Winter warriors
From the witches pyre of Kleinheubach
Through Pilgrim stocks of Plymouth Rock
County Antrim’s blood and curse
Canterbury
to Louisbourg. Swisse to
South Carolina. Pilgrims. Loyalists.
Traitors to Deutschland
They come. Carriers
of pain and glory
Break apart centuries
Carve open oceans
Slog through bog
Barrens and slate rock
Until with one wild
cry I become
flesh from their bones
Put your ear to this
earth and listen
Voices shiver
through the stones
We are many
Ancestral myriad of might
Yet here in this dark
Pleasant River hemlock
I stand alone drenched
by wild encompassing light
Their beauty. Such fierce
beauty melts my bones
“I am the voice of one crying
in the wilderness”
NOTES: Many ancestral lines beyond the 17th century tend to enter the land of maybe and myth. However ancestral grandmother Alice Freeman's line appears to have been researched by a seasoned genealogist with primary sources.
In the 9th century alone, we have almost three-quarter trillion 36xgreat-grandparents.
Osburh (810 - 855)
36th great-grandmother
Alfred the Great
King of Wessex (849 - 899)
son of Osburh
Edward the Elder
King of Wessex (870 - 924)
son of Alfred the Great
Edmund l
King of England (921 - 946)
son of Edward the Elder
Edgar the Peaceful
King of England (943 - 975)
son of Edmund
Aethelred ll
King of England (967 - 1016)
son of Edgar the Peaceful
Aelfgifu of England
daughter of Aethelred ll
Ealdgyth of Northumberland
daughter of Aelfgifu
Gospatric
Earl of Northumberland and Dunbar (1040 - )
son of Ealdgyth of Northumberland
Gospatric II
2nd Earl of Dunbar
son of Gospatric
Juliana Of Dunbar
daughter of Gospatric II
Roger de Merlay ( - 1188)
son of Juliana Of Dunbar
Agnes de Merlay
daughter of Roger de Merlay
Sir Hugh Gobion ( - 1275)
son of Agnes de Merlay
Joan Gobion
daughter of Sir Hugh Gobion
Sir John de Morteyn
son of Joan Gobion
Lucy de Morteyn
daughter of Sir John de Morteyn
Thomas Giffard Sir (1345 - )
son of Lucy de Morteyn
Roger Giffard Esq (1367 - )
son of Thomas Giffard Sir
Thomas Giffard
son of Roger Giffard Esq
John Giffard Esq.
son of Thomas Giffard
Thomas Giffard Esq.
son of John Giffard Esq.
Amy Giffard
daughter of Thomas Giffard Esq.
Susan Samwell (1510 - )
daughter of Amy Giffard
Edward Edwards (1537 - 1591)
son of Susan Samwell
Margaret Edwards
daughter of Edward Edwards
Alice Freeman (1605 - 1664)
daughter of Margaret Edwards
Dorothy Thompson (1624 - 1709)
daughter of Alice Freeman
Robert Parke (1651 - 1707)
son of Dorothy Thompson
Keziah Parke (1700 - 1753)
daughter of Robert Parke
Keziah Davison (1721 - 1785)
daughter of Keziah Parke
Sarah Randall (1746 - )
daughter of Keziah Davison
Eddy Randall Newcomb (1769 - 1854)
son of Sarah Randall
Deacon William North Newcomb (1795 - 1876)
son of Eddy Randall Newcomb
William Henry Newcomb (1830 - 1914)
son of Deacon William North Newcomb
Ida Druscilla Newcomb (1858 - 1922)
daughter of William Henry Newcomb
Archibald Stanley Colp (1881 - 1938)
son of Ida Druscilla Newcomb
Elsie Etta Colp (1918 - 2014)
daughter of Archibald Stanley Colp
Betty Anne Colp
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