Origins

It is probably true that if an Englishman goes back far enough he or she is related to royalty. 

I can trace my dad's side without a break to the mid 1500s in a few parishes in South Devon including the one in the photo, Hope Cove, which was a small fishing village.

If you go back to the mid 1500s  you have to have had about 8000 people for you to be here. If you go back another 500 years you would probably have had to have more than the entire population of England at that time!