Sir John Rogerson to Crichton, Stuart-Wortley-Mackenzie, Hamilton, Pelham, etc

Our ancestor Arabella Rogerson Cotter had a sister, Elizabeth, who married Abraham Crichton (1703-1772), first Baron Erne of Crom Castle in County Fermanagh.

1. John Crichton (1731-1828), 2nd Baron and 1st Earl of Erne, married 1st Catherine Howard (mother of Abraham, John, Elizabeth) and 2nd Mary Caroline Hervey (mother of Caroline)

2. Abraham, 2nd Earl, was unmarried

2. Elizabeth married John King, brother of 1st Baronet King of Charlestown; has descendants

2. John Crichton (1772-1833) married Jane Weldon; parents of:

3. John, 3rd Earl (1802-1885), married Selina Beresford

4. John, 4th Earl (1839-1914) married Florence Cole (daughter of Earl of Enniskillen)

5. Henry, Viscount Crichton (1872-1914, killed in World War I, married Mary Cavendish Grosvenor, daughter of Duke of Westminster

6. John Crichton,5th Earl (1907-1940, killed in World War II), married Davidena Bulwer-Lytton

7. Henry, 6th Earl (1937)

6. The 5th Earl's sister Mary married James Hamilton, 4th Duke of Abercorn; as Duchess was Mistress of the Robes to the Queen Mother

7. James, 5th Duke of Abercorn; he is my 7th cousin

3. John, 2nd Baron (1801-1855) married Georgiana, daughter of 1st Earl of Harrowby)

4. Edward, 3rd Baron and 1st Earl (1827-1899); no children; and his brother Francis (1829-1893), married Maria Martin and had:

5. Francis, 2nd Earl (1856-1926) married Ellen Gallwey

6. Archibald, 3rd Earl (1892-1953) married Elfrids, daughter of 7th Earl Fitzwilliam); two children: Alan, 4th Earl and

7. Mary (1920-), married Hugh Pelham-Clinton-Hope, 9th Duke of Newcastle-under-Lyme; she is my 7th cousin

from West, lords De La Warr to Russell of Bedford, Grosvenor of Westminster, Princess "Daisy" of Pless, Vita Sackville-West, etc

Our ancestor Letitia West, who married Henry Ludlow and was great-grandmother of Elizabeth Ludlow, wife of Sir John Rogerson (above), had a brother Henry West (1603-1628), fourth Baron de la Warr.

1. Henry West married Isabella Edmunds; he was fifteen when his father the Governor died in Virginia in 1618; he himself died at 25.

2. Charles, 5th Baron (1626-1687) married Anne Wild

3. John West, 6th Baron de la Warr, married Margaret Freeman and died in 1723

4. John, 7th Baron (1693-1766), was created first Earl de la Warr for his services as a general and as colonial Governor of New York in 1737. he married Charlotte MacCarthy, daughter of the Earl of Clancarty.

5. John, 2nd Earl (1729-1777) married Mary Wynyard; was George III's Master of the Horse

6. William Augustus West, 3rd Earl, died childless; succeeded by his brother John, 4th Earl (1758-1824); John married Catherine Lyell; see right for his younger brother Frederick

7. George, 5th Earl de la Warr (1791-1869) married Elizabeth Sackville, daughter and coheir of the last Duke of Dorset; the family now adopted the name Sackville-West

8. Charles, 6th Earl (1815-1873, died childless; succeeded by his brother Reginald, 7th Earl (1817-1896), who married Constance, daughter of Baron Lamington

9. Gilbert, 8th Earl (1869-1915), married Muriel, daughter of Earl Brassey

10. Herbrand, 9th Earl (1900-19), a Privy Councillor, etc, married Diana Leigh

11. William Herbrand, 10th Earl (1921-), my tenth cousin, once removed

The sixth and seventh earls had a sister:

8. Elizabeth West, married Francis Russell, 9th Duke of Bedford (1819-1891); as duchess she was Mistress of the Robes to Queen Victoria

9. Herbrand, 11th Duke (1858-1940), married Mary du Caurroy, the "Flying Duchess" (her plane disappeared over the North Sea in 1937)

10. Hastings, 12th Duke (1888-1953)

11. John, 13th Duke (1917-2002)

12. Henry, 14th Duke (1940-2003)

13. Andrew, 15th Duke of Bedford (1962-), my eleventh cousin once removed

6. Frederick West (1767-1852) married 2nd Maria Myddleton

7. Frederick West (1799-1862) married 2nd Theresa Whitby

8. William Cornwallis-West (1835-1917) married Mary Fitzpatrick

9. Mary (1873-1943), known as "Daisy," married Hans-Heinrich XV, Prince of Pless (now in Poland), Edwardian socialite, authoress, etc, best known for her published diary. Her sister:

9. Constance Cornwallis-West married Hugh Grosvenor, 2nd Duke of Westminster; the current Duke is grandson of Hugh's second wife, not of Constance.

