The Societe of Mareen Duvall Descendants Document
This document is a scanned September 1983 issue from The Societe of Mareen Duvall Descendants, preserved here as part of my family archive and Duvall/DuVal genealogy notes. Mareen Duvall, sometimes written Mareen DuVal or Mareen Duvall the Elder, emigrated from Laval, Normandy, France, and settled in Anne Arundel County, Maryland in the seventeenth century.
The PDF is especially interesting because it connects several threads that show up elsewhere in my family history posts: Maryland Duvall descendants, the Wells and Stockett families, the Ijams line, and claims of descent from European royal lines including Charlemagne and William the Conqueror.
What Is In The Document?
The newsletter includes society notes, information about the Duvall Memorial Tool Museum in Croom, Maryland, book notices for related family lines, and a genealogy article titled “Your Royal Ancestors” by Barrett L. McKown. That article describes two Duvall family lines traced from Charlemagne through medieval European families and then into Maryland families connected with Mareen Duvall descendants.
- Mareen Duvall and early Maryland Duvall descendants
- The Wells, Stockett, Yates, Ijams, and Warfield family connections
- Royal ancestry claims through Charlemagne, King John, and William the Conqueror
- The Duvall Memorial Tool Museum and W. Henry Duvall’s antique tool collection
How This Fits Into My Family Archive
I have a separate page on Royal Ancestors that lays out one version of the Charlemagne-to-Duvall line, and an older post about how I’m related to Charlemagne. This scanned newsletter is useful because it gives historical context for those claims and points toward the genealogical sources that earlier family researchers were using.
As with most genealogy material, I treat this as a preserved family document rather than a final proof by itself. It is a starting point: names, relationships, places, and source references that can be checked against primary records and published genealogies.
