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A Great-Great-Grandmother of
Queen Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom
was a Hodgson
Among the Queen's ancestors are the following*:
Great-Great-Great-Great Grandparents
Reverend Robert Hodgson (1739-1808) of Congleton, Cheshire = Mildred Porteus** (1743-1815).
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Great-Great-Great-Grandparents
Reverend Robert Hodgson (1773-1844) = Mary Tucker (born 1775)
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Great-Great-Grandparents
Henrietta Mildred Hodgson (1805-1891) = Oswald Smith (1794-1863)
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Great-Grandparents
Frances Dora Smith (1832-1922) =(m.1853)=
Claude Lyon-Bowes (later Bowes-Lyon) (1824-1904), 13th Earl of Strathmore and Kinghome (1824-1904)
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Grandparents
Claude Bowes-Lyon, 14th Earl of Strathmore and Kinghome (1855-1944)
=(m.1881)= Cecilia Nina Cavendish-Bentinek (1862-1938)
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Parents
Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon (1900-2002) =(m.1923)= Duke of York, later King George VI (1895-1952)
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Queen Elizabeth II, born 1926.
Her Majesty is thus a member of the Hodgson Clan.
* We are grateful to Edward Hodgson of Australia for reminding us of this link.
** Mildred Porteus and George Washington (the First President of the United States of America) were second cousins. Her father, Robert Porteus (1679-1758) migrated from Virginia to York, and afterwards to Ripon, in England. The common ancestors of Mildred Porteus and George Washington were their Virginia great-grandparents, Augustine Warner II and Mildred Reade.
Sources:
The West Australian, Saturday Review, 11 June 1977,
Wikipedia http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ancestry_of_Elizabeth_II_of_the_United_Kingdom accessed 17 April 2009.
http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~dmrusher/famous_queen_elizabeth.htm accessed 17 April 2009.
http://www.bigballoonmusic.com/goddardreagan/TheQueensAmericanAncestors.htm accessed 17 April 2009. |