The History of United States Naval Operations in World War II Northeast Haster. me. from S. E. MORISON Harvard College Library, 417 REAR ADMIRAL USNR (RET.) Cambridge 38, Massachusetts 27 any 1959 Dear Mrs Hayward I had ng research assistant make an expressive seach within in fevealogis, ate. forthe "Laby Jane month mary the attached. was the I though that of James you Richards Souely might on saly like letter. have them the Youth on fth. are even though rejalin fincerly Samadha your working / It looks as though the Miss Montgomery who married the Richardson WILS a plain Jane -- ladylike, perhaps, but no Lady. The Montgomerie or Montgomery families with titles dwelt in Scotland, and their history has been recorded fairly well. In the proper generation for this girl, the available progenitor, an Earl of Eglinton, is known to have had 20 children. There is a little confusion over the many daughters (the doddering author of the family history thought one of them was two with the same name ) ) but the standard reference work on the Scottish peerage probably has it ightened out. It is conceivable that one girl might have been expunged from the records for running away with the gardener; but if so, the family was drawing a careful line, for one daughter's elopement with an army officer was duly reported. Branches of the noble house of Eglinton abounded; hardly a Montgomery or Montgomerie in Scotland or Ireland existed who did not claim kinship with it. Several branches attained the rank of landed gentry in Northern Ireland, but the records of their affairs in old Burke'ses present no obvious corners for the concealment of Jane. A couple of offshoots of the Eglinton bunch married into small titles in Scotland; but 8.3 far as I could determine these either married into the direct line again or otherwise lost the ************** combination of an independent title and the name Montgomerie before the time when Jane must have appeared. Local histories of Ayrshire reveal swarms of Montgomeries, most claiming kinship with the Earl of Eglinton, of respectable but not rich or famous ******* standing. My guess would be that Jane always was proud of her relationship to the Earl, talked about it as often as she could, and became vague about how close it was until she or her descendants got the business so unclear that it could be touched up extensively later on without any risk of offense to an accurate recollection. Given to me by Magini Hayarne when I caund do question of Jan Mutzomey Mechander claim nobility Baders 9-10-54