THE TARLAND SKEENS
and their descent from Scots yeomanry and English nobility
by Fergus Neilson
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About the Book
Through almost 14 years of intermittent research, writing and rewriting a 'tetralogy' of family history I have unearthed uncountable cousins and ten family lines. The shortest family line commencing in the mid-1700s, with the longest going back into the 11th century. Antecedents from Scotland, Ireland, Wales and England, as well as from Germany, Normandy, Huguenot France, the Channel Islands and Dutch New York. Royalty, nobility, establishment clergy and fundamentalist hill preachers, military men from generals to cashiered troopers, admirals and privateers, a Lord Chief Justice and a probationary constable drummed out of the Metropolitan Police for petty theft have all played their part. This particular volume covers a family that can trace its ancestry from Aberdeenshire yeomanry, from middle ranking English nobility of Norman descent as well as from Katherine Swynford - the mistress and ultimately wife of John of Gaunt 1st Duke of Lancaster and fourth son of King Edward III.
Features & Details
- Primary Category: Biographies & Memoirs
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Project Option: 6×9 in, 15×23 cm
# of Pages: 294 - Publish Date: Feb 07, 2018
- Language English
- Keywords Skeen Family History, St John Family History, Neilson Family History, Katherine Swynford
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About the Creator
Fergus Neilson
Sydney, Australia
Born in England. Lived in France, Scotland, Canada, Japan and Australia. Perennial student. Officer cadet in the RAF, merchant banker, ski lift operator, brewery executive, management consultant, private equity investor and now aspirant social network entrepreneur. Amateur genealogist, cyclist and ocean swimmer. Happily unmarried to Jan-Elizabeth Kennings.