Hi all! I am wondering if I am correctly connected to the Cavendish
rootsweb list -- I have not received any messages from other listers. I
will copy below my original message, with the hope someone will reply.
Moyra
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Greetings from Surrey, British Columbia, Canada!
Is there anyone on the list with a Thomas NEEDHAM marrying into the
Cavendish family? Information given to me in 1960 by my uncle, Howard
Needham WALTERS, stated that a Thomas NEEDHAM who raised and trained horses
and was a friend of the Duke of Devonshire at that time -- and became a
"grandfather" of William CAVENDISH who married Kathleen KENNEDY, the sister
of Pres. John F. KENNEDY. You will probably recall William was killed in
WWII just five weeks after he and Kathleen were married; Kathleen was killed
in an air crash in France four years later.
I notice there are women named "Moyra" in the Cavendish list and I have
never before met a Moyra (other than myself) so I cannot help but wonder if
this is a clue that there really is a connection. I have names from William
CAVENDISH, b. 1505 down to the present, including direct line to Princess
Diana and to Sarah Duchess of York -- BUT can't find the connection to
NEEDHAM!!! Any help would be appreciated. Moyra Burnett