Ancestry of
Francis Scott Key

Author of “The Star Spangled Banner”

John Ross Key

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• • Father of Francis Scott Key — 2nd Generation
  • Ahnentafel No:
  • 2 
  • Father:
  • Frances Key 
  • Mother:
  • Ann Arnold Ross   
  • Birth Date:
  • 19 Sep 1754 
  • Birth Location:
  • Cecil County, Maryland 
  • Christening Date:
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  • Christening Location:
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  • Death Date:
  • 13 Oct 1821 
  • Death Location:
  • Frederick County, Maryland 
  • Burial Date:
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  • Burial Location:
  • Mount Olivet Cemetery, Frederick, Frederick Co., Maryland 
  • Spouse Name:
  • Anne Phebe Penn Dagworthy Charlton
  • Marriage Date:
  • 19 Oct 1775 
  • Marriage Location:
  • Frederick, Frederick Co., Maryland 
  • Children:
  
  

  Francis Scott Key (Ahnentafel No:1 )

  Anne Phoebe Charlton Key

• Sources for John Ross Key

  • ¹ Baltimore: Its History and Its People, Vol. III - Biography, New York / Chicago: Lewis Historical Publishing Company (1912), 513.
  • ² Daughters of the American Revolution Genealogical Research System, Ancestor #A065323.
  • ³ Gravestone image at FindAGrave.com, (accessed 11/19/2012).
  • ⁴ 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), 10-11.
  • ⁵ Lane, Mrs. Julian C., Key and Allied Families, Macon, Georgia: The J. W. Burke Company (1931), 57-58.
  • ⁶ Mackenzie, George Norbury, ed., Colonial Families of the United States of America, New York: Grafton Press (1907), 300.
  • ⁷ Rietwiesner, William Addams, comp. and Christopher Challender Child, et. al., The Ancestry of Catherine Middleton, Boston, Massachusetts: New England Historic Genealogical Society (2011), 96.
  • ⁸ 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.
  • ⁹ Wikipedia, "John Ross Key", (accessed 11/19/2012).
  • ¹⁰ Williams, Thomas John Chew and Folger McKinsey, History of Frederick County, Maryland, Vol. 1, Baltimore, Maryland: Genealogical Publishing Company (2003 - Reprint of original published 1910), 314.