Re: Thomas (the witch) WEIR. Burned at stake in 1670 Scotland
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Re: Thomas (the witch) WEIR. Burned at stake in 1670 Scotland
Peter Blood 9/11/04
This interview by Tracy Twyman quotes Nicholas de Vere as saying that this Thomas Weir was his eleventh-great-grandfather:
http://www.dagobertsrevenge.com/devere/interview1.htmlhttp://www.dagobertsrevenge.com/devere/interview1.html
Read the whole thing and then you can decide for yourself whether this sounds like your family or not.
I tend to think the chances of your descending from the notorious Major Weir are rather slim.There were a thousand other Weirs you could descend from.
Where did yours live in the 1600s?How far back can you trace?
I have Nicholas de Vere's new book, THE DRAGON LEGACY, and it mentions Major Thomas Weir but I didn't see anywhere in it that said he was his DIRECT ancestor.The focus of the book is the mythology of the Dragon Court, and even the genealogy charts in it don't come down any farther than Ralph de Vere who settled in Scotland (aka Ralfredus, aka Baltredus de Vere).I've not read the entire thing, but there was actually more about the Weir/de Vere lineage given in his online book FROM TRANSYLVANIA TO TUNBRIDGE WELLS (and that wasn't much more than I outlined in my previous posting).Unfortunately that book was removed from the internet.It was the original draft of THE DRAGON LEGACY apparently, but seems like an entirely different book to me.Tracy Twyman wrote the introduction for THE DRAGON LEGACY.You can get it here if you want to follow up on that:
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/1585091316/dagobertsrevenge/104-9283041-1661520http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/1585091316/dagobertsrevenge/104-9283041-1661520
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