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Author: gkcarson
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Hi Cathy,
This is my Carrington line. George of Cumberland Co VA was the brother of Nathaniel
Carrington, sons of Dr. Paul Carrington and Henningham Codrington of Barbados. I descend
from Nathaniel's son John Carrington of Orange NC. Is this your ancestry line?
What's interesting is that Henningham Codrington was the niece of Christopher
Codrington, governor of the Leeward Islands, and was the granddaughter of Robert
Codrington and Henningham Drury (first name sometimes spelled Heveningham), and the Drury
line goes back hundreds of years to a Sir William Drury who married Katherine Swynford
born c1400-1410, daughter of Thomas Swynford and granddaughter of Katherine Roet Swynford
born 1350 whose second marriage was to John of Gaunt, the king's son and whose
offspring are the ancestors of the royal family from the Tudors to the present. That
makes them very distant half cousins.
Gary
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