WILLIAM THE CONQUEROR, KING OF ENGLAND, father of
GUNDRED: m. William de Warren. Their son was WILLIAM: Earl of Warren and Surrey.
WILLIAM: 3rd Earl of Warren and Surrey.
ISABELLA: m. (secondly) Hameline Plantagenet, 5th Earl of Warren and Surrey.
LADY ISABELLA PLANTAGENET: m. Roger, 4th Baron Bigod, Earl of Norfolk.
LADY MARGERY BIGOD: m. William de Hastings, the King's Steward. From
them was descended, 6 generations removed,
LADY ELIZABETH DE HASTINGS: m. Roger de Grey.
REGINALD DE GREY: m. Lady Joan Astley.
LADY ALLIANORE DE GREY: m. Sir William Lucy, Knt.
SIR WILLIAM LUCY, K. B.: of Cherlecote, who had (five generations removed):
SIR THOMAS LUCY, Knt., of Cherlecote: d. 1605, who had:
LADY BARBARA LUCY: m. Richard Tracy of Stanway. Their great-great-grand-dau.,
ELIZABETH TRACY: m. Samuel Backus.
ELIJA BACKUS: of Norwich: b. 1726, d. 1795.
ELIJA BACKUS: of New London, Conn.: m., 1784, Lucretia Tracy (nee Hubbard),
great granddaughter of Rev. John Hubbard of Jamaica, L. I., and
his wife, Mabel Russel, who was a direct descendant (14 generations removed)
of EDWARD III, KING OF ENGLAND.
LUCRETIA BACKUS: m. Judge Nathaniel Pope, of Kaskaskia, Ill.; b. 1784, d.
1850; Secretary of Territory of Ill., 1809; mem. Congress, 1817; U. S.
District Judge in Ill., 1818 to 1850.
PENELOPE POPE: m. BEVERLY ALLEN, of St. Louis, Mo. Issue.
Collection:
Seaver, Jesse Montgomery. Allen Family Records. American Historical-Genealogical Society, 1929.