From Banks of Elbert: The Genealogical Record of the Banks Family of Elbert County, Georgia, 3rd edition, Sarah Banks Franklin, Elbert Augustine Banks, M.D., compiled by Georgia, Butt Young; Heritage Papers, Danielsville, Georgia: 1972, pp. 29-30.

The Royal and Baronial and Most Noble Order fo the Garter ancestry of descendants of the distinguished immigrant, COLONAL JOHN ALSTON, who was of royal descent from King Edward III of England.

King Edward III, 1312-77; m. 1328 Philippa of Hainault, daughter of William, County of Holland and Hainault. Both are buried at Westminster.

Joan Beaufort, d. 13 Nov. 1440; m (2) as his second wife Sir Ralph de Neville, K.G., ca 1346-1425, 1st Earl of Westmoreland, 1397.

Sir Richard de Neville, K.G., Earl of Salisbury; m. 1425 Alice de Montagu, d. before Feb. 1462/3, daughter of Sir Thomas de Montagu, K.G., Earl of Salisbury.

Sir John de Neville, K.G., Marquis Montagu, Earl of Northumberland, 2 May 1465; m. Isabel de Ingelthorpe, of royal descent from King Edward I, of England.

Lucy de Neville, d. Bagshott Manor, Surrey, 31 March 1534, widow of Sir Thomas FitzWilliams of Aldwrke, York, m. Sir Anthony Browne, Knight, d. 19 Nov. 1506 (will proved 1506). Lieutenant of Calais and Standard Bearer of King Henry VII.

Sir Anthoy Browne, K.G. (installed 1539) d. 1548; was an executor to the will of Henry VIII; (1) Alice (Alys) Gage, daughter of Sir John Gage, K.G., Constable of the Tower. (Knights of the Garter 1348-1939; Collins Peerage, etc)

Anthony Browne, d. 1592, Viscount Montagu, 1554; m (1) Jane Radcliffe, daughter of John Radcliffe, 1st Earl of Sussex.

Anthony Browne m. Mary Dormer, 3rd daughter of Sir William Dormer, K.G.

Mary Browne m. Edward Lee of Stantonbury, Bucks.

Dorothy Lee m. as his 1st wife Sir John Temple, Knight and Baronet, of Stowe and Statonbury, Bucks, d. 1632. (Temple Genealogy)

Dorothy Temple, buried at Parvenham, 5 December 1668; m. at Odell 4 January 1634 John Alston, of the Inner Temple, buried at Parvenham. (Visitation of Bedford, 1634; will of Sir Thomas Alston, brother of above)

(Reference: Vol. II "Living Descendants of Blood Royal" pages 134-135)

John Alston of Parvenham, d. 1704, mentioned in will of his father; m. Anne Wallis, daughter of John Wallis, one of the founders of the Royal Society, and son of the Rev. John Wallis.

Colonel John Alston, Baptized at Felmersham, Bedford, 5 December 1673; d. in Chowan Co., N.C., 1758; emigrated to North Carolina 1694, was a J.P. 24 October 1724, a Captain until 1725, a Major until 1729, afterwards a Colonel, sheriff of Chowan Co. 1764; m. Mary Clark, daughter of John Clark. (The Allstons and Alstons, by J.A. Groves, M.D., 1901, pp. 67-74)

[Col.] Solomon Alston of Warren Co. will dated 4 September 1780, codicil to same dated 18 April 1784; m. Ann (Nancy) Hinton, about 1729. (Ibid. pp. 132-136)

Charity Alston, , b. 19 January 1743; m. Captain James Jones, d. before September 1777, will dated 10 March 1775, was Captain of Light Horse 1776, and a member of the State Senate from Wake Co., N.C. 1777. (Ibid. pp. 173-74)

Rachel Jones m. 27 November 1788 Ralph Banks, 1757-1824, who removed from Granville Co., N.C. to Elbert Co., Ga., with his father 25 December 1785, (Ibid., p. 176)