History of Mankind from the Perspective of One Man’s Genealogical Journey

By J. Parnell McCarter

 

It is my plan to compile information on my genealogy, which I hope to eventually edit into a book on the history of mankind from the perspective of my genealogical journey.  The plan is to weave the results of my own personal genealogical discoveries in with the greater history of the whole family of nations.  The genealogy of all mankind leads back to our father Noah, and then finally back to Adam.  Certain peoples kept more detailed records of their genealogy through the generations, especially when their social position depended upon it. I hope to better understand God’s providential dealings with my family through the generations and the covenantal blessings and obligations flowing from that history.  I shall surely see manifested what we read in Psalm 103:15-18:

“As for man, his days are as grass: as a flower of the field, so he flourisheth.  For the wind passeth over it, and it is gone; and the place thereof shall know it no more.  But the mercy of the Lord is from everlasting to everlasting upon them that fear him, and his righteousness unto children’s children;  To such as keep his covenant, and to those that remember his commandments to do them.”

This website will present some of that compiled genealogical information, back to certain of my ancestors.  My ancestry consists of the ordinary, the famous, and the infamous, and I hope to investigate and disclose as many of each as God allows.  My genealogy traces  back to (there is overlap in certain of these cases):

  1. Archibald Campbell III (earl of Argyle) – through my mother’s side
  2. Archibald Campbell, 1st Marquess of Argyll, father of Archibald Campbell III (see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Archibald_Campbell,_1st_Marquess_of_Argyll) – through my mother’s side
  3. Archibald Campbell, 7th earl of Argyle (see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Archibald_Campbell,_7th_Earl_of_Argyll – through my mother’s side
  4. James Stuart, 2nd Earl of Moray, and Robert the Bruce – through my mother’s side
  5. James Stewart (or Stuart), 1st earl of Moray (see http://www.thereformation.info/jamesstuart.htm and https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Stewart,_1st_Earl_of_Moray) – through my mother’s side
  6. Archibald Campbell, 5th earl of Argyle (see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Archibald_Campbell,_7th_Earl_of_Argyll – through my mother’s side
  7. Thomas Hazard Perry Scott (see http://ulster2texas.blogspot.com/2013/01/family-group-sheet-for-thomas-hazard.html ) – through my mother’s side
  8. James Alexander McCarter of Georgia and Earlier – through my father’s side
  9. Sir Hugh Montgomery, 1st Viscount Montgomery of the Great Ards – through my mother’s side
  10. Thomas Cresap and his son Michael Cresap of Maryland  – through my mother’s side
  11. Thomas Scott (see http://ulster2texas.blogspot.com/2013/01/starting-point.html )  – through my mother’s side
  12. McNamaras of County Clare, Ireland – through my mother’s side
  13. Ulrich Richards of North Carolina – through my father’s side
  14. Heinrich Adam Harmon of Germany – through my father’s side
  15. Johnsons and Slaydens – through my mother’s side
  16. Thomas Edgerly, judge of the province of New Hampshire under the Massachusetts Bay Colony  – through my mother’s side
  17. Robert Needham (see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Needham,_1st_Viscount_Kilmorey ) – through my mother’s side
  18. Sir William Alexander (see https://www.geni.com/people/William-Alexander-1st-Earl-of-Stirling-7th-Baron-of-Menstrie/6000000007924997912 ) – through my mother’s side
  19. Sir William Douglas (see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Douglas,_2nd_Earl_of_Angus ) – through my mother’s side
  20. King Robert III of Scotland (see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_III_of_Scotland ) – through my mother’s side
  21. Donald MacArthur of Scotland* – through my father’s side
  22. Margaret Erskine, mother of James Stewart earl of Moray  (see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Margaret_Erskine ) – through my mother’s side
  23. King James V of Scotland (see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_V_of_Scotland ) – through my mother’s side
  24. Robert the Bruce of Scotland (see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_the_Bruce ) – through my mother’s side [There are multiple ways I descend from Robert the Bruce.  One is back from the Montgomery’s.  Another is back from Lady Mary Stewart (1629-1668) to her ancestor James Stewart First Earl of Moray (1531-1570), bastard son of King James V of Scotland.]
  25. King David I of Scotland – through my mother’s side (see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_I_of_Scotland )
  26. William the Conqueror of England- through my mother’s side
  27. Margaret of Wessex- through my mother’s side
  28. King Alfred the Great (see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Family_tree_of_English_and_British_monarchs )- through my mother’s side
  29. Odin- through my mother’s side
  30. King Arthur of the Britons** – through my mother’s side
  31. King Arthur of the Britons*** – through my father’s side
  32. Dardanus, founder of Troy**** – on both sides
  33. Noah**** – on both sides
  34. Adam**** – on both sides

 

* I am still working to confirm genealogy from James Alexander McCarter to Donald MacArthur, so it is still conjecture and not established.  See  http://www.puritans.net/my-genealogy-back-to-james-alexander-mccarter-and-earlier/.

** The Campbell clan leaders of Scotland trace their ancestry back to King Arthur of the Britons.  I am personally persuaded that King Arthur’s base was near Stirling, Scotland.  For example, see http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/8724183/King-Arthurs-round-table-may-have-been-found-by-archaeologists-in-Scotland.html .

*** The MacArthur clan leaders of Scotland trace their ancestry back to King Arthur of the Britons.  I am personally persuaded that King Arthur’s base was near Stirling, Scotland.  For example, see http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/8724183/King-Arthurs-round-table-may-have-been-found-by-archaeologists-in-Scotland.html .

**** From Adam to Noah to Shem to Judah to Darda (aka Dardanus) – Holy scripture provides this genealogical record for me, as it does to this level of descent for all of humanity.   For the relation of the royal houses of Europe such as of the Anglo-Saxons with Troy see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anglo-Saxon_royal_genealogies and for Europeans in general see https://aeon.co/ideas/for-centuries-european-aristocrats-proudly-claimed-foreign-ancestry  .   There are many modern skeptics of this historic claim, but I remain a skeptic of modern skepticism.