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.
I have been working on a family tree of the Mayfair Witches using my own software.
I use Family Tree Maker and will use this instead of Ancestry.com due to the fact that these are fictional characters, NOT
real people.
The software can show all the ways two people on a tree are related to one another. That is important to show with the Mayfair
Witches.
FTM can also generate charts and reports which can be exported as PDF documents. Each Mayfair Relatedness page of the Parlor
has a full (and enormously sized) pedigree chart. Each Legacy Mayfair Witch has her own profile avatar, and other avatars
indicate different lines. Links to each character's Mayfair Relatedness page can be found below in the accordion menu.
This didn't come out as well as I'd hoped it would, but I managed to make an image with a transparent background of the family
tree displayed in The Witches' Companion. Instead of sections of the family tree, I wanted to display this one, which is
handy when applying averages from the above charts.
Turning Rowan Mayfair's family tree to where it moves upward instead of strictly pedigree only, the bottom left corner will
show you where in the tree each view is. An ancestor can appear several times in the same person's family tree if the person
has more than one distinct line of descent from that ancestor.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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."
