Cousin Diana

 Greetings!

I haven't written in this blog for seven years, having stopped most research into my family history in 2014 after 20 years of research.  Yesterday, at a Thanksgiving dinner at our house, the conversation on travels mentioned that one of my early ambitions for English and French trips was to research family history.  When the topic of visiting English royal castles came up, I mentioned being related to Princess Diana.

Here's the connection.

On August 13, 1633, two early Massachusetts immigrants (Adam Hawkes and Ann Hutchinson) had twins.  Susannah and John ended up the tenth great-grandparents of Diana and I.  John's descendants stayed in New England, and their children became Presidents, Supreme Court Justices, and writers.  Susannah's were similarly influential, and one of them married into the English Spencer family.  A granddaughter was Diana.