via Edward Raynsford of Boston († 1680):

to Henry III, King of England († 1272).

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1. Henry III, King of England († 1272) ∞ Eleanor of Provence († 1291)

2. Edmund, Earl of Lancaster († 1296) ∞ Blanche of Artois († 1302), niece of Saint Louis

3. Henry, Earl of Lancaster († 1345) ∞ Maud de Chaworth († 1322)

4. Eleanor of Lancaster († 1372) ∞ John de Beaumont, 2d Baron Beaumont, Earl of Buchan († 1342)

5. Henry de Beaumont, 3d Baron Beaumont († 1369) ∞ Margaret de Vere († 1398)

6. John de Beaumont, 4th Baron Beaumont († 1396) ∞ Katherine Everingham († 1426)

7. Elizabeth Beaumont († 1488) ∞ William Botreaux, 3d Baron Botreaux († 1462)

8. Margaret Botreaux († 1467) ∞ Robert Hungerford, 2d Baron Hungerford († 1459)

9. Eleanor Hungerford ∞ John White, gent., of Farnham, Surrey (†1469)

10. Robert White (1456-1512) ∞ Margaret Gainsford

11. Margaret White ∞ John Kirton, Esq. († 1529), of Edmonton, Middlesex

12. Stephen Kirton († 1553) ∞ Margaret Offley (†1573)

13. Thomas Kirton (†1601) ∞ Mary Sadler

14. Mary Kirton ∞ Robert Raynsford, Esq. (1567-1629), of Staverton, Northants.

15. Edward Raynsford of Boston (1609-80) ∞ Elizabeth ( - )

16. Jonathan Raynsford (1636-71) ∞ Mary Sunderland ( - )

17. Jonathan Raynsford (1661-80.83) ∞ Martha Raymond (1675- )

18. Elizabeth Raynsford (1677/81-1761) ∞ Samuel Avery (1680-1750)

19. Ephraim Avery (1727-92) ∞ Abigail Bill ( - 1811)

20. Samuel Avery (1771-1818) ∞ Mary Chapman (1770-1845)

21. Marilla Ann Avery (1798-1883) ∞ Theodore Whitney (1799-1851)

22. James Hezron Harmon (1821-) ∞ Frances Amelia Whitney (1822-after 1880)

23. John Milton Harmon (1854-1934) ∞ Rosa Whiting Dudley (1857-1940)

24. Dudley Harmon (1886-1976) ∞ Selene Ayer Armstrong (1883-1932)

25. Carolyn Ayer Harmon (1915-2000) ∞ Joseph Robertson Scott (1915-1986)

26. Joseph Robertson Scott, Jr. (1942-) ∞ Paula Louise Fitts (1945-)

27. Julie Harmon Scott (1968-) ∞ Nathaniel Lane Taylor (1965-)

28. Cassandra Elizabeth Taylor (2000-)

 

Sources:
First published in 1934 by Frank Allaben, this line was impugned as unsubstantiated by James A. Rasmussen,"Edward Raynsford of Boston: English Ancestry and American Descendants," NEHGR 139 (1985), 225-38, 296-315 (at 228); but it has subsequently been fleshed out and defended by Douglas Richardson, "Plantagenet Ancestry of Edward Rainsford (1609-1680) of Boston, Massachusetts," NEHGR 154 (2000), 219-26, and appears in Faris, Plantagenet Ancestry of Seventeenth-Century Colonists, 2d ed. (Boston, 1999). Alternate but problematic royal ancestry through earlier connections of the Raynsford family appears in the first edition of Roberts, Royal Descents (1993).

 

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