Ancestry of
Francis Scott Key

Author of “The Star Spangled Banner”

Ann Arnold Ross

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• • 3rd Generation — Grandmother of Francis Scott Key
  • Ahnentafel No:
  • 5 
  • Father:
  • John Ross   
  • Mother:
  • Alicia Arnold   
  • Birth Date:
  • 9 Oct 1727 
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  • Death Date:
  • 5 Jan 1811 
  • Death Location:
  • Belvoir, Crownsville, Anne Arundel, Maryland 
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  • Spouse Name:
  • Frances Key
  • Marriage Date:
  • 12 Dec 1752 
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  • Child:
  • John Ross Key 

• Sources for Ann Arnold 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 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, Google Books (Digital Library).
  • ³ Lane, Mrs. Julian C., Key and Allied Families, Macon, Georgia: The J. W. Burke Company (1931), 57-58, Hathi Trust Digital Library.
  • ⁴ Mackenzie, George Norbury, ed., Colonial Families of the United States of America, New York: Grafton Press (1907), 299.
  • ⁵ Rietwiesner, William Addams, comp. and Christopher Challender Child, et. al., The Ancestry of Catherine Middleton, Boston, Massachusetts: New England Historic Genealogical Society (2011), 96.
  • ⁶ 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.
  • ⁷ Wikipedia, "Belvoir (Crownsville, Maryland)", (accessed 11/19/2012).
  • ⁸ Wikipedia, "John Ross Key", (accessed 11/19/2012).
  • 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.