Ancestry of
Walt Disney

Co-Founder of The Walt Disney Company

Mary J. Richardson

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• • Grandmother of Walt Disney — 3rd Generation
  • Ahnentafel No:
  • 5 
  • Father:
  • Robert Richardson 
  • Mother:
  • Ruth Lark   
  • Birth Date:
  • 30 Mar 1838 
  • Birth Location:
  • prob. Aghaboe, County Laois, Ireland 
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  • Death Date:
  • 10 Mar 1909 
  • Death Location:
  • Ellis, Ellis County, Kansas 
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  • Spouse Name:
  • Kepple Elias Disney
  • Marriage Date:
  • 18 Mar 1858 
  • Marriage Location:
  • Huron County, Ontario, Canada 
  • Child:

  Elias Charles Disney (Ahnentafel No:2 )

• Sources for Mary J. Richardson

  • ¹ Burke's Genealogical and Heraldic History of the Landed Gentry: Including American Families with British Ancestry, Vol. 3, London: Burke's Peerage Limited (1939), 2997.
  • ² California Death Index, 1940-1997, Death record for son Elias Disney.
  • ³ Carloviana: Carlow Historical and Archaeological Society, No. 64, 2016 Edition, "A Carlow Tribute to Walt Disney".
  • ⁴ Ontario, Canada, Marriages, 1826-1940, Marriage record for Kipple Disney and M.J. Richardson.
  • ⁵ Gabler, Neal, Walt Disney: The Triumph of the American Imagination, New York: Random House (2006), 4.
  • ⁶ Thomas, Bob, Walt Disney: An American Original, New York: Disney Editions (1994), 22.
  • ⁷ Wikipedia, "Elias Disney", (accessed 03/26/2012).