Click Here to Read About the Origin of the Name 'Mayfair'
There
is just no way anyone could ever attempt to duplicate Mona Mayfair's
genealogy charts. Katherine
Ramsland didn't and I'm not going to, either. So what I did was create
three different
trees. One of Rowan, which goes all
the way back to Suzanne Mayfair, one of Michael which goes back to
Julien, and one
of Mona, which in fact goes back to
Marie-Claudette and Lestan.
The files do not open in a new webpage; you must download them to view
them. They are in PDF, so you will need Adobe Acrobat Reader to view them.
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The Mayfair Family Geneology
Using a PDF copy of The Witches' Companion, I was able to make something of a PNG of the Mayfair Family Tree that appears in the front of the book. It was laid out across two pages, so the middle does have an obvious break in it.
I have my own family tree on Ancestry.com, and the Family Tree Maker software. I might try out loading the tree as laid out in Ramsland's guide into it, if only to see all the different ways these Mayfairs are related! I think its calculating functions will choke..
Here also is a list of the men who married into the line of Mayfair Witches...
The Men of the Mayfair Witches
Without
a doubt, the Mayfairs have had to marry men who had no blood relation
to them whatsoever to sustain the
line. Without this "fresh blood", the piling of too many recessive
genes would undoubtedly
have caused the early demise of the
Mayfair line by producing offspring that could not survive to
reproduce. Lasher
no doubt planned it this way; as
much as he had closely related people having children together, he also
needed a way to introduce
genes into the line that would keep
them alive. Here is a list of the men, the "eunuch husbands" as Michael
Curry called
them, who either married into the
Mayfair line or fathered children by them:
Petyr van Abel
- Perhaps a stroke of luck on Deborah's
part that his arrival in Scotland
resulted in her being whisked away to Amsterdam. It is clear from his
own supernatural
gifts, though, that he had inherited
traits that could be passed on, comingled with Deborah's own abilities,
to produce a
line of witches. His later coupling
with his own daughter, Charlotte, as well as the coupling of their
fraternal twin
children, Jeanne Louise and Peter,
virtually guaranteed that these traits would remain in the family
genetics for generations
to come.
He was a Dutchman, making the beginning of the Mayfair line Scottish-Dutch in
ancestry.
Vincente St. Christophe
- He married Angelique Mayfair,
the daughter of fraternal twins
Jeanne Louise and Peter Mayfair. She is a product of double incest;
therefore, a pairing
with another relative would surely
either produce a child unable to thrive or a Taltos.
Henri Landry
- His marriage to Marie Claudette Mayfair,
the daughter of Angelique, further
ensured that their children would survive to continue the Mayfair line.
It was he
and St. Christophe who introduced
French ancestry into the Mayfair line.
Tyrone McNamara
- The first Irishman in the line, he
is the father of Julien and Remy
Mayfair, born to Marguerite Mayfair, who was the daughter of Marie
Claudette. It is
from this ancestor that Mayfairs
inherited their tendency to sing softly, as Michael Curry shares with
Lestat in Blood
Canticle. McNamara was a musician well known in his native Ireland, and Julien and Remy might have inherited some
of his musical talents and passed them on by teaching them to their descendants.
Arlington Kerr
- Another Irishman, he fathers Katherine
Mayfair by Marguerite.
He disappears six months after the marriage, and Katherine would grow up
without him.
He and McNamara introduce Irish
ancestry into the line of the Mayfair family.
Darcy Monahan
- Also Irish, he marries Katherine, and
it is with her that he builds the
First Street house. By Katherine, he fathers Clay and Vincent Mayfair,
who in turn
produce more Mayfair descendants.
However, it is by Julien, her half-brother, that she gives birth to Mary
Beth Mayfair
more than ten months after the death
of Monahan of yellow fever.
Daniel McIntyre
- With Mary Beth, he fathers Carlotta
and Lionel Mayfair. Though it is
confirmed that not only is Mary Beth's daughter Stella in fact Julien's
daughter/granddaughter, but that
Julien's son Cortland (mother Suzette) fathered Antha Mayfair with
Stella. By
this time, the pattern of fathering
children by witches too close in relation demonstrates that the witch
born of the
union tends to be rather weak in
terms of power. At this point in the line of witches, Mary Beth Mayfair
is the only
real exception.
Sean Lacy
- Antha runs away from First Street to New
York City and falls for this
painter, with whom she shares an apartment in Greenwich Village. When
she discovers she
is pregnant, Lacy is not exactly
pleased. Upon his death, she is taken back to New Orleans by Carlotta
after Amanda
Grady Mayfair contacts her. Amanda
Grady Mayfair is the estranged wife of Cortland Mayfair and her line is
referred
to as the "Grady Mayfairs."
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