Ancestry of
T. S. Eliot

Poet and Playwright

William Cranch

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• • Great-grandfather of T. S. Eliot — 4th Generation
  • Ahnentafel No:
  • 10 
  • Father:
  • Richard Cranch 
  • Mother:
  • Mary Smith   
  • Birth Date:
  • 17 Jul 1769 
  • Birth Location:
  • Weymouth, Norfolk, Massachusetts 
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  • Death Date:
  • 1 Sep 1855 
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  • Burial Location:
  • Congressional Cemetery, Washington, D.C. 
  • Spouse Name:
  • Nancy Greenleaf
  • Marriage Date:
  • Apr 1795 
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  • Child:

  Abigail Adams Cranch (Ahnentafel No:5 )

• Sources for William Cranch

  • ¹ Gravestone image at FindAGrave.com, (accessed 03/18/2021).
  • ² New England Historical and Genealogical Register, 1857, Vol. 11, p. 100, gives William's death year as 1856.
  • ³ New England Historical and Genealogical Register, 1847, Vol. 1, pp. 77-80.
  • ⁴ Greenleaf, James Edward, Genealogy of the Greenleaf Family, Boston: Frank Wood, Printer (1896), 211-212.