Ancestry of
Kyra Sedgwick

TV and Movie Actress

Simon Wainwright

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• • 8th Great-grandfather of Kyra Sedgwick — 11th Generation
  • Ahnentafel No:
  • 1270 
  • Father:
  • Francis Wainwright 
  • Mother:
  • Philippa Sewell   
  • Birth Date:
  • ABT 1656 
  • Birth Location:
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  • Death Date:
  • 19 Aug 1708 
  • Death Location:
  • Haverhill, Essex, Massachusetts 
  • Burial Date:
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  • Burial Location:
  • Pentucket Cemetery, Haverhill, Essex, Massachusetts 
  • Spouse Name:
  • Sarah Gilbert
  • Marriage Date:
  • 6 Oct 1681 
  • Marriage Location:
  • Haverhill, Essex, Massachusetts 
  • Children:
  
  

  Sarah Wainwright

  Elizabeth Wainwright (Ahnentafel No:635 )

  Mehitabel Wainwright

  • Notes: 

  • Simon Wainwright and about 20 others were slain by Indians.

    Simon Wainwright's father Francis objected to the marriage of Simon to Sarah Gilbert. Francis Wainwright claimed the marriage was without his consent and was therefore illegal and unwarrantable.

• Additional marriages for Simon Wainwright

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  • Spouse:
  • Anne Pierce

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  • Spouse:
  • Mary - - - - - -

• Sources for Simon Wainwright

  • ¹ Essex County, MA: Probate File Papers, 1638-1881, Case #28692, Probate file for Simon Wainwright.
  • ² Gravestone image at FindAGrave.com, (accessed 04/23/2020).
  • ³ Massachusetts: Vital Records, 1620-1850, Haverhill, Vol. 2, p. 482, Death record for Simon Wainwright.
  • ⁴ Massachusetts: Vital Records, 1620-1850, Haverhill, Vol. 2, p. 133, Marriage record for Symon Wainwright and Sarah Gilbert.
  • ⁵ New England Historical and Genealogical Register, 1913, Vol. 67, p. 269.
  • ⁶ Anderson, Robert Charles, The Great Migration: Immigrants to New England 1634-1635, Vol. VII, T-Y, Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society (2011), 517, objection to marriage of Simon Wainwright and Sarah Gilbert.
  • ⁷ Davis, Horace, Ancestry of John Davis, Governor and U. S. Senator and Eliza Bancroft His Wife, Both of Worcester, Massachusetts, San Francisco, California: n. p. (1897), 11, 49.
  • ⁸ Frost, Norman Seaver, Frost Genealogy in Five Families, West Newton, Massachusetts: Frost Family Association of America (1926), 232.
  • ⁹ Roberts, Gary Boyd, Notable Kin, Volume 1, Santa Clarita, California: Carl Boyer, 3rd (1998), 193.
  • ¹⁰ Saltonstall, Leverett, Ancestry and Descendants of Sir Richard Saltonstall: First Associate of the Massachusetts Bay Colony and . . ., Cambridge, Massachusetts: Riverside Press (1897), 21.

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