Darrell's Family
Pursiful, Pursifull,
Percifull, Percivall, Piercefield, etc.:
- Descendants of John
Percivall (b. abt 1525), my earliest documented Pursiful/Percival
ancestor
- Descendants of Peter
Pursifull (b. 1756), my earliest Pursifull ancestor in America.
Stanley:
Jeffers:
Brown:
Connie's Family
Piercy, Peercy, Pearcy,
Peircy:
Morgan:
Pruitt:
- Descendants of Hison Pruitt
(b. abt 1850)
- Through this line Connie is a descendant of Hans
Kettenring (b. 1542). Our brother-in-law, Scott Catron, is also in
this line and a fourth cousin twice removed from Connie and her sister
Mary.
Rigney:
Just for Fun
I can't prove descent from any of these lines (yet!), but I have
included them because of their connection to our family names.
Warning: The further back these
lines go, the more legendary they become.
Vikings/Normans: Both
the Percivals and the Percys were of Norman ancestry.
- Descendants
of Ivar, a
Viking (b. after 770). Ivar's grandson, Ragnvald "the Wise"
Eysteinsson, may well have been an early common
ancestor of me and my wife.
Britons/Bretons:
The Percivals were descendants of the Dukes of both Normandy and
Brittany. These pages trace the Percivals' Celtic ancestry (under
construction)
- Descendants of Llyr
Lleddiarth (b. abt 55 BC, if he was not a purely mythical figure).
This chart is of almost no truly historical value, but it included for
the sake of completeness. According to one legend, Llyr's mother-in-law
was Anna, daughter of Joseph of Arimathea.
- Descendants of Gradlon Mawr
(b. abt 330).
- Descendants of Erispoë (late
8th century), a line through Robert de Breherval's father.
Erispoë's
descendancy from earlier rulers of Brittany is a matter of wild
speculation, but from here forward the line is more or less established.
- Descendants of Alfrond
ap Justin (b. abt 830), a line through Robert de Breherval's mother.
The House
of Percival:
- Descendants of Robert
de
Breherval, Lord of Breherval and Yvery (d. abt 1083). Robert was a
cousin of William the Conqueror, a ranking officer in William's
invading army of 1066, who spent his later years as a monk.
The House
of Percy:
