Watching the TV series "Reign" and I remembered that my mother's line connected back to the Stuart line in Scotland. Then, I began to wonder if I had any connection to the "royal" Stuart family. Well, turns out that if I go back seven generations before Queen Mary, to her (I think) fifth great grand father; Robert de Bruce Stuart (Robert II, King of Scotland) and Elizabeth Mure I find one. They had twelve children; their son, Robert Stuart, became Robert III, King of Scotland, and Mary's ancester, his sister, Elizabeth Stuart, married Iain Macdomhnaill. And, that is my connection to the Scot's ancient royality.
The Macdomhnaill line became the McDaniel's. And, of that line, Charity McDaniel (1794-1877) married the Frenchman William Humphrys. Their daughter, Charity Melinda, married a cousin, John Daniel McDaniel. Their daughter, Melvina, married Benjamin Mitchell, and their daughter, Emma Geneva Mitchell, was my Grandmother.
It gets a bit complex here: Emma married (first) Robert Ridley Perry, my grandfather, second she married Thomas Blevins, and third to Henry Allen Perry, Robert's brother. Robert remarried Eula Isabel Washburn, widow of John Mitchell who was Emma's brother.
So, my great uncle Henry became my other Grandfather, and great aunt Eula became my other Grandmother. When I look at the lineage of the Stuart and Tudor families of ancient England and Scotland, it don't really look all that bad.
