Ancestry of
Bonny Jean Godfrey

(1930–2008)

Priscilla Corson

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• • 2nd Great-grandmother of Bonny Jean Godfrey — 5th Generation
  • Ahnentafel No:
  • 19 
  • Father:
  • James Corson 
  • Mother:
  • Elizabeth Edwards   
  • Birth Date:
  • 15 May 1817 
  • Birth Location:
  • New Jersey 
  • Christening Date:
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  • Christening Location:
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  • Death Date:
  • 11 Nov 1854 
  • Death Location:
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  • Burial Date:
  • 11 Nov 1854 
  • Burial Location:
  • Calvary Baptist Church Cemetery, Ocean View, Cape May, New Jersey 
  • Spouse Name:
  • Thompson Van Gilder
  • Marriage Date:
  • 20 JAN or FEB 1838 
  • Marriage Location:
  • Cape May County, New Jersey 
  • Child:

  Emily Cameron Van Gilder (Ahnentafel No:9 )

• Sources for Priscilla Corson

  • ¹ Daughters of the American Revolution Genealogical Research System, Ancestor #A036715.
  • ² Federal Census, NJ, Cape May County, 1850, Dennis, Image 34 of 40.
  • ³ Gravestone image at FindAGrave.com, (accessed 02/01/2021).
  • ⁴ New Jersey, U.S., Marriage Records, 1670-1965, Marriage record for Thompson Vangilder and Priscilla Corson.
  • ⁵ Pennsylvania and New Jersey, U.S., Church and Town Records, 1669-2013, Burial record for Priscilla Van Gilder.
  • ⁶ Tennessee, U.S., Deaths and Burials Index, 1874-1955, Death record for daughter Emily Cameron Godfrey.
  • ⁷ Corson, Orville, Three Hundred Years with the Corson Families in America: Including the Staten Island-Pennsylvania Corsons . . ., Vol. 2, Burlington, Vermont: Free Press Interstate Printing Corporation (1939), 74, 104.