Ancestry of
Ezra Pound

Expatriate American Poet and Critic

Consider Atherton

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• • 6th Great-grandfather of Ezra Pound — 9th Generation
  • Ahnentafel No:
  • 486 
  • Father:
  • Humphrey Atherton 
  • Mother:
  • Mary Wales   
  • Birth Date:
  • ABT 1634 
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  • Death Date:
  • ABT 1690 
  • Death Location:
  • Québec, Canada 
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  • Spouse Name:
  • Anne Annable
  • Marriage Date:
  • 19 Dec 1671 
  • Marriage Location:
  • Dorchester (now Boston), Suffolk, Massachusetts 
  • Child:

  Hannah Atherton (Ahnentafel No:243 )

  • Notes: 

  • Consider Atherton is mention as the "second son" of Humphrey Atherton in the probate files of his father. He is also mentioned in the will of his mother dated 21 FEB 1671.

• Sources for Consider Atherton

  • ¹ Massachusetts Births and Christenings, 1639-1915, Baptism record for daughter Hanah Atherton.
  • ² Massachusetts: Vital Records, 1620-1850, Dorchester, Vol. 1, p. 22, Marriage record for Consider Atherton and Anna Aniball.
  • ³ New England Historical and Genealogical Register, 1881, Vol. 35, p. 72.
  • ⁴ Suffolk County Wills, 27 OCT 1715, Probate file for Humphrey Atherton on behalf of his grandchildren.
  • ⁵ Shurtleff, Nathaniel Bradstreet, comp., Descendants of William Shurtleff of Plymouth and Marshfield, Massachusetts, Vol. 1, Revere, Massachusetts: unknown (1912), 318.