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    Genealogy and Historical Context of the Dwight and Harris Families: The Origins of Sir Elton John


    A documentary investigation into his ancestry and descendants.


    By Robson Vianna


    Preface


    This study is the result of a long-term genealogical investigation into the family history of Elton John, born Reginald Kenneth Dwight. Based on verifiable public records and sources recognized for their reliability—including WikiTree, FamilySearch, Geneanet, FreeBMD, regional archives of Buckinghamshire and London, as well as the article “Family Detective: Elton John” published by The Telegraph—the research reconstructs the social and familial landscape that preceded the artist’s life.


    Rather than presenting a simple enumeration of names and dates, this work traces the movement of families across generations, examining how rural villages, industrial towns, wars, poverty, and social mobility shaped the Dwight and Harris lineages. Beginning with Mary Ann Brackley and William Dwight in nineteenth-century Buckinghamshire, the narrative advances through each generation to the marriage of Stanley Dwight and Sheila Eileen Harris and ultimately arrives at Elton John.


    Throughout the investigation, conflicting records were critically analyzed, contextualized, and properly documented. The result is a cohesive historical narrative that situates Elton John’s ancestry within the broader framework of English social history, offering a deeper understanding of the roots that preceded the trajectory of one of the most influential musicians of the modern era.


    Main sources consulted:


    https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Brackley-231


    https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Dwight-92


    https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Dwight-91


    https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Shirley-1912


    https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/1435132/Family-detective-Elton-John.html


    PART I — FROM RURAL VILLAGES TO THE URBAN WORKING CLASS (c. 1860–1925)

    Around 1860, in Stoke Mandeville, Buckinghamshire, Mary Ann Brackley was born, daughter of Moses Brackley, in a setting that was still profoundly rural. Stoke Mandeville consisted of small agricultural holdings, artisanal workshops, and a population dependent on seasonal labor. Industrialization was only beginning to reach the region, slowly altering traditional forms of subsistence.

    https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Brackley-231


    Mary Ann grew up in a context in which women rarely left documentary traces of their own. Her existence is known primarily through civil records associated with marriage and children. In April 1882, in Amersham, she married William Dwight, sealing a union that would mark the beginning of the family’s social mobility.


    William Dwight did not come from an urban lineage. He was the son of James Dwight, an agricultural laborer residing in Ashley Green, and Jane (Warner) Dwight. For generations, the Dwights had lived from work in the fields, dependent on harvests, tenancies, and the instability typical of the nineteenth-century English agrarian economy.

    https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Dwight-92


    William, however, broke with this pattern. He became a boot/shoe machinist, integrating into the growing footwear industry of Chesham and Amersham—regional centers of leather manufacture. This shift represents a symbolic turning point: the transition from field to factory, from a subsistence economy to regular wage labor.


    Before Mary Ann, William had a first marriage, from which Alfred Dwight and Frederick Dwight were born. These half-brothers appear in the records as part of a reconstituted family, common in a period marked by high mortality and remarriage.


    From the union with Mary Ann, four children were born:

    Edwin Dwight, Alice Georgina Dwight, Albert John Dwight, and Gertrude Edith Dwight. Each of them grew up in an environment where manual labor and urban adaptation were central values.



    PHOTO: Edwin Dwight

    The most relevant figure for the direct lineage was Edwin Dwight. His birth appears in conflicting records—3 April 1883 or 1894, both in Chesham, Buckinghamshire. Most modern genealogies accept 1894 as the more consistent date.
    https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Dwight-91
    https://gw.geneanet.org/jybcelebs2?lang=en&n=dwight&p=edwin


    Edwin inherited his father’s trade as a shoemaker, but his career reflects the diversification of urban labor. In addition to shoe manufacturing, he worked as a cable hand, employed on electrical cable lines—a clear symbol of British modernization in the early twentieth century.

    On 3 October 1906, Edwin married Ellen Shirley in Little Missenden.
    https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Shirley-1912

    Ellen was born on 1 August 1888, the daughter of George Shirley and Sarah Ann (Payne) Shirley, in a disciplined rural environment. In adult life, she experienced the transition to Kent, where she died on 25 October 1956 in Erith, aged 68.

