Oddly enough FDR1 and Churchill were eighth cousins once removed2, if the researches of one genealogist3 are correct. Both men, it appears, can trace a common descent4 from a personage known as John Cooke who came to ...Oddly enough FDR1 and Churchill were eighth cousins once removed2, if the researches of one genealogist3 are correct. Both men, it appears, can trace a common descent4 from a personage known as John Cooke who came to America on the Mayflower. John married Sarah Warren; one of their daughters was the great-great-great-great-great-great-grandmother of Sara Delano, FDR’s mother, and another was a direct ancestress5 of Churchill’s American-born mother, Jennie Jerome.展开更多
文摘Oddly enough FDR1 and Churchill were eighth cousins once removed2, if the researches of one genealogist3 are correct. Both men, it appears, can trace a common descent4 from a personage known as John Cooke who came to America on the Mayflower. John married Sarah Warren; one of their daughters was the great-great-great-great-great-great-grandmother of Sara Delano, FDR’s mother, and another was a direct ancestress5 of Churchill’s American-born mother, Jennie Jerome.
