Malcolm I MacDonald (d. 954). King (943-954). Given Cumbria by West Saxon king Edmund I (945); lost Northumbria (954).spouse:
Malcolm II MacKenneth (c.954-1034). King (1005-34). Grandson of Malcolm I; annexed Lothian and Cumbria north of the Solway to Scotland; pledged allegiance to Canute (1031).spouse:Funk + Wagnall's Encyclopedia
Malcolm III, Canmore MacDuncan \mek-'den-ken\. Surnamed Canmore. c.1031-1093. King (1058-93). Son of Duncan I; with help of Siward defeated (1054) and killed Macbeth, his first cousin, once removed (1057); m. (1070) Margaret of Scotland ( q.v. ); did homage to William the Conqueror (1072); carried on war with England; with Margaret, started transition from Celtic culture and Columbian religious rites to feudal system and Roman ritual; killed while raiding Northumberland. Funk + Wagnall's Encyclopediaspouse: Margaret, Queen of Scotland (1043 - 1093)Malcolm fathered four sons. Æthelred, or Aedh in the Gaelic, was the oldest and became Abbot of Dunkeld and later Earl of Fife. Upon Malcolm's death, Aedh was barred from the throne either because he was an Abbot or too old. At any rate his younger brothers ascended to the throne. Aedh became the First Earl of Fife probably as a result of his marriage to the sister of the King of Moray, which included the Kingdom of Fife. The King of Moray was also the Chief of the Clan Duff.
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The death of Margaret, the Maid of Norway, during her voyage to Scotland, resulted in over twelve contenders for the Scottish Crown coming forward, of which John Balliol and Robert Bruce made the best claims. The Crown was awarded to John Balliol and remained in the House of Balliol for only a short period of time before going to the House of Bruce, and later to the House of Stewart.Funk + Wagnall's Encyclopedia
Daniel Markham is listed in the Abstracts of Revolutionary War Pension Files as R6904, CT Line, soldier, born 1 Sep 1764 at Lansingburgh, New York and lived at Salisbury, CT at the time of his enlistment. After the Revolution he lived in PA for 6 years and then lived in Jefferson, Stark and Carrol Counties, Ohio for 44 years. In 1848 he moved to Summit Co., Ohio where he died 19 Mar 1850 at 85 years of age. Salisbury Vital Records of 1768-1800 list Daniel as being born at Lawnson's Pattent on August 31, 1765 and died after 1850 in Kentucky.spouse: Markham, ??? (>1764 - )
The ancestors and descendants of Daniel Markham are further researched on Brøderbund World Family Tree, Volume 14, Pedigree #0158 and #1991.spouse: Meacham, Deborah (1681 - 1761)
Israel Markham, III and the information on his descendants was obtained from the Brøderbund World Family Tree, Volume 14, Pedigree #1991.spouse: Lane, Mary (~1768 - >1830)
[Brøderbund WFT Vol. 14, Ed. 1, Tree #1991, Date of Import: 14 Jun 1998]spouse: Griffin, Eliza (>1800 - 1840)At the time of Lane's death he apparently owed around $400 to a man by the name of Morvan BAKER. To pay off his debt this Mr. BAKER took in Lane's children on September 7, 1846. Guardianship papers have the following children listed: 1) John M. MARKHAM, 2) O. MARKHAM, 3) David MARKHAM, 4) Mary A. MARKHAM, 5) Henry MARKHAM. Tawny Green believes that they were 1) John Milton, 2) Olive, 3) Daniel, 4) Lorinda, and 5) Henry. Deriouse found someone else to live with. In 1860, Mr. BAKER signed another paper stating that the children were of age and he wasn't responsible for them anymore.
