Ancestry of
T. S. Eliot

Poet and Playwright

Margaret Greenleaf Dawes

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• • Great-grandmother of T. S. Eliot — 4th Generation
  • Ahnentafel No:
  • 9 
  • Father:
  • Thomas Dawes 
  • Mother:
  • Margaret Greenleaf   
  • Birth Date:
  • 6 Dec 1789 
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  • Death Date:
  • 25 Jun 1875 
  • Death Location:
  • Boston, Suffolk, Massachusetts 
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  • Burial Location:
  • Laurel Hill Cemetery, Philadelphia, Philadelphia Co., Pennsylvania 
  • Spouse Name:
  • William Greenleaf Eliot
  • Marriage Date:
  • 14 Jul 1807 
  • Marriage Location:
  • Boston, Suffolk, Massachusetts 
  • Child:

  William Greenleaf Eliot (Ahnentafel No:4 )

• Sources for Margaret Greenleaf Dawes

  • ¹ Boston, MA: Inhabitants and Estates of the Town of Boston, 1630-1822 (Thwing Collection), p. 6619, Record for the family of father Thomas Dawes.
  • ² Daughters of the American Revolution Genealogical Research System, Ancestor #A047548.
  • ³ Federal Census, DC, Washington, 1850, Washington Ward 4, Image 62 of 206.
  • ⁴ Gravestone image at FindAGrave.com, (accessed 03/27/2021).
  • ⁵ Massachusetts, U.S., Compiled Marriages, 1633-1850, Marriage record for William G Eliot and Margaret Dawes.
  • ⁶ Massachusetts: Vital Records, 1841-1910, Boston, Vol. 276, p. 146, Death record for Margaret D (Dawes) Eliot.
  • ⁷ Greenleaf, James Edward, Genealogy of the Greenleaf Family, Boston: Frank Wood, Printer (1896), 211-212.
  • ⁸ Holland, Henry W., William Dawes and His Ride with Paul Revere: An Essay Read Before the New England Historic Genealogical Society . . ., Boston: John Wilson and Son (1878), 69-70.