Ancestry of
Don Knotts

TV and Movie Actor

Thomas South

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• • 6th Great-grandfather of Don Knotts — 9th Generation
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  • 288 
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  • from 6 May 1748 to 16 Sep 1757 
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  • New Brunswick, Middlesex, New Jersey 
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  • Dorothy Lippington
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  • ABT 1703 
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  Thomas South

  Joseph South (Ahnentafel No:144 )

  Edmund South

  Daniel South

• Sources for Thomas South

  • ¹ Proceedings of the New Jersey Historical Society: A Magazine of History, Biography and Genealogy, Third Series, 1902, Vol. 3, No. 1, p. 15, Birth records for children of Thomas and Dorothy South.
  • ² Gee, Christine South, Genealogical Notes on the South Family: From the States of New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Maryland, Virginia . . ., Greenville, South Carolina: Keys Printing Company (1963), 26.
  • ³ MacGunnigle, Bruce Campbell, Mayflower Families Through Five Generations: Vol. 4, 3rd ed., Edward Fuller, Plymouth, Massachusetts: General Society of Mayflower Descendants (2006), 130-131.
  • ⁴ Roberts, Gary Boyd, The Mayflower 500: Five Hundred Notable Descendants of the Founding Families on the Mayflower, Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society (2020), 344.