Ancestry of
Robert Duvall

Movie Actor

Frances White

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• • 8th Great-grandmother of Robert Duvall — 11th Generation
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  • Richard Wells
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  Mary Wells (Ahnentafel No:515 )

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  • Frances White's maiden name is also seen as Whyte.

    There is an ongoing debate as to whether Frances is the daughter of Richard White and Catherine Weston. While there are many genealogical publications and online family trees that include this connection, there are many who doubt the connection to be valid. They believe that the dates just don't add up and that Frances would have had to be about eleven or twelve years old when she married Richard Wells who would have been about 40 years her senior. If true, this would seem somewhat unlikely.

• Sources for Frances White

  • ¹ The Southern Friend: Journal of the North Carolina Friends Historical Society, 1994, Vol. 16, Nos. 1-2, pp. 48-51.
  • ² Newman, Harry Wright, Mareen Duvall of Middle Plantation: A Genealogical History of Mareen Duvall, Gent., of the Province of Maryland . . ., Washington: Published by the author (1952), 97-98.

Robert Duvall photo by Alan Light (CC BY 2.0)