Ancestry of
Paget Brewster

TV Actress

Abigail Knyvet

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• • 13th Great-grandmother of Paget Brewster — 16th Generation
  • Ahnentafel No:
  • 44007 
  • Father:
  • John Knyvet 
  • Mother:
  • Agnes Harcourt   
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  • Death Date:
  • 15 Dec 1623 
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  • Burial Location:
  • Wacton, Norfolk, England 
  • Spouse Name:
  • Martin Sedley
  • Marriage Date:
  • ABT 1577 
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  Martin Sedley

  Robert Sedley

  Abigail Sedley

  Muriel Sedley (Ahnentafel No:22003 )

  • Notes: 

  • Abigail Knyvet is not the dauther of Sir Thomas Knyvet as some sources claim.

• Sources for Abigail Knyvet

  • ¹ Richardson, Douglas and Kimball G. Everingham, Plantagenet Ancestry: A Study in Colonial & Medieval Families, 2nd Edition, Salt Lake City, Utah: Douglas Richardson (2011), Vol. 2, pp. 191-192.
  • 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), 182.
  • 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), 8.
  • ⁴ Weis, Frederick Lewis, et. al., The Magna Charta Sureties, 1215: The Barons Named in the Magna Charta, 1215 and Some of their . . ., 5th edition, Baltimore, Maryland: Genealogical Publishing Co., Inc. (Third Printing, 2006), 26.

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