Ancestry of
Annie Proulx

Novelist and Short Story Writer

Henry Whitfield

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• • 9th Great-grandfather of Annie Proulx — 12th Generation
  • Ahnentafel No:
  • 3906 
  • Father:
  • Thomas Whitfield 
  • Mother:
  • Mildred Fortune Manning   
  • Birth Date:
  • ABT 1590 
  • Birth Location:
  • prob. Mortlake, Surrey, England 
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  • Burial Date:
  • 17 Sep 1657 
  • Burial Location:
  • Winchester Cathedral, Winchester, Hampshire, England 
  • Spouse Name:
  • Dorothy Sheafe
  • Marriage Date:
  • AFT 20 Sep 1617 
  • Marriage Location:
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  • Children:
  
  

  Dorothy Whitfield

  Sarah Whitfield

  Abigail Whitfield (Ahnentafel No:1953 )

  Thomas Whitfield

  John Whitfield

  Nathaniel Whitfield

  Mary Whitfield

  Henry Whitfield

  Rebecca Whitfield

  • Notes: 

  • Henry Whitfield's surname is also seen as Whitefield.

    John Brooks Threlfall, on page 27 of his book The Ancestry of Reverend Henry Whitfield and His Wife Dorothy Sheafe, gives the death date of Rev. Henry Whitfield as 17 DEC 1657. This date conflicts with the SEP 1657 death date and the 17 SEP 1657 burial date given earlier in the book. It seems more likely that the DEC month is in error versus SEP which is given twice.

• Sources for Henry Whitfield

  • ¹ Anderson, Robert Charles, The Great Migration Begins: Immigrants to New England 1620-1633, Vol. 2, G-O, Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society (1995), 934.
  • ² Anderson, Robert Charles, The Great Migration Directory: Immigrants to New England, 1620-1640, A Concise Compendium, Boston, Massachusetts: New England Historic Genealogical Society (2015), 370.
  • ³ Fitch, John T., Descendants of the Reverend James Fitch, 1622-1702, Vol. 1, The First Five Generations, 2nd Ed., Rockport, Maine: Picton Press (2003), 7.
  • ⁴ Higginson, Thomas Wentworth, Descendants of the Reverend Francis Higginson: First Teacher in the Massachusetts Bay Colony of . . ., Unknown: Privately printed (1910), 6.
  • ⁵ Meggison, Michael Thomas, "#71 Royal Descents, Notable Kin, and Printed Sources: The Immediate New England and Royal Ancestry of the Beach Boys", (accessed 11/21/2016).
  • ⁶ Roberts, Gary Boyd, "#48 Royal Descents, Notable Kin, and Printed Sources: The Ancestry of Novelist Thomas Pynchon", (accessed 11/28/2018).
  • ⁷ Roberts, Gary Boyd, "The Royal Descents of Jane Pierce, Alice and Edith Roosevelt, Helen Taft, Eleanor Roosevelt, and Barbara Bush", (accessed 09/29/2014).
  • ⁸ Threlfall, John Brooks, The Ancestry of Reverend Henry Whitfield (1590-1657) and His Wife Dorothy Sheafe (159?-1669) of Guilford, Connecticut, Madison, Wisconsin: Unknown (1989), 7-17, 27, 30, 228, 253, 257.

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