That's interesting; afaik, Columbus' exact origin isn't ever quite certain. The Americas were known before Columbus, and he did research in Iceland regarding the lands to the west. Instead of concluding correctly that 'new' lands were involved, he decided that the fairly accurate figure for the circumference of the Earth estimated by Eratosthenes of Cyrene almost 1800 years before Columbus' time was wrong by more than half, and that China could be reached by sailing east. He didn't abandon that idea until well after most of the learned people of Europe as well as its politicians had concluded otherwise. His family then went to court (early in the 16th century) over compensation for the supposedly promised share of the New World loot, and that got settled for much less but a still decent haul.
Okay, I couldn’t remember the details so rather than pull out the family tree I found this on the net.
https://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20110708160112AAgYlJe
I descend from John Drummond.
Forgot to say but not from Catrina. I’d have to look up which child of John and Elizabeth.
The O’Nullain (Nolan and various spellings) were called the ancient ones of Ireland. They were usually attendants to the kings/leaders. Old Irish name and one day I hope to visit Ireland and check it out...but need to hit a lottery first...lol
Next week on Oak Island we meet Fred Nolan but from the pic I saw of him when he was younger I can definitely see a family resemblance and the portraits I have seen of Henry Sinclair very much resemble my own father...imagine that!