Ancestry of
Kyra Sedgwick

TV and Movie Actress

Elizabeth Perkins

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• • 5th Great-grandmother of Kyra Sedgwick — 8th Generation
  • Ahnentafel No:
  • 157 
  • Father:
  • James Perkins 
  • Mother:
  • Elizabeth Peck   
  • Birth Date:
  • 18 Jan 1756 
  • Birth Location:
  • Boston, Suffolk, Massachusetts 
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  • Death Date:
  • 18 Sep 1843 
  • Death Location:
  • Boston, Suffolk, Massachusetts 
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  • Spouse Name:
  • Russell Sturgis
  • Marriage Date:
  • 11 Nov 1773 
  • Marriage Location:
  • Boston, Suffolk, Massachusetts 
  • Child:

  Nathaniel Russell Sturgis (Ahnentafel No:78 )

  • Notes: 

  • Elizabeth Perkins's given name is also seen as Betsey.

• Sources for Elizabeth Perkins

  • ¹ Boston, MA: Inhabitants and Estates of the Town of Boston, 1630-1822 (Thwing Collection), pp. 17038-17039, Record for spouse Russell Sturgis.
  • ² Boston, MA: Marriages, 1700-1809, Marriage intention for Russell Sturgis and Betsey Perkins.
  • ³ Massachusetts, U.S., Town and Vital Records, 1620-1988, Birth record for Elizabeth Perkins.
  • ⁴ Massachusetts, U.S., Town and Vital Records, 1620-1988, Death record for Elizabeth Sturgis.
  • ⁵ New England Historical and Genealogical Register, 1930, Vol. 84, p. 368, Marriage record for Russell Sturgis and Betsey Perkins.
  • ⁶ Roberts, Gary Boyd, The Mayflower 500: Five Hundred Notable Descendants of the Founding Families on the Mayflower, Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society (2020), 328.
  • ⁷ Sturgis, Francis Shaw, The Descendants of Nath'l Russell Sturgis: With a Brief Introductory Sketch of His Ancestors in England and . . ., Boston: Printed by G. H. Ellis (1925), Introduction prior to page 1, p. 1.

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