Tresayle

Quick meaning: Tresayle is a noun meaning (obsolete) A grandfather's grandfather; a great-great-grandfather.

Meaning

(obsolete) A grandfather's grandfather; a great-great-grandfather.

Example Sentences

If any one wishes to speak of a great-great-grandfather (tresayle) through some side line, as his grandmother’s mother’s father, he has to use an explanatory mode like the above.

[…]in 1834, he prefixes to his diary a record of his ancestors, running back four generations to his tresayle, or great-great-grandfather, Joseph Towne, living in Topsfield, 1684.

In April 1600 Delahay protested to Sir Robert that on a Sunday in March 'I was assaulted and violently pulled […] , and where men see Richard Cecil your tresayle [actually his great-grand brother] use'-by the procurement of John Arnold.

However, two individuals a and b whose most recent common ancestor c is the quatrayle of the former and the tresayle (great-great-grandfather) of the latter may belong to the same lineage, because the genealogical chain connecting them consists of nine degrees of kinship.

Word Forms

• tresayles

Related Words

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