Ancestry of
Rainn Wilson

TV and Movie Actor

William Wilcoxson Jr.

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• • 8th Great-grandfather of Rainn Wilson — 11th Generation
  • Ahnentafel No:
  • 1726 
  • Father:
  • William Wilcoxson 
  • Mother:
  • Elizabeth Wilson   
  • Birth Date:
  • 22 Apr 1702 
  • Birth Location:
  • Simsbury, Hartford, Connecticut 
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  • Death Date:
  • 27 Dec 1772 
  • Death Location:
  • Simsbury, Hartford, Connecticut 
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  • Spouse Name:
  • Thanks Adams
  • Marriage Date:
  • 2 May 1723 
  • Marriage Location:
  • Simsbury, Hartford, Connecticut 
  • Child:

  Thanks Wilcoxson (Ahnentafel No:863 )

  • Notes: 

  • William Wilcoxson's surname is also seen as Wilcox.

• Sources for William Wilcoxson Jr.

  • ¹ Connecticut: Vital Records (The Barbour Collection), 1630-1870, Simsbury, p. 158, Birth of daughter Thanks Wilcoxson.
  • ² Connecticut: Vital Records (The Barbour Collection), 1630-1870, Simsbury, p. 158, Marriage of William Wilcoxson Jr and Thanks Adams.
  • ³ Connecticut: Vital Records (The Barbour Collection), 1630-1870, Simsbury, p. 158, Birth record for William Wilcoxson.
  • ⁴ Connecticut: Vital Records (The Barbour Collection), 1630-1870, Simsbury, p. 155, Death record for William Wilcox.
  • ⁵ Shepard, Gerald Faulkner and Donald Lines Jacobus, The Shepard Families of New England, Vol. 1: Ralph Shepard of Dedham, North Haven, Connecticut: The New Haven Colony Historical Society (1971), 15.

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