Ancestry of
Kurt Cobain

Singer and Songwriter

John Blackwell

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• • 10th Great-grandfather of Kurt Cobain — 13th Generation
  • Ahnentafel No:
  • 4982 
  • Father:
  • Michael Blackwell 
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  • Birth Date:
  • ABT 1646 
  • Birth Location:
  • prob. Sandwich, Barnstable, Massachusetts 
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  • Death Date:
  • BY 28 Nov 1688 
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  • Spouse Name:
  • Sarah Warren
  • Marriage Date:
  • ABT 1673 
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  Michael Blackwell

  John Blackwell

  Desire Blackwell

  Alice Blackwell (Ahnentafel No:2491 )

  Jane Blackwell

  Caleb Blackwell

  Nathaniell Blackwell

• Sources for John Blackwell

  • ¹ The American Genealogist, 1969, Vol. 45, pp. 121-123.
  • ² 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, 90, 257, 354, 448.
  • ³ Spooner, Thomas, Records of William Spooner of Plymouth, Mass., and His Descendants, Vol. 1, Cincinnati, Ohio: Press of F. W. Freeman (1883), 39.
  • ⁴ Wakefield, Robert S. and Judith H. Swan, Mayflower Families Through Five Generations: Vol. 18, Part 1, Richard Warren, 40-41, 140.
  • ⁵ Wood, Ralph V., Jr., Mayflower Families Through Five Generations: Vol. 12, Francis Cooke, Revised Edition, Rockland, Maine: Picton Press (2011, revised edition 3rd printing), 215, 293.

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