Family Group Sheet for Sir Robert Mayor Leicester Dudley Newcastle / Lady Laetitia "Lettice" Knollys (Knowles),, Chief Lady of the Bedchamber (Royal Lady in Waiting), Viscountess of Hereford, 1st Countess of Essex, Countess of Leicester (F880) m. 1558 : Family History of Ivan Hurst

DNA testing adds a whole different aspect to Genealogy

You can find relatives you did not know you had, open new branches to your tree, and create validations of people between the match and myself.

Whilst the improbable tree has lots of information yet to be validated, the tree I have created just for DNA matches and the links of ancestors between us, only has spouses that are not in some way validated.

I have started with DNA matches in Ancestry, but will eventually include MyHeritage and GEDmatch matches as well.

A lot to do.

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Family Trees can be just a list of people and how they are interrelated.

However they can contain so much more. Records, so many records.

Part of the process of assessment of a record for me, is about location. This takes me into social economic history. In the 19th century, where a lot of our records come from, life was considerably different form today. The very rich could move about the country, and indeed they would with a degree of ease that we have today, albeit on a different timescale. I recently found people on my tree that migrated to North America, and subsequently part of the family moved on to Australia, and set up home there. Shipping passenger records indicate that people from that family frequently visited their relatives both in North America and Britain, before returning to their home in Australia. That was not the lot of the masses though.

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Birth	1540	Newcastle Upon Tyne, Northumberland, England
Death	7 May 1613	Newcastle, Northumberland, England
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Marriage	1558	Wanstead, Warwickshire, England
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Mother

Birth	8 Nov 1543	Rotherfield Greys, South Oxfordshire District, Oxfordshire, England
Death	25 Dec 1634	Drayton Bassett, Lichfield District, Staffordshire, England
Burial
Other Spouse	Sir Lord Robert "Robin" Dudley, Knight of Bath, Knight of the Order of Saint Michael, Knight of the Garter, Master of the Horse, Lord Steward of the Royal Household, Privy Councillor, \| F883
Marriage
Other Spouse	Walter Devereux, First Earl of Essex; Second Viscount Hereford \| F3692
Marriage	4 Jun 1558	Sheen, Surrey, England
Other Spouse	Sir Christopher Blount \| F888
Marriage	15 Apr 1589	Berkshire, England
Father	Sir Lord Francis I "The Elder" Knollys, KG, Sheriff of Hampshire, Statesman, English Courtier, Privy Councillor, 2nd Lord of La War,, Custodian of Wallingford Castle, High Treasurer of The Royal Household, Member of Parliament, Governor of Plymouth \| F828 Group Sheet
Mother	Lady Mary Catherine "Kate" ("The Illegitimate Tudor") Carey (Cary), Lady of The Queen's Privy Chamber, \| F828 Group Sheet

Birth	1560	Wellingborough, Northamptonshire, England
Death	6 Apr 1634	Wellingborough, Northamptonshire, England
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