Dragonrider Bloodlines
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A-1

Though in The Chronicles of Pern: First Fall Emily Boll is mentioned as "Governor Emily Boll of Altair" other sources clearly indicate she had been governor of First Centauri. I have therefore assumed that Emily originally came from, and was born on Altair and later became governor of First Centauri. Emily was a widow when she came to Pern. She came alone, and in Dragonsdawn it is written that none of her children, all adults, had wished to accompany her on her one-way journey [DD].
Pierre de Courci is probably of French descent or at least his ancestors originally came from France or another French speaking country or colony.
The relationship between Pierre and Emily, who was called Em for short, started five weeks after the first colonists landed on Pern. Emily and Pierre were "an unlikely combination, but that was half the pleasure of it" [DD/1:118]. Pierre was never actually Lord Holder of Pern because the term was not yet in use early in the First Pass. It seems obvious that there was no issue from the marriage between Pierre and Emily, who was past childbearing age [DD/1:118]. But because of the practice of fostering, a practice that was established relatively soon after the move north because of the fact that so many adults died in the fever year, I have assumed that Pierre did not only founded the settlement that would become South Boll, but that he also started fostering and adopting orphans, thus establishing the line of South(ern) Boll Lord Holders.
Concerning the Boll Bloodline we are also confronted with an inconsistency. Anne McCaffrey has Lessa remark in The Skies of Pern that "Emily Boll held those lands in her own right. I see it that the Holdership has come full circle and about time" [SoP/378], which, considering what was written before in especially The Ford of Red Hanrahan [CoP-FoRH], cannot be the case. This inconsistency could be reasoned away if we consider the fact that historical data about the early period after the move north will have been extremely sketchy since it seems reasonable to assume that not even Aivas would have been able to enlighten the later Pernese generations about that period. Aivas will have had access to data about Emily Boll and her relationship with Pierre de Courci however and might have deduced that, since the Hold was called Boll, she might have been its founder (which we know was not the case, it was only named after her). This theory might be considered strengthened by the fact that, when Lady Janissian is called in (after the voting) an heirloom diamond and ruby chevron pendant is mentioned that "was supposed to have been handed down from Emily Boll" [SoP/381]. If something like that is not entirely sure, the modern day Pernese cannot be sure about the earliest history of South(ern) Boll either. 

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B-1

Lord Azury's name is misprinted as Azurry in the Red Star Rising character list [RSR/character list]. The name of his spouse remains unknown, as are the names of his children. Not much information can be gleaned from the scanty references to his person in Red Star Rising/Dragonseye. If we would assume his wife's name is not mentioned because he is not married at the time, he would have probably been born around 238. For indefinable reasons, however, this seems not likely, so I have assumed (arbitrarily) that Lord Azury was a full grown, married man at the time of the end of the First Interval. This means he will probably have been born during the first two decades of the third century, which makes him between 38 and 58 Turns of age at the start of the Second Pass. This also means that he probably died during that Pass, although it's possible that he survived the Second Pass in case he was born nearer 220 than 200.
The fact that nothing in Lord Azury's name refers in any way to the names of either Pierre de Courci or Emily Boll is another indication that it was probably a fosterling who became Lord Holder of South(ern) Boll after Pierre de Courci retired from the management. 

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F-1

Lord Ratoshigan was a thin man with a long thin, bony face (pinched nostrils above a thin, pinch-lipped mouth and hard small eyes in dry sockets) and had an overbearing manner [Mor/4:59]. Masterhealer Capiam observed that "The Lord Holder looked considerably more unwell than the men dying in the infirmary beds" [Mor/4:59]. This leads me to believe that Lord Ratoshigan was rather well advanced in Turns at the outbreak of the Great Plague in 1541 and I subsequently would place his Turn of birth somewhere between 1470 and 1490. He probably survived the plague, since there is no indication in Moreta to assume he didn't, and must have died during the early decades of the Sixth Interval. 
The names of his wife, or wives, and his children are unknown and not mentioned in the existing Sixth Pass literature.

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J-1

J-11

Lord Sangel was already a grandfather when  Menolly entered the Harper Hall, where his granddaughter Pona was studying at the time (2515). Although this fact does not give too much information about Lord Sangel's age we can safely assume he was not a young man anymore. When we assume Pona was about fifteen Turns of age when she stayed at the Harper Hall, a marriage age of about twenty Turns is assumed, and if Pona's father or mother was one of the elder children, Sangel must have been born about 60 Turns prior to Menolly starting her studies at Harper Hall, which places his Turn of birth around 2455 and makes him about the same age as Masterharper Robinton.
In The Masterharper of Pern Lord Sangel is mentioned only once: he was one of the Lord Holders who was present at the Lord Holder's march to Nabol which took place after Fax had taken over Ruatha Hold in 2495 [MHoP]. This means he must have assumed his position as Lord Holder of Southern Boll prior to 2495 in which Turn he was about forty Turns old. This probably also means that his father died prior to 2495. When he was in his eightieth decade Lord Sangel started to deteriorate strongly and Lady Marella ran South(ern) Boll Hold from 2534 onwards, with Janissian acting as her steward [SoP/378]. In The Skies of Pern it is said that Lord Sangel's sons died in the plague (for which we will undoubtedly have to read: a plague, which would mean they died prior to the time of Aivas started dispensing his vast medical knowledge to the Healercraft) [SoP/379].
It seems unlikely that Pona was a daughter of Lord Sangel's heir and prospective Lord Holder, so I have one child as the next Lord Holder and another as either the mother or father of Pona. Although she was a granddaughter of Lord Sangel it is unknown if he was her maternal or paternal grandfather, so I had to take that into consideration, too.

J-12

J-14

J-111

J-112

The names of Pona's parents are unknown, but the fact that she is a granddaughter of Lord Sangel of Boll is clearly mentioned in Dragonsinger and is reason enough to include her and her parents into the Boll Bloodline [H2]. It is unknown whether Lord Sangel is Pona's maternal or paternal grandfather so she could be a child of either a son or daughter of Lord Sangel.

J-121

J-141

Warlow, mentioned as a son of Lord Sangel's youngest sister, was not seriously considered as a candidate for the Lord Holdership of Southern Boll Hold because he hadn't put himself forward to assume it, despite the fact that three of his sons were serving Lady Marella and the Hold in minor capacities. Beside that it might have been important that Warlow was the son of a sister of Lord Sangel and not a brother [SoP/379].

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