1642 Ld. Robartes Speech in Resol. Earl of Essex 5 His noble valiant father was so deare unto the people that his name is never mention'd but with much expressions of..affection,..so that he may shew that fortes creantur fortibus, valour is derived from the Ancestory to the Posterity.

1798 Speech Earl of Chatham in Sketch Life Burke in E. Burke Beauties I. p. lxiii Three millions of people, the genuine descendants of a valiant and pious ancestory.

1868 G. Wakeman Official Proc. National Democratic Convent. 96 The descendants of the founders of the Commonwealth, who, representing in their characters, as well as lineage, the virtues and heroism of a worthy ancestory.

1894 Proc. 48th Ann. Assembly M.P. Grand Council Royal & Select Masters of Pa. 34 It does not much matter whether a man's blood flowed down to him through the golden pipes of a royal ancestory or..the leaden pipes of a peasant ancestory.

1902 F. L. Davis Rep. 32nd Ann. Meeting Vermont Dairymen's Assoc. 56 They were born of an ancestory that had spent its life in the open air in the rugged struggle for existence and homes.

2016 @WessexVoice 18 May in twitter.com (O.E.D. Archive) Surprised though considering part of his ancestory were welsh labourers.

1650 T. Bayly Herba Parietis x. 58 Make your retreat as honorable as you can, and let your behaviour be such, to your poore Servant, as becomming the honour of your Ancestory.

1718 A. Nisbet Ess. Armories ii. 29 From which rises the Distinction of Gentlemen of Coat-Armour in the Father and Son, and Gentlemen of Blood in the Grandson or Great-grandson, and from the last Gentlemen of Ancestory.

1797 W. J. Alldridge in Universal Merchant (Amer. ed. 1) p. xxvi. This grandeur was not that kind of pompous beggary now so much in vogue, especially in Ireland and some other European nations, where the pride of ancestory in the poverty of posterity, render thousands of persons truly contemptible.

1839 A. Campbell in R. Owen & A. Campbell Deb. Evidences Christianity 194 The Jewish nation is still in existence, and we see them still holding fast to their venerable oracles..and able to trace up their ancestory to old Abraham and Sarah.

1881 Central Poland-China Rec. 3 p. ix. The principal object in pedigreeing stock is not for the..sole purpose of showing up at a sale a long line of ancestory.

1918 Michigan Technic May 72/1 In his acquaintance he numbers men of many kinds, some of very great wealth, some near the point of abject poverty; some of distinguished position and of as distinguished ancestory.

2015 Sydney Morning Herald (Nexis) 19 Feb. Suburbs..such as Epping which has 29 per cent of its population with Chinese ancestory.

1650 C. Elderfield Civil Right Tythes xxxiii. 291 The former may have been our Ancestory Principles and Rules.

1894 Notts. Guardian 20 Jan. 7/2 She and young Heron had been masquerading about the house in some of the ancestory finery.