Karen Earle Lile - Direct Descendent of (highlights):
Roger Bigod, 2nd Earl of Norfolk, Surety Baron for Magna Carta and Ida de Tosny (mistress of King Henry II) 1140-1221
House of de Tosny
House of Neville
House of Percy
House of Montagu
Edward Fitz Randolph and Elizabeth Blossom (immigrated to New England Colonies 1630)
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Walter de Corrie and Lady Susanna Carlyle, Scotland 1325
William Corey (immigrant) and Mary Earle (daughter of Ralph Earle who founded Portsmouth, RI 1638)
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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 and immigrated 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 an Immigrant to Boston on Griffin in 1634)
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 Barelona Spain to El Salvador in mid 1800
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.