The Mystic Press of Mystic, CT, ran a series in 1896 about the local inhabitants who were of royal descent. This is one from the series, and it has reappeared fairly often here and there.
     Since this royal line comes down through the John Lake who married Margaret Reade (No. 30 below), an 8th great grandfather of Winfield Dyer Gallup, it would be a royal line for Winfield if true; unfortunately, it probably is not.
     Exactly where the newspaper people found their information is unknown but presumably it came from the descendants themselves as it is unlikely that the newspaper was doing any genealogical research. While the Lake family of New London County had long claimed they were of royal descent, this particular royal line has since been rejected for lack of evidence that the Lakes of Essexshire were in any way connected with the Lakes of Erby.
     But rejection is not refutation.
     Lack of corroborating evidence does not alone refute a genealogical contention; the required evidence might some day be found. Equally possible, refuting evidence might be found.  For now, this particular Gallup royal ancestry is simply not taken seriously by the community of professional genealogists.

The Gallup Ancestry
MYSTIC PRESS, Friday, January 3, 1896

1.   Charlemagne, Emperor of the West, born A.D. 742; married Hildegarde, third wife,
      and had ---
2.   Louis I., King of France, married Judith, the fair, and had ---
3.   Charles II, King of France; married Ermentrudis, and had ---
4.   Louis II, King of France; married Adeheir, and had ---
5.   Charles III, King of France; married Princess Edgiva, Granddaughter of
      Alfred the Great, King of England, and had ---
6.   Louis IV, King of France; married, A.D. 939, Princess Gerberga De Saxe,
      daughter of Henry the Fowler, Emperor of Germany, and had ---
7.   Charles, Duke of Lorraine, eldest son, excluded from the throne of France,
      who married First Bonne, daughter of Godefroi d'Ardenne, and had ---
8.   Gerberge, Countess of Lorraine, who married Lambert I, Count of Mous, and had ---
9.   Lambert II, Count of Mous, who married Ode, daughter of Gothelon, Count of
      Lorraine, son of Duke Charles, son of Louis IV, and had ---
10. Henry II, Duke of Brabant; married, Adela of Thuringia, and had ---
11. Godfred I, Duke of Lower Lorraine Brabant, and Lother; married Ida, daughter of
      Albert, third Count de Namur; also married Sophia, daughter of Henry IV, Emperor
      of Germany, and had ---
12. Adelicia, the Fair Maid of Brabant, second wife and widow of Henry I, King
      of England, who married secondly William d'Albini, Earl of Sussex and
      Arundel, and had ---
13. William, Second Earl of Arundel, who married Maud St. Hilliario, Widow of
      Roger de Clare, Earl of Hetford, and had ---
14. William, Third Earl of Arundel and Earl of Sussex, who married Mabill de Meschines,
     daughter of Hugh de Cyvelisk (Wales), Fifth Earl of Chester, and had ---
15. Lady Mabel d'Albini, who married Robert de Tatteshall, and had ---
16. Emma de Tatteshall, who married Osbert de Cailly, son of Adam de Cailly, Lord of
     the Court Manors, and had ---
17. Sir Hugh de Cailly, Lord of Owby Manor, who married Agnes, daughter of Hamo de
      Hamsted, and had ---
18. Sir William de Cailly, Lord of Owby Manor, who married Catherine __(?)__,
      and had ---
19. John de Cailly, Lord of Owby Manor, High Sheriff of Norfolk and Suffolk, who married
      Maud __(?)__, and had ---
20. John Cayley, Lord of Normanton, who had ---
21. William Cayley, Lord of Normanton, who had ---
22. Jennet Cayley, sole heir, who married John Lake, Lord of Manor of Normanton,
      and had ---
23. John Lake. II of Normanton, who married Jane, daughter of Robert Drakes of
      Yorkshire, and had ---
24. John Lake, III of Normanton, who had ---
25. Lancelot Lake of Normanton, who married Margaret, daughter of Henry and
      Elizabeth Twisleton, and had ---
26. John Lake of Normanton, who married Catherine, daughter of John Pecke of
      Wakefield, and had ---
27. Lancelot Lake of Normanton, who married Emma, daughter of Robert Northend, of
     Halifax, Yorkshire, and had ---
28. John Lake of Erby, Lincolnshire, who married __(?)__ Osgarby, and had ---
29. Richard Lake of Erby, who married secondly Anne Morelly, of Claxby,
      Lincolnshire, and they had ---

     [The disputed link; that (30) John Lake was a son of (29) Richard Lake.]

30. John Lake of Great Fenton Hall, Essexshire, who married Margaret, daughter
      of Edmund Reade and Elizabeth Cooke, who had ---
31. Hannah Lake of No. Benfleet, Essexshire, who married John Gallup of
      Bridport, Dorsetshire, son of John Gallop and Christobel (Brushett) of Mosterne
      Parish, Dorsetshire.

Note: An image of the source for this ancestry may be found in the Appendix Contents "D2 - Documents" page.

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