Ancestry of
F. Scott Fitzgerald

Author of The Great Gatsby

John Key

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• • 3rd Great-grandfather of F. Scott Fitzgerald — 6th Generation
  • Ahnentafel No:
  • 44 
  • Father:
  • Philip Key 
  • Mother:
  • Susannah Gardiner   
  • Birth Date:
  • ABT 1730 
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  • Death Date:
  • Aug 1755 
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  • Spouse Name:
  • Cecilia Brown
  • Marriage Date:
  • BEF 1750 
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  Philip Key (Ahnentafel No:22 )

• Sources for John Key

  • ¹ Hayden, Rev. Horace Edwin, Virginia Genealogies: A Genealogy of the Glassell Family of Scotland and Virginia, Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania: E. B. Yordy, Printer (1891), 167, 169.
  • ² Key-Smith, F.S., Francis Scott Key, Author of The Star Bangled Banner, What Else He Was and Who, Washington, D.C.: Key-Smith and Company (1911), 9-10.
  • ³ Mackenzie, George Norbury, ed., Colonial Families of the United States of America, New York: Grafton Press (1907), 299.
  • ⁴ Parran, Alice Norris, Register of Maryland's Heraldic Families: Period from 1634, March 25th to March 25th, 1935, Tercentenary of . . ., Baltimore, Maryland: H.G. Roebuck and Son (1938), 313.
  • ⁵ Williams, Thomas John Chew and Folger McKinsey, History of Frederick County, Maryland, Vol. 1, Baltimore, Maryland: Genealogical Publishing Company (2003 - Reprint of original published 1910), 314.