Ancestry of
Kristen Wiig

TV and Movie Actress

Ruth Sherman

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• • 6th Great-grandmother of Kristen Wiig — 9th Generation
  • Ahnentafel No:
  • 491 
  • Father:
  • Benjamin Sherman 
  • Mother:
  • Ruth Fish   
  • Birth Date:
  • 1 May 1734 
  • Birth Location:
  • Portsmouth, Newport, Rhode Island 
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  • Death Date:
  • 11 Sep 1822 
  • Death Location:
  • Seekonk, Bristol, Massachusetts 
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  • Spouse Name:
  • Joseph Sisson
  • Marriage Date:
  • 18 Apr 1753 
  • Marriage Location:
  • Portsmouth, Newport, Rhode Island 
  • Children:
  
  

  Susanna Sisson

  Hannah Sisson (Ahnentafel No:245 )

• Sources for Ruth Sherman

  • ¹ Representative Men and Old Families of Rhode Island, Vol. 2, Chicago: J. H. Beers and Co. (1908), 745.
  • ² Fish, Lester Warren, The Fish Family in England and America: Genealogical and Biographical Records and Sketches, Rutland, Vermont: The Tuttle Publishing Company, Inc. (1948), 72.
  • ³ Shotwell, Ambrose M., Annals of Our Colonial Ancestors and Their Descendants, or, Our Quaker Forefathers and Their Prosperity, Lansing, Michigan: Robert Smith and Co., Printers and Binders (1895), 219.
  • ⁴ Throop, Louise Walsh, et. al., Mayflower Families in Progress: George Soule of the Mayflower and His Descendants in the Fifth and Sixth . . . Part 3, Plymouth, Massachusetts: General Society of Mayflower Descendants (2003), 171-172.

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