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Tuesday, February 15, 2005
PRESIDENTIAL KIN
Article from 1939 - Chicago Tribune
FINDS ROOSEVELT IS A COUSIN OF BRITISH PREMIER
LONDON, June 21. - A high British authority on genealogies has announced his conclusions that Queen Elizabeth of Great Britain is related to George Washington and Robert E. Lee, and that President Roosevelt and Prime Minister Chamberlain are eighth cousins three times removed, with King Edward I. of England as a common ancestor.
Those are findings of Anthony Wagner, holder of the 500 year old title of portcullis pursuivant at the College of Arms, home of British heraldry.
Wagner has just completed a genealogical table showing that Mr. Roosevelt and Chamberlain descended from a daughter and son of William Coytmore, an Englishman who lived in the sixteenth century. Queen Elizabeth's relationship to Washington was discovered accidentally when Wagner was working on Washington's family tree for the British pavilion at the New York World's Fair.
Article from 1939 - Chicago Tribune
FINDS ROOSEVELT IS A COUSIN OF BRITISH PREMIER
LONDON, June 21. - A high British authority on genealogies has announced his conclusions that Queen Elizabeth of Great Britain is related to George Washington and Robert E. Lee, and that President Roosevelt and Prime Minister Chamberlain are eighth cousins three times removed, with King Edward I. of England as a common ancestor.
Those are findings of Anthony Wagner, holder of the 500 year old title of portcullis pursuivant at the College of Arms, home of British heraldry.
Wagner has just completed a genealogical table showing that Mr. Roosevelt and Chamberlain descended from a daughter and son of William Coytmore, an Englishman who lived in the sixteenth century. Queen Elizabeth's relationship to Washington was discovered accidentally when Wagner was working on Washington's family tree for the British pavilion at the New York World's Fair.
