New ITV Documentary - Does your family tree connect back to British royalty?

[ThrelfallYorky]

I'm as sure as anyone can be that there's not a drop of royal blood in me!

[jim234j]

No.   

[Rosezi]

I am connected to royalty via my Kentish ancestors sir Henry Wotton born 1568 a diplomat and poet (my 12 x great grandfather) he married a  Jane Throckmorton whose sister Elizabeth married sir Walter Raleigh. Those 2 branches are connected to no end of nobility.

[Kiltpin]

Connected, yes. Descended, no. 

My uncle married a Carrapiet. When I investigated her tree, I found a vast amount of information. I found her only cousin, who is also researching their family tree. She (the cousin) has original birth, death, marriage and baptism certificates. Plus diaries and appointment books.   

The tree goes back to a daughter of a Stuart of Shambellie, who are a line of the Royal Stuarts of Scotland. 

My cousins are descended, I am merely connected. 

Regards 

Chas

[ThrelfallYorky]

A clear statement, Kiltpin, and as you so rightly say, "connected" is far from "descended". I have found connections via marriages with many interesting people, some well-known, some notorious, but I am NOT descended from any of them!
And I also remain a resolute commoner. No delusions of Royalty.

[coombs]

Lots have found descent from royalty and gentry (providing there was no roll in the hay with the milkman somewhere on the line inbetween the 1800s and back to the 1400s/1300s or whenever the royal descent starts).  Beware Danny Dyer.  . You always have to allow for that small element of possibility with genealogy. I have a line of descent back to John Hastings, 1st baron Hastings, as his family were Irish and French royalty.

I also have quite a few 1500s and early 1600s ancestors who were merchants, some aldermen and vicars. An ancestor from Suffolk wed in Colchester in 1550, his wife was from near Boston, Lincs, and as they left wills I was able to pin down their origin.

[Rena]

I'm as sure as anyone can be that there's not a drop of royal blood in me!

Can anyone be sure who the father was prior to DNA?

http://www.todayifoundout.com/index.php/2014/09/jus-primae-noctis-fact-fiction/

[Skoosh]

Folk seem uncommonly pleased to have alleged ancestors who apparently never did any work.

Skoosh.

[dowdstree]

Nae posh folk in my ancestry.

Only hard working peasants both Scottish and Irish. Wie maybe an English connection to my unknown grandfather who gave his life for King and Country in WW1.

Take care

Dorrie