Ancestry of
Gillian Anderson

Movie, Television, and Stage Actress

Simmons Watkins

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• • 4th Great-grandfather of Gillian Anderson — 7th Generation
  • Ahnentafel No:
  • 82 
  • Father:
  • Samuel Pote Watkins 
  • Mother:
  • Julia Ann Simmons   
  • Birth Date:
  • 15 Oct 1813 
  • Birth Location:
  • Philadelphia, Philadelphia Co., Pennsylvania 
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  • Burial Date:
  • 19 Dec 1861 
  • Burial Location:
  • Louisville, Jefferson, Kentucky 
  • Spouse Name:
  • Eliza Carvel Jennings
  • Marriage Date:
  • 15 Mar 1836 
  • Marriage Location:
  • Gloucester County, New Jersey 
  • Children:
  
  

  Mary Jane Jennings Watkins

  Maria Preston Pope Watkins (Ahnentafel No:41 )

• Sources for Simmons Watkins

  • ¹ Federal Census, KY, Jefferson County, 1850, Louisville District 3, Image 88 of 196.
  • ² Membership Application to the General Society of Mayflower Descendants, Plymouth, Massachusetts and Salt Lake City, Utah (2019), General No. 80528.
  • ³ New Jersey, U.S., Compiled Marriage Records, 1684-1895, Marriage record for Simmons Watkins and Eliza C Jennings.
  • ⁴ Hughes, Thomas Patrick and Frank Munsell, editors, American Ancestry: Giving the Name and Descent in the Male Line of Americans Whose Ancestors Settled in the U.S., Vol. 05, Albany, New York: Joel Munsell's Sons (1890), 72.

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