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The Ancestry of Ellen Meredith O'Bryan/O'Brien
1903-1985


 

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DESCENDANTS OF WILLIAM PERRY O'BRYAN  Grandfather of Ellen O'Bryan

DESCENDANTS OF WILLIAM HOWARD   3rd Great-Grandfather of Ellen O'Bryan

DESCENDANTS OF ABRAHAM HESS   3rd Great-Grandfather of Ellen O'Bryan

DESCENDANTS OF MAJOR GEORGE GARLAND 3rd Great-Grandfather of Ellen O'Bryan
Major George Garland served in the American Revolution under General George Washington. Founder of the Friend / Garland House in Bedford, (Now Fulton Co., Pennsylvania) which is on the National Historic Registry today. 

DESCENDANTS OF NICHOLAS ALLEE   4th Great-Grandfather of Ellen O'Bryan/O'Brien   
We descend from Nicholas Allee in two ways, through William Allee, son of David Allee, and through Charity Allee Howard, daughter of David Allee. Their children, Elizabeth Allee and William Howard, married and were the great grandparents of Ellen O'Bryan.

DESCENDANTS OF NILS LARSSON FRANDE  7th Great-Grandfather of Ellen O'Bryan

DESCENDANTS OF RALPH BLAISDELL  8th Great-Grandfather of Ellen O'Bryan
Passenger on the "Angel Gabriel", shipwrecked at Pemaquid Harbor, Pemaquid Point, Maine.  Monument at the Pemaquid Point Lighthouse reads: "Near this site on August 15, 1635 Ralph Blaisdell and family were shipwrecked.  The ship was the Angel Gabriel bound from Bristol, England, to Pemaquid. From here the family went to York, Maine and later to Salisbury, Massachusetts"

DESCENDANTS OF CHRISTOPHER AVERY   8th Great-Grandfather of Ellen O'Bryan
Christopher Avery immigrated from England to New London, New  London Co., Connecticut. His descendants include the well known Capt. James Avery and many others. Their family home was the residence of many Averys  for over 200 years until it burned  in 1895. A group of descendants including the Rockefellers erected a monument which stands at the site today.

DESCENDANTS OF SIR JOHN LORD LISLE   9th Great-Grandfather of Ellen O'Bryan   
Appointed to Oliver Cromwell's House of Lords
and was made Commissioner of Oliver Cromwell's Seal. President of the
high court of justice, who drew the indictment and death sentence of
King Charles I. and was murdered at Lausanne, Switzerland.

DESCENDANTS OF CHARLES HOAR/HOARE SR. 10th Great-Grandfather of Ellen O'Bryan 
Leonard Hoar came to Boston and became the President of Harvard College. For many years there has been a tradition of Hoar descendants graduating from Harvard. We descend through Charles Hoar II and his son John Hoar a lawyer, who negotiated with the local Indians for the release of the captives after the famous Rowlandson Garrison Raid. 

DESCENDANTS OF WALTER HUNGERFORD  21st Great-Grandfather of Ellen O'Bryan  
Walter Hungerford is the ancestor of Sir John Lord Lisle whose lineage is above.

PHOTOS OF HUNGERFORD CASTLE

 

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