{"id":3230,"date":"2025-03-08T15:42:56","date_gmt":"2025-03-08T15:42:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.genealogyatheart.com\/?p=3230"},"modified":"2025-03-08T15:42:57","modified_gmt":"2025-03-08T15:42:57","slug":"the-case-of-gerald-longpellow-separating-fact-from-fiction-in-pedigrees","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.genealogyatheart.com\/?p=3230","title":{"rendered":"The Case of Gerald Longpellow: Separating Fact from Fiction in Pedigrees"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Recently I found a pedigree that contained a surname that I’ve researched in the past – Hollingshead. There was a minimal amount of dates and only some locations but it matched most of what I have found to be true. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

My brick wall has always been Hugh Hollinghead but this pedigree goes back further – to 700 AD. WOW – now that’s impressive. Or not. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

According to this unsourced pedigree, Hugh’s daddy was a man named Gerald Longpellow. Gerald was supposedly a son of Edgar Aethling of England.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Surname changes I can accept if there is proof that we have the same person who changed their name but in this case, I find absolutely no mention anywhere of a Gerald Longpellow.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

He certainly wasn’t the son of Edgar Aethling, whose father was Edward the Exile. Edgar had no children. Perhaps there was an illegitimate one here or there but I don’t know that and scholars haven’t found any.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

What’s twisted about this, though, isn’t really the mystery of who Gerald was or wasn’t. I had to laugh because, as I’ve been blogging about for the past few weeks, I’ve heavily been researching the Baines family. Although this pedigree does not mention any Baines family it indirectly does. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Edward the Exile had a daughter known at Saint Margaret of Scotland; she was then the sister of Edgar Aethiling. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

St. Margaret was purportedly born in Hungary but went back with her parents and siblings to Great Britain. She married Malcolm III of Scotland. Malcolm’s sibling was Donald III of Scotland, the head of the Baine family in which I was researching. Love when things connect up, well, even if in this case, they really don’t.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Be careful of the pedigrees that you discover. They are helpful but unfortunately, unlike family group sheets, do not lend to having sources available. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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