    The couple had six children:
    Frederick William, Edwin George, Dennis, Ivy, Percy, and Stanley Dwight.

    The youngest, Stanley Dwight, was born on 24 January 1925 in Erith, Kent, in a United Kingdom still marked by the scars of the First World War and on the eve of the transformations that would culminate in the second great global conflict.

    https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Dwight-90
    https://ancestors.familysearch.org/en/L4B2-YJR/stanley-dwight-1925-1991




    PHOTO: Ellen Shirley

    PART II — BORN ON THE MARGINS: IVY WHITE, FREDERICK HARRIS, AND THE FORMATION OF A LINEAGE OF RESILIENCE (1899–1945)
    While the Dwight family gradually advanced from the rural landscape of Buckinghamshire into the urban working class of southeast England, another story unfolded in parallel—harsher, quieter, and deeply shaped by the structures of social exclusion in industrial England. This story begins with Ivy White, a woman whose life cannot be understood without considering the institutional system into which she was born.






    PHOTO: Ivy White

    Ivy White was born on 31 December 1899 in London, within a workhouse.
    https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/White-38619

    Workhouses were not merely shelters for the poor. Established under the Poor Laws, they functioned as disciplinary institutions designed to make poverty socially undesirable. The logic was explicit: to provide only the bare minimum necessary for survival, under conditions so harsh that any external alternative—however precarious—would seem preferable. Families were separated, routines were rigid, and silence and obedience were enforced as moral virtues.

    Children born in such environments, like Ivy, grew up under constant surveillance. From their earliest years, they were subjected to strict schedules, basic nutrition, and limited functional education, aimed more at obedience and labor than at intellectual development. Familial affection was replaced by institutional rules; childhood was shortened.

    One particularly revealing aspect of Ivy’s history is the existence of two birth records, issued twelve days apart. This seemingly bureaucratic detail is, in fact, symptomatic of the administrative fragilities affecting impoverished populations at the end of the nineteenth century. Delayed, duplicated, or inconsistent registrations were common when single mothers, migrants, or indigent women dealt with overburdened and indifferent institutions.

    Ivy’s biological father was a merchant seaman who abandoned both mother and child in the early years of the twentieth century. This abandonment was not only material but also symbolic: in a society deeply shaped by rigid moral norms, paternal absence stigmatized women and children alike, restricting opportunities and reinforcing cycles of exclusion.

    Ivy’s mother—whose name remains absent from the available public records—worked tirelessly to ensure the family’s survival. Poor women in London during this period found employment primarily as laundresses, domestic servants, seamstresses, or informal factory workers. These were poorly paid, unstable, and physically exhausting roles, yet essential in preventing permanent return to institutional relief.

    During childhood and adolescence, Ivy assumed responsibilities at an early age. Children emerging from workhouses or households marked by extreme poverty were often required to contribute to the domestic economy from a very young age. This included caring for younger siblings, performing heavy household labor, and, in some cases, engaging in informal paid work during adolescence.

    Beyond the practical burden, Ivy faced social stigma. Children associated with workhouses were regarded as morally suspect, bearing the prejudice of a society that equated poverty with moral failure. This social isolation helped shape in Ivy a reserved, pragmatic, and highly adaptable disposition.

    London at the turn of the twentieth century was a city of extreme contrasts. While central avenues displayed imperial prosperity, peripheral districts such as Peckham, Camberwell, and Paddington concentrated working populations living in precarious conditions, with overcrowded housing, poor sanitation, and high infant mortality. It was in this environment that Ivy developed essential skills: an acute reading of human behavior, resource conservation, emotional resilience, and a strong sense of responsibility.

    Upon reaching adulthood, Ivy made a decision revealing her social intelligence. Upon marriage, she officially adopted the surname of her stepfather, Robert Whatling, abandoning the name of her absent biological father. This act was not merely emotional but strategic: it secured legal respectability, social stability, and symbolic protection within a system that penalized women and children who fell outside the traditional family model.

