Waffle family tree

The weekend has been busy and delightful. I won't have a chance to post properly until tomorrow, but for now here is some family tree information I worked on this afternoon. I have many more details on paper, but Marian wanted it for a school project, so I had to condense it into a version that could be scanned sent by email.

One coincidence I had never noticed before: I had ancestors on both my mother's and father's sides associated with the noble Butler family, the Dukes of Ormond, in Ireland. I knew that an ancestor on my father's side, the Lady Sarah Butler, eloped with the family's tutor, Thomas Singleton. But today, browsing through notes my mother's father made years ago, I found that his family, the Tobins, were liegemen and allies of the Butlers since the Norman invasion. Of course this doesn't indicate any marriages or progeny arose from the association, but over a course of centuries it's very likely. The descendants of the Butler family must be multitudinous, so this is hardly suprising, just interesting.

Indeed, it seems I have more numerous remote Irish roots than I had counted before. The rest of my heritage is English and German with a dusting of Scottish. I also attached some biographical notes on some of my ancestors:

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