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Matt Damon

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Helen of Galloway

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• • 24th Great-grandmother of Matt Damon — 27th Generation
  • Ahnentafel No:
  • 67311763 
  • Father:
  • Alan of Galloway 
  • Mother:
  • Helen de I'Isle   
  • Birth Date:
  • ABT 1208 
  • Birth Location:
  • Wigtownshire, Scotland 
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  • Death Date:
  • AFT 21 Nov 1245 
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  • Spouse Name:
  • Roger de Quincy
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  Elisabeth de Quincy

  Ellen de Quincy (Ahnentafel No:33655881 )

  Margaret de Quincy

  • Notes: 

  • Helen of Galloway's given name is also seen as Ellen.

    Many older sources have Helen of Galloway as the daughter of Alan's second wife, Margaret of Huntingdon, but more recent sources list Alan's first wife, Helen de I'Isle as the mother.

• Sources for Helen of Galloway

  • ¹ Adams, Arthur, The Magna Charta Sureties, 1215, Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Company (1964), 60, 72.
  • ² Paul, Sir James Balfour, ed., The Scots Peerage: Founded on Wood's Edition of Sir Robert Douglas's Peerage of Scotland, Vol. 4, Edinburgh: David Douglas (1907), 142.
  • ³ Richardson, Douglas, Royal Ancestry: A Study in Colonial and Medieval Families, Salt Lake City, Utah: Douglas Richardson (2013), Vol. III, p. 196.
  • ⁴ Richardson, Douglas, Royal Ancestry: A Study in Colonial and Medieval Families, Salt Lake City, Utah: Douglas Richardson (2013), Vol. IV, p. 403.
  • ⁵ Richardson, Douglas, Royal Ancestry: A Study in Colonial and Medieval Families, Salt Lake City, Utah: Douglas Richardson (2013), Vol. V, p. 471.
  • ⁶ Richardson, Douglas, Royal Ancestry: A Study in Colonial and Medieval Families, Salt Lake City, Utah: Douglas Richardson (2013), Vol. II, p. 562.
  • ⁷ Richardson, Douglas and Kimball G. Everingham, editor, Magna Carta Ancestry: A Study in Colonial and Medieval Families, 2nd edition, Salt Lake City, Utah: Douglas Richardson (2011), Vol. 3, p. 360.
  • ⁸ Richardson, Douglas and Kimball G. Everingham, editor, Magna Carta Ancestry: A Study in Colonial and Medieval Families, 2nd edition, Salt Lake City, Utah: Douglas Richardson (2011), Vol. 2, p. 376.
  • ⁹ Roberts, Gary Boyd, The Royal Descents of 600 Immigrants to the American Colonies or the United States (2 vols.), Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Co. (2008), 530.
  • ¹⁰ Roberts, Gary Boyd, comp., Ancestors of American Presidents, 2009 Edition, Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society (2009), 405.
  • ¹¹ Weis, Frederick Lewis, Ancestral Roots of Sixty Colonists Who Came to New England Between 1623 and 1650, Lancaster, Mass: (1950), 55.
  • ¹² Wikipedia, "Helen of Galloway", (accessed 03/01/2010).
  • ¹³ Wikipedia, "Roger de Quincy, 2nd Earl of Winchester", _2nd_Earl_of_Winchester, (accessed 03/01/2010).
  • ¹⁴ Wurts, John S., Magna Charta, New York: Brookfield Publishing Company (1942), 113, 1654.