Romney Family Ancestry

The descendants of George Romney are well connected to the Hunstman, Pratt, Eyring, Kimball families.

Ancestry of Mitt Romney

 * George Romney (1584-) - born in Tonbridge, Kent, Eng -
 * George Romney (1616-) - born in Tonbridge, Kent, Eng and married to Francis Diker
 * George Rumley (1642-1737) - married Jane Burrow and moved to Dalton in Furness, Lancashire, England and married Margaret Atkinson.
 * Thomas Rumney (1709-1776) - lived in Dalton in Furness, Lancashire, England and married Margaret Atkinson.
 * George Romney (1738-1793) - lived in Dalton in Furness, Lancashire, England and married Eleanor Park.
 * George Romney (1781-1859) - lived in Dalton in Furness, Lancashire, England and married Sarah King.
 * Miles Romney (1806–1877) - was born in Dalton in Furness, Lancashire, England and married Elizabeth Gaskell there in 1830. They converted to the LDS Church and immigrated to Nauvoo and later to Utah. Romney died in St. George, Utah on May 3, 1877. He was an architect and designed the St. George Tabernacle and Brigham Young Winter Home and Office,
 * Miles Park Romney (1843-1904) - born in Nauvoo and married in 1862, to Hannah Hood Hill at Salt Lake City, Utah. He was the president of the St. George Social Hall Company and the St. George Dramatic Association, and also served as a chief of police, attorney-at-law, newspaper editor, and architect.
 * Gaskell Romney (1871–1955) - born in Utah and married Anna Amelia Pratt (1876-1926) (granddaughter of Mormon pioneer, Parley P Pratt) in Colonia Dublan, Mexico, where their families were living at the time.
 * George Wilcken Romney (1907-1995) was an American businessman and Republican Party politician. He was chairman and CEO of American Motors, the 43rd Governor of Michigan, and the United States Secretary of Housing and Urban Development. He campaigned for the republican nomination for US President in 1968 but fell significantly behind Richard Nixon. His wife, Lenore Romney, was a candidate for the Michigan U.S. Senate seat.
 * Mitt Romney (1947-) - Current US Presidential Candidiate, and former governor of Massachusetts (and distant cousin to another US Presidential, Jon Huntsman, former governor of Utah). He was also chairman of the 2004 Winter Olympics Organizing Committee.  He has also had leadership positions in the LDS church as a missionary to France, bishop of the Belmont Massachusetts Ward and then President of the LDS Boston Massachusetts Stake.  Today (2012) he is considered the family patriarch.

Other notable figures

 * Jon Huntsman, Jr is US Presidential Candidate, former governor of Utah, ambassador to China. He is a great-great-great grandson of Parley Pratt and grandson to David B Haight.