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Lydia Denison

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• • 5th Great-grandmother of Peggy Whitson — 8th Generation
  • Ahnentafel No:
  • 229 
  • Father:
  • Nathan Denison 
  • Mother:
  • Ann Carey   
  • Birth Date:
  • 27 Apr 1747 
  • Birth Location:
  • Stonington, New London, Connecticut 
  • Christening Date:
  • 10 MAY 1746 [sic] 
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  • Spouse Name:
  • Joshua Booth Elderkin
  • Marriage Date:
  • 16 Oct 1769 
  • Marriage Location:
  • Windham, Windham Co., Connecticut 
  • Child:

  Joshua Booth Elderkin Jr. (Ahnentafel No:114 )

• Sources for Lydia Denison

  • ¹ Boston Evening Transcript: Genealogy Pages, 1911-1940, 10 DEC 1919, p. 10, No. 7835.
  • ² Boston Evening Transcript: Genealogy Pages, 1911-1940, 02 MAY 1912, No. 8822.
  • ³ Connecticut: Vital Records (The Barbour Collection), 1630-1870, Windham, p. 83, Marriage of Joshua Booth Elderkin and Lydia Denison.
  • ⁴ Elderkin, Dyer White, Genealogy of the Elderkin Family with Intermarriages: Containing Family Records from John 1st, Who Came England in . . ., Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania: Press of Fisher, Stewart and Co. Ltd. (1888), 23.
  • ⁵ Weaver, William L., Elderkin Historical Series, No. 1, History of Ancient Windham, Genealogy, Elderkin, n. p.: Republished by Roland D. Elderkin (1949), 21-22.
  • ⁶ White, Elizabeth Pearson, John Howland of the Mayflower, Vol. 1, Camden, Maine: Picton Press (1990, 7th printing 2014), 460.

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