Ancestry of
Walt Disney

Co-Founder of The Walt Disney Company

Sarah Hills

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• • 5th Great-grandmother of Walt Disney — 8th Generation
  • Ahnentafel No:
  • 197 
  • Father:
  • Gershom Hills 
  • Mother:
  • Elizabeth Chadwick   
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  • Death Date:
  • 7 Apr 1735 
  • Death Location:
  • Woodstock, Windham, Connecticut 
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  • Spouse Name:
  • John Chaffee
  • Marriage Date:
  • 17 Jul 1700 
  • Marriage Location:
  • Swansea, Bristol, Massachusetts 
  • Children:
  
  

  Joseph Chaffe

  Joel Chaffe (Ahnentafel No:98 )

  • Notes: 

  • Some sources have incorrectly stated that Sarah Hills's spouse was John Chase and not John Chaffee. The latter is the correct spouse. (NEHGR, 2001, Vol. 155, p.414)

• Sources for Sarah Hills

  • ¹ Massachusetts: Vital Records, 1620-1850, Swansea, Vol. 1, p. 182, Marriage record for John Chaffe and Sarah Hills.
  • ² New England Historical and Genealogical Register, 2001, Vol. 155, p. 414.
  • ³ Chaffee, William Henry, The Chaffee Genealogy: Embracing the Chafe, Chafy, Chafie, Chafey, Chafee . . .Descendants of Thomas Chaffe 1636-1909, New York: The Grafton Press (1909), 29, 38.
  • ⁴ Hills, William Sanford, and Thomas Hills, Genealogical Data Relating to the Ancestry and Descendants of William Hills . . ., Boston: Press of Alfred Mudge and Son (1902), 75.
  • ⁵ Mackenzie, George Norbury, ed., Colonial Families of the United States of America, Vol. 3, Baltimore, Maryland: Genealogical Publishing Co., Inc. (1995, originally published 1912), 133.