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Geena Davis

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Rosamond Cady

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• • 4th Great-grandmother of Geena Davis — 7th Generation
  • Ahnentafel No:
  • 79 
  • Father:
  • Simeon Cady 
  • Mother:
  • Ruth Harris   
  • Birth Date:
  • 11 Jul 1751 
  • Birth Location:
  • Canterbury, Windham, Connecticut 
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  • Spouse Name:
  • Robert Gates
  • Marriage Date:
  • 24 Nov 1774 
  • Marriage Location:
  • Preston, New London, Connecticut 
  • Child:

  Edna Gates (Ahnentafel No:39 )

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  • Spouse:
  • Joseph Chamberlain
  • Marriage Date:
  • 10 Jul 1792
  • Marriage Location:
  • Barnard, Windsor, Vermont

• Sources for Rosamond Cady

  • ¹ Connecticut: Vital Records (The Barbour Collection), 1630-1870, Preston, p. 84, Marriage record for Robert Gates and Rozimond Cady.
  • ² Connecticut: Vital Records (The Barbour Collection), 1630-1870, Canterbury, p. 45, Birth record for Rosemond Cady.
  • ³ Allen, Orrin Peer, Descendants of Nicholas Cady of Watertown, Mass. 1645-1910, Palmer, Massachusetts: Press of C. B. Fiske and Co. (1910), 44.
  • ⁴ Lainhart, Ann Smith and Jane Fletcher Fiske, Mayflower Families Through Five Generations: Vol. 23, Part 3, John Howland, Plymouth, Massachusetts: General Society of Mayflower Descendants (2012), 97.
  • ⁵ Lovejoy, Evelyn M. Wood, History of Royalton, Vermont, with Family Genealogies, 1769-1911, Burlington, Vermont: Free Press Printing Company (1911), 715.
  • ⁶ Newton, William Monroe, History of Barnard, Vermont with Family Genealogies, 1761-1927, Vol. 2, [Montpelier, Vermont]: Vermont Historical Society (1928), 110-111.

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