Ancestry of
Kyra Sedgwick

TV and Movie Actress

Sarah Whitfield

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• • 10th Great-grandmother of Kyra Sedgwick — 13th Generation
  • Ahnentafel No:
  • 5425 
  • Father:
  • Henry Whitfield 
  • Mother:
  • Dorothy Sheafe   
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  • Christening Date:
  • 1 Nov 1620 
  • Christening Location:
  • Ockley, Surrey, England 
  • Death Date:
  • 8 Jul 1675 
  • Death Location:
  • Salem, Essex, Massachusetts 
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  • Spouse Name:
  • John Higginson
  • Marriage Date:
  • BEF 1646 
  • Marriage Location:
  • Guilford, New Haven, Connecticut 
  • Child:

  John Higginson Jr. (Ahnentafel No:2712 )

• Sources for Sarah Whitfield

  • ¹ Anderson, Robert Charles, The Great Migration Begins: Immigrants to New England 1620-1633, Vol. 2, G-O, Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society (1995), 934.
  • ² Higginson, Thomas Wentworth, Descendants of the Reverend Francis Higginson: First Teacher in the Massachusetts Bay Colony of . . ., Unknown: Privately printed (1910), 6-7.
  • ³ Roberts, Gary Boyd, "The Royal Descents of Jane Pierce, Alice and Edith Roosevelt, Helen Taft, Eleanor Roosevelt, and Barbara Bush", (accessed 09/29/2014).
  • ⁴ Threlfall, John Brooks, The Ancestry of Reverend Henry Whitfield (1590-1657) and His Wife Dorothy Sheafe (159?-1669) of Guilford, Connecticut, Madison, Wisconsin: Unknown (1989), 17, 213-220, 228, 257.

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