As laid back in her first class seat in the three-hour flight to Colorado she closed her
Eyes and thought about the Mayburies this family who's history was as old as the US itself and that was intertwined
With American history.
She closed her eyes and dozed back,
It had all started Lancelot Mayburry back in the mid 1700hundreds young Lancelot was a wealthy Merchant's son from The Lancashire regions that had a love affair with a person very close to King George III. In order not to reveal the scandal all his possessions were removed and he was banished to the new Continent in return for a large part of land and promise not to return. In 1770 a heart broken Lancelot arrived on the shores of America after beginning to settle in his new land and learning about Land ownership and agriculture, it wasn't long that he got word of the unrest in America. Even though he was as brittish as brittish is he was delighted when he got word of the Boston Tea Party and was already present during second continental congress since he held a grudge and had a personal score to settle with King George.
Lancelot aided the war as best he could and saw it as his personal vendetta and vindication. Since the final outcome in History once again was in his favour he was rewarded for his efforts with even more land. It was not until the early 1800's that he found love bewedding a woman 30years his junior. That would soon bear him two sons William & Loyd. William died before he reached his first year but Loyd lived on.
Loyd found his love early and married a 17year old farmer's daughter Anita (of Swedish decent) at age 20, Lancelot last wishes were for Loyd to be allowed to marry for love and thus he did (something that King George III had put a stop to). Even though Anita was considered to be from a family of much lesser roots.In 1725
Lancelot saw the birth of his first grandson Lancelot II and passed soon after that. Loyd and Anita had 3 more sons (Loyd II, Cederic and William) and two daughters (although one died in childbirth). The youngest of these were William II and he was born in 1842.
In the Civil War the Mayburys were once again forced to pick sides and Loyd in honour of his father choose to valiantly fight to preserve the union. The Eastern front was not forgiving for the union and all the Murberrys fought as officers in the Union armies of the 1860's apart from little William who moved back north with his mother Anita and sister Anna. Loyd, Loyd II, Lancelot II and Cederic all died in various battles.
Leaving William II the only aiere he too joined the union as soon as he had turned 18 but was under the toutalage of general Grant and saw a more fortunate outcome. Having given up much of their old land and estates to help the union troops William II was rewarded with new land recaptured from the Confederacy with the union. However understanding the tragic cirumstances that surrounded the war he saw mediation and peace with his new found neighbours and quickly, turned his new southern state lands into tobacco plantations and made sure the family aquired a large share in one of the up and coming tobacco companies of the 1800's. William II Marbury waited with marriage until 30, when he married the 28year old Estelle a daughter of one of his elder partners in the tobacco company. Which meant that the Marburys increased their share in the company,
William and Estelle had 3 children Claire, Anna, and young Loyd III that was born at the turn of the century.
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