I’ve completed my search through the ancestors I found on ancestry.com. And I added a lot of ancestors I never knew I had – do I hear Henry Gates speaking? Now to go back and sort/sieve the accumulated information.
The first snippet to share with my readers is that I thought I found that one of my ancestors had been beheaded on Tower Green at the Tower of London. On further examination I found I was following a false trail. The particular person that lost his head in that way did not belong to me. A comforting thought.
p.s. Correction- my ancestor was the one who was beheaded. In fact he was the first to be beheaded in the Tower of London by Richard of Gloucester. He was 52 years old, father of 7 children. He served on the Yorkist side in the Battle of Mortimer’s Cross in the War of the Roses.