    On 22 January 1921, Ivy White married Frederick George Harris in Camberwell, Surrey.
    https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Harris-12386
    https://ancestors.familysearch.org/en/LBG9-6KQ/frederick-george-harris-1899-1952

    Frederick George Harris was born on 15 June 1899 in Paddington, London, the son of Frederick George Harris (senior) and Jane Ann (Edwards) Harris. Raised in an urban working-class family, Frederick belonged to a generation profoundly shaped by the First World War.

    Still a young man, he served as a soldier during the conflict. For men of his social class, military service was both an obligation and a radical rupture: it exposed them to the industrialized violence of modern warfare and, upon return, often placed them back into a society ill-equipped to fully absorb its veterans.

    After the war, Frederick found employment as a groundsman, a caretaker of tennis courts, at a club near Meeting House Lane, Peckham. It was modest but stable work—a valued characteristic in a period of social and economic reconstruction. His trajectory reflects that of many former servicemen: military discipline converted into civilian routine, steady labor, and localized community life.

    The union between Ivy and Frederick consolidated a stable, if modest, domestic foundation. Both brought with them experiences of deprivation, discipline, and survival. Marriage did not eliminate hardship, but it created a space of emotional and material predictability, essential for raising children.

    From this union was born Sheila Eileen Harris on 12 March 1925 in Camberwell, London.
    https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Harris-12385
    https://ancestors.familysearch.org/en/L4B2-YK9/sheila-eileen-harris-1925-2017

    Sheila grew up under the direct influence of Ivy’s history. Discipline, a strong sense of responsibility, early awareness of external hardships, and the valuation of family stability shaped her upbringing. Reliable genealogical sources indicate that Sheila was an only child, with no documented records of siblings.
    https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/195015589/sheila_eileen-farebrother

    Sheila’s childhood unfolded in a working-class urban environment where the memory of war, economic constraints, and the necessity of adaptation were constant. This formation would prove decisive when, still young, she married Stanley Dwight, definitively linking the Harris–White lineage to the Dwight lineage.

    Thus, Ivy White’s story is not merely an isolated episode of individual perseverance. It represents a lineage of quiet resilience, transmitted through everyday practices, strategic choices, and internalized values. From the rigidity of London’s workhouses to the construction of a functional postwar family, Ivy stands as one of the invisible pillars supporting, generations later, the history of Elton John.

    PART III — STANLEY DWIGHT, FAMILY ENTANGLEMENTS, AND THE FRACTURES OF THE POSTWAR ERA (1925–1991)





    When Stanley Dwight was born on 24 January 1925 in Erith, Kent, the United Kingdom was still living under the direct consequences of the First World War. It was a society marked by the loss of an entire generation of men, the reorganization of industrial labor, and a deeply ingrained social discipline. Stanley entered the world as the youngest son of Edwin Dwight (1894–1966) and Ellen Shirley (1888–1956), growing up in a working-class household in which stability was achieved through constant effort.
    https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Dwight-90
    https://ancestors.familysearch.org/en/L4B2-YJR/stanley-dwight-1925-1991

    The Dwight household embodied traditional English working-class values: emotional restraint, respect for authority, the valorization of manual labor, and a rigid sense of duty. These values were not abstract ideals—they were practical responses to decades of economic instability, war, and limited social mobility. From an early age, Stanley was shaped by this culture of quiet discipline.

    Upon reaching young adulthood, Stanley joined the Royal Air Force (RAF), one of the most structured and hierarchical institutions in the United Kingdom. His service took place during and after the Second World War, a period in which the RAF played a central role in Britain’s defense. Stanley attained the rank of Flight Lieutenant, indicating not only longevity but competence within the military structure.

    Military experience reinforced traits already present in his upbringing: emotional rigidity, an emphasis on order, and a pragmatic outlook on life. As with many veterans, the return to civilian life was not simple. The transition from the highly regulated world of the armed forces to the domestic sphere often produced emotional tensions that were difficult to translate into everyday affection.

    In January 1945, still in the context of the war’s conclusion, Stanley Dwight married Sheila Eileen Harris in Pinner, Middlesex.
    https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Dwight-90
    https://ancestors.familysearch.org/en/L4B2-YJR/stanley-dwight-1925-1991

    Sheila, born on 12 March 1925, carried with her the emotional inheritance of Ivy White, shaped by resilience, pragmatism, and urban survival. The marriage between Stanley and Sheila represented the union of two distinct working-class lineages: one forged in the rural landscape and regional industries of Buckinghamshire; the other shaped by institutional poverty and early twentieth-century urban London.

