Ancestry of
Francis Scott Key

Author of “The Star Spangled Banner”

John Ross

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• • 4th Generation — Great-grandfather of Francis Scott Key
  • Ahnentafel No:
  • 10 
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  • Birth Date:
  • 13 Aug 1696 
  • Birth Location:
  • England 
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  • Death Date:
  • 18 Sep 1766 
  • Death Location:
  • Annapolis, Maryland 
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  • Spouse Name:
  • Alicia Arnold
  • Marriage Date:
  • 20 Oct 1720 
  • Marriage Location:
  • St. James, Westminster, London, England 
  • Child:
  • Ann Arnold Ross 

• Sources for John Ross

  • ¹ Baltimore: Its History and Its People, Vol. III - Biography, New York / Chicago: Lewis Historical Publishing Company (1912), 513, Google Books (Digital Library).
  • ² Mackenzie, George Norbury, ed., Colonial Families of the United States of America, New York: Grafton Press (1907), 299.
  • ³ Rietwiesner, William Addams, comp. and Christopher Challender Child, et. al., The Ancestry of Catherine Middleton, Boston, Massachusetts: New England Historic Genealogical Society (2011), 96.
  • ⁴ 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), 87.