Ancestry of
Ellen DeGeneres

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Elizabeth Pratt

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• • 4th Great-grandmother of Ellen DeGeneres — 7th Generation
  • Ahnentafel No:
  • 69 
  • Father:
  • Nathan Pratt 
  • Mother:
  • Elizabeth Spencer   
  • Birth Date:
  • 13 Mar 1797 
  • Birth Location:
  • Saybrook, Middlesex, Connecticut 
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  • Death Date:
  • 6 Aug 1833 
  • Death Location:
  • Saybrook, Middlesex, Connecticut 
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  • Spouse Name:
  • Alvan Fosdick Whittemore
  • Marriage Date:
  • 1 Aug 1819 
  • Marriage Location:
  • Saybrook, Middlesex, Connecticut 
  • Child:

  George Whittemore (Ahnentafel No:34 )

• Sources for Elizabeth Pratt

  • ¹ Connecticut: Vital Records (The Barbour Collection), 1630-1870, Saybrook, p. 136, Marriage record for Alvan F Whittemore and Eliza Pratt.
  • ² History of Middlesex County, Connecticut: With Biographical Sketches of Its Prominent Men, New York: J. B. Beers and Co. (1884), 365.
  • ³ New England Historical and Genealogical Register, 1954, Vol. 108, p. 245.
  • ⁴ Chapman, Rev. Frederick W., The Pratt Family: Or the Descendants of Lieut. William Pratt, One of the First Settlers of Hartford and Say-Brook . . ., Hartford: Case, Lockwood and Company (1864), 99, 126.
  • ⁵ Roberts, Gary Boyd, The Mayflower 500: Five Hundred Notable Descendants of the Founding Families on the Mayflower, Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society (2020), 355-356.
  • ⁶ Whittemore, Bernard Bemis, A Genealogy of Several Branches of the Whittemore Family: Including the Original Whittemore Family of . . ., Nashua, New Hampshire: Francis P. Whittemore, Book and Job Printer (1890), 80.

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