Waller family

These Edmund Wallers are listed here father to son or grandson, or uncle to nephew: Waller's first wife Anne Banks died in childbirth leaving a surviving daughter Elizabeth[6] or Anne (1634-), wife to William Dormer, Dormer the splendid, (died 1683), son of Sir Robert Dormer, Kt.

He married secondly in 1644[7] Mary Bracey (d.1677), (or Bressy, Bresse or Breaux),[8] of Thame or possibly of somewhere in France, and went over to Calais, afterwards taking up his residence at Rouen.

His descendant Rachel Waller, daughter of Edmund Waller VI or VII, considering the Breux family's connections with Barbadoes wrote in 1939 that: this probably gave rise to the assumption that she was not of pure European blood.

In support of this theory, we may compare the portrait of the poet with those of his descendants.

In these latter, the long face and aquiline lineaments of the poet have given way to round blunt features and curly black hair.