Ancestry of
John Forbes Nash, Jr.

“A Beautiful Mind” Mathematician

John Child

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• • 7th Great-grandfather of John Forbes Nash, Jr. — 10th Generation
  • Ahnentafel No:
  • 620 
  • Father:
  • Joshua Child 
  • Mother:
  • Mary Sadler   
  • Birth Date:
  • ABT 1636 
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  • Death Date:
  • 15 Oct 1676 
  • Death Location:
  • Watertown, Middlesex, Massachusetts 
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  • Spouse Name:
  • Mary Warren
  • Marriage Date:
  • 29 May 1668 
  • Marriage Location:
  • Watertown, Middlesex, Massachusetts 
  • Child:

  John Child Jr. (Ahnentafel No:310 )

  • Notes: 

  • Early references say John is the son of a William Child, brother of Ephraim and mentioned in both Ephraim and his wife's wills. This is a mistake as the William mentioned is William Bond and a relation to Ephraim's wife.

• Sources for John Child

  • ¹ Massachusetts: Vital Records, 1620-1850, Watertown Records, Page 30.
  • ² New England Ancestors Magazine, Holiday 2003, Vol. 4.5, Page 38.
  • ³ Bond, Henry, Family Memorials: Genealogies of the Families and Descendants of the Early Settlers of Watertown, Massachusetts, Vol. 1, Boston: Little, Brown & Company (1855), 214, 620.
  • ⁴ Child, Elias, Genealogy of the Child, Childs and Childe Families, of the Past and Present in the United States and the Canadas, Utica, NY: Curtiss and Childs, Printers (1881), 506.
  • ⁵ Pierce, Frederick Clifton, Fiske and Fisk Family: Being the Record of the Descendants of Symond Fiske, Lord of the Manor of Stadhaugh, . . ., Chicago, Illinois: Press of W. B. Conkey Company (1896), 94.
  • ⁶ Roberts, Gary Boyd, comp., Ancestors of American Presidents, 2009 Edition, Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society (2009), 482, 497, 500.
  • ⁷ Smith, Dean Crawford, The Ancestry of Eva Belle Kempton, 1878-1908: Part 1, The Ancestry of Warren Francis Kempton 1817-1879, Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society (1996), 478.
  • ⁸ Watertown Historical Society, Vital Records of Watertown, 1630-1825 (Online Database), New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2007, Page 41, [Death].

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