Ancestry of
Madonna

Singer and Songwriter

Willard Fortin

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• • Grandfather of Madonna — 3rd Generation
  • Ahnentafel No:
  • 6 
  • Father:
  • Narcisse "Nelson" Fortin 
  • Mother:
  • Rosa E. Lajoie   
  • Birth Date:
  • 7 Nov 1903 
  • Birth Location:
  • Michigan 
  • Christening Date:
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  • Christening Location:
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  • Death Date:
  • Jun 1959 
  • Death Location:
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  • Burial Date:
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  • Burial Location:
  • Calvary Cemetery and Mausoleum, Bay City, Bay, Michigan 
  • Spouse Name:
  • Elsie Mae Fortin
  • Marriage Date:
  • 23 Nov 1929 
  • Marriage Location:
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  • Child:

  Madonna Louise Fortin (Ahnentafel No:3 )

  • Notes: 

  • The social security death index gives Willard Fortin's birth year as 1904.

• Sources for Willard Fortin

  • ¹ Bay City Times, 10 MAR 2011, Obituary for Elsie Mae Fortin.
  • ² Federal Census, MI, Bay County, 1910, Bay City Ward 9, E.D. 52, Sheet 14A, Image 27 of 43.
  • ³ Federal Census, MI, Bay County, 1920, Bay Ward 9, E.D. 84, Sheet 2B, Image 4 of 24.
  • ⁴ Federal Census, MI, Bay County, 1940, Banger, ED #9-1-A, Sheet 4B.
  • ⁵ Gravestone image at FindAGrave.com, (accessed 10/07/2013).
  • ⁶ U.S., Social Security Death Index, 1935-2014, Death record for Willard Fortin.
  • ⁷ Morton, Andrew, Madonna, New York: St. Martin's Paperbacks (2002), 41.
  • ⁸ New England Historic Genealogical Society, "Madonna and Lady Gaga", (accessed 10/18/2013).

Madonna photo by David Shankbone (CC BY-SA 3.0)