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Mark, please email me as I think I have your connection to the Barrymores and much more info. I am Drew Barrymore's 6th cousin once removed and you are probably around the same. Her 4G grandfather George Drew (c. 1770-1818), and my 5G grandfather John Drew (c. 1750-c.1818) were brothers. They both came from Limerick Ireland and I have extensive info on their lineage, courtesy of exhaustive research by Carol Baker, Keith Johnson and Nick Reddan in Sydney. John Drew had at least four sons: Francis, Ralph, George and John. Most of the children of Francis, George and John migrated to Australia in the 1830s to 1850s. I am descended from Francis and you are very likely descended from Ralph (born c. 1795) who remained in Limerick and had children Ralph, George, Margaret. Isabella and Eliza.
The Drews of Limerick were from a noble English family originally from Devon who settled in Ireland during the turmoil of the Civil War in 1598. I have recently discovered lots of info on the Irish Drews as well as their noble Devon forbears and have traced my Drew lineage back to William Drewe (17G grandfather) supposedly descended from Drogo or Dru a Norman noble whose Grandfather Richard Duke of Normandy was also William the Conqueror's grandfather. All Drews descend from this Drogo who had 73 manors in Devon at the time of the Domesday survey. I also tentatively traced the lineage of William's noble wife Joan Prideaux back to my 30G grandfather Pagan of Prideaux (Cornwall b. around 1015), supposedly descended from Irish, Welsh, English and Manx kings, princes and earls.
Gigi, Barbara and Betty ... you are probably all descended from Drews who migrated to America from Devon or other parts of England. All the Drews of Plymouth Mass., for example, are descended from a son of Sir Edward Drewe, Queen Elizabeth I's barrister of the inner court, an influential man of his time, and my 12G uncle. But you are all probably much more distant cousins to Drew Barrymore than Mark.
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