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		<title>looking for Mr. Wright (&amp; knocking down a brick wall)</title>
		<link>http://nltaylor.net/sketchbook/archives/469</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 03 Jun 2009 05:29:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nat Taylor</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Here is the successful breach of a brick wall, with some unusual documentary evidence, leading to a goose-chase for a &#8216;Mr Wright&#8217;.  The starting point is my wife&#8217;s XY line, which, as I noted in the last post, went back to Whiting B. Dudley (1823-1882) and then stopped. Here is what I knew:
A family [...]]]></description>
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		<title>my medieval XY line</title>
		<link>http://nltaylor.net/sketchbook/archives/458</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 02 Jun 2009 00:43:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nat Taylor</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Besides our agnate (male-line) ancestry, and our matrilineal ancestry (also called the umbilical or mitochondrial line, to indicate the uterine mother-child bond or the exclusively maternal inheritance of mitochondrial DNA), what specific lines have any distinction, in an abstract sense, in the vast swath of the pedigree chart that lies between these two bookends?  [...]]]></description>
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		<title>John Morgan Stanwood of Dogtown: finding ancestors in a novel</title>
		<link>http://nltaylor.net/sketchbook/archives/429</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 04 May 2009 03:30:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nat Taylor</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Quite by accident I found it.  I was scanning my local branch library for editions of Defoe&#8217;s Robinson Crusoe when I saw The Last Days of Dogtown by Anita Diamant (Simon &#038; Schuster, 2006).  Pulling it off the shelf doubtfully (there are many Dogtowns) I was surprised to see that it was indeed [...]]]></description>
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		<title>a royal descent for the American Stirlings of Glorat</title>
		<link>http://nltaylor.net/sketchbook/archives/421</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 26 Mar 2009 15:34:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nat Taylor</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Following yesterday&#8217;s post on the romantic Stirling of Glorat story, I put together a royal descent (probably the closest one) for the American branch of the Stirlings of Glorat, as follows:
1. James V, King of Scots (d. 1542).
2. (illegitimate by Catherine, daughter of Sir John Carmichael) John Stewart, Commendator of Coldingham, Lord Darnley (d. 1563), [...]]]></description>
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		<title>potential Indiana baronet — Stirling of Glorat</title>
		<link>http://nltaylor.net/sketchbook/archives/364</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 25 Mar 2009 15:43:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nat Taylor</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[From the papers, the fascinating story of the (apparent) heir to the Scottish baronetcy of Stirling of Glorat (William J. Booher, &#8220;Tracing Family Tree Turns into a Title Search: Greenwood man has some details to confirm before becoming baronet,&#8221; Indianapolis Star, 19 March 2009).

Coat of arms from the frontispiece to Bain (1883). The coat would [...]]]></description>
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		<title>update on the Crosbie-Pitcairn pistols</title>
		<link>http://nltaylor.net/sketchbook/archives/354</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 23 Mar 2009 18:05:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nat Taylor</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve now found confirmation of Captain (later General) William Crosbie&#8217;s place in the Anglo-Irish gentry Crosbie family which bore the swords-and-snake crest found on the pistols traditionally identified as Major Pitcairn&#8217;s (see my previous post, linked here).  I had suggested that he belonged somewhere in the Ardfert Crosbie family found in Burke&#8217;s 1866 Dormant, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>crescit progenies nostra</title>
		<link>http://nltaylor.net/sketchbook/archives/334</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 21 Mar 2009 01:52:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nat Taylor</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Hwaet! Unto us this day is born, in the city of Pawtucket, in the state of Rhode Island and the Providence Plantations, our fourth child and second son, Simon Lane Taylor.
