THE GUERNSEY/GARNSEY/BUSH CONNECTION
Dear Family,
Guess we should be careful what we say about former presidents George Herbert Walker Bush and George Walker Bush. They are our distant cousins!
Jim and Elliot at Guernsey reunion
Grandson Elliot Anderson Mitchell made this discovery while tracing our Guernsey/Garnsey genealogy.
To follow his findings you can press here.
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Mehitable Garnsey will be in Generation 4, line 6 and G.H. Bush will be in generation 13, line 34.
Mehitable Garnsey was daughter of our John Garnsey b, 1648 Dorchester Mass and Elizabeth (Titus?) b. 1651. Bristol, Ma.. Mehitable Garnsey was the gggg-grandmother of President G. H. Bush.
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Thanks again to Elliot’s study, our relation to the Presidents are as follows;
My first cousins and I would be 7th cousins, three times removed, of President G.W. Bush…and 7th cousins, twice removed of the former President G. H. Bush.
Our children would be 8th cousins, twice removed, of President G. W. Bush and 8th cousins, once removed of President G. H. Bush.
Our grandchildren would be 9th cousins, once removed of President G.W. Bush and 9th cousins of President G.H. Bush.
(We are “removed” because we have fewer generations between our common ancestor, John Garnsey, than the Presidents do), If this is difficult to follow you might have to contact Elliot, all I am sure of is we share the same g—–grandfather, John Garnsey.
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Kathleen and GWB
The pretty girl to the left is our granddaughter, Kathleen Castleberry. While attending the University of Oklahoma she had the opportunity to do an internship at the Executive Offices in Washington D.C.. The President hosted a picnic for employees and interns and she had the opportunity to have this picture taken.
IF she had known at that time that they were related, the picture might have been of “kissing cousins.”
Hope all is well,
Jim Lee
Who is my granddaddy? 