I have listed most of the Cannon family genealogy - there remains much to uncover. However, the links discovered on my mother's family tree are numerous and transport the researcher back to a time and place where Sovereigns ruled from Castles, Knights practiced chivalry, and Bishops ruled their Dioceses from giant Cathedrals.
Family links on my mother's side lead back to those Sovereigns of medieval England whose names emblazon the pages of history - names such as William the Conqueror, Henry Beauclerc, and Henry II (whose claim to infamy involves the murder of St Thomas Beckett of Canterbury).
In short, the family descends through Lady Jane Sefton - daughter of the Earl of Sefton whose family links back through the Plantegenets. Lady Jane arrived in the New World in 1623 at Archer's Hope (near Jamestown) aboard the ship, 'the Anne'. She was with her husband, Thomas Farley.
Little is known of Lady Jane - she is reputed to be the daughter of Richard Molyneux, the Earl of Sefton. The Molyneux/Sefton family group can be traced back in time as descending with and marrying into the lineage of the Plantagenet kings of England.
Tracing this line back through Lady Jane places this family in descendancy of Charlemagne and the Plantagenet kings of England.
Tracing back from me to Lady Jane goes like this: Robert Bruce Cannon Jr b 7 Aug 1967; Judith Irene Bower b 1 Jan 1946; Bonnie Beatrice Pack b 1922; Alfred Berman Pack b 1877; Samuel Pack b 1845; John Pack; Matthew Pack b 1 Apr 1783; Mary Farley b 1763; Francis Farley II b 1726; Francis Farley b 25 Oct 1703; John Farley Jr b 1670; John Farley Sr b 1648; Lady Jane Sefton b abt 1600.
From Charlemagne (Charles the Great) Holy Roman Emperor to William the Conqueror
Charlemagne – Holy Roman Emperor crowned by Pope St Leo III on Christmas Day 800 married to Hildegard, Empress
Louis ‘the Pious’ married to Judith, Princess of Bavaria
Charles II ‘the Bald’ married to Ermentrude of Orleans
Louis II King of France married to Ansgarde, Princess of Burgundy
Adbelahide, Princess of France married to Ranulph II Count of Flanders
Ebles II de Poitres married to Elgiva, Princess of England
William I Duke of Aquitaine married to Adaele of Normandy
Abdelahide, Princess of Aquitaine married to Hugh Capet, King of France
Robert II King of France married to Constance of Toulouse
Adaele, Princess of France married to Baudouin, Count of Flanders
Matilda, Countess of Flanders married to William, Duke of Normandy, the Conqueror
The family of Lady Jane ascends back through the Plantagenet kings of England to William the Conqueror. The descent from the Conqueror follows:
William, Duke of Normandy - the Conqueror married to Matilda of Flanders
Henry Beauclerc - King of England
Maud dau of Beauclerc - who married Geoffrey Plantagenet (a nickname picked up on the field of battle when he stuck broom straw [plant de genet] into his hat - surnamed 'Le Bon"
Henry II Plantagenet - of St Thomas a'Beckett notoriety - married to Eleanor of Aquitaine
John - of Magna Carta notoriety
Henry III
Edward I 'Longshanks'
Elizabeth - Princess of England - married Humphrey de Bohun
William de Bohun
Elizabeth de Bohun - married Richard Fitzalan
Elizabeth Fitzalan - married Robert Goushill
Joan Goushill - married Thomas Stanley
Elizabeth Stanley - married Richard Molyneux
Thomas Molyneux - married Anna Dutton
William Molyneux - married Jane Rugge
Richard Molyneux - married Eleanore Radcliffe
William Molyneux - married Bridgett Carril
Richard Molyneux - married Lady Frances Gerard
Jane Molyneux - 'Lady Jane Sefton' - who married Thomas Farley
Lady Jane sailed for the Virginia colony with her husband Thomas Farley and landed at Archer's Hope in 1623 aboard the ship the 'Anne' - a daughter born was named Anne.
other routes from the Plantagenets to Lady Jane to Me...
