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Yes! Somehow we got to have a heraldic crest for the Childs name.
Looking at our lineage has made me very mindful of the evil within the hearts of mankind. Especially when looking at the back-stories of my ancestors

In the past I’ve played around with the family tree and this journey started for me with a cousin (Ted Gilberd from Auckland in New Zealand) of my grandfather William Gilberd (tracing the Gilberd lineage and producing a Gilberd book)
Having a bit of time on my hands since retiring, I ended up tracing my lineage, generation by generation, all the way back to Adam & Eve with some reliance upon the tentative links from legend. To manage the process, I’ve mostly not included most siblings off the direct line and stop when the trail “peters out”, but it has been quite an interesting journey.

So it appears that I come from the Hebrew Kings through David, down through all of the Kings of Judah, then over to Ireland, Scotland and Wales with the Vikings mixed in- whist another line goes back through the Roman Emperor Augustus(remember that census imposed upon Joseph & Mary at the birth of Jesus), Saint Paul’s mum Pricilla, back in England through Old King Cole, back down through the Emperors Constantine, Saint Augustine of Hipo’s sister, Charlemagne, Fulk Emperor/King of Jerusalem, then the Vandals who burned Rome, William the Conqueror, bad King John 1st, Mary Queen of Scots and her son King James who had great uncle Willy Gilberd as his surgeon (Chief Scientist of England under QE1)
My favourite is the french Duke whose wife drowned him in a wine vat. Many were caught with their pants down or dresses up and executed and one wife even got caught with her son, with both getting the chop.

A number of them were the first spreaders of the Christian Gospels into Wales and Russia.

Here is a dump of what I’ve come up with so far [Alex Childs’ family tree] BTW- don’t take any notice of the order of marriage as it goes from spouse selected, not chronologically