Robert DeBelleme

There might be many ways to approach genealogy. One guy in particular sought to trace back the male line of his Haydon family name. As the Butlers have Haydon ancestry, we can link into his efforts, and trace our line back to Robert DeBelleme, one of the more powerful Norman noblemen in the years just following William the Conqueror's Norman Invasion of England.

Here we have two charts. On the left we have the direct line of descent from Robert DeBelleme to Ebenezer Haydon, a New Englander who lived through the time of the Revolution. Below are some of Ebenezer's direct descendants, those that I've thus far linked into the tree, including all the modern Butlers.

Be ready to use your scroll bars...

Note, below and to the left we have Luther Hayden Hollis and Marcy Comfort Lang, who both have their own ancestor trees.

Below, we have Harold Butler and Lena Dumas, who top the Modern Butlers page, which is essentially duplicated to their right.

No, this is not the Ann Boleyn. This Ann Boleyn had a brother, William Boleyn. William married Margaret Butler, daughter of Thomas Butler, the 7the Earl or Ormond. William and Maragret had a son, Thomas Boleyn. Thomas had a daughter, the Anne Boleyn, the second wife of Henry VIII and mother of Elizabeth I.

In the old period romances, the impoverished governess who is secretly a rich heiress seems to find herself in an ancient mansion with a long corridor lined with portraits of those who had come before. I somehow picture a Hayden Hall in Woodbury with just such a corridor.