Ancestry of
Amanda Bearse

TV Actress

Edward Sturgis Jr.

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• • 8th Great-grandfather of Amanda Bearse — 11th Generation
  • Ahnentafel No:
  • 1142 
  • Father:
  • Edward Sturgis 
  • Mother:
  • Elizabeth Hinckley   
  • Birth Date:
  • ABT 1639 
  • Birth Location:
  • prob. Charlestown (now Boston), Suffolk, Massachusetts 
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  • Death Date:
  • 8 Nov 1678 
  • Death Location:
  • Yarmouth, Barnstable, Massachusetts 
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  • Spouse Name:
  • Temperance Gorham
  • Marriage Date:
  • ABT 1664 
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  • Children:
  
  

  Joseph Sturgis

  Samuel Sturgis

  Desire Sturgis (Ahnentafel No:571 )

  James Sturgis

  Edward Sturgis

  Thankful Sturgis

  Fear Sturgis

  • Notes: 

  • Edward Sturgis's surname is also seen as Sturges.

• Sources for Edward Sturgis Jr.

  • ¹ New England Historical and Genealogical Register, 1988, Vol. 142, p. 165.
  • ² Anderson, Robert Charles, The Great Migration: Immigrants to New England 1634-1635, Vol. VI, R-S, Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society (2009), 591.
  • ³ Roberts, Gary Boyd, "#78 Royal Descents, Notable Kin, and Printed Sources: Ten Further Hollywood Figures (or Groups Thereof)", (accessed 10/06/2014).
  • ⁴ Roberts, Gary Boyd, The Mayflower 500: Five Hundred Notable Descendants of the Founding Families on the Mayflower, Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society (2020), 84 [sic], 122, 127, 157, 330, 372, 453, 494, 510, 515, 525.
  • ⁵ Wheeler, Richard Anson, History of the Town of Stonington, County of New London, Connecticut, From its First Settlement in 1649 to 1900, New London, Connecticut: Press of the Day Publishing Company (1900), 436.
  • ⁶ White, Elizabeth Pearson, John Howland of the Mayflower, Vol. 1, Camden, Maine: Picton Press (1990, 7th printing 2014), 14-17.

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