_Augustus William ___+
| (1722 - 1758)
_Frederick William II _|
| (1744 - 1797) |
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|--Frederick William III
| (1770 - 1840)
| _____________________
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|_______________________|
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|_____________________
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Frederick William III (1770-1840), king of Prussia (1797-1840). He was the son of Frederick William II, born in Potsdam. He was given military training in his youth and from 1792 to 1794 fought against France during the French Revolution. In
1797 he succeeded to the throne and set about rebuilding the economy and the army, which had suffered during the reign of his father. He kept Prussia neutral in the Napoleonic Wars until 1805, when persuaded by Russia and the aroused spirit of
his people, he joined the allies against France. Prussia was defeated at Jena and Auerstdt in 1806. By the Treaty of Tilsit in 1807, various Prussian territories were ceded to France. Through the efforts of the administrators Baron H. F. K. vom
Stein, Count A. N. von Gneisenau, Prince K. A. von Hardenberg, and G. J. D. von Scharnhorst (1755-1813), the Prussian army was reconstituted between 1807 and 1812 and participated in the victorious campaigns against Napoleon from 1813 until
1815. In this period Frederick William promised the Prussian people a constitution. At the close of the war in 1815, however, he joined the Holy Alliance and participated in the alliance's repression of liberal movements in Europe. Within
Prussia, he accomplished the reorganization of parts of the administrative system and consented to formation of the Zollverein, or customs union.
_Olaf Vermundsson ___+
| (0391 - ....)
_Dan Olafsson _______|
| (0412 - ....) |
| |_____________________
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|--Frodi Dansson
| (0433 - ....)
| _____________________
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|_____________________|
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|_____________________
_Roland _____________+
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_Alan _______________|
| |
| |_Elena DE_MORVILLE __
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|--Helen
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| _____________________
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|_? DE_LACY __________|
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|_____________________
_N. _________________
| (0857 - ....) m 0872
_Theodoric __________|
| (0872 - 0917) m 0882|
| |_Mathila ____________
| (0857 - 0909) m 0872
|
|--Mathilde
| (0894 - 0968)
| _Lothair II _________+
| | (0835 - 0869)
|_Gisele _____________|
(0863 - 0907) m 0882|
|_Waldrade d'Alsace __
(0842 - 0868)
__________________________
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_Henry Maurice of_Battenberg _|
| (1858 - 1896) m 1885 |
| |__________________________
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|
|--Victoria Eugenie "Ena"
| (1887 - 1969)
| _Albert Augustus Charles _
| | (1819 - 1861) m 1840
|_Beatrice Mary Victoria ______|
(1857 - 1944) m 1885 |
|_Victoria HANOVER ________+
(1819 - 1901) m 1840
_____________________________
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_Norman L. BLANCHARD __|
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|--Linda BLANCHARD
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| _George Webster Buzz FISHER _+
| | (1906 - 1982)
|_Elinore Dolly FISHER _|
(1927 - 1991) |
|_Celia Belle COOPER _________+
(1907 - 1965)
_William EDMONSTONE _+
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_Archibald EDMONSTONE _|
| |
| |_Matilda STEWART ____
|
|
|--Margaret EDMONSTONE
|
| _____________________
| |
|_Janet SHAW ___________|
|
|_____________________
_Ulysses Grant FISHER _+
| (1869 - ....)
_Grant Ulysses FISHER _|
| (1897 - 1965) |
| |_Mary Ida ROBINSON ____+
| (1862 - 1925)
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|--Mildred Geraldine FISHER
|
| _Abraham MURRAY _______+
| | (1865 - 1936) m 1888
|_Ella Esther MURRAY ___|
(1900 - 1970) |
|_Amanda HAYES _________+
(1871 - 1958) m 1888
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_John GASPAR ________|
| |
| |__
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|--Steve GASPAR
|
| __
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|_Verna BILL _________|
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|__
_____________________
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_William II _________|
| (1626 - 1650) |
| |_____________________
|
|
|--William III STUART
| (1650 - 1702)
| _Charles I STUART ___+
| | (1600 - 1649)
|_Mary _______________|
(1631 - 1660) |
|_Henrietta Maria ____
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He was called William of Orange. He was also a stadtholder of the Netherlands (1672-1702), who helped form the Grand Alliance and led England in its so-called Glorious Revolution. In 1672, after the invasion of the Netherlands by the French
king Louis XIV, the leadership of Jan De Witt, grand pensionary of Holland, was repudiated, and William was elected stadtholder, captain-general, and admiral. William fought the French with great resolution, even cutting (1673) dikes around
Amsterdam to flood the surrounding countryside and halt the advancing French armies. The Dutch suffered severe reverses in subsequent battles. As a result of William's superior diplomacy, however, which also included the strengthening of ties
with England by his marriage (1677) to the English princess Mary (eldest daughter of his uncle, James, duke of York, later King James II), Louis XIV agreed to terminate the war on terms favorable to the Dutch. After the accession (1685) of
James II there was fear in England that the king's policies were directed toward restoring the power of the Roman Catholic church. In July 1688, James's principal opponents secretly invited William, who was Europe's leading Protestant
statesman, to bring an army of liberation to England. William and a force totaling about 15,000 men landed at Torbay on November 5, 1688. Most of the English nobility declared for William, and James fled to France. William accepted the
Declaration of Rights passed by the Convention Parliament, which met on January 22, 1689, and on February 13, William and Mary were proclaimed joint sovereigns of England. Shortly after the conclusion of this Glorious Revolution, the Scottish
parliament accepted the new rulers. Predominantly Catholic Ireland, however, remained loyal to the deposed king and had to be taken by force. In 1690 William led the army that defeated James and his Irish partisans at the Battle of the Boyne.
William's reign continued to be marked by abortive Jacobite plots to restore James to the throne. After the death of Mary in 1694, William ruled alone. In 1689, in pursuit of containing France, William had brought England into the League of
Augsburg, thereafter known as the Grand Alliance. For the next eight years he was embroiled in wars on the Continent. He managed by skillful diplomacy to hold the alliance together and, under the terms of the Peace of Ryswick, Louis XIV of
France surrendered (1697) much of the territory he had won and recognized William as England's rightful king. At home William manifested virtually none of the acumen he displayed in foreign affairs. Although he was liberal in some things, it
was not he but Parliament, to which he was often opposed, that brought about the reforms effected during his reign, such as the passing of the Bill of Rights, the establishment of the Bank of England, the introduction of ministerial
responsibility in government, and the encouragement of a free press. In 1701 William headed the second Grand Alliance, which became involved in the so-called War of the Spanish Succession. He died before he could take an active part in the
struggle. His wife's sister, Queen Anne, succeeded to the throne.
_FERGUSON Hiland TROWBRIDGE _+
| (1821 - 1862) m 1844
_Zebulon Henry TROWBRIDGE _|
| (1856 - 1920) m 1877 |
| |_Ruth CRAWFORD ______________
| (1825 - 1891) m 1844
|
|--Roscoe TROWBRIDGE
| (1892 - ....)
| _____________________________
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|_Lutitia SHAW _____________|
(1857 - 1920) m 1877 |
|_____________________________
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_Daniel VARNDELL ____|
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| |__
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|--Elizabeth VARNDELL
| (1835 - ....)
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