    From this union was born, on 25 March 1947, Reginald Kenneth Dwight in Pinner, Middlesex—the future Elton John. Reginald’s childhood unfolded in an environment where discipline, emotional silence, and rigid expectations coexisted with an early musical talent that stood in stark contrast to the family’s social and emotional universe.

    Over time, the marriage between Stanley and Sheila deteriorated. Accumulated tensions—differences in temperament, incompatible emotional expectations, and the weight of both partners’ prior experiences—culminated in a divorce finalized on 4 May 1962. The separation profoundly altered the family structure and had a direct impact on Reginald’s emotional development.

    Roy (Royston Edward) Dwight — family connection and genealogical ambiguity

    Parallel to Stanley’s nuclear family emerges the figure of Royston Edward “Roy” Dwight, born on 9 January 1933 in London and deceased on 9 April 2002.
    https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Dwight-894
    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roy_Dwight

    Roy is described in multiple sources as the son of Edwin Dwight and Doris Hinckesman, which would place him as Stanley Dwight’s half-brother and therefore Elton John’s paternal uncle. This relationship is widely accepted in biographies, journalistic accounts, and prevailing genealogical records.

    There are, however, discrepancies in some collaborative family trees that describe him as a cousin. These divergences reflect common issues in collaborative genealogy, particularly when complete civil records are not digitally accessible. Nevertheless, multiple public accounts reinforce the close familial connection between Roy and Elton John—including Elton’s musical performances at events associated with Roy, such as his wedding.

    Roy Dwight’s life followed a distinct trajectory: he became a professional footballer and later a coach, integrating into the British sporting world. His career represents a branch of the Dwight family that achieved public visibility outside the artistic sphere.

    Stanley Dwight’s second marriage and a new family configuration

    Following his divorce from Sheila, Stanley Dwight entered into a second marriage with Edna M. Clough, a figure cited by name in several biographies, including Sir Elton: The Definitive Biography by Philip Norman, as well as in analyses concerning the historical accuracy of the film Rocketman.
    https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Dwight-90
    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rocketman_(film)

    From this second marriage were born four children, widely recognized as Elton John’s half-siblings, though with limited public access to digitized civil documentation. The names most frequently cited in journalistic and genealogical sources are:

    Geoff (Geoffrey) Dwight — the most publicly visible, having given interviews in which he criticized the portrayal of Stanley Dwight in the film Rocketman.
    https://www.nme.com/news/music/elton-johns-half-brother-slams-rocketman-million-miles-away-truth-dad-2504276

    Simon Dwight — mentioned in genealogical databases and biographical summaries.
    https://www.myheritage.com/research/record-10182-2411720/simon-dwight-in-biographical-summaries-of-notable-people

    Stanley E. Dwight (Stan Jr.) — cited as having been born in Ilford in 1964, bearing his father’s name.
    https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Dwight-90

    Robert A. Dwight — listed as a son of Stanley and Edna in consolidated genealogical trees.
    https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Dwight-90

    This second family developed alongside Elton John’s public and artistic life, with relationships described over the decades as distant and marked by silence, reflecting emotional patterns already present in earlier generations.

    The closing of Stanley Dwight’s life

    Stanley Dwight died in 1991, bringing to an end a life shaped by duty, hierarchy, and emotional reserve. His trajectory encapsulates the experience of many twentieth-century British men: sons of laborers, veterans of war, husbands in strained marriages, and fathers whose emotional limitations reflected historical context more than conscious individual choice.

    Stanley’s story—with its bonds, fractures, and silences—constitutes an essential element for understanding not only Elton John’s biography, but also the internal conflicts and emotional tensions that permeate his artistic work.

    The following section is PART IV, written as the chronological and narrative conclusion of the lineage, preserving all information and all links without reduction, and expanding the emotional, social, and historical context without exceeding documented facts.

