Ancestry of
Gillian Anderson

Movie, Television, and Stage Actress

Julia Ann Simmons

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• • 5th Great-grandmother of Gillian Anderson — 8th Generation
  • Ahnentafel No:
  • 165 
  • Father:
  • Jeremiah Simmons 
  • Mother:
  • Elizabeth R. Crossman   
  • Birth Date:
  • 19 Aug 1787 
  • Birth Location:
  • Philadelphia, Philadelphia Co., Pennsylvania 
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  • Death Date:
  • 16 Sep 1853 
  • Death Location:
  • Woodbury, Gloucester, New Jersey 
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  • Spouse Name:
  • Samuel Pote Watkins
  • Marriage Date:
  • 21 May 1805 
  • Marriage Location:
  • Philadelphia, Philadelphia Co., Pennsylvania 
  • Child:

  Simmons Watkins (Ahnentafel No:82 )

• Sources for Julia Ann Simmons

  • ¹ General Society of Mayflower Descendants Membership Applications, 1620-1920, General No. 15691, Supplemental 01 application for Viola Joyce (Watkins) Fitler.
  • ² Membership Application to the General Society of Mayflower Descendants, Plymouth, Massachusetts and Salt Lake City, Utah (2019), General No. 80528.
  • ³ Hughes, Thomas Patrick and Frank Munsell, editors, American Ancestry: Giving the Name and Descent in the Male Line of Americans Whose Ancestors Settled in the U.S., Vol. 05, Albany, New York: Joel Munsell's Sons (1890), 72.
  • ⁴ Rowe, Henry S., The Ancestry of John Simmons: Founder of Simmons College, Cambridge, Massachusetts: Riverside Press (1933), 31.

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