Ancestry of
Sam Waterston

Stage, TV and Movie Actor

Robert Whitman Atkinson

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• • Grandfather of Sam Waterston — 3rd Generation
  • Ahnentafel No:
  • 6 
  • Father:
  • Edward Atkinson 
  • Mother:
  • Mary Caroline Heath   
  • Birth Date:
  • 14 Dec 1868 
  • Birth Location:
  • Brookline, Norfolk, Massachusetts 
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  • Spouse Name:
  • Ellizabeth Bispham Page
  • Marriage Date:
  • 5 Mar 1904 
  • Marriage Location:
  • Christ Church, Philadelphia, Philadelphia Co., Pennsylvania 
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  Alice Tucker Atkinson (Ahnentafel No:3 )

  Eliot Heath Atkinson

  Samuel Greenleaf Atkinson

• Sources for Robert Whitman Atkinson

  • ¹ Massachusetts: Vital Records, 1841-1910, Brookline, Vol. 548, p. 26, Marriage of Robert Whitman Atkinson and Elizabeth Bispham Page.
  • ² The Boston Globe (Boston, Massachusetts), 13 MAR 1904, p. 42, Wedding of Robert Whitman Atkinson and Elizabeth Bispham Page.
  • ³ The Boston Herald (Boston, Massachusetts), 07 JUL 1935, p. 31, Wedding of George C Waterston and daughter Alice Tucker Atkinson.
  • ⁴ U.S., Passport Applications, 1795-1925, 28 AUG 1924, Application for Robert Whitman Atkinson.
  • ⁵ French, Howard Barclay, Genealogy of the Descendants of Thomas French: Who Came to America from Nether Heyford, Northamptonshire . . ., Vol. 2, Philadelphia: Privately Printed (1913), 324, 540-541.
  • ⁶ Mackenzie, George Norbury, ed., Colonial Families of the United States of America, Vol. 6, Baltimore, Maryland: Genealogical Publishing Co., Inc. (1995, originally published 1912), 23.

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