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8. Lionel Sackville-West was the younger brother of the 6th and 7th Earls, and succeeded his brother Mortimer as second Baron Sackville. (He was a diplomat, and briefly ambassador to the United States.) Mortimer was granted the title as an heir to the defunct Sackville Dukes of Dorset. Lionel was unmarried and the title passed to another brother, George. But he had children with his mistress "Pepita" Duran, a dancer and actress from Spain, including:

10. Victoria, who married her first cousin Lionel (1867-1928), third Baron Sackville and son of George (above). Their daughter was

11. Vita [Victoria Mary] Sackville-West (1892-1962), poet, novelist; lover of Violet Keppel Trefusis, daughter of Edward VII's mistress Alice Keppel (see our connection to Camilla Parker-Bowles); also lover of her cousin Henry's wife Rosamund Grosvenor of the Westminster ducal family; also lover of Virginia Woolf, and others; married to the historian/diplomat/journalist Sir Harold Nicolson (1886-1968)

12. Nigel Nicolson, writer (1917-2004), my eleventh cousin

O'Neill of Tyrone

This family has an extremely complicated genealogy; there was much inbreeding, many people with the same names and nicknames, and much internecine fighting over titles and lands. We are descended from O'Neills in various lines, but the most recent ancestor of all those lines is Niall "the Great," who died in 1512.

1. Niall "the Great," of Clannaboy, head of the senior or Tara line of the O'Neills, was one of the great figures of the fifteenth century; fought Henry VII as well as his own cousins for the right to call himself King of Ulster; married Ingeandubh O'Donnell; died 1512

2. Aedh "Dubh" O'Neill, killed in battle in 1524 by his cousin (and son-in-law) Conn Bacach; married Gormfhlaith O'Donnell; his daughter Mary is our ancestor; his sons all died in battle; but his brother Brian Ballach had a son

3. Muircheartach Doibhlenach O'Neill, died 1552, had a son

4. Domhnall O'Neill, died c1567; his son was

5. Conn Buidhe O'Neill (died 1630) submitted to James I after the "Flight of the Earls" and was granted lands in Tyrone; his son was

6. Feidhlimidh Dubh, "Felim the Black", a leader of the rising against Cromwell; had a son

7. Eimher or Ever O'Neill, had a son

Feidhlimidh or Felim O'Neill (born about 1671), a Jacobite officer who served in the French and Austrian armies after the Jacobite defeat in 1690; killed in the Battle of Malplacquet in 1709. He left a son

8. Conn O'Neill, who lived quietly in Dublin and married a descendant of Fedorcha O'Neill; they had a son

9. Shane, settled in Portugal and thereafter known as João O'Neill; married a Portuguese noblewoman in 1750 and is the ancestor of the Portuguese O'Neills; his descendant is Hugo (born 1939), who has no Portuguese title but is recognized as The O'Neill of Clannaboy and head of the House of Niall by the Chief Herald of Ireland; Hugo is also a great-great-grandson of King João VI of Portugal.

2. Brian Ballach O'Neill (above) had another brother, Felim Bacach "the Lame" (died 1533), who is the ancestor of the current (4th) Baron O'Neill, Raymond Arthur Clannaboy O'Neill (born 1933), who lives at Shane's Castle in Antrim; other descendants of Felim include the Barons Wharton (Kemeys-Tynte) among others.

1. Conn Bacach ("the Lame") O'Neill was King of Ulster 1519-1542 but then accepted English suzerainty and was known as Earl of Ulster until his death in 1559. He married three times; we are descended from his second wife Mary, daughter of Aedh Buidhe, the O'Neill of Clannaboy, and from Conn's mistress Alison Kelly.

2. Mary's daughter Mary O'Neill married Sorley Buie Macdonnell and was the mother of Randal Macdonnell (below).

2. Alison's son Fedorcha (Matthew) married Joan Maguire and was killed on orders of his legitimate brother Shane the Proud in 1559. He was known as "Viscount Dungannon" and was heir to the Earldom of Tyrone, but died shortly before his father. His son was:

3. Hugh O'Neill of Tyrone (c 1540-1616) was the last native High King of ireland, defeated and driven into exile by Elizabeth I and James I. He had a number of children and grandchildren, legitimate and otherwise, but most were tracked down and killed on the Continent after the "Flight of the Earls" in 1607. He has descendants only through two of his daughters:

4. our ancestor Alice (c1583-1663), wife of Randal Macdonnell of Antrim; and Margaret, married Richard Butler, 3rd Viscount Mountgarret (ancestor of Elizabeth II - ironic that Elizabeth I, who drove O'Neill out of Ireland, has no descendants, while one of his now occupies her throne).

5. Mary Macdonnell married Oliver Plunkett, 6th Baron Louth; our ancestors via the Plunketts and Cotters.

The Spanish O'Neills, who hold many titles as Grandees of Spain (Marqués de La Granja being the most prominent) are descended from Aedh (died 1475), a younger son of Eoghan, King of Ulster 1432-1455 and his wife Catairiona MacMahon (also ancestors of Niall the Great, above).

Aedh's descendants left with their cousin Hugh after 1607, first going to France and then Spain; one, Arturo, first Marqués del Norte, was governor of West Florida in the 1780s.