Ancestry of
Alice French

(aka Octave Thanet)
Novelist and Short Story Writer

Frances Wood Morton

View famous kin of Frances Wood Morton

• • Mother of Alice French — 2nd Generation
  • Ahnentafel No:
  • 3 
  • Father:
  • Marcus Morton 
  • Mother:
  • Charlotte Hodges   
  • Birth Date:
  • 16 Jan 1828 
  • Birth Location:
  • Taunton, Bristol, Massachusetts 
  • Christening Date:
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  • Christening Location:
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  • Death Date:
  • 2 Jan 1900 
  • Death Location:
  • Davenport, Scott, Iowa 
  • Burial Date:
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  • Burial Location:
  • Oakdale Memorial Gardens, Davenport, Scott, Iowa 
  • Spouse Name:
  • George Henry French
  • Marriage Date:
  • 27 Sep 1849 
  • Marriage Location:
  • Taunton, Bristol, Massachusetts 
  • Children:
  
  

  Alice French (Ahnentafel No:1 )

  Morton French

  Nathaniel French

  George French

  Fanny M. French

  Robert T. French

• Sources for Frances Wood Morton

  • ¹ Biographical History and Portrait Gallery of Scott County, Iowa, Chicago and New York: American Biographical Publishing Company (1895), 118.
  • ² Federal Census, IA, Scott County, 1880, Davenport, E.D. 277, p. 50, Image 50 of 53.
  • ³ Federal Census, IA, Scott County, 1860, Davenport, p. 124, Image 124 of 369.
  • ⁴ General Society of Mayflower Descendants Membership Applications, 1620-1920, General No. 1655, Membership application for Alice French.
  • ⁵ Gravestone image at FindAGrave.com, (accessed 03/05/2023).
  • ⁶ Massachusetts: Vital Records, 1620-1850, Taunton, Vol. 2, p. 341, Marriage of George H French and Frances W Morton.
  • ⁷ Massachusetts: Vital Records, 1841-1910, Andover, Vol. 42, p. 132, Birth record for daughter Alice French.
  • ⁸ Hodges, Almon D., Jr., Genealogical Record of the Hodges Family of New England, Ending December 31, 1894, 3rd Edition, Boston: Printed for the family by Frank H. Hodges (1896), 250.
  • ⁹ Hurd, D. Hamilton, comp., History of Bristol County, Massachusetts: with Biographical Sketches of Many of its Pioneers and Prominent Men, Philadelphia: J. W. Lewis and Company (1883), 26.
  • ¹⁰ Knowlton, George Henry, Errata and Addenda to Dr. Stocking's History and Genealogy of the Knowltons of England and America, Boston, Massachusetts: The Everett Press Company (1903), 138.
  • ¹¹ Wikipedia, "Alice French", (accessed 03/05/2023).