the genealogy of a man who needs no introduction: King Henry VIII of England (1491-1547). The image of the gout-ridden, middle-aged Tudor monarch sporting a ginger … Continue reading →

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Jane Austen’s family tree

Posted on March 29, 2014 by Daniel (@DSRGenealogist)

Like so many other great British female authors, such as Virginia Woolf or the three Brontë sisters, English novelist Jane Austen (1775-1817) was a wonderful and prolific writer, but left no children. But although there are no descendants of the … Continue reading →

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The day that Great-granddaddy met the King

Posted on March 2, 2013 by Daniel (@DSRGenealogist)

The other day I walked into one of my favourite bookshops in town: Librería Arenas. As I am writing researching and writing about the history of my grandmother’s family, I was wondering whether there might be a good reference book … Continue reading →

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