Ancestry of
Amanda Bearse

TV Actress

Mary Gorham

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• • 4th Great-grandmother of Amanda Bearse — 7th Generation
  • Ahnentafel No:
  • 71 
  • Father:
  • Thomas Gorham 
  • Mother:
  • Rebeccah Taylor   
  • Birth Date:
  • 11 Sep 1766 
  • Birth Location:
  • Barnstable, Barnstable Co., Massachusetts 
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  • Death Date:
  • AFT 7 Oct 1825 
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  • Spouse Name:
  • Elijah Childs
  • Marriage Date:
  • 10 Nov 1785 
  • Marriage Location:
  • Barnstable, Barnstable Co., Massachusetts 
  • Child:

  Lucy Childs (Ahnentafel No:35 )

• Sources for Mary Gorham

  • ¹ Barnstable, MA: Church Records, 1639-1892, p. 414, Marriage record for Elijah Childs and Mary Gorham.
  • ² Massachusetts: Vital Records, 1620-1850, Barnstable, Vol. 1, p. 268, Birth records for children of Elijah Childs and Mary Gorham.
  • ³ The Mayflower Descendant, 1923, Vol. 25, p. 148, Birth record for Mary Gorham.
  • ⁴ Otis, Amos, Genealogical Notes of Barnstable Families, Being a Reprint of the Amos Otis Papers, Originally Published in . . ., Vol. 1, Barnstable, Massachusetts: F. B. and F. P. Goss, Publishers and Printers (1888), 185.
  • ⁵ White, Elizabeth Pearson, John Howland of the Mayflower, Vol. 1, Camden, Maine: Picton Press (1990, 7th printing 2014), 378.

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