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'''Greetings fellow Whitney cousins and genealogists!''' My name is Adrian Benjamin Burke and I descend from John Whitney of Watertown, Massachusetts through my maternal grandmother, Dorothy May Spring. | '''Greetings fellow Whitney cousins and genealogists!''' My name is Adrian Benjamin Burke and I descend from John Whitney of Watertown, Massachusetts through my maternal grandmother, Dorothy May Spring. | ||
| − | I have published two articles on my Spring family's Mayflower lines in the Mayflower Quarterly, and one article on the Irish ancestry of my paternal grandfather,the journalist Richard J. Burke, | + | I have published two articles on my Spring family's Mayflower lines in the Mayflower Quarterly, and one article on the Irish ancestry of my paternal grandfather,the journalist Richard J. Burke, in the Irish Genealogist, the principle organ of the Irish Genealogical Society in London, England. I joined the Society of Mayflower Descendants, The Military Society of the War of 1812, the Society of the War of 1812, the United States Military Order of Foreign Wars and in 2002 was installed as a squire in the Order of Saints Maurice and Lazarus, the senior Dynastic Order of the Royal House of Savoy. In 2004 my mother Beverly Jeanette Burke was knighted by Prince Victor Emmanuel of Savoy and installed as a Dame of the Order of Merit of Savoy. I served on the board of directors of the New York Mayflower Society for 4 terms before retiring from that position, my mother was the secretary for the Buffalo chapter. |
I got involved with the Whitney Research Group after reading online Robert Ward's presentation at the 2004 Whitney Family Reunion. I was well aware of the disputed ancestry of John Whitney of Watertown but until my correspondance with Robert was not aware that anyone was seriously working on his paternal line. In the fall of 2006 when I realized that the Whitney and Clifford Manor Manuscripts mentioned during Robert's presentation had not been studied I set about getting a copy of the catalogue which details abstracts of every document contained in the massive collection. I contributed to Ward and Doyle's October 2006 TAG article on the English origins of John Whitney and subsequently obtained the first known transcription of the complete will of Robert Whitney, Gent., of Castleton. In addition to continued research of all known Medieval Whitneys I am writing about the Whitney ancestry of Sir Thomas Swymmer Mostyn-Champneys, 2nd Baronet, the reknowned 19th century socialite and a descendant of Robert Whitney of Castleton. | I got involved with the Whitney Research Group after reading online Robert Ward's presentation at the 2004 Whitney Family Reunion. I was well aware of the disputed ancestry of John Whitney of Watertown but until my correspondance with Robert was not aware that anyone was seriously working on his paternal line. In the fall of 2006 when I realized that the Whitney and Clifford Manor Manuscripts mentioned during Robert's presentation had not been studied I set about getting a copy of the catalogue which details abstracts of every document contained in the massive collection. I contributed to Ward and Doyle's October 2006 TAG article on the English origins of John Whitney and subsequently obtained the first known transcription of the complete will of Robert Whitney, Gent., of Castleton. In addition to continued research of all known Medieval Whitneys I am writing about the Whitney ancestry of Sir Thomas Swymmer Mostyn-Champneys, 2nd Baronet, the reknowned 19th century socialite and a descendant of Robert Whitney of Castleton. | ||
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Greetings fellow Whitney cousins and genealogists! My name is Adrian Benjamin Burke and I descend from John Whitney of Watertown, Massachusetts through my maternal grandmother, Dorothy May Spring.
I have published two articles on my Spring family's Mayflower lines in the Mayflower Quarterly, and one article on the Irish ancestry of my paternal grandfather,the journalist Richard J. Burke, in the Irish Genealogist, the principle organ of the Irish Genealogical Society in London, England. I joined the Society of Mayflower Descendants, The Military Society of the War of 1812, the Society of the War of 1812, the United States Military Order of Foreign Wars and in 2002 was installed as a squire in the Order of Saints Maurice and Lazarus, the senior Dynastic Order of the Royal House of Savoy. In 2004 my mother Beverly Jeanette Burke was knighted by Prince Victor Emmanuel of Savoy and installed as a Dame of the Order of Merit of Savoy. I served on the board of directors of the New York Mayflower Society for 4 terms before retiring from that position, my mother was the secretary for the Buffalo chapter.
I got involved with the Whitney Research Group after reading online Robert Ward's presentation at the 2004 Whitney Family Reunion. I was well aware of the disputed ancestry of John Whitney of Watertown but until my correspondance with Robert was not aware that anyone was seriously working on his paternal line. In the fall of 2006 when I realized that the Whitney and Clifford Manor Manuscripts mentioned during Robert's presentation had not been studied I set about getting a copy of the catalogue which details abstracts of every document contained in the massive collection. I contributed to Ward and Doyle's October 2006 TAG article on the English origins of John Whitney and subsequently obtained the first known transcription of the complete will of Robert Whitney, Gent., of Castleton. In addition to continued research of all known Medieval Whitneys I am writing about the Whitney ancestry of Sir Thomas Swymmer Mostyn-Champneys, 2nd Baronet, the reknowned 19th century socialite and a descendant of Robert Whitney of Castleton.
In the January 2008 issue of Foundations, published out of Vowchurch, Herefordshire, U.K., my article entitled, "The Two Wives of Robert Whitney, Esq., Lord Whitney: A Note on the Proof of Royal Descent of John Bevan" appeared. It contains some of the information gleaned from the Whitney and Clifford Manorial Records collection I obtained from the University of Wales, Bangor.
In the July 2008 issue of Foundations, my note on my prior article Wives of Robert Whitney appeared. This update to the prior article explores the previously undiscovered son of the Lord of Whitney, Robert (I) of Castleton and corrects a couple errors and omissions.
I maintain an archive page of notes I take when I visit the New York Public Library: Adrian's Notes
In the October 2011 and January 2012 issues of the New England Historic and Genealogical Society's journal Register, my article co-written with Janet C. Wolfe and John B. Dobson on the Stoughton family of New England appeared, tracing the family's medieval ancestry in Kent, England.
My monograph titled, "The Livingston Ancestry of the Duncanson Sisters of New Netherland" was published in three parts in The Genealogist, commencing in the Spring 2013 issue, followed by the Fall 2013 and Spring 2014 issues. The Duncanson sisters' descents from Robert III, King of Scots, and Elizabeth Menteith of Rusky, are just two of the many medieval lines explored.
My short article, "A Note on the Ancestry of John [1] Whitney of Watertown, Massachusetts", was published in The American Genealogist, June 2014 (86:3).
Adrian Benjamin Burke, Esq. of New York City
