![]() They refer to the Old Money families from Boston, Virginia and Philadelphia, whose ancestors were the founders of that respective city or state. The Boston Brahmin, First Families of Virginia, and Old Philadelphians are location-based terms for Old Money groups in the US. Many Old Money families are also WASPs (white Anglo-Saxon Protestants). ![]() The list included the Astors and the Vanderbilts. During the Gilded Age, The Four Hundred was used to refer to the four hundred wealthiest families in New York City. In 1844, the phrase The Upper Ten was used to refer to the 10,000 richest people in New York City. Although not all Old Money families have Blue Blood, a family with Blue Blood is more likely to be Old Money than not. Today, families whose wealth dates back only to the Gilded Age are considered Old Money.īlue Blood is a term used to refer to people descended from nobility. Those who had gained wealth around the time of the American Civil War and during the Gilded Age, were not yet considered Old Money. In the 1930s, Old Money families traced their wealth back to at least the American Revolution. In recent times, it has become less of an indicator of Old Money pedigree. Some major cities have their own versions of the Social Register. The Social Register, a list of the wealthiest and most influential American families was first published in 1887. ![]() Other families are considered Old Money when they can trace their ancestry back to the founders of a prestigious town such as New York City, for example the fictional van der Woodsens in Gossip Girl, who are descendants of Dutch settlers in New York. In the United States, the oldest Old Money families are the ones which can trace their ancestry back to the passengers on the Mayflower. Old Money is most prominent in countries where there was no aristocracy but instead an elite social class held a status nearly equal to an aristocracy.
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