Ancestry of
Don Knotts

TV and Movie Actor

Joseph South

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• • 5th Great-grandfather of Don Knotts — 8th Generation
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  • Thomas South 
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  • Dorothy Lippington   
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  • ABT 1710 
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  • prob. Piscataway, Middlesex, New Jersey 
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  Joseph South (Ahnentafel No:72 )

• Sources for Joseph South

  • ¹ Gee, Christine South, Genealogical Notes on the South Family: From the States of New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Maryland, Virginia . . ., Greenville, South Carolina: Keys Printing Company (1963), 29, gives Joseph birth year as 1735 which is probably his son's.
  • ² MacGunnigle, Bruce Campbell, Mayflower Families Through Five Generations: Vol. 4, 3rd ed., Edward Fuller, Plymouth, Massachusetts: General Society of Mayflower Descendants (2006), 130.