Ancestry of
Douglas Trumbull

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Fear Merrifield

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• • 4th Great-grandmother of Douglas Trumbull — 7th Generation
  • Ahnentafel No:
  • 73 
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  • Birth Date:
  • 26 Jun 1738 
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  • Death Date:
  • Sep 1807 
  • Death Location:
  • Charlemont, Franklin, Massachusetts 
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  • Spouse Name:
  • Silas Shurtleff
  • Marriage Date:
  • 23 Feb 1758 
  • Marriage Location:
  • Charlemont, Franklin, Massachusetts 
  • Child:

  Oliver Shurtleff (Ahnentafel No:36 )

  • Notes: 

  • Fear Merrefield is said to be of French descent. There is no evidence that she was the daughter of Francis and Content (Billington) Merrifield as has been claimed.

• Sources for Fear Merrifield

  • ¹ General Society of Mayflower Descendants Membership Applications, 1620-1920, General No. 26757, Membership application for Emsley W Johnson Jr.
  • ² General Society of Mayflower Descendants Membership Applications, 1620-1920, General No. 26258, Membership application for Mardenna Johnson Hunter.
  • ³ Shurtleff, Roy L., Descendants of William Shurtleff: 1976 Revised Edition, San Francisco, California: Roy L. Shurtleff (1976), 73.

Douglas Trumbull photo by Julian Herzog (CC BY 4.0)