Extraction Quote by Adam Clarke

Whatever else the Norman Conquest may or may not have done, it made the old haphazard state of legal affairs forever impossible.

— Edward Jenks

Being Southerners, it was a source of shame to some members of the family that we had no recorded ancestors on either side of…

— Harper Lee

My mum's family are from Blaenau Ffestiniog, the slate town. My grandfather was Elis Humphreys Roberts, so that's quite Welsh isn't it?

— Simon Fowler

You can't have the family farm without the family.

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

I do think that the legacy of the Norman conquest is still strong in Britain. Our hereditary monarchy, our established church, our ancient county…

— Paul Kingsnorth

“The Samuel Josephs were not a family. They were a swarm. The moment you entered the house they cropped up and jumped out at…

— Katherine Mansfield

The Royal family to me are not England, and they are not the flag.

— Anonymous

A friend of ours has a hobby doing genealogy, and we found out that we were cousins in the ninth degree, that we had…

— Marion Zimmer Bradley

Richard Cromwell was not fit to wear the mantle of his uncle.

— John F. Kennedy

I think my mother's family came on the Mayflower from England - D.A.R., you know.

— Sissy Spacek

English is the result of Norman men-at-arms attempting to pick up Saxon barmaids and is no more legitimate than any of the other results.

— H. Beam Piper

Еhere's no doubt at all that the Norman conquest led to the hugely concentrated land ownership patterns that we still see in Britain today.…

— Paul Kingsnorth