Por R.A.Ricci |

Another common ancestral link to the British Royal Family and Nueva Galicia.

I just found an ancestral branch of my family from clicking on the latest news in England about Meghan Markle and Prince Harry. The girlfriend of a British politician made some very ugly racist remarks about Meghan and her pending marriage to Prince Henry. The uproar from these racist commons created a strong backlash, where evidence was submitted showing one of Prince Harry’s ancestral lines.

To make a long story short, it turns out that one of Prince Harry’s ancestral grandmothers (queen Charlotte) descended from a black (mulatto) Portuguese ancestor. Prince Harry’s ancestor is also an ancestor of mine. I had no idea as to this black ancestral line until now. I had this common ancestors parents and grandparents in my records but no further. Prince Henry’s ancestral records show the line going back many more generations to Africa. You just never know when you are going to get lucky and find such a treasure trove. It was only because the girlfriend of the politician had made her racist remarks that this lineage was brought to my attention. For those that would dispute this line, of which there are many, I am not relying on the work of Mario de Valdes y Cocom. Although Mario de Valdes y Cocom claims to have made this discovery, it was actually discovered previously by a group of genealogists who actually show evidence that she descends from this common ancestor six times. Though the fifteen generations are far back, the descent from six generations does make at least a very small imprint if you look at the paintings of her by Sir Allan Ramsay, and by a physical description of her by her physician, Baron Christian Friedrich Stockmar, “a true mulatto face”.

Rick A. Ricci

I wrote : “the descent from six generations does make at least a very small imprint”

What I meant to write was that there are : “six lines of descent from this common ancestor to Queen Charlotte, which made at least a small imprint in her physical characteristics.” There may be more than six lines of descent. There is documentation that shows tha she descends six times from an ancestor named “Margarita De Castro e Sousa” eight generations back in this ancestral line.

This example of endogamy is not unusual. I descend from a “Martin del Campo” ancestor from the 1700’s seven times. My wife also descends from this “Josesito Martin del Campo” ancestor through two of her lines. He had two marriages and had many children from both wives. My wife and I are fifth cousins through this ancestor, and sixth cousins many times over.

Rick A. Ricci

Genealogy Research