Ancestry of
Kurt Cobain

Singer and Songwriter

William Spooner

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• • 9th Great-grandfather of Kurt Cobain — 12th Generation
  • Ahnentafel No:
  • 2490 
  • Father:
  • John Spooner 
  • Mother:
  • Rebecca Peckham   
  • Birth Date:
  • 11 May 1680 
  • Birth Location:
  • Dartmouth, Bristol, Massachusetts 
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  • Death Date:
  • from 11 Jul 1729 to 12 Aug 1729 
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  • Spouse Name:
  • Alice Blackwell
  • Marriage Date:
  • BEF 7 Dec 1700 
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  Jemima Spooner (Ahnentafel No:1245 )

  Jean Spooner

  Elizabeth Spooner

  Micah Spooner

  Nathaniel Spooner

  Rebecca Spooner

  Sarah Spooner

  Mary Spooner

  Isaac Spooner

  Alice Spooner

  William Spooner

  Ebenezer Spooner

• Sources for William Spooner

  • ¹ New England Historical and Genealogical Register, 1869, Vol. 23, p. 409.
  • ² The American Genealogist, 1969, Vol. 45, pp. 121-123.
  • ³ Roberts, Gary Boyd, The Mayflower 500: Five Hundred Notable Descendants of the Founding Families on the Mayflower, Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society (2020), 63, 354, 448.
  • ⁴ Spooner, Thomas, Records of William Spooner of Plymouth, Mass., and His Descendants, Vol. 1, Cincinnati, Ohio: Press of F. W. Freeman (1883), 27, 34-35, 39, confuses William with his uncle of the same name.
  • ⁵ Wakefield, Robert S. and Judith H. Swan, Mayflower Families Through Five Generations: Vol. 18, Part 1, Richard Warren, 167.
  • ⁶ Wakefield, Robert S. and Margaret Harris Stover, Mayflower Families Through Five Generations: Vol. 17, Isaac Allerton, Plymouth, Massachusetts: General Society of Mayflower Descendants (2015), 109.

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