Minerva Markham descendant information for two Barnaby generations was provided indirectly by Robin Paige (Bishop) Carlson of Sandy, Utah via her cousin, Ruth Streed-Barnaby Filstead (Dec 1998). Paul Raymond Davies of Katy, Texas, her 4th great grandson, provided subsequent descendant information for seven generations through about 1990. (June 1999).spouse: Barnaby, Alvin P. (1793 - ~1824)
Phoebe Markham was sixth on nine children of Daniel Markham and his wife, Deborah Meacham. The ancestors and descendants of Daniel Markham are further researched on Brøderbund World Family Tree, Volume 14, Pedigree #0158 and #1991.spouse: Bement, William (1708 - 1798)
Much has been written about Samuel, who brought a wagon train across the Oregon Trail in 1847, Elizabeth who became the first published woman poet in Oregon, and their son Charles Edward Anson Markham (aka Edwin Markham) who wrote "The Man With The Hoe" and other poems. (Source: Brøderbund World Family Tree, Volume 14, Ed. 1, Pedigree #1991; Jun 1998]spouse: Wilson, ??? (~1792 - 1825)
Was a prosperous farmer.spouse: Bement, Julia Amelia (1824 - 1907)
NORMAN MARSHALL was graduated as a civil engineer at Worcester Polytechnic Institute in 1886. He was a member of the American Society of Electrical Engineers; the American Society of Mechanical Engineers, and was Chairman of the Progressive City Committee of Newton, Massachusetts where he resided for many years. (Source: Chronicles of the Bement Family in America; 1928, p. 286)spouse: Carver, Mary Hortence (1869 - )
Charles Martel (690-741), Carolingian ruler of the Frankish kingdom of Austrasia (in present northeastern France and southwestern Germany). Charles, whose surname means "the hammer," was the son of Pepin of Herstal and the grandfather of Charlemagne. Pepin was mayor of the palace under the last kings of the Merovingian dynasty. When he died in 714, Charles, an illegitimate son, was imprisoned by his father's widow, but he escaped in 715 and was proclaimed mayor of the palace by the Austrasians. A war between Austrasia and the Frankish kingdom of Neustria (now part of France) followed, and at the end of it Charles became the undisputed ruler of all the Franks. Although he was engaged in wars against the Alamanni, Bavarians, and Saxons, his greatest achievements were against the Muslims from Spain, who invaded France in 732. Charles defeated them near Poitiers in a great battle in which the Muslim leader, Abd-ar-Rahman, the emir of Spain, was killed. The progress of Islam, which had filled all Christendom with alarm, was thus checked for a time. Charles drove the Muslims out of the Rhône valley in 739, when they had again advanced into France as far as Lyon, leaving them nothing of their possessions north of the Pyrenees beyond the Aude River. Charles died in Quierzy, on the Oise River, leaving the kingdom divided between his two sons, Carloman and Pepin the Short.served.spouse: Rotrude, Duchess of Austrasia (~0690 - ~0724)Funk + Wagnall's Encyclopedia
Edward the Martyr (circa 963-78), Anglo-Saxon king of England, son of King Edgar. A boy at the time of his father's death, Edward ruled under the guidance of St. Dunstan, archbishop of Canterbury. His brief reign was marked by agitation against the monasteries, which Edgar had favored at the expense of the nonmonastic clergy. Edward was assassinated, possibly at the instigation of his stepmother Elfrida (Aelfthryth), whose son Ethelred succeeded him. Miracles were said to have occurred at his tomb, and he was later declared a saint and martyr. Edward's feast day is March 18.Funk + Wagnall's Encyclopedia
Mary I, called Mary Tudor (1516-58), queen of England (1553-58).spouse: Philip, ? II, King of Spain (1527 - 1598)Mary was born in London on February 18, 1516, the daughter of Henry VIII of England, by his first wife, Catherine of Aragón. On the death of her half brother, Edward VI, on July 6, 1553, she became the legal heir to the throne. Lord High Chamberlain John Dudley, duke of Northumberland, however, favored the succession of his daughter-in-law, Lady Jane Grey. He proclaimed her queen on July 10, but the country supported Mary.