    PART IV — REGINALD KENNETH DWIGHT, DAVID FURNISH, AND THE CONTINUITY OF A LINEAGE IN THE TWENTY-FIRST CENTURY (1947–PRESENT)

    Reginald Kenneth Dwight was born on 25 March 1947 in Pinner, Middlesex, England, the only child of Stanley Dwight (1925–1991) and Sheila Eileen Harris (1925–2017). His birth took place in a Britain undergoing reconstruction, still marked by postwar scarcity, rationing, and a social culture that valued emotional restraint, discipline, and conformity.
    https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Dwight-90

    Reginald’s domestic environment reflected the convergence of two distinct inheritances. On one side stood the military rigidity and emotional silence inherited from the Dwight lineage; on the other, the urban resilience and social awareness transmitted by the Harris–White line. This combination produced a functional yet emotionally restrictive household, in which talent and sensitivity rarely found open expression.

    From a very early age, Reginald displayed extraordinary musical aptitude. Still a child, he showed exceptional facility at the piano and was admitted to the Royal Academy of Music, an experience that dramatically expanded his cultural and artistic horizons. Music became for him not only a vocation, but also a form of emotional refuge—a means of processing familial silences and internal tensions.

    Reginald’s adolescence and youth were marked by conflict between personal identity and social expectations. Emotional distance from his father, Stanley Dwight, and a complex relationship with his mother profoundly shaped his subjective development. These elements recur throughout his musical work, frequently expressed through themes of loneliness, belonging, and the search for affection.

    By adopting the stage name Elton John, Reginald did more than launch a public career—he symbolically redefined his identity. His meteoric rise within the global music industry transformed the young man from Pinner into one of the most recognizable figures in twentieth-century popular culture, spanning decades, styles, and generations.

    Over the years, and following periods of excess and personal crisis that are well documented, Elton John underwent a profound reassessment of his emotional life. It was in this context that, in 1993, he met David James Furnish at a gathering held in his own home, shortly after a period of rehabilitation and a deliberate search for emotional stability.
    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Furnish
    https://www.nickiswift.com/187372/the-untold-truth-of-elton-johns-husband-david-furnish/
    https://www.hellomagazine.com/celebrities/2019102579683/elton-johns-mother-in-law-gladys-furnish-passes-away/

    David James Furnish was born on 25 October 1962 in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. He is the son of Jack Furnish, an executive at the pharmaceutical company Bristol-Myers, and Gladys Furnish, a homemaker. He grew up in a Canadian middle-class environment, distinct from Elton’s British working-class origins. David has two brothers: John Furnish, the elder, and Peter Furnish, the younger.
    https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Furnish

    The relationship between Elton and David developed gradually, grounded in emotional partnership, stability, and mutual support—elements absent from many of Elton’s earlier relationships. Their union was publicly acknowledged and legally formalized on 21 December 2005, when the couple registered a civil partnership in Windsor following the legalization of such unions in the United Kingdom.
    https://www.bbc.com/news/entertainment-arts-30570196

    Following the subsequent legalization of same-sex marriage, Elton John and David Furnish converted their civil partnership into a full marriage on 21 December 2014, exactly nine years after their initial registration.
    https://people.com/celebrity/elton-john-marries-david-furnish-again-in-england/

    The formation of a family marked a decisive turning point in Elton’s life trajectory. Together, Elton and David became parents to two sons, both born through surrogacy, using the same sperm donor and the same surrogate, as the couple has publicly stated.

    Their first child, Zachary Jackson Levon Furnish-John, was born on 25 December 2010 in Los Angeles, California, United States.
    https://people.com/parents/elton-john-david-furnish-welcome-son-zachary-jackson-levon/

    Their second son, Elijah Joseph Daniel Furnish-John, was born on 11 January 2013, also in Los Angeles.
    https://www.bbc.com/news/entertainment-arts-20967818

    Both boys carry the compound surname Furnish-John, explicitly symbolizing the union of two distinct family trajectories. According to interviews given by Elton to Rolling Stone and BBC Radio 4, their upbringing has been guided by values of education, empathy, social responsibility, and awareness of privilege.
    https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-news/elton-john-talks-fatherhood-children-normal-life-241908/
    https://www.bbc.com/news/entertainment-arts-23573313

    Elton and David have consistently stated that they seek to provide their children with as normal a childhood as possible—protected from excessive exposure and centered on principles of work, kindness, and respect. This stance represents a clear rupture with earlier emotional patterns within the family lineage, which had been marked by distance and affective silence.

