Ancestry of
John Forbes Nash, Jr.

“A Beautiful Mind” Mathematician

John Coombs

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• • 8th Great-grandfather of John Forbes Nash, Jr. — 11th Generation
  • Ahnentafel No:
  • 1268 
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  • Christening Location:
  • Hemel, Hempstead, Hertfordshire, England 
  • Death Date:
  • BY 15 Oct 1646 
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  • Spouse Name:
  • Sarah Priest
  • Marriage Date:
  • ABT 1631 
  • Marriage Location:
  • Plymouth, Plymouth Co., Massachusetts 
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  John Coombs Jr. (Ahnentafel No:634 )

  Francis Coombs

  • Notes: 
  • John Coombs parents are probably Francis and Jane (Pope) Combe, of Hemel, Hempstead, Hertfordshire, England, whose son John was baptized there on 13 MAR 1596/7.

• Sources for John Coombs

  • ¹ The American Genealogist, 1996, Vol. 71, pp. 247-248.
  • ² The Mayflower Descendant, 1998, Vol. 48, p. 135.
  • ³ Anderson, Robert Charles, The Great Migration Begins: Immigrants to New England 1620-1633, Vol. 3, P-W, Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society (1995), 1526, 2018.
  • ⁴ Anderson, Robert Charles, The Great Migration Begins: Immigrants to New England 1620-1633, Vol. 3, P-W, Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society (1995), 1517.
  • ⁵ Roberts, Gary Boyd, "#74 Royal Descents, Notable Kin, and Printed Sources: The New England Ancestry of Actor Richard [Tiffany] Gere", (accessed 10/10/2014).
  • ⁶ Roberts, Gary Boyd, The Mayflower 500: Five Hundred Notable Descendants of the Founding Families on the Mayflower, Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society (2020), 6, 195, 324, 346, 361, 536, 680, 760, 775, 805-806.
  • ⁷ Roberts, Gary Boyd, comp., Ancestors of American Presidents, 2009 Edition, Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society (2009), 571.
  • ⁸ Townsend, Mrs. Charles Delmar, et. al., Mayflower Families Through Five Generations: Vol. 8, 2nd ed., Degory Priest, Plymouth, Massachusetts: General Society of Mayflower Descendants (2008), 3, 6-7.

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