Ancestry of
Meryl Streep

Movie Actress

Abigail Young

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• • 6th Great-grandmother of Meryl Streep — 9th Generation
  • Ahnentafel No:
  • 393 
  • Father:
  • John Young 
  • Mother:
  • Abigail Howland   
  • Birth Date:
  • Oct 1660 
  • Birth Location:
  • Eastham, Barnstable, Massachusetts 
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  • Death Date:
  • 9 Apr 1715 
  • Death Location:
  • Newtown, Bucks, Pennsylvania 
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  • Spouse Name:
  • Stephen Twining
  • Marriage Date:
  • 3 Jan 1683 
  • Marriage Location:
  • Eastham, Barnstable, Massachusetts 
  • Children:
  
  

  Nathaniel Twining

  John Twining (Ahnentafel No:196 )

  Rachel Twining

• Sources for Abigail Young

  • ¹ Massachusetts: Vital Records, 1620-1850, Eastham-Orleans, Vol. 1, p. 34, Marriage record for Steven Twinning and Abigael Younge.
  • ² Massachusetts: Vital Records, 1620-1850, Eastham-Orleans, Vol. 1, p. 16, Birth record for Abigail Young.
  • ³ Cutter, William Richard and William Frederick Adams, Genealogical and Personal Memoirs Relating to the Families of the State of Massachusetts, Volume 4, New York: Lewis Historical Publishing Company (1910), 2685.
  • ⁴ Roberts, Gary Boyd, The Mayflower 500: Five Hundred Notable Descendants of the Founding Families on the Mayflower, Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society (2020), 620, 626-627.
  • ⁵ Twining, Thomas J., Genealogy of the Twining Family: Descendants of William Twining, Sr., Chicago: Published for the Author (1890), 29-33.

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