Ancestry of
Robert Catesby
Leader of Gunpowder Plot
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Some of the most recently added connections of famous kin for Robert Catesby
Elizabeth Cabot Agassiz
1st President of Radcliff College
12th cousin 7 times removed
via Sir William de Ros
Endicott Peabody
62nd Governor of Massachusetts
4th cousin 12 times removed
via Sir Thomas Throckmorton
Porter Goss
1st Director of the C.I.A.
19th and last Dir. of Central Intelligence
9th cousin 12 times removed
via Sir William de Ros
Alfred Ely Beach
Co-founder & Editor, Scientific American
15th cousin 5 times removed
via Hugh de Kevelioc
Alfred Ely Beach
Co-founder & Editor, Scientific American
15th cousin 6 times removed
via Roger de Clare
Alfred Ely Beach
Co-founder & Editor, Scientific American
15th cousin 5 times removed
via Maud de St. Hilary
Alfred Ely Beach
Co-founder & Editor, Scientific American
14th cousin 7 times removed
via John FitzGilbert (the Marshal)
Alfred Ely Beach
Co-founder & Editor, Scientific American
5th cousin 11 times removed
via Sir John Throckmorton
Alfred Ely Beach
Co-founder & Editor, Scientific American
16th cousin 4 times removed
via Sir Geoffrey FitzPiers
Rear Admiral Philip H. Cooper
United States Navy
10th cousin 9 times removed
via Sir William la Zouche
Rear Admiral Philip H. Cooper
United States Navy
14th cousin 7 times removed
via Sir Humphrey de Bohun
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