Ancestry of
Paul Walker

TV and Movie Actor

Lydia Child

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• • 6th Great-grandmother of Paul Walker — 9th Generation
  • Ahnentafel No:
  • 355 
  • Father:
  • John Child Jr. 
  • Mother:
  • Hannah French   
  • Birth Date:
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  • Christening Date:
  • 7 Oct 1711 
  • Christening Location:
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  • Death Date:
  • 1759 
  • Death Location:
  • Hardwick, Worcester, Massachusetts 
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  • Spouse Name:
  • James Fay
  • Marriage Date:
  • 9 Dec 1727 
  • Marriage Location:
  • Watertown, Middlesex, Massachusetts 
  • Children:
  
  

  Daniel Fay

  Lydia Fay (Ahnentafel No:177 )

  Mehitable Fay

  • Notes: 

  • This Lydia Child, wife of James Fay, is not the daughter of Joseph Child and Ruth Church. That Lydia Child was the wife of David Ingersole. Lydia's sister Hannah married James Fay's brother John Fay.

• Sources for Lydia Child

  • ¹ General Society of Mayflower Descendants Membership Applications, 1620-1920, General No. 3233, Membership application for Horace Secor Jr, gives incorrect parentage.
  • ² Massachusetts: Vital Records, 1620-1850, Westborough, Vol. 1, p. 38, Birth record for son Daniel Fay.
  • ³ Middlesex County, MA: Probate File Papers, 1648-1871, Case 4412, Probate file for father John Child.
  • ⁴ Child, Elias, Genealogy of the Child, Childs and Childe Families, of the Past and Present in the United States and the Canadas, Utica, NY: Curtiss and Childs, Printers (1881), 507.
  • ⁵ Fay, Orlin P., Fay Genealogy: John Fay of Marlborough and his Descendants, Cleveland, Ohio: Press of J. B. Savage (1898), 23-24.
  • ⁶ Stratton, Eugene Aubrey, Applied Genealogy, n. p.: Ancestry Incorporated (1988), 249.

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