Ancestry of
Amy Grant

Christian/Pop Singer and Songwriter

William Ames

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• • 9th Great-grandfather of Amy Grant — 12th Generation
  • Ahnentafel No:
  • 2488 
  • Father:
  • John Ames 
  • Mother:
  • Cyprian Brown   
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  • Christening Date:
  • 6 Oct 1605 
  • Christening Location:
  • Bruton, Somersetshire, England 
  • Death Date:
  • from 01 JAN 1653/1654 to 11 MAR 1653/1654 
  • Death Location:
  • Braintree, Norfolk, Massachusetts 
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  • Spouse Name:
  • Hannah -----
  • Marriage Date:
  • BEF 12 May 1641 
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  Hannah Ames

  John Ames (Ahnentafel No:1244 )

• Sources for William Ames

  • ¹ Braintree, MA: Vital and Church Records, 1638-1850, Birth record for daughter Hannah Ames.
  • ² Braintree, MA: Vital Records, 1643-1793, Death record for William Ames.
  • ³ New England Historical and Genealogical Register, 1931, Vol. 85, p. 145.
  • ⁴ New England Historical and Genealogical Register, 1938, Vol. 92, p. 86.
  • ⁵ Anderson, Robert Charles, The Great Migration Directory: Immigrants to New England, 1620-1640, A Concise Compendium, Boston, Massachusetts: New England Historic Genealogical Society (2015), 7.
  • ⁶ Anderson, Robert Charles, The Great Migration: Immigrants to New England 1634-1635, Vol. V, M-P, Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society (2007), 261.
  • ⁷ Smith, Dean Crawford, The Ancestry of Eva Belle Kempton, 1878-1908: Part 3, The Ancestry of Henry Clay Bartlett, 1832-1892, Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society (2004), 43-45, 213.
  • ⁸ Vinton, John Adams, The Vinton Memorial Comprising A Genealogy of the Descendants of John Vinton of Lynn, 1648, Boston: S.K. Whipple and Company (1858), 323.
  • ⁹ Virkus, Frederick Adams, ed., The Abridged Compendium of American Genealogy: First Families of America: A Genealogical Encyclopedia of the . . ., Chicago: multiple publishers (1925-), Vol. 3, p. 593.

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