Ancestry of
Jordana Brewster

TV and Movie Actress

Florence Foster Besse

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• • Great-grandmother of Jordana Brewster — 4th Generation
  • Ahnentafel No:
  • 9 
  • Father:
  • Lyman Waterman Besse 
  • Mother:
  • Henrietta Louisa Seger   
  • Birth Date:
  • 1885 
  • Birth Location:
  • Bridgeport, Fairfield, Connecticut 
  • Christening Date:
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  • Christening Location:
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  • Death Date:
  • 1974 
  • Death Location:
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  • Burial Date:
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  • Burial Location:
  • Oak Grove Cemetery, Springfield, Hampden, Massachusetts 
  • Spouse Name:
  • Kingman Brewster
  • Marriage Date:
  • 21 Nov 1912 
  • Marriage Location:
  • Springfield, Hampden, Massachusetts 
  • Child:

  Kingman Brewster Jr. (Ahnentafel No:4 )

• Additional marriages for Florence Foster Besse

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  • Spouse:
  • Edward Ballantine
  • Marriage Date:
  • 1932

• Sources for Florence Foster Besse

  • ¹ Federal Census, MA, Middlesex County, 1940, Cambridge, E.D. 16-107, Sheet 4B, Image 8 of 32.
  • ² Federal Census, MA, Hampden County, 1930, Springfield, E.D. 7-54, Sheet 1A, Image 1 of 37.
  • ³ Federal Census, MA, Franklin County, 1920, Greenfield, E.D. 111, Sheet 11A, Image 21 of 37.
  • ⁴ Gravestone image at FindAGrave.com, (accessed 09/18/2016).
  • ⁵ Massachusetts, U.S., Town and Vital Records, 1620-1988, Longmeadow, Birth record for son Kingman Brewster Jr.
  • ⁶ Massachusetts: Vital Records, 1911-1915, Springfield, Vol. 611, p. 217, Marriage of Kingman Brewster and Florence Foster Besse.
  • ⁷ New England Ancestors Magazine, 2001, Vol. 2.1, p. 40.
  • ⁸ U.S., Social Security Applications and Claims Index, 1936-2007, Application for son Kingman Brewster Jr.
  • ⁹ Roberts, Gary Boyd, The Mayflower 500: Five Hundred Notable Descendants of the Founding Families on the Mayflower, Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society (2020), 515, 517.
  • ¹⁰ Wikipedia, "Kingman Brewster Jr.", (accessed 09/15/2016).

Jordana Brewster photo by Andre Luis (CC BY-SA 3.0)