Ancestry of
Francis Scott Key

Author of “The Star Spangled Banner”

Francis Scott Key

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• • 1st Generation
  • Ahnentafel No:
  • 1 
  • Father:
  • John Ross Key 
  • Mother:
  • Anne Phebe Penn Dagworthy Charlton   
  • Birth Date:
  • 9 Aug 1780 
  • Birth Location:
  • Terra Rubra, Frederick (now Carroll), Maryland 
  • Christening Date:
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  • Christening Location:
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  • Death Date:
  • 11 Jan 1843 
  • Death Location:
  • Baltimore, Maryland 
  • Burial Date:
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  • Burial Location:
  • Mount Olivet Cemetery, Frederick, Frederick Co., Maryland 
  • Notes: 

  • Author of “The Star Spangled Banner”

    Many historians have linked Mary (Jenkins) Surratt, co-conspirator of Abraham Lincoln's assassination, as a cousin of both F. Scott Fitzgerald and Francis Scott Key. This appears to be incorrect as the link is actually through Mary's son John Harrison Surratt's wife Mary Victorine Hunter.

• Marriages for Francis Scott Key

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  • Spouse:
  • Mary Tayloe Lloyd
  • Marriage Date:
  • 19 Jan 1802

• Sources for Francis Scott Key

  • ¹ Baltimore: Its History and Its People, Vol. III - Biography, New York / Chicago: Lewis Historical Publishing Company (1912), 513-514.
  • ² Daughters of the American Revolution Genealogical Research System, Ancestor #A065323.
  • ³ Gravestone image at FindAGrave.com, (accessed 07/12/2018).
  • ⁴ Maryland Genealogies: A Consolidation of Articles from the Maryland Historical Magazine, Vol. II, Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Co., Inc. (1980), 178.
  • ⁵ Hanson, George Adolphus, Old Kent: The Eastern Shore of Maryland; Notes Illustrative of the Most Ancient Records of Kent County, Maryland . . ., Baltimore: John P. Des Forges (1876), 47.
  • ⁶ Key-Smith, F.S., Francis Scott Key, Author of The Star Bangled Banner, What Else He Was and Who, Washington, D.C.: Key-Smith and Company (1911).
  • ⁷ Lane, Mrs. Julian C., Key and Allied Families, Macon, Georgia: The J. W. Burke Company (1931), 58-59.
  • ⁸ Mackenzie, George Norbury, ed., Colonial Families of the United States of America, New York: Grafton Press (1907), 300-301.
  • ⁹ Papenfuse, Edward C., et. al., A Biographical Dictionary of the Maryland Legislature, 1635-1789, Volume 2: I-Z, Baltimore and London: The Johns Hopkins University Press (1985), 770.
  • ¹⁰ Rietwiesner, William Addams, comp. and Christopher Challender Child, et. al., The Ancestry of Catherine Middleton, Boston, Massachusetts: New England Historic Genealogical Society (2011), 96.
  • ¹¹ Weis, Frederick Lewis, et. al., Ancestral Roots of Certain American Colonists Who Came to America Before 1700, 8th Edition, Baltimore, Maryland: Genealogical Publishing Company (2004), 88.
  • ¹² Wikipedia, "Francis Scott Key", (accessed 11/19/2012).
  • ¹³ Wikipedia, "Terra Rubra", (accessed 11/19/2012).