I made a cute little tiktok in which I morphed into my closest royal relative, 16th great grandfather King James V of Scotland.
By making a sweet dedicatory video of him in my creative inspiration I feel him in my heart. I feel a beautiful communion of sorts opening up. I am fond of him, his look, red haired, his uniqueness, roaming free as the Gudeman of Ballengeich, his music and romancing and his love for exotic animals. As a mere babe he inherited the Scottish throne.
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For the third year running I was asked to speak at the Mary Magdalene conference, which due to covid would be online. Within my speech one of the topics I explored was the concept of the holy bloodline which is one of the stories attached to the current enthusiasm for Mary Magdalene. I talked of how there exists the theory that Mary Magdalene's descendants are of a Holy Bloodline, the embodiment of which is the 'Holy Grail', a secret protected down through the ages by the Knights Templar and the Priory of Sion. 'This holy lineage travels down through the Merovingians to the Scottish royal Stuarts and the Sinclairs of Rosslyn.' I spoke of how I myself was akeeper of the grail, by this theory, this being one who is of the holy bloodline. And I explained that records through my mother traced us back to these Sinclairs and Stuarts and not only that but that my dna revealed matches to Merovingian royalty.' I'm aware this theory is fragile, not that this means it is for sure inauthentic; it may be quite real and it may be that as someone of this lineage I am therefore the keeper of the grail, but I don't know, I haven't really focused and tuned into this as yet. I know I have noble Merovingian dna, through archeogenetical evidence, but of the mystery link from them to Mary Magdalene, that's not something I've really researched and intuited as yet
Diving into my son George's archeo-genetics I saw he was of the European tribes, markedly of the Visigoths, but also the Illyrians, Gauls, Franks and Thuringii. His actual closest modern connections were to France and Spain, before even his Italian. It was interesting how his Italian father, Francesco, had been so drawn to this area in which we now lived, especially to the Visigoths, who had sacked Rome, and with him having been so anti-Rome, and of his pro-piracy, which was the past-time of the Illyrians. And, then again, how apt that George had French nationality. George's closest archeo-genetic match was to a Gaul in Lombardy. His second was to a Scythian Moldovan (ah, like his sister Rosina), this being a woman who again had Gaul dna, so being a woman who had married into the Scythians. Thirdly there was a match to a woman of the Thuringii tribe found in Bavaria, her head having been fashioned during her youth into an unnatural state, according to a noble's ideas of beauty at the time, and who was buried with her jewellery. Fourthly there was another Lombard burial, this time the dna being of the Franks. Then there was a bronze age Gaul, then a mixed Gaul Illlyrian found in Germany, then a bronze age mixed Frank Illyrian found in Prague, then a mixed Frank Ostrogoth found in Hungary; and lastly a bronze age burial in Serbia of a mixed Gaul Etruscan. Interestingly, Serbia was listed as one of George's modern populations. And like me he had a genetic connection to King Louis XVI of France. The dna of King Louis XVI was mainly Illyrian mixed with Roman, Gallo-Roman, Thracian and Roman-Hispanian. So George was, through his father, very much of the tribes of Europe. From me he had Roman gladiators, massacred Vikings and Merovingian nobles. And amazingly he had a Greek connection to one of the people who had perished in the Himalayas at Roopkind lake, this being another match to Rosina's own ancestors. Really interesting to see was that George had a match to crusader from Tuscany who had gone to the Holy Land, found there in Lebanon where he had been slain by either the Moslems or the Mongols. A connection to plague victims was made mention of as well. I now turned to looking at my Aunty Lolly's archeo-genetic dna, she being my fathers sister. Her ancient dna was pretty much like mine really, of Celts, Saxons, Franks, Danish Vikings and Vandals. And of modern populations she was mostly Irish and Welsh. Her closest archaic match was to the Bell Beaker peoples. Many individuals of Britain and Europe had good matches to Lolly. Lastly I was looking at my mothers archeo-genetics, aha, so very Viking. Her largest influence was of Icelandic Vikings, after which were Saxons, Celts, Vandals and Danish Vikings. Iceland appeared to be part of the wider domain of her Shetland seafarers, her father being of a Shetland family. One Viking, a victim of the Saint Brice massacre at Oxford, was close in genetics to my mother. Even this connection was classed as very unique, for which all research categories were freely opened up for this individual, which others would have to pay for. Although this young man was a Viking his dna was very mixed, there being primarily Celt and secondly Icelandic viking. This would be attributed to the Viking pioneers having taken native celtic girls for their wives. Other less dominant dna types in this individual were Saxon, Vandal and Pict. Likely then this Viking individual was linked to our Shetlanders and maybe even was a direct ancestor. I'd already come to understand by now that our Shetland ancestors were not exclusively Viking, as had been previously presumed. As it could be seen by the example of early settlers of Iceland, regardless that those pioneers were Viking men, they took along with them many Irish slaves, the most alluring women of which they made wives of. These women were Celts and Picts, and though their men folk had the fate of being enslaved and massacred, as was generally the way of the more attractive women throughout ancient history, their beauty saved them. Another match to my mother was of a Celt in bronze age Scotland, discovered during landscaping work in the garden of Evergreen House on the East Lothian coast. Those remans formed part of a larger bronze age burial ground. Other matches to Icelandic Vikings came up, one being a Gaelic Viking mix and this person being one of the last Vikings to still practise the Norse religion before all would embrace Christianity. All I was discovering was so interesting to me, and yet it was late and sleep was overwhelming me, for which I had to suspend all for now.
