Well, not really… but still its kinda cool. I guess technicaly I can claim some small form of Peerage, err, maybe. I was doing some searching online today and digging into some info and found out something interesting…

My ancestor, Francis Xavier Eckert is about as far back as I have tracked my geneology, back when I did a project when i was in middleschool. He was the one who picked up his family of 7 kids and wife and moved them all from Pfaffenweiler Germany, and moved them to Jasper Indiana. Well today I poked back a bit further. You see, we have stories in the family that when Francis X came overe here, a decent ammount of “old money” came along.. supposedly english in nature. The question is, where did it come from?

Well here is what I found out.. Francis’s mother, wasnt from Pfaffenweiller, like the rest of the family going back generations, hell she wasnt even German. Her name was Maria Agatha Wellesly. Daughter of George Wellesly, Earl of Duo, who was the brother of Arthur Wellesly, First Duke of Wellington… as in the “I kicked Napoleons ass all over waterloo”-duke of wellington.

Well now isn’t that interesting… huh?