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Francis Scott Key

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Francis Scott Key

Author of “The Star Spangled Banner”


    Frances Key

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    • Grandfather of Francis Scott Key — 3rd Generation
    • Ahnentafel No:
    • Birth Date:
    • ABT 1731 
    • Birth Location:
    • St. Paul's Covent Garden, London, England 
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    • Death Date:
    • Nov 1770 
    • Death Location:
    • Charlestown, Cecil, Maryland 
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    • Marriage Date:
    • 12 Dec 1752 
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    • Children:

    • John Ross Key (Ahnentafel No:2 )

      Philip Barton Key

      Elizabeth Scott Key

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  • Sources for Frances Key

    • 2 Hayden, Rev. Horace Edwin, Virginia Genealogies: A Genealogy of the Glassell Family of Scotland and Virginia, Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania: E. B. Yordy, Printer (1891), 169.
    • 3 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.
    • 4 Lane, Mrs. Julian C., Key and Allied Families, Macon, Georgia: The J. W. Burke Company (1931), 57-58.
    • 5 Mackenzie, George Norbury, ed., Colonial Families of the United States of America, New York: Grafton Press (1907), 299-300.
    • 6 Rietwiesner, William Addams, comp. and Christopher Challender Child, et. al., The Ancestry of Catherine Middleton, Boston, Massachusetts: New England Historic Genealogical Society (2011), 96.
    • 9 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.