Karen Earle Lile - Direct Descendent of (highlights):
Roger Bigod, 2nd Earl of Norfolk, Surety Baron for Magna Carta and Ida de Tosny 1140-1221
House of de Tosny
House of Neville
House of Percy
House of Montagu
Edward Fitz Randolph and Elizabeth Blossom (settled Scituate in the Plymouth Colony 1630)
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Walter de Corrie and Lady Susanna Carlyle, Scotland 1325
William Corey (immigrant) and Mary Earle (daughter of Ralph Earle settled Newport, RI 1638. Ralph was later Treasurer of this New England Colony and Captain of Troup of Horse.)
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Gerard Winghene and Maaike Reinvaan in Prussia Germany 1481-1518
Reverend John Matthew Wing and Deborah Ann Bachelder (Deborah settled Sandwich, MA, after immigrating with her father
Reverend Stephen Batchilor
who founded Hampton, New Hampshire 1638)
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Sir William Thomas I Marbury, Esq. and Anne Blount of Northhampshire 1446-1537
Richard Scott and Katherine Marbury (Daughter of Ann Marbury Hutchinson a founder of Portsmouth, Rhode Island)
Hiram Gates and Sarah Maria Sayles 1802-1850
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Rev. John Harriman, Alumni of Hopkins School, New Haven CT. Harvard Class of 1667. Teacher at Hopkins School under Head of School Jerimiah Peck
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Gochez and Castro Families immigrated from Barcelona Spain to El Salvador in the mid 1800's
In 1929, Karen's paternal great uncle, El Salvador's Attorney General, was assasignated in a political uprising. This prompted her paternal grandmother to immigrate from Central America to San Francisco on a cargo ship through to the Port of San Francisco. Her great grandfather, Idelico Gochez, was a professor of Philosophy at the University of El Salvador.
Karen sails today on modern and historic vessels for personal pleasure in the San Francisco Bay and abroad.
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Karen's Uncle, Tony Terran is bronzed into the Hollywood Rock Walk sidewalk as legendary trumpet player with fellow Los Angeles recording session musicians known as "The Wrecking Crew" .