Mary began her reign by sweeping away the religious innovations of her father. Mass was restored without opposition and the authority of the pope reestablished, but Parliament refused to restore the church lands seized under Henry VIII. Mary, however, restored the property that the Crown still possessed. Even more disastrous was her marriage in 1554 to Philip II, king of Spain. The engagement was greeted in England by a formidable rebellion under the leadership of Sir Thomas Wyatt to depose Mary and put her half sister, Elizabeth, later Elizabeth I, on the throne. Philip was an uncompromising Roman Catholic and unpopular in England. At his order, Mary joined in a war against France, with the result that Calais, the last remnant of the English conquests won during the Hundred Years' War with France, was lost in 1558.
The ferocity with which Mary's personal character has been assailed by certain writers must be ascribed to religious zeal. She was called Bloody Mary because of a large number of religious persecutions that took place during her reign; almost 300 people were condemned to death as a result of trials for heresy. Mary died in London on November 17, 1558, and was succeeded by Elizabeth I.
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Mary II (1662-94), queen of England, Scotland, and Ireland (1689-94), born in London. She was the daughter of James, duke of York-who in 1685 became king of England as James II-and his first wife, Anne Hyde. Although her father was a convert to Roman Catholicism, Mary was brought up as a Protestant and was married at the age of 15 to the Dutch Protestant prince William of Orange. In 1688, English opponents of James, unhappy with his autocratic rule and favoritism toward Roman Catholics, initiated the Glorious Revolution, forcing James into exile and giving the throne to Mary and William (who became king as William III). They were crowned as joint rulers in April 1689. Mary governed as regent while William was campaigning in Ireland (1690-91) and on the Continent (1692-94), but for the most part she simply carried out policies formulated by her husband. William continued to rule alone after her death.spouse: William, ? III, of Orange, King of England (1650 - 1703)Funk + Wagnall s Encyclopedia
Mary, Queen of Scots, also Mary Stuart (1542-87), daughter of James V, king of Scotland, by his second wife, Mary of Guise.spouse: Francis, ? II, King of France (1544 - 1560)Born in Linlithgow in December 1542, Mary became queen before she was a week old. Raised in France, in 1558 she was married to the Dauphin, who succeeded to the French throne as Francis II in 1559 but died the next year. Mary returned to Scotland in 1561. Although Roman Catholic, at first she accepted the Protestant-led government that she found in place. Her chief minister was her half brother James Stuart, whom she soon afterward created earl of Moray.
Mary's marriage in 1565 to her cousin, the Catholic Scottish nobleman Henry Stewart, Lord Darnley, was performed with Roman Catholic rites. The marriage aroused Protestant feelings and was the signal for an insurrection by Moray and a Scottish noble family who hoped to be joined by the whole Protestant party. Their hope was disappointed, however, and the queen, taking the field in person, at once quelled the revolt. Her triumph was scarcely over when misunderstandings began to arise between her and Darnley. She had given him the title of king, but he now demanded that the crown be secured to him for life and that, if the queen died without children, it should descend to his heirs.
Before Moray's rebellion Mary's secretary and adviser had been David Rizzio, a court favorite and a Roman Catholic. The king was now persuaded that Rizzio was the obstacle to his designs upon the crown. Acting on this belief, he entered into a formal compact with Moray; Lord Patrick Ruthven; James Douglas, 4th earl of Morton; and other leaders of the Protestant party. The result of this conspiracy was the murder of Rizzio in 1566. Early in 1567 the house in which Darnley lay sick was blown up by gunpowder, probably at the instigation of the Scottish nobleman James Hepburn, 4th earl of Bothwell, who, since Moray's revolt and still more since Rizzio's murder, had been favored by the queen. Darnley was discovered strangled close by the scene of the explosion. It was suspected that Mary herself was not wholly ignorant of the plot. Evidence substantiating this theory is reflected in incriminating letters and sonnets, allegedly written by Mary to Bothwell and found later that year in a silver casket. Bothwell was brought to a mock trial and acquitted; soon afterward he divorced his wife and married Mary in a Protestant ceremony.
