Ancestry of
Mitt Romney

70th Governor of Massachusetts

Lydia -----

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• • 8th Great-grandmother of Mitt Romney — 11th Generation
  • Ahnentafel No:
  • 1917 
  • Father:
  • Mother:
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  • Birth Date:
  • ABT 1620 
  • Birth Location:
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  • Christening Date:
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  • Christening Location:
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  • Death Date:
  • 12 Oct 1704 
  • Death Location:
  • Chelmsford, Middlesex, Massachusetts 
  • Burial Date:
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  • Burial Location:
  • Forefathers Burial Ground, Chelmsford, Middlesex, Massachusetts 
  • Spouse Name:
  • Edward Bates
  • Marriage Date:
  • BEF 1641 
  • Marriage Location:
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  • Child:

  John Bates (Ahnentafel No:958 )

  • Notes: 

  • Some secondary sources suggest that Lydia was the daughter of Richard Fairbanks. Others suggest her maiden name was Bates. Evidence is needed to support either scenario.

• Additional marriages for Lydia -----

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  • Spouse:
  • William Fletcher
  • Marriage Date:
  • 7 Oct 1645
  • Marriage Location:
  • Concord, Middlesex, Massachusetts

• Sources for Lydia -----

  • ¹ Gravestone image at FindAGrave.com, (accessed 06/19/2014).
  • ² Massachusetts: Vital Records, 1620-1850, Concord, Vol. 1, p. 6, Marriage record for William Fletcher and Lidia Bats.
  • ³ New England Historical and Genealogical Register, 1868, Vol. 22, pp. 389-390.
  • ⁴ The American Genealogist, 1979, Vol. 55, p. 143.
  • ⁵ Anderson, Robert Charles, The Great Migration Begins: Immigrants to New England 1620-1633, Vol. 1, A-F, Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society (1995), 132.
  • ⁶ Brogan, Hugh and Charles Mosley, American Presidential Families, New York: Macmillan Publishing Company (1993), 420-421.
  • ⁷ Smith, Dean Crawford, The Ancestry of Eva Belle Kempton, 1878-1908: Part 3, The Ancestry of Henry Clay Bartlett, 1832-1892, Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society (2004), 447.
  • ⁸ Smith, Dean Crawford, The Ancestry of Eva Belle Kempton, 1878-1908: Part 4, The Ancestry of Linda Anna Powers 1839-1879, Boston: New England Historica Genealogical Society (2000), 276-277.
  • ⁹ Wight, William Ward, The Wights: A Record of Thomas Wight of Dedham and Medfield and of his Descendants 1635-1890, Milwaukee: Swain and Tate, Printers (1890), 98 [note 3].

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