Ancestry of
Viggo Mortensen

Movie Actor

John Brockett

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• • 9th Great-grandfather of Viggo Mortensen — 12th Generation
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  • ABT 1609 
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  • 12 Mar 1689/1690 
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  • Wallingford, New Haven, Connecticut 
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  John Brockett Jr. (Ahnentafel No:1894 )

  Benjamin Brockett

  Samuel Brockett

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  • There are claims that John Brockett was married to Mary Blackwell in 1635 and was the son of John Brocket and Joan Lacon baptized at Wheathampstead, England, in 1612. Evidence is needed to support these claims.

• Sources for John Brockett

  • ¹ Connecticut: Vital Records (The Barbour Collection), 1630-1870, Wallingford, p. 46, Death record for John Brockett.
  • ² New England Historical and Genealogical Register, 1855, Vol. 9, p. 358.
  • ³ New Haven, CT: Vital Records, 1649-1850, Vol. 1, p. 7, Birth record for son Samuel Brockit.
  • ⁴ Anderson, Robert Charles, The Great Migration Directory: Immigrants to New England, 1620-1640, A Concise Compendium, Boston, Massachusetts: New England Historic Genealogical Society (2015), 42.
  • ⁵ Barnes, Trescott C., The Barnes Family Year Book: An Annual Publication Issued Under the Authority of the Barnes Family Association, Vol. 1, New York: The Grafton Press (1907), 16.
  • ⁶ Brockett, Edward J., et. al., The Descendants of John Brockett: One of the Original Founders of New Haven Colony, Orange, New Jersey: The Orange Chronicle Company, Printers (1905), 23-30.

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