Ancestry of
Kit Harington

TV Actor - “Game of Thrones”

William Cecil

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• • 12th Great-grandfather of Kit Harington — 15th Generation
  • Ahnentafel No:
  • 23028 
  • Father:
  • Richard Cecil 
  • Mother:
  • Jane Heckington   
  • Birth Date:
  • 13 Sep 1520 
  • Birth Location:
  • Bourne, Lincolnshire, England 
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  • Death Date:
  • 4 Aug 1598 
  • Death Location:
  • Cecil House, Westminster, London, England 
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  • Spouse Name:
  • Mary Cheke
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  • Child:

  Thomas Cecil (Ahnentafel No:11514 )

  • Notes: 

  • 1st Baron Burghley

• Sources for William Cecil

  • ¹ Dennis, G. Ravenscroft, The Cecil Family, Boston and New York: Houghton Mifflin Company (1914), 15-78.
  • ² Roberts, Gary Boyd, The Royal Descents of 600 Immigrants to the American Colonies or the United States (2 vols.), Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Co. (2008), 189, 353.
  • ³ Weis, Frederick Lewis, et. al., Ancestral Roots of Certain American Colonists Who Came to America Before 1700, 8th Edition, Baltimore, Maryland: Genealogical Publishing Company (2004), 23.
  • ⁴ Wikipedia, "William Cecil, 1st Baron Burghley", _1st_Baron_Burghley, (accessed 08/29/2014).

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