Here’s an update on a previous post. Scouring approximately 600 pages of single-spaced typed names in the most recent edition of Pocahontas’ Descendants by Stuart E. Brown et al yielded nothing but a few paper cuts. Sadly, I did not find my name listed. Drats.

I did, however, learn quite a bit about Pocahontas and her immediate brood so all was not lost. Conspiracy theories aside, Pocahontas and John Rolfe has but one son (Thomas) who had but one daughter (Jane) who had but one son (John). And yet their modern-day descendants number in the tens of thousands.

I’d like very much to prove that the family legend that we are descended from Pocahontas is true. I am certainly no closer to disproving it despite the paper cuts. There are simply too many holes in the Trantham and Boren lines for me to say conclusively that we are not descended from her. The biggest gaping hole by far is Mathilda Jane, my great grandmother Lula Betty’s maternal grandmother. Mathilda Jane’s maiden name is still painfully unknown to me. Arghhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh.

So I am left to wonder the following: is it possible that my great grandmother Lula Betty knew something about her grandmother’s family tree that is currently beyond my reach. Absolutely. Could Mathilda Jane be the missing link? Yes, yes, and yes.

So my quest to Know-cahontas continues.

Kenfolk: Trantham-ish
Relation: No-cohontas
Common ancestors: Folks who came out of Africa hundreds of thousands of year ago – of this I am certain