Alan Freer
Alan Freer has a lot to anwser for! If it wern't for him I would not have some of the background information
of a family in Belchamp Walter.
December 2022 - Having reviewed my External Link policy I have determined that
there is no reason to have a link to Alan's work. I have a copy of it and anyone who makes a similar search to the
one that directed me to Alan's website will also findhis find his site.
My concern was that any making the search that I allude above will conclude that I have a reason for
putting the link on my page that is in some way a comment or an attempt to establish a connection with the
content of this website with those named on a particular page of Alan's family tree of the Descendants of William
the Conqueror.
I have a partial copy of the Freer tree reproduced on this website.
I have also added some images of portions of the tree to illustrate a point that I am making on a page.
These images are possibly going to be found in an image search but I think that it is unlikely.
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In instances where the image contains what looks like a hyperlink I have added one, see below.
If the search similar to the one that I used to find Alan's work is made, while his page should be found I have
changed my pages to minimise the chances of my pages being found.
Military Cross
It is not known from looking at the Freer tree what the details of the recent history of the Raymond family.
The tree was drawn-up after 1965 as this was the date of birth of the current owner. His father Micheal was
still alive as was his grand father Samuel Philip (generally known as Philip by residents of the village).
The Freer tree denotes the Micheal was an M.C.
The award was created on 28 December 1914 for commissioned officers of the substantive rank of captain
or below and for warrant officers. The first 98 awards were gazetted on 1 January 1915, to 71 officers,
and 27 warrant officers. Although posthumous recommendations for the Military Cross were unavailable
until 1979, the first awards included seven posthumous awards, with the word 'deceased' after the name of
the recipient, from recommendations that
had been raised before the recipients died of wounds or died from other causes.
and
In June 1917, eligibility was extended to temporary majors, not above the substantive rank of captain.
Substantive majors were made eligible in 1953.
The Halstead Advisor article of 1972 makes no mention of
Micheal. It is presumed that he was still alive at that time.
Alan's page on geneology.com - August 28, 2005
Hi Ancestor Hunters
If you’ve ever wondered if you have a touch of blue blood in your family this is the Page for you.
There is a misnomer that a large part of the Anglo-Saxon population of the world must be descended from William the Conqueror. It should be remembered that blue blood tended to marry blue blood. Most of our ancestors come from poor labouring stock whose lives were frequently brutal and relatively short. However, it is entirely possible that there may be a faint tint of blue somewhere in the background. A successful, small farmer may have married his daughter to the son of a local merchant, who, in turn, had a son who married into a junior branch of a landed family, who perhaps produced a daughter that caught the eye of an aristocratic young blood. Alternatively, the male line of a titled family may have died out, leaving a daughter to marry in to a less favoured class. It may be that one of your relations by marriage has the link to the “Royals.”
For the last 10 years I have been researching the more common descendants of Royalty. I started with Henry VII, who was the last English king to marry an English bride and produce offspring to enter the general population. In my innocents I anticipated that the exercise would take a couple of years and produce a few thousand modern descendants. The few thousand turned in to 30,000 plus in all!
I have now reached the stage where I can start sharing this information with the world at large. Unfortunately, it consists of several thousand pages of file paper and needs to be input into a computer. So far I have succeeded in feeding in about 12,000 names with only 20,000 odd to go. I have stupidly started to research the line from George, Duke of Clarence – he’s the one who drowned in a butt of wine in the Tower of London; the brother of the Yorkist kings Edward IV and Richard III.
Now to what you can find on this Page.
The Outline Descendant Tree of George Plantagenet, Duke of Clarence is my latest project so will expand over the next few years as the research is completed. The Outline Descendant Tree of William I, "the Bastard" is a combination of a detailed descent from William I and the data input so far for Henry VII. The Henry VII Outline Descendant Tree is there to make it easier to follow. The Genealogy Report of the Descendants of Odin (yes Odin the Norse god) enables me to add most of the Royal houses of Europe when I have time to do the research (I am working on the French line at the moment), and will probably be replaced with an Outline Descendant tree. Finally the Genealogy Report of Henry VII is there to fill in the space! The Odin Report also includes notes on most of the kings and leading relations up to Henry VII so anyone seeking bio. information may find it usefull.
I am grateful to June Ferguson of Maine, U.S.A. and Hein Bruins of Holland for certain parts of the data.
My sources of information are Burke’s Peerage, Burke’s Landed Gentry, Debrett’s, Wexford’s County Families and a mass of publications and unpublished data held at the Society of Genealogists in London.