Like genograms but for soccer moms rather than therapists, those self-satisfied minivan decals have emerged as the latest diagrammatic lexicon for identifying one&#8217;s family.  [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Pitcairn&#8217;s pistols were Crosbie&#8217;s—heraldry on a famous revolutionary artifact</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 20 Mar 2009 03:26:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nat Taylor</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[The first spoils of the Revolutionary War are surely the handsome pair of Murdoch pistols long attributed to Major John Pitcairn, who is said to have lost them on April 19 1775 during the harrowing return from Concord to Boston (they were variously said to have been  in the baggage train, or on his [...]]]></description>
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		<title>tewkesbury tiles: medieval heraldic dingbats</title>
		<link>http://nltaylor.net/sketchbook/archives/251</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 18 Mar 2009 13:31:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nat Taylor</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[One of the hidden treasures that has rewarded my browsing in The Ancestor (of which I recently bought a set of all twelve volumes in their original publisher&#8217;s bindings), is a handsome set of cuts made after fourteenth-century encaustic floor tiles from Tewkesbury Abbey.  See Hal Hall, &#8220;Notes on the Tiles at Tewkesbury Abbey,&#8221; [...]]]></description>
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		<title>boy meets ancestor; boy loses ancestor; boy gets ancestor back</title>
		<link>http://nltaylor.net/sketchbook/archives/247</link>
		<comments>http://nltaylor.net/sketchbook/archives/247#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 17 Mar 2009 13:44:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nat Taylor</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s the plot of an old romance film mapped onto a common genealogical trajectory: boy meets ancestor, boy loses ancestor.  Marshall Kirk used to talk about &#8216;former ancestors&#8217;—people you once believed you were descended from, and of  whom you still might be fond.  Sometimes they even find a way back into the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Sancha de Ayala&#8217;s heritage — Quejana, the Ayala chapel</title>
		<link>http://nltaylor.net/sketchbook/archives/242</link>
		<comments>http://nltaylor.net/sketchbook/archives/242#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 24 Feb 2009 02:49:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nat Taylor</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[[Part of a series of posts and pages dedicated to Sancha de Ayala]
More photos of Sancha de Ayala&#8217;s maternal ancestral home, the Ayala stronghold at Quejana (Álava), near Bilbao.  It is fascinating, and fortuitous, that the houses of both Sancha de Ayala&#8217;s paternal and maternal families have been preserved since the fourteenth century due [...]]]></description>
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		<title>seals and medieval family identity</title>
		<link>http://nltaylor.net/sketchbook/archives/240</link>
		<comments>http://nltaylor.net/sketchbook/archives/240#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 23 Feb 2009 15:09:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nat Taylor</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[In Brigitte Miriam Bedos-Rezak&#8217;s review of Ted Evergates&#8217; Aristocracy in the County of Champagne, 1100-1300 (U. Penn. Press, 2007), just out in American Historical Review 114 (2009):192-3, she is not the first to point out how Evergates contradicts Duby&#8217;s orthodoxy by showing that the most important aristocratic family unit is not the lignage, but rather [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Oswald Barron, The Ancestor, and Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th ed.</title>
		<link>http://nltaylor.net/sketchbook/archives/238</link>
		<comments>http://nltaylor.net/sketchbook/archives/238#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 22 Feb 2009 16:44:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nat Taylor</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Not everyone agrees with all of Oswald Barron&#8217;s opinions, but he is one of the revered champions of the golden age of critical genealogy (and other auxiliary historical  disciplines) in late Victorian and Edwardian England.  His own short-lived journal, The Ancestor, is a splendid readable collection of critical genealogy—Horace Round was a regular [...]]]></description>
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		<title>George Thorold and a lost legacy</title>
		<link>http://nltaylor.net/sketchbook/archives/237</link>
		<comments>http://nltaylor.net/sketchbook/archives/237#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 13 Feb 2009 03:48:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nat Taylor</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[In the Rhode Island Historical Society library is a strange heraldic treasure — a grant of arms, from 1631, to a George Thorold of Boston, Lincolnshire.  It is a copy, probably from the beginning of the 18th century, darkened and greasy with long handling and haphazard storage.  The copy is inexpert—the lettering is [...]]]></description>
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		<title>revolutionary rejection (pension applications)</title>
		<link>http://nltaylor.net/sketchbook/archives/229</link>
		<comments>http://nltaylor.net/sketchbook/archives/229#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 09 Feb 2009 16:43:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nat Taylor</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[I just rediscovered the digitized microforms of the Revolutionary War pension files (pensions granted from 1832 onward) available from &#8216;HeritageQuest&#8217; via many subscription libraries (including the Boston Public Library, for Massachusetts Residents, and many other public libraries throughout the US).  By my count my children have 39 ancestors listed in the DAR Patriot Index, [...]]]></description>
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