Re: Lady Clothilde De Valois
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Re: Lady Clothilde De Valois
8/28/00
Today is my first attempt at checking genealogy on the www.Unfortunately, I think I found and lost my claim to nobility in the same day.After finding your message I played around on the net and found a web page at http://www.fuzzywunkle.net/genealogy/tree/d0001/g0000024.htmlhttp://www.fuzzywunkle.net/genealogy/tree/d0001/g0000024.html which said:
"In the 1920's Frank Zeller, a Philadelphia lumberman and consulting engineer, with the aid of Bailey, Banks and Biddle Co., "Purveyors of Crests," published a genealogy of the Zellers going back to ca 1450, in which he gives the parents of Johan Heinrich as Jacques Zeller and Lady Clotilde de Valois, of the French nobility. No documentation has been found for this family tradition, but it has been picked up and published in various forms several times, as Frank Zeller furnished an entry for Virkus' Compendium of American Genealogy. It would be nice to believe that we are descended from French nobility, but recent Zeller researchers as well as several eminent genealogists , including Dr. Milton Rubincam, believe that Lady Clothilde is totally fictitious."
Also see http://www.genealogy.org/~palam/immcont.htmhttp://www.genealogy.org/~palam/immcont.htm which tells you where you can recieve a back issue of the The Palatine Immigrant with an article entitled "Lady Clothilde de Balois Zeller: The Little Lady Who Wasn't There by Jane Bottorff.
However, if you're descended from Frederick Weiser, then you're descended from Conrad Weiser who hobnobbed with Ben Franklin.That isn't all bad.
Regrets.
R.A Weiser