On Wednesday, May 25, 2022 at 6:01:48 PM UTC-4, JBrand wrote:
On Wednesday, May 25, 2022 at 4:44:00 PM UTC-4, wjhons...@gmail.com wrote:
On Tuesday, May 24, 2022 at 10:05:56 AM UTC-7, JBrand wrote:
I was just idly checking on Allison Janney's ancestry, after noting her mother had the Christian name of Macy, but I see she is not on Famouskin.com, where I felt sure I'd find her.
In addition to being quite a humorous person, she won the Oscar in 2018 for her portrayal of skater Tonya Harding's mother.
There is info on her paternal lines (Janney, etc.) in a chart on wikitree:
https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Janney-406
Note that one of her paternal great-great grandmothers, Clarissa Montfort (Fay) Smith, was a daughter of Samuel H. Fay and Susan Shellman, fairly recent ancestors of George Herbert Walker Bush and George Walker Texas Ranger Bush.
The most likely royal route for Allison Janney is to follow her Janney line back until we see that John Hopkins Janney married to Caroline Symington sometime around 1870ish
And then back on the Symington line to the Leiths and then back where we find Forbes and Olipants and Leslies and Steurts who at least one has a very good chance of being a royal descendant
She has some known RDs through the shared ancestry with the Bushes (via married couple Sam Fay + Sue Shellman);
--Mrs. Catherine (Marbury) Hutchinson
--Mrs. Catherine (Hamby) Hutchinson
--Dr. Richard Palgrave
--Rev. Peter Bulkeley
--Mrs. Jane (Bulkeley) Allen
Her mother, Macy Brooks Putnam (d. 2020), seems to be descended from George Palmer Putnam of the publishing house. Some of those lines are found on Geni, and one I traced back went to the Coytmore-Tyngs of Mass (assuming it is correct).
So she seems certain to have a number of royal lines ...
There may well be a Welsh royal gateway as well, in the Richard Owings/Owens found in that WikiTree pedigree. According to "Maryland Genealogies, A Consolidation of Articles from the Maryland Historical Magazine", page 133, "Richard Owings, born c 1662
in Wales, died intestate 1716 in Baltimore County., is placed as the 4th son of Owen ap Humphrey of Llwyn-du Co., Merionethshire, Wales." This is certainly a logical or at least tempting placement, as this Owen ap Humphrey is apparently the father of
several other emigrants to Pennsylvania. According to "Reifsnyder-Gillam Ancestry," p. 48, "Owen Humphrey, second son and heir of Humphrey ap Hugh, inherited Llwyn du. He married Margaret, daughter of ______________, and had, among other issue, some of
whom removed to Pennsylvania, a daughter, Rebecca, who married, 1678, Robert Owen, of Fron Gôch, near Bala, in the Comôt of Pennlyn, Merionethshire." This work on p. 47 traces this Owen Humphrey's ancestry: "Humphrey ap Hugh married, circa 1624-1625,
Elizabeth, daughter of John Powell (otherwise called John ap Howell Gôch), of Gadfa, a large farm (then considered quite a good estate), in the township of Rhiwargor, in the parish of Llanwddyn, Montgomeryshire. John ap Howell was taxed as a land owner
in Llanwddyn, in a Lay Subsidy of 39 Elizabeth, 1596-7 [according to the Subsidy Rolls for Montgomeryshire], and was buried at Llanwddyn Parish Church, 24 July, 1636. He was the son of Howell Gôch, of Gadfa, ap Meredith ap Bedo ap Jenkin, of Caer Einion
[see footnote 3, p. 47], and he married Sibill, daughter (seventh child) of Hugh Gwyn, Esquire, of Peniarth, Caernarvonshire, by Jane, daughter of Owen ap Hugh, of Bodeon, Anglesey [see footnote 5, p. 47], and sister unto Sir Hugh Owen, Barrister-at-Law
and Recorder of Caermarthen, ancestor to the Owens, Baronets, of Orielton, Pembrokeshire. Hugh Gwyn [see footnote 6, p. 47] was High Sheriff of Caernarvonshire from 2 December 1599-1600, and was commissioned one of the Justices of the Peace for that
county, 11 May, 1611." Of this "Owen Ap Hugh Owen of Bodeon," this work says (p.47), "Owen ap Hugh, of Bodeon, Anglesey, was High Sheriff of Anglesey, 30 November, 1562-63, 1579-80 (30 November), and died 1613. His second wife, mother of Jane, who
married Hugh Gwyn, was Sibill, youngest daughter of Sir William Griffith, Knt., of Penrhyn, Caernarvonshire, Chamberlain of North Wales, by his second wife, Jane, daughter of John Puleston, of Bers and Havod y Wern." This Sybil Griffith, wife of Owen ap
Hugh Owen of Bodeon can be found in Genealogics at
https://genealogics.org/pedigree.php?personID=I00346259, where it appears that she was a descendant of Edward I.
Putting it all together, it would look like this:
Edward I = Eleanor of Castile
Elizabeth of England = Humphrey de Bohun
William de Bohun = Elizabeth Badlesmere
Elizabeth de Bohun = Richard FitzAlan
Elizabeth FitzAlan = Sir Robert Goushill
Joan Goushill = Thomas Stanley
Margaret Stanley = Sir William Troutbeck
Jane/Joan Troutbeck = Sir William Griffith
Sir William Griffith = Jane/Joan Puleston
Sybil Griffith = Owen ap Hugh Owen
Jane Owen = Hugh Gwyn
Sybil Gwyn = John Powell/John ap Howell Gôch
Elizabeth Powell = Humphrey ap Hugh
Owen Humphrey = Margaret _________
Richard Owen/Owings[?] = Rachel ferch Robert
Samuel Owings I = Urath Randall
Samuel Owings II = Deborah Lynch
Frances Owings = Robert North Moale
Ellin North Moale = George Howard Elder
Sarah Elizabeth Elder = Jervis Spencer
Frances Moale Spencer = Stuart Symington Janney
Jervis Spencer Janney I = Elizabeth Lowe Hill Smith
Jervis Spencer Janney II = Macy Brooks Putnam
Allison Brooks Janney
Perhaps Stewart Baldwin, who has commented on the problematic nature of some of the other "traditional" Welsh gateway ancestors to Pennsylvania, can help shed some light on this Richard Owen/Owings.
-Elizabeth A
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