Ancestry of
Kyra Sedgwick

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Henrietta Ellery Sedgwick

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• • 2nd Great-grandmother of Kyra Sedgwick — 5th Generation
  • Ahnentafel No:
  • 17 
  • Father:
  • Robert Sedgwick 
  • Mother:
  • Elizabeth Dana Ellery   
  • Birth Date:
  • 18 Oct 1829 
  • Birth Location:
  • Newport, Newport Co., Rhode Island 
  • Christening Date:
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  • Christening Location:
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  • Death Date:
  • 23 Feb 1902 
  • Death Location:
  • Stockbridge, Berkshire, Massachusetts 
  • Burial Date:
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  • Burial Location:
  • Stockbridge Cemetery, Stockbridge, Berkshire, Massachusetts 
  • Spouse Name:
  • Henry Dwight Sedgwick Jr.
  • Marriage Date:
  • 15 Oct 1857 
  • Marriage Location:
  • New York, New York 
  • Child:

  Henry Dwight Sedgwick III (Ahnentafel No:8 )

  • Notes: 

  • Some sources list the death of Henrietta Sedgwick as 22 FEB 1899, but this does not match the death registration or cemetery records that both give the date as 23 FEB 1902. Examining an image of the actual death registration clearly showed the 1902 date.

• Sources for Henrietta Ellery Sedgwick

  • ¹ Cemetery Transcriptions from the NEHGS Manuscript Collections, (2002), Page 99114, Cemetery record for Henrietta Ellery Sedgwick.
  • ² Federal Census, MA, Berkshire County, 1900, Stockbridge, ED #83, Sheet 5B.
  • ³ Massachusetts, U.S., Town and Vital Records, 1620-1988, Stockbridge, Death record for son Henry D. Sedgwick.
  • ⁴ Massachusetts, U.S., Town and Vital Records, 1620-1988, Stockbridge, Death record for Henrietta Sedgwick.
  • ⁵ Dwight, Benjamin W., The History of the Descendants of John Dwight, of Dedham, Mass., Vol. 2, 748.
  • ⁶ Pyne, Rev. Frederick Wallace, Descendants of the Signers of the Declaration of Independence: Vol. 1, The New England States, Camden, Maine: Picton Press (1997), 260, 267-268.
  • ⁷ Wikipedia, "Henry Dwight Sedgwick", (accessed 09/18/2014).

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