Ancestry of
Button Gwinnett

Signer of the Declaration of Independence

Button Gwinnett

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• • 1st Generation
  • Ahnentafel No:
  • 1 
  • Father:
  • Samuel Gwinnett 
  • Mother:
  • Anne Eames   
  • Birth Date:
  • ABT 1732 
  • Birth Location:
  • Down Hatherly, Gloucestershire, England 
  • Christening Date:
  • 1735 
  • Christening Location:
  •  
  • Death Date:
  • 19 or 27 MAY 1777 
  • Death Location:
  • near Savannah, Chatham, Georgia 
  • Burial Date:
  •  
  • Burial Location:
  • Colonial Park Cemetery, Savannah, Chatham, Georgia 
  • Notes: 
  • Signer of the Declaration of Independence

• Marriages for Button Gwinnett

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  • Spouse:
  • Ann Bourne
  • Marriage Date:
  • 19 Apr 1757
  • Marriage Location:
  • Staffordshire, England

• Sources for Button Gwinnett

  • ¹ Gravestone image at FindAGrave.com, (accessed 07/02/2013).
  • ² Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, "Gwinnett, Button, (1735-1777)", (accessed 07/02/2013).
  • ³ Roberts, Gary Boyd, The Royal Descents of 600 Immigrants to the American Colonies or the United States (2 vols.), Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Co. (2008), 386.
  • ⁴ The Society of the Descendants of the Signers of the Declaration of Independence, "Button Gwinnett", (accessed 07/02/2013).
  • ⁵ Wikipedia, "Button Gwinnett", (accessed 07/02/2013).