Ancestry of
Walt Disney

Co-Founder of The Walt Disney Company

Arundel Elias Disney

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• • Great-grandfather of Walt Disney — 4th Generation
  • Ahnentafel No:
  • 8 
  • Father:
  • Kepple Disney 
  • Mother:
  • Frances Best   
  • Birth Date:
  • ABT 1803 
  • Birth Location:
  • Clone, County Kilkenny, Ireland 
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  • Death Date:
  • 31 May 1880 
  • Death Location:
  • Goderich, Huron, Ontario, Canada 
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  • Spouse Name:
  • Maria Swan
  • Marriage Date:
  • 1 Sep 1832 
  • Marriage Location:
  • Clone, County Kilkenny, Ireland 
  • Child:

  Kepple Elias Disney (Ahnentafel No:4 )

• Sources for Arundel Elias Disney

  • 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 Canada Census, 1861, Canada West, Huron County, Goderich, p. 71, Image 271 of 1274 .
  • ³ Carloviana: Carlow Historical and Archaeological Society, No. 64, 2016 Edition, "A Carlow Tribute to Walt Disney".
  • ⁴ New York, Passenger and Immigration Lists, 1820-1850, 03 OCT 1834, Immigration record for Elias Disney.
  • ⁵ New York, U.S., Arriving Passenger and Crew Lists (including Castle Garden and Ellis Island), 1820-1957, 03 OCT 1834, Immigration record for Elias Disney.
  • ⁶ Gabler, Neal, Walt Disney: The Triumph of the American Imagination, New York: Random House (2006), 4.
  • ⁷ Thomas, Bob, Walt Disney: An American Original, New York: Disney Editions (1994), 21-22.
  • ⁸ Wikipedia, "Walt Disney", (accessed 03/26/2012).