    Epilogue — Lineage, memory, and continuity

    The trajectory of the Dwight–Harris–White–Furnish–John family spans more than a century and a half of social history. It begins in the rural villages of Buckinghamshire, passes through London workhouses, factories, world wars, and the tensions of the British working class, and ultimately reaches the global stages of popular music and the construction of a contemporary, plural family.

    This genealogy is not merely a sequence of names and dates. It is a narrative of constant adaptation, in which each generation responded to the constraints of its time with the resources available. The legacy transmitted was not solely genetic, but also emotional, cultural, and social.

    When this lineage is understood in its entirety, it becomes evident that Elton John’s story does not emerge from chance, but from a long chain of real lives—marked by effort, rupture, silence, and, ultimately, reconstruction.

    — Robson Vianna



    SOURCES:

    WikiTree
    https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Brackley-231
    https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Dwight-92
    https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Dwight-91
    https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Shirley-1912
    https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Harris-12386
    https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/White-38619
    https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Harris-12385
    https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Dwight-90
    https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Dwight-894

    FamilySearch
    https://ancestors.familysearch.org/en/LBG9-6KQ/frederick-george-harris-1899-1952
    https://ancestors.familysearch.org/en/L4B2-YK9/sheila-eileen-harris-1925-2017
    https://ancestors.familysearch.org/en/L4B2-YJR/stanley-dwight-1925-1991

    Geneanet
    https://gw.geneanet.org/jybcelebs2?lang=en&n=dwight&p=edwin

    FreeBMD
    https://www.freebmd.org.uk

    Ancestry
    https://www.ancestry.com/search/collections/7814

    FindMyPast
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    The Telegraph
    https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/1435132/Family-detective-Elton-John.html

    Wikipedia
    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roy_Dwight
    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Furnish
    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rocketman_(film)

    BBC
    https://www.bbc.com/news/entertainment-arts-30570196
    https://www.bbc.com/news/entertainment-arts-20967818
    https://www.bbc.com/news/entertainment-arts-23573313

    People
    https://people.com/celebrity/elton-john-marries-david-furnish-again-in-england
    https://people.com/parents/elton-john-david-furnish-welcome-son-zachary-jackson-levon

    Rolling Stone
    https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-news/elton-john-talks-fatherhood-children-normal-life-241908

    NME
    https://www.nme.com/news/music/elton-johns-half-brother-slams-rocketman-million-miles-away-truth-dad-2504276

    Smooth Radio
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    AmoMama
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    MyHeritage
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    Hello Magazine
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    Nicki Swift
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    Author’s projects
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    https://allmylinks.com/robsonvianna

    NOTE:

    This article remains open to revisions, additions, and substantiated corrections, in accordance with the principles of responsible historical and genealogical research. Genealogy is a dynamic discipline, continually enriched by the discovery of new records, the ongoing digitization of archives, and the critical reassessment of previously known sources.

    Occasional discrepancies in dates, locations, names, or family relationships may arise due to variations in civil, ecclesiastical, or census records, as well as transcription errors, documentary gaps, or divergences among collaborative databases. Whenever such inconsistencies are identified, they should be clearly detailed and accompanied by the relevant primary or secondary source, such as civil certificates, parish registers, censuses, military records, or recognized genealogical databases.

    Documented contributions will be examined with rigorous critical standards and, when appropriate, incorporated into the text with proper historical contextualization and clear indication of the sources used. In this way, the article preserves its open, transparent, and collaborative character, maintaining the academic integrity of the study while continually expanding understanding of the family history presented here.

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    The Illustrated Elton John Timeline

    The Illustrated Elton John Timeline
    This page is part of the project “The Illustrated Elton John Timeline”, an illustrated timeline dedicated to documenting, in chronological and detailed form, the life and career of Elton John, with a strong focus on historical research, preservation, and rare material.

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