Ancestry of
Burgess Meredith

TV and Movie Actor

John Cogswell

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• • 6th Great-grandfather of Burgess Meredith — 9th Generation
  • Ahnentafel No:
  • 448 
  • Father:
  • John Cogswell 
  • Mother:
  • Elizabeth Thomson   
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  • Christening Date:
  • 25 Jul 1622 
  • Christening Location:
  • Westbury Leigh, Wiltshire, England 
  • Death Date:
  • 27 Sep 1653 
  • Death Location:
  • at sea 
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  • Child:

  Samuel Cogswell (Ahnentafel No:224 )

  • Notes: 

  • John Cogswell died at sea on a return trip from London to New England.

• Sources for John Cogswell

  • ¹ The Essex Genealogist, 2001, Vol. 21, p. 151.
  • ² Anderson, Robert Charles and others, The Great Migration: Immigrants to New England 1634-1635, Vol. II, C-F, Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society (2001), 139.
  • ³ Ferris, Mary Walton, Dawes-Gates Ancestral Lines: A Memorial Volume Containing the American Ancestry of Rufus R. Dawes, Milwaukee, Wisconsin: Wisconsin Cuneo Press (1931), Vol. 1, p. 189.
  • ⁴ Jameson, E. O., The Cogswells in America, Boston: Alfred Mudge & Son (1884), 1, 13-15.