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I have been wandering around Google today looking for information on Thomas Terrell/Tyrrell who was a Mayor of Reading 1699-1712.

If Thomas is the father of my 6x great gran, Mary Terrell who married John Trumplett in 1719, then wow, there is a lot of information to digest.

Apparently, Thomas was the nephew of William and Richmond Terrell who set off to settle in Virginia in the late 1600s. Some very clever Americans seemed to have traced the Terrell genealogy back to King Edward I! Famous names among them - Plantagenet, Fitzalan, Throckmorton, de Clare and Despenser.

But why did they stop at Edward I? Surely the line could go further back?

I am not taking it for gospel, I need to do my own research.

There is my task for the rest of our Sydney lockdown - see if I can follow the line back from Mary, to Edward and his ancestors! Could I be 45th cousin twice removed (or something like) to the Queen and I wonder how many others are?