Ancestry of
Rainn Wilson

TV and Movie Actor

William Phelps

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• • 11th Great-grandfather of Rainn Wilson — 14th Generation
  • Ahnentafel No:
  • 13792 
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  • Birth Date:
  • ABT 1593 
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  • Death Date:
  • 14 Jul 1672 
  • Death Location:
  • Windsor, Hartford, Connecticut 
  • Burial Date:
  • 15 Jul 1672 
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  • Spouse Name:
  • Anne Dover
  • Marriage Date:
  • 14 Nov 1626 
  • Marriage Location:
  • Crewkerne, Somersetshire, England 
  • Children:
  
  

  Joseph Phelps (Ahnentafel No:6896 )

  Timothy Phelps

  Mary Phelps

  • Notes: 

  • Some sources claim that William Phelps was the son of William and Dorothy Phelps, but more recent sources do not make this claim.

• Additional marriages for William Phelps

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  • Spouse:
  • Mary - - - - - -
  • Marriage Date:
  • BEF 1618

• Sources for William Phelps

  • ¹ Anderson, Robert Charles, The Great Migration Begins: Immigrants to New England 1620-1633, Vol. 3, P-W, Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society (1995), 1444-1446, 1480.
  • ² Anderson, Robert Charles, The Great Migration Directory: Immigrants to New England, 1620-1640, A Concise Compendium, Boston, Massachusetts: New England Historic Genealogical Society (2015), 262.
  • ³ Anderson, Robert Charles and others, The Great Migration: Immigrants to New England 1634-1635, Vol. I, A-B, Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society (1999), 155.
  • ⁴ Ferris, Mary Walton, Dawes-Gates Ancestral Lines: A Memorial Volume Containing the American Ancestry of Rufus R. Dawes, Milwaukee, Wisconsin: Wisconsin Cuneo Press (1931), Vol. 2, pp. 403, 662.
  • ⁵ Phelps, Judge Oliver Seymour and Andrew T. Servin, The Phelps Family of America, and Their English Ancestors, with Copies of Wills, Deeds, Letters, and . . ., Vol. 1, Pittsfield, Massachusetts: Eagle Publishing Company (1899), 72-86.

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