Ancestry of
Rainn Wilson

TV and Movie Actor

John Shaw

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• • 5th Great-grandfather of Rainn Wilson — 8th Generation
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  • 214 
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  • ABT 1768 
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  • Death Date:
  • 1 Jun 1843 
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  • Burial Location:
  • Webster Cemetery, Imlay City, Lapeer, Michigan 
  • Spouse Name:
  • Tryphena Bingham
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  Truman Shaw

  Rocksylena Shaw

  John Bliss Shaw

  Luther Shaw

  Jerusha Shaw

  Louisa Tryphena Shaw (Ahnentafel No:107 )

  Calvin Augustus Shaw

  • Notes: 

  • John Shaw is said to be the son of Daniel and Lydia (Bliss) Shaw. Evidence is needed to support this claim.

• Sources for John Shaw

  • ¹ Gravestone image at FindAGrave.com, (accessed 07/21/2022).
  • ² 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), 337, 589, incorrectly lists Rev. James B. Shaw as a son.
  • ³ Wiley, Edgar J., Catalogue of the Officers and Students of Middlebury College in Middlebury, Vermont . . . 1800 - 1915, Middlebury, Vermont: Middlebury College (1917), 69, 79.

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