Ancestry of
Angela Y. Davis

Civil Rights Activist
and former Black Panther

William Knyvet

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• • 15th Great-grandfather of Angela Y. Davis — 18th Generation
  • Ahnentafel No:
  • 161392 
  • Father:
  • John Knyvet 
  • Mother:
  • Alice Lynne   
  • Birth Date:
  • ABT 1440 
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  • ABT 1515 
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  • Alice Grey
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  Edmund Knyvet (Ahnentafel No:80696 )

• Sources for William Knyvet

  • ¹ Weis, Frederick Lewis, et. al., Ancestral Roots of Certain American Colonists Who Came to America Before 1700, 8th Edition, Baltimore, Maryland: Genealogical Publishing Company (2004), 98, 177.

Angela Y. Davis photo by Bernard Gotfryd