Ancestry of
Kyra Sedgwick

TV and Movie Actress

Francis Shaw

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• • 6th Great-grandfather of Kyra Sedgwick — 9th Generation
  • Ahnentafel No:
  • 304 
  • Father:
  • Thomas Shaw 
  • Mother:
  • Sarah Gyles   
  • Birth Date:
  • 29 Mar 1721 
  • Birth Location:
  • Boston, Suffolk, Massachusetts 
  • Christening Date:
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  • Christening Location:
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  • Death Date:
  • 18 Oct 1784 
  • Death Location:
  • Boston, Suffolk, Massachusetts 
  • Burial Date:
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  • Burial Location:
  • Copps Hill Burying Ground, Boston, Suffolk, Massachusetts 
  • Spouse Name:
  • Sarah Burt
  • Marriage Date:
  • 22 Sep 1747 
  • Marriage Location:
  • Boston, Suffolk, Massachusetts 
  • Children:
  
  

  Francis Shaw Jr. (Ahnentafel No:152 )

  Sarah Shaw

  • Notes: 

  • Francis Shaw's father has been said by some to have immigrated from Scotland in the 1680s.

• Additional marriages for Francis Shaw

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  • Spouse:
  • Lydia Dickman
  • Marriage Date:
  • 3 Nov 1744

• Sources for Francis Shaw

  • ¹ New England Historical and Genealogical Register, 1924, Vol. 78, pp. 95-96.
  • ² Breck, Samuel, Genealogy of the Breck Family Descended from Edward of Dorchester and His Brothers in America, Omaha: Rees Printing Company (1889), 27.
  • ³ Porter, Joseph W., ed., The Bangor Historical Magazine, Bangor, Maine: Benjamin A. Burr, Printer, JUL 1891 to JUN 1892, Vol. 7, pp. 89-90 .
  • ⁴ Watson, Marston, Royal Families: Americans of Royal and Noble Ancestry, Volume 3, Samuel Appleton and His Wife Judith Everard . . ., Baltimore, Maryland: Genealogical Publishing Co., Inc. (2007), 215.
  • ⁵ Whitmore, William H., The Graveyards of Boston: First Volume, Copp's Hill Epitaphs, Albany: Joel Munsell (1878), 28.

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