Click Here to Read About the Origin of the Name 'Mayfair'
There is just no way anyone could ever attempt to duplicate Mona
Mayfair's genealogy charts. Katherine Ramsland didn't and I'm
not going to, either. So what I did was create three different
trees. One of Rowan, which goes all the way back to Suzanne
Mayfair, one of Michael which goes back to Julien, and one of Mona,
which in fact goes back to Marie-Claudette and
Lestan.
The files do not open in a new webpage; you must download them to
view them. They are in PDF, so you will need Adobe Acrobat
Reader to view them.
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The Mayfair Family Geneology
Using a PDF copy of The Witches' Companion, I was able to make
something of a PNG of the Mayfair Family Tree that appears in
the front of the book. It was laid out across two pages,
so the middle does have an obvious break in it.
I have my own family tree on Ancestry.com, and the Family Tree Maker software. I might try out loading the tree as laid out in Ramsland's guide into it, if only to see all the different ways these Mayfairs are related! I think its calculating functions will choke..
Here also is a list of the men who married into the line of
Mayfair Witches...
The Men of the Mayfair Witches
Without a doubt, the Mayfairs have had to marry men who had no
blood relation to them whatsoever to sustain the line.
Without this "fresh blood", the piling of too many recessive
genes would undoubtedly have caused the early demise of the
Mayfair line by producing offspring that could not survive to
reproduce. Lasher no doubt planned it this way; as much as
he had closely related people having children together, he also
needed a way to introduce genes into the line that would keep
them alive. Here is a list of the men, the "eunuch
husbands" as Michael Curry called them, who either married into
the Mayfair line or fathered children by them:
Petyr van Abel - Perhaps a stroke of luck on
Deborah's part that his arrival in Scotland resulted in her
being whisked away to Amsterdam. It is clear from his own
supernatural gifts, though, that he had inherited traits that
could be passed on, comingled with Deborah's own abilities, to
produce a line of witches. His later coupling with his own
daughter, Charlotte, as well as the coupling of their fraternal
twin children, Jeanne Louise and Peter, virtually guaranteed
that these traits would remain in the family genetics for
generations to come.
He was a Dutchman, making the beginning of the Mayfair line
Scottish-Dutch in ancestry.
Vincente St. Christophe - He married Angelique
Mayfair, the daughter of fraternal twins Jeanne Louise and Peter
Mayfair. She is a product of double incest; therefore, a
pairing with another relative would surely either produce a
child unable to thrive or a Taltos.
Henri Landry - His marriage to Marie Claudette
Mayfair, the daughter of Angelique, further ensured that their
children would survive to continue the Mayfair line. It
was he and St. Christophe who introduced French ancestry into
the Mayfair line.
Tyrone McNamara - The first Irishman in the line,
he is the father of Julien and Remy Mayfair, born to Marguerite
Mayfair, who was the daughter of Marie Claudette. It is
from this ancestor that Mayfairs inherited their tendency to
sing softly, as Michael Curry shares with Lestat in
Blood Canticle. McNamara was a musician well known
in his native Ireland, and Julien and Remy might have inherited
some of his musical talents and passed them on by teaching them
to their descendants.
Arlington Kerr - Another Irishman, he fathers
Katherine Mayfair by Marguerite. He disappears six
months after the marriage, and Katherine would grow up
without him. He and McNamara introduce Irish ancestry into
the line of the Mayfair family.
Darcy Monahan - Also Irish, he marries Katherine,
and it is with her that he builds the First Street house.
By Katherine, he fathers Clay and Vincent Mayfair, who in turn
produce more Mayfair descendants. However, it is by
Julien, her half-brother, that she gives birth to Mary Beth
Mayfair more than ten months after the death of Monahan of
yellow fever.
Daniel McIntyre - With Mary Beth, he fathers
Carlotta and Lionel Mayfair. Though it is confirmed
that not only is Mary Beth's daughter Stella in fact
Julien's daughter/granddaughter, but that Julien's son Cortland
(mother Suzette) fathered Antha Mayfair with Stella.
By this time, the pattern of fathering children by witches too
close in relation demonstrates that the witch born of the
union tends to be rather weak in terms of power. At this
point in the line of witches, Mary Beth Mayfair is the only real
exception.
Sean Lacy - Antha runs away from First Street to
New York City and falls for this painter, with whom she shares
an apartment in Greenwich Village. When she discovers she
is pregnant, Lacy is not exactly pleased. Upon his death,
she is taken back to New Orleans by Carlotta after Amanda Grady
Mayfair contacts her. Amanda Grady Mayfair is the
estranged wife of Cortland Mayfair and her line is referred to
as the "Grady Mayfairs."
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