A List of famous or notable ancestors found in these family trees:

Lady Alice Beconsawe (1617 – 1685) – Winchester, Hampshire, England

Commonly known as Dame Alicia Lisle or Dame Alice Lyle, was a landed lady of the English county of Hampshire, executed for harboring fugitives from the Battle of Sedgemoor. Alice's husband, Sir John Lisle, had been one of the judges at the trial of Charles I, and was subsequently a member of Cromwell's House of Lords - hence his wife's courtesy title. Lady Lisle seems to have leaned to Royalism, but with this attitude she combined a decided sympathy with religious dissent. Her case was tried by Judge Jeffreys at the opening of the Bloody Assizes at Winchester. She pleaded that she had no knowledge that Hickes's offence was anything more serious than illegal preaching, that she had known nothing previously of Nelthorpe (whose name was not included in the indictment, but was, nevertheless, mentioned to strengthen the case for the Crown), and that she had no sympathy with the rebellion. The jury reluctantly found her guilty, and, the law recognizing no distinction between principals and accessories in treason, she was sentenced to be burned.

John Hoar (1622 – 1704) - Concord, Massachusetts, USA

Was a militia leader & Indian liaison in colonial Massachusetts during King Philip's War. A founding settler of Concord, Massachusetts, he is best known for securing the release of Mary Rowlandson from Indian captivity at Redemption Rock.

Sir John Lisle (1610 – 1664) – Winchester, Hampshire, England

Was an English lawyer and one of the Regicides of King Charles I of England. Lisle was educated at Magdalen Hall, Oxford; B.A., 1626; barrister, Middle Temple, 1633: bencher, 1649; M.P., Winchester, 1640; master of St. Cross Hospital, Winchester, 1644-9. He was one of the managers in Charles I's trial; appointed one of the commissioners of the great seal, and placed on the council of state, 1649. In 1654 he became M.P. for Southampton and held various offices in parliaments of 1654-9. He was commissioner of the admiralty and navy, 1660, but at restoration (England) of the monarchy Lisle fled to Switzerland. He was murdered in Lausanne by an Irishman known as Thomas Macdonnell, an alias of Sir James Fitz Edmond Cotter. Alice Lisle was Lisle's second wife.

King John Sansterre Lackland Plantagenet (1166 – 1216) – Worcester, Worcestershire, England

'King John' was King of England from 6 April 1199 until his death. He acceded to the throne as the younger brother of King Richard I, who died without issue. John was the youngest of five sons of King Henry II of England and Eleanor, Duchess of Aquitaine. Apart from entering popular legend as the enemy of Robin Hood, he is perhaps best-known for having acquiesced to the barons of English nobility to seal Magna Carta, a document which limited kingly power in England and which is popularly thought as an early step in the evolution of limited government.

King Richard Plantagenet I (1157 – 1199) – France

Richard the Lion-Hearted was a central Christian commander during the Third Crusade and was so-called even before his accession to the throne of England in 1189, because of his reputation as a great military leader and warrior. The Muslims (referred to as Saracens at the time) called him Melek-Ric or Malek al-Inkitar (King of England). He was seen as a pious hero by his subjects. He remains one of the very few Kings of England remembered by his epithet, not number, and is an enduring, iconic figure in England.