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The Stradling Family
of St. Donat's, Glamorgan, Wales
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Richard L. Hardesty
P. O. Box 130158
Coram, MT 59913
(406) 387-5513

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Ultimate Family Tree, ver 2.0
HARDESTY Project Version 56
August 29, 1998
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Introduction

MOST  of  the  accounts of  this  Welsh  marcher  lord  family  are  based  on  a fictitious  genealogy compiled & created by  Sir  Edward  Stradling  (1529 - 1609)  between  1561  and 1566.    He concocted  a  fantasy  pedigree  that  showed  his ancestors to have arrived with the Danes,  and  also  a  tale  of  a  'Sir William  de  Easterling'  who  accompanied  the  Norman  knight  fitz-Hamo  into Glamorgan and  who  received  as  his  reward the castle of St. Donat's, which was the family seat for many generations.
      The  actual  origins  of  the  family  are  set  forth  in  these  pages,  and  while perhaps not as romantic, are certainly just as interesting.  The true account of the origins of this family are to be  found in The Rise of the Stradlings of  St. Donat's  by Ralph A. Griffiths,  in " Conquerors and Conquered in Medieval Wales," NY: St. Martin's, [1994], pp. 30-48.  This well researched and  interesting  article  first  appeared in the journal  " Morgannwg:   Transactions  of  the Glamorgan History Society", vol. VIII [1963], pp. 15-47.
      Further  information  on  the  expedition  of  fitz-Hamo  into  Wales   can  be  found  in  another  article  by  Mr.  Griffiths,  The  Norman  Conquest   and  the Twelve Knights  of Glamorgan , op. cit.,  pp. 19 - 29,  which  was  first  published  in  "Glamorgan Historian,"  vol.  III;  [1966], pp. 153-169.
      Some  further  information  on the Stradling family has been culled from the Dictionary of National Biography.
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