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Please consider this: If our over 200 year old provenances of descent through the Gunpowder Plotters male line of descent were untrue then the odds against our genealogist finding the Plotters son Robert and his 4 children Francis, Ann, Thomas and James in our own Taunton Saint Mary Magdalene Parish registers would be enormous - many thousands to one! |
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Main Percy Line 12th Century creation of the Louvain - Percy male bloodline in England |
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Main Percy Line Josceline Percy brother of 5th Earl of Northumberland creates a new Cadet male (Louvain - Percy) bloodline in Beverley. The Percy Beverley Line (Male Louvain-Percy) |
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The Cadet Percy Beverley Line (Louvain-Percy) Edward Percy of Beverley (Male Louvain-Percy) |
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The extinction of the main Percy line 1670 male lines becomes extinct with the death of the 11th earl of Northumberland with no living male issue (Last of male Louvain-Percy) |
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Taunton St. Mary Magdalene line Robert Percy the Plotter's son married and had 4 children, Francis claimed to be de jure Earl, Ann, Thomas and James. Our Proven Family Parish. (Proven and claimed Male Louvain-Percy) |
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The False Succession 1740 Elizabeth Seymour married Sir Hugh Smithson, changed their names to Percy and claimed all the the rights, privileges and Estates of the Earldom. This line lives on today. |
The Cadet Percy Beverley line claimants for the vacant Earldom (Male Louvain-Percy)
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Sherborne Business with earl Digby Sherborne Castle. Family trees lodged there. 'Digby' a Plotter's surname. 1841 to New Zealand Repeated provenances on arrival in Wellington (claimed Male Louvain-Percy. |
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