Sinopsis

As an historian and someone interested in the English Civil War-and a playwright with a drama about Oliver Cromwell under his belt-I was fascinated when my niece sent me a family tree she's been assembling that links me with Philip Henry, a 17th century Nonconformist clergyman and diarist, who, if my math is correct, is my great-grandfather seven times removed.
Although generally considered English Philip's lineage is strongly Welsh, with his grandfather, Henry Williams, a native of Brittons Ferry