Ancient dna comparison was blowing my mind and I was both totally focused on and excited about this. I'd been on my terrace looking at some genealogy tiktoks, when I came across one which was so very interesting. An English girl, Bobbie, was showing how to upload ethnic dna to an archeo-genetic site 'myancestry.com' which compared ones dna to dna extracted from ancient bodies.
Oh wow; of course I had to get into this. And I messaged about it to Ella May, who did likewise. She was more speedy about getting her transfer done than I was. And some patience was requuired till all was processed. What emerged was so exciting for me. And as the information was only freely available for a couple of days I had to totally immerse myself in discovering all that was of relevance. By this I arrived at who were my closest ancient peoples, dominant of whom were the Celts; the other close groups being Saxons, Franks, Danish Vikings and Vandals. Vandals - Ho! They were barbarian Central European peoples.
And apart from those there was a link to the Balari tribe of Sardinia.
And to the Vascones of the Basque lands.
Of ancient remains which I specifically genetically matched, they were varied, and one particularly excellent match was to the Cheddar Man of Cheddar Gorge, Britians oldest discovered skeleton, dna having been extracted from one of his teeth. He had lived about 10,000 years ago, had dark skin, black hair and green eyes, wavy hair, was lactose intolerant and was of a hunter gatherer type (acccording to the analysis of his dna).
And I was matched to ancient bodies found at Stonehenge, it now being understood, from looking at the conditions of these remains and from how far some came, that Stonehenge was an ancient pilgrimage place where pilgrims would come for healing, much like Lourdes is today.
And I had matched to Roman Gladiators, to Vikings wounded in battle, to the Beaker culture, to Bronze Age peoples in Britain and France, to Merovingian nobles, to someone around at the time of the French revolution, to Viking men and their Irish women who had settled Iceland, and to the royals of Europe, there even being a genetic connection to Louis XVI.
As far as my nearest modern genetics were concerned, this was mostly Irish, although on one map of links I could see Welsh was closely there too.
I just had to make a tiktok of this fascinating new subject.:
I experimented again with 'deep nostalgia', animating more old photos, only some working well, and which I then got to trying on my royal ancestors.
The animating of my closest royal, James V of Scotland, worked really well, he being a handsome red haired fellow. He had died at only the age of 30, having become king when he was one year old. And I loved of him that he often went about in disguise as the Guideman of Ballengeich, as also his lute playing and his singing with a husky voice. And I got good animations of James's mother, my ancestress, Margaret Tudor, who was the sister of England's Henry VIII and who had died at the age of 51. And Elizabeth Woodville, Margaret Tudors granny, who was Queen of England and reknowned for her great beauty. She was described as 'the most beautiful woman in the island of Britain' with dragon eyes. She had written a poem celebrating Venus, the goddess of Love. And she had died at about the age of 55. Margaret Beaufort was the other ancestress I animated. She had given birth to Henry Tudor when she was only 13 and had died at the age of 66.
Ella May contacted me, wanting help with some of her family tree mysteries. Like who was the family member on an old family daguerrotype. Maybe, working together, we got somewhere with that, to an Elizabeth Roberts, but one could not be certain.
As for her other query, that I totally sussed, like who was another woman in relation to Ella from whom the family had many letters and even they knew her name, Betsy Yates, and that she had become a Mrs Dodson and had lived in Slaithwaite. Although a married woman, Betsy had frequently travellled alone down to London to be with her lover and maybe had a child by him. In her last letter she swore she would never return to Slaithwaite. She had a relative in the military in Australia, on Cockatoo Island, who had written to her of the convicts and the savages. The letter about this, the family had sold to a museum in Australia, on account of it being worth a lot of money. Well I found Betsy, working out that she was Ella's great great great great great grandmother and I saw that she had indeed returned to Slaithwaite and there had died. Betsy came from the heart of London and whatever more to discover of her I would leave till another time. I absorbed myself in my older childrens paternal ancestry. One of their Jordan's was coachman to princess Diana's ancestress, the countess dowager Spencer. It was in September of 1861 when John Jordan's daughter Amelia was baptised at Harlestone, that note was also made of John being the coachman to this aristocratic personage, namely Adelaide Horatia Elizabeth Spencer. In 1871, at the annual servants ball in Guilsborough, in the billairds room of the grand hall, the dancing opened with, among others, John Jordan partnering for one dance with Lady Victoria Spencer. In 1887, at the London marriage of the Honourable Charles Robert Spencer to Margaret Baring, John Jordan of Lamport is recorded as having given them a gift of a thermometer
![]() My daughters friend, Tom, is an interesting mix, looking very English, but being, like her, part Indian, and even part Singaporean (by an illegitimacy), part Polish, English naturally, and some Spanish. The exotic descendance is from his mother, whose Indian ancestor was a princess, apparently this being written of in William Dalrymple's 'White Moghuls'. This princess had married to a General Palmer, who had set up the first Indian restaurant in London, Veeraswamy's. Wow! What interesting genealogy. And this his mother had a phone conversation with me about. General Palmer had three wives altogether, the first having died in childbirth, and the family reunions make a point of distinguishing who is from which wife. AuthorSusie Harrison and her hobby of genealogy, always looking into her own and her friends family trees. ![]() When my neighbour Jean Raymond called round I showed him that I am such a melange of rich and poor, royal and peasant, of how my closest royal is James V of Scotland, whose mother is Margaret Tudor, the sister of Henry VIII, and then back to the French princess Isabella, married to the gay King, with her father being none other than the notorious Philippe le Bel. My grand French ancestor was something to be hush-hush about in our area of France, he having been an enemy to the Cathars and Knights Templars. This was so amusing to Jean Raymond. AuthorSusie Harrison and her hobby of genealogy, always looking into her own and her friends family trees. |
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