Ancestry of Sir
Winston Churchill

Prime Minister of the United Kingdom

Leonard Walter Jerome

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• • Grandfather of Winston Churchill — 3rd Generation
  • Ahnentafel No:
  • 6 
  • Father:
  • Isaac Jerome 
  • Mother:
  • Aurora Murray   
  • Birth Date:
  • 3 Nov 1817 
  • Birth Location:
  • Pompey, Onondaga, New York 
  • Christening Date:
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  • Christening Location:
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  • Death Date:
  • 3 Mar 1891 
  • Death Location:
  • Brighton, East Sussex, England 
  • Burial Date:
  • 5 Aug 1891 
  • Burial Location:
  • Green-Wood Cemetery, Brooklyn, Kings, New York 
  • Spouse Name:
  • Clarissa "Clara" Hall
  • Marriage Date:
  • 5 Apr 1849 
  • Marriage Location:
  • Presbyterian Church, Palmyra, Wayne, New York 
  • Child:

  Jeanette "Jennie" Jerome (Ahnentafel No:3 )

• Sources for Leonard Walter Jerome

  • ¹ "Churchill's American Ancestors", Life Magazine, 27 FEB 1950, Pages 73-74.
  • ² Gravestone image at FindAGrave.com, (accessed 04/29/2013).
  • ³ NEHGS NEXUS: New England Across the United States, 1996, Vol. 13, p. 168.
  • ⁴ New York Genealogical and Biographical Record, 1942, Vol. 73, No. 3, pp. 159-166 and accompanying chart.
  • ⁵ The Cosmopolitan, Vol. 9, The Cosmopolitan Publishing Company (1890), 526.
  • ⁶ Connecticut Society of Genealogists, The Connecticut Nutmegger, 2000, Vol. 33, p. 19.
  • ⁷ Dunn, Harriet N. and Eveline Guthrie Dunn, Records of the Guthrie Family, of Pennsylvania, Connecticut, and Virginia, with Ancestry of those . . ., Chicago, Illinois: Published by H. R. and S. L. Dunn (1898), 106-107.
  • ⁸ Durston, H. C., Jerome Family, Unknown: Unknown (1945), 29.
  • ⁹ Johnson, Samuel W., History and Genealogy of the Johnson Family from Charlemagne to the Present Time, Denver, Colorado: Big Mountain Press (1956), 65.
  • ¹⁰ Roberts, Gary Boyd, "#58 Royal Descents, Notable Kin, and Printed Sources: Elizabeth Boyd Roberts: A Genealogical Tribute with 50 New . . .", (accessed 07/07/2017).
  • ¹¹ Roberts, Gary Boyd, The Mayflower 500: Five Hundred Notable Descendants of the Founding Families on the Mayflower, Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society (2020), 606, 640.
  • ¹² Snell, Elizabeth, "He Had Iroquois Ancestors, Urban Myths: Indian Forbears", (accessed 04/30/2013).
  • ¹³ The Woman's Society of the Western Presbyterian Church, Palmyra, Wayne County, New York, Rochester, New York: Herald Press (1907), 9.
  • ¹⁴ Wikipedia, "Leonard Jerome", (accessed 04/29/2013).