Ancestry of
Charles Goodyear

Inventor, and namesake of the Goodyear Tire & Rubber Co.

Francis French

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• • 3rd Great-grandfather of Charles Goodyear — 6th Generation
  • Ahnentafel No:
  • 62 
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  • Birth Date:
  • ABT 1625 
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  • Death Date:
  • 14 Feb 1691 
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  • Spouse Name:
  • Lydia Bunnell
  • Marriage Date:
  • 10 Apr 1661 
  • Marriage Location:
  • Milford, New Haven, Connecticut 
  • Child:

  Jane French (Ahnentafel No:31 )

  • Notes: 

  • Francis French of Derby, Connecticut, is not the son of William and Elizabeth (?Symmes) French. Y-DNA has disproved this connection. (see NEHGR 177:43)

• Sources for Francis French

  • ¹ Anderson, Robert Charles and others, The Great Migration: Immigrants to New England 1634-1635, Vol. II, C-F, Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society (2001), 591.
  • ² Dillon, Arthur Orison, The Ancestors of Arthur Orison Dillon and his Poems, Pomona, California: Printed by the Progress Publishing Company (1927), 16.
  • ³ Hanna, Doreen Potter and Louise Potter, comp., A Potter-Richardson Memorial: The Ancestral Lines of William W. Potter of Michigan, and his wife . . ., (1957), 251.
  • ⁴ Jacobus, Donald Lines, The Wilmot Family of New Haven, Conn., Boston: New-England Historic Genealogical Society (1904), 3.
  • ⁵ Orcutt, Samuel and Ambrose Beardsley, The History of the Old Town of Derby, Connecticut, 1642-1880 with Biographies and Genealogies, Springfield, Massachusetts: Press of Springfield Printing Company (1880), 720-721.