QUEEN RELATED

Waikato Times, Volume 125, Issue 20908, 13 September 1939, Page 3

QUEEN RELATED

AMERICAN FAMILY TREE GEORGE WASHINGTON’S COUSIN His second cousin six times removed, Queen Elizabeth is probably the nearest living relative to George Washington, states an English writer. This revelation is the result of a long research untjcrtaken by Mr Anthony Wagner, Portcullis Pursuivant in the College of Arms in London, who is on his way back to England from the United States. He has compiled a genealogical table showing the Queen to be distantly related to General Robert E. Lee as well as to George Washington. This table is to be published in the New Record, the official organ of the New York Genetlogical and Biographical Society. Mr Wagner prepared the Washington family tree that is being exhibited in the British Pavilion, at the New York World’s Fair. This shows that George Washington was a descendant of King John. Mr Wagner’s secretary at the College of Arms said: “it has been the practice for genealpgists to concentrate only on the male side of a family.” Some years ago Mr Wagner began to search the records of the female side of certain well-known families, with the most amazing results. “It was the result of this new method of research that he discovered that the Queen is probably the nearest living relative of George Washington.” The connection is traced back to Colonel Augustine Warner, whose daughter married Lawrence Washington, who was the grandfather of George Washington.