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 | | Josephine de Gersdorff, eldest child of Carl August, in 1917 married Frederick Josiah Bradlee, Jr., sometime Boston banker, whose own royally descended ancestors included Rev. Peter and Jane (Allen) Bulkeley, the former of Massachusetts, and William Wentworth of New Hampshire, and one of whose great-great-great-grandmothers was the poet Sarah Wentworth (Apthorp) Morton (1759-1846). |
 | | Thus a third cousin of Queen Victoria, allied by marriage with Choates, and his son with Crowninshields, is both a great-grandfather of a nationally known figure and the ancestor or ancestor-in-law of at least ten Harvard graduates to date (including, from the next generation, Robert Denny Alsop, class of 1971). |
 | | Ellen Peabody, daughter of George and Clarissa, married her first cousin, jurist and U.S. Secretary of War William Crowninshield Endicott; among her own children was Mary Crowninshield Endicott, third wife of British statesman and colonial secretary Joseph Chamberlain, and stepmother of Austen and (Prime Minister) Neville Chamberlain. |
| www.newenglandancestors.org /education/articles/NEXUS/Nexus_10.4.8.asp (4375 words) |
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