This step at once turned the Scottish nobles against Mary. She was able to lead an army against them, and although it was equal in number to the confederate army, it was visibly inferior in discipline. On June 15, 1567, Mary's forces were defeated at Carberry Hill, and she was forced to abandon Bothwell and surrender herself to the confederate lords. On July 24, at Lochleven, she was prevailed upon to sign an act of abdication in favor of her son, who was crowned as James VI five days afterward at Stirling. Escaping from her island-prison at Lochleven on May 2, 1568, she was able within a few days to assemble an army of 6,000 men. On May 12 her army was defeated by the regent Moray at Langside, near Glasgow. Four days afterward, in spite of the entreaties of her best friends, Mary crossed Solway Firth and sought refuge at the court of Elizabeth I, queen of England, only to find herself a prisoner of Elizabeth for life.
Of the ensuing intrigues to effect her deliverance and to place her on the throne of England, the most famous was that of Mary's page, Anthony Babington, who plotted to assassinate Elizabeth. The conspiracy was discovered, and Mary was brought to trial in October 1586. She was sentenced to death on October 25, but not until February 1, 1587, did Elizabeth sign the warrant of execution, which was carried out a week later.
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George Stewart Mason II married (1) Bessie Mae (Joslin) Burriel with whom he had two daughters. Bessie had one daughter from a previous marriage. Bessie died of lung cancer in 1944. He then married (2) Marjorie Ruth Blood with whom he had five children. George was a career Navy man and was a member of the Moose Lodge and the Fleet Reserve. He died in 1972 and his ashes were dropped by Navy aircraft off the Florida coast as to his wishes. (Source: Debra (Mason) Schulte of Northglenn, Colorado. (Jan 1999)spouse: Burriel, Bessie Mae Joslin (1913 - 1944)
[Brøderbund WFT Vol. 7, Ed. 1, Tree #3895, Date of Import: 24 Apr 1997]spouse: Beaumont, Abigail (1761 - 1836)Enlisted in the Revolutionary Army on Sept. 25, 1776 and was discharged on Jan. 11, 1777. He served in Captain Parmelee's Company and Colonel Elmare's Regiment. In 1818 he received a pension that went to an address in the state of New York.
Stillborn from a premature birth. Buried at Fairview Cemetery in Shawnee, Oklahoma.
Winona Maloni Mason was married three times. No information is available on the first or third spouse. She married (2) Earl Luke in Lake Butler, Florida. His parents were killed in an automobile accident when he was sixteen, and he raised his younger siblings. Earl worked as an automobile mechanic and while at work became ill. It was thought that he had inhaled too much auto exhaust and died later that day of a massive heart attack in July 1981. Winona died of a heart attack in 1997 and is buried in Lake Butler, Florida. (Source: Debra (Mason) Schulte of Northglenn, Colorado. (Jan 1999)spouse: Luke, Earl (1948 - 1981)
The National Society of the Daughters of the American Revolution Volume 152. DAR ID Number: 151351spouse: Billings, Frederick Horatio (~1870 - )
Steven Sylvester Massey was five years old when his parents moved from St. Lawrence County westward, going overland by way of Pittsburgh down the Ohio River, and thence up the Mississippi River to St. Charles, Missouri where they resided for a few years. Later, his father operated a lead mine at Galena, Illinois and they finally settled on a large farm in the vicinity of Jacksonville, Illinois. About the time of his marriage, Steven purchased some two hundred acres adjoining his father's place, adding thereto by later purchases, and engaged in farming. His homestead was in the possession of his grandson, Henry Ketner, about 1912. (Source: Chronicles of the Bement Family in America; 1928, p. 268)spouse: Bement, Lavina Avery (1817 - 1901)
MATILDA, married (1) Henry V, Emperor of Germany; and married (2) Geoffrey V, Count of Anjou and Maine. After the death of her father in 1135, she had been designated the heiress of Henry I but had been deprived of the succession by her cousin, Stephen of Blois (1104-1154), who made himself king. Henry claimed the English kingship through his mother, Matilda (1102-67) in 1154 and served until his death in 1189. (Source: Britain's Kings + Queens, Pitkin, 1994)spouse: Henry, ? V, Emperor of Germany (1086 - 1125)Funk and Wagnall's Encyclopedia