Ancestry of
Angela Y. Davis

Civil Rights Activist
and former Black Panther

Richard Saltonstall

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• • 9th Great-grandfather of Angela Y. Davis — 12th Generation
  • Ahnentafel No:
  • 2520 
  • Father:
  • Richard Saltonstall 
  • Mother:
  • Grace Kaye   
  • Birth Date:
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  • Christening Date:
  • 1 Oct 1610 
  • Christening Location:
  • Almondbury, Yorkshire, England 
  • Death Date:
  • 29 Apr 1694 
  • Death Location:
  • Hulme, Lancashire (now Manchester), England 
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  • Spouse Name:
  • Muriel Gurdon
  • Marriage Date:
  • 4 Jul 1633 
  • Marriage Location:
  • Allhallows, Honey Lane, London, England 
  • Children:
  
  

  Richard Saltonstall

  Nathaniel Saltonstall (Ahnentafel No:1260 )

  Gurdon Saltonstall

  Muriel Saltonstall

  Abigail Saltonstall

  Elizabeth Saltonstall

  • Notes: 

  • Some sources give the wedding date for Richard Saltonstall and Muriel Gurdon as JUN 1633.

• Sources for Richard Saltonstall

  • ¹ Anderson, Robert Charles, The Great Migration Begins: Immigrants to New England 1620-1633, Vol. 3, P-W, Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society (1995), 1619.
  • ² Richardson, Douglas, Royal Ancestry: A Study in Colonial and Medieval Families, Salt Lake City, Utah: Douglas Richardson (2013), Vol. IV, pp. 551-552.
  • ³ Richardson, Douglas and Kimball G. Everingham, Plantagenet Ancestry: A Study in Colonial & Medieval Families, 2nd Edition, Salt Lake City, Utah: Douglas Richardson (2011), Vol. 2, p. 192.
  • ⁴ Roberts, Gary Boyd, Notable Kin, Volume 1, Santa Clarita, California: Carl Boyer, 3rd (1998), 192.
  • ⁵ Roberts, Gary Boyd, Notable Kin, Volume 2, Santa Clarita, California: Carl Boyer, 3rd (1999), 27.
  • ⁶ Roberts, Gary Boyd, The Mayflower 500: Five Hundred Notable Descendants of the Founding Families on the Mayflower, Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society (2020), 644.
  • ⁷ Roberts, Gary Boyd, The Royal Descents of 600 Immigrants to the American Colonies or the United States (2 vols.), Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Co. (2008), 182, 198.
  • ⁸ Stoddard, Mrs. Frances M., Genealogical History of the Allen Family and of Some of Their Connections, Boston: Privately printed (1891), 29.
  • ⁹ 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), 7-8.
  • ¹⁰ Weis, Frederick Lewis, et. al., The Magna Charta Sureties, 1215: The Barons Named in the Magna Charta, 1215 and Some of their . . ., 5th edition, Baltimore, Maryland: Genealogical Publishing Co., Inc. (Third Printing, 2006), 27, 64.

Angela Y. Davis photo by Bernard Gotfryd