subject line the first time I replied.
I've checked my database this evening and as far as I can determine there is
no (obvious) connection between Robert Duvall and the Lees, at least not
that I've recorded. If it exists at all it's through one of the wives and
I've never bothered to research their ancestry (as it's rather removed from
my own, and for the record he's my sixth cousin both 3 and 4 times removed).
My only Lee connections are all on my mother's side and through the
Towneley, Smith, and Slaughter families. It's possible, however, that some
of my Thornton cousins married into the family.
Jeff Duvall
----- Original Message -----
From: "Jeffery A. Duvall" <jeffery@iquest.net>
To: <jeffery@iquest.net>
Sent: Tuesday, September 21, 2004 11:41 PM
Subject: Fw: Duvall Question: Annette Savage And Pocahontas - Bonapartes
----- Original Message -----
From: "D. Spencer Hines" <poguemidden@hotmail.com
To: <GEN-MEDIEVAL-L@rootsweb.com
Sent: Tuesday, September 21, 2004 12:09 PM
Subject: Re: Duvall Question: Annette Savage And Pocahontas - Bonapartes
Hmmmmmmm.
Bob Duvall is a prince among men and one of America's greatest actors.
His dad was no slouch either -- not as an actor.
I brought up the Bonapartes because you had them in your previous
subject line -- but said nothing about them.
If you were connected to the Lees of Virginia I should think you'd want
to know.
Aloha,
DSH
"""" <jeffery@iquest.net> wrote in message
news:1095803092.4150a0d4cc324@webmail.iquest.net...
| Hmmm,
|
| Well, without looking it up, I'm guessing my connection to Robert
Duvall is
| something along the lines of 5th or 6th cousin several times removed.
Which
| is part of the answer to your next question: Given the distant
relationhip to
| Robert Duvall (whose connection to my family I've only looked up after
growing
| tired of having relatives asking me over the years if we were related
| because "he looks so much like a Duvall"), I can't honestly say
whether or not
| he's related to the Lees of Virginia. If so, I'm fairly certain,
however, that
| it would not be through the Duvall family itself or through any of the
wives
| of the early generations. If you or he, or whomever, really wants to
pursue
| the issue, the best place to start is Harry Wright Newman's *Mareen
Duvall of
| Middle Plantation* (1952). As for the Bonapartes, I'm not sure I want
to say
| anything about them. I'm afraid I know nothing about Annette Savage
or her
| children, etc. Aside from an ancestor who fought for Napoleon on the
Russian
| Campaign (at 16) and at Waterloo (and always referred to in family
lore as
| his "boot boy" whatever that means), I've no connection to the
Bonapartes and
| have never really made any special effort to study them or the time
period in
| French history.
|
| Cheers,
|
| Jeff Duvall
|
|
| Quoting "D. Spencer Hines" <poguemidden@hotmail.com>:
|
| > This belongs very much right here in the newsgroup.
|
| > I like Robert Duvall and his father. How do you relate to him?
|
| > Further, is there a connection between the Duvalls and the Lees of
| > Virginia?
|
| > Robert Duvall was allegedly told by his mother that he was either
| > "descended from" or "related to" Robert E. Lee. But that does not
| > appear to be validated at all.
|
| > What do you want to say about the Bonapartes?
|
| > Cheers,
|
| > DSH