Ancestry of
Glenn Close

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Maria Louise Shaw

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• • 2nd Great-grandmother of Glenn Close — 5th Generation
  • Ahnentafel No:
  • 29 
  • Father:
  • Thomas Shaw 
  • Mother:
  • Maria Sherwood   
  • Birth Date:
  • 15 Oct 1832 
  • Birth Location:
  • Manhattan, New York, New York 
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  • Death Date:
  • 4 Mar 1899 
  • Death Location:
  • Manhattan, New York, New York 
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  • Spouse Name:
  • Albert Gallatin Hyde
  • Marriage Date:
  • 18 Nov 1851 
  • Marriage Location:
  • Bleeker Street Church, New York, New York 
  • Children:
  
  

  Kate Elizabeth Hyde

  Mary Louise Hyde

  Seymour Jairus Hyde (Ahnentafel No:14 )

  Albert Fillmore Hyde

  Hellen Hyde

  • Notes: 

  • Maria Shaw was the adopted daughter of Seymour and Elizabeth Strong.

• Sources for Maria Louise Shaw

  • ¹ Evening Post (New York, New York), 19 NOV 1851, p. 3, Wedding of Albert G Hyde and Maria Louise Shaw.
  • ² Federal Census, NY, New York County, 1860, New York Ward 19, Dist. 1, p. 180, Image 182 of 422.
  • ³ Federal Census, NY, New York County, 1880, New York City, E.D. 571, p. 20, Image 20 of 37.
  • ⁴ Gravestone image at FindAGrave.com, (accessed 11/04/2021).
  • ⁵ New York, New York, U.S., Extracted Death Index, 1862-1948, Death record for Maria L Hyde.
  • ⁶ New York, U.S., Episcopal Diocese of New York Church Records, 1767-1970, Baptism record for son Albert Fillmore Hyde.
  • ⁷ New York, U.S., Episcopal Diocese of New York Church Records, 1767-1970, Baptism record for son Seymour Jerius Hyde.
  • ⁸ The Sun (New York, New York), 06 MAR 1899, p. 6, Obituary for Maria Louise (Shaw) Hyde.
  • ⁹ U.S., Passport Applications, 1795-1925, 13 MAY 1887, Passport application for Maria Louise Hyde.
  • ¹⁰ Cutter, William Richard, ed., New England Families, Genealogical and Memorial: A Record of the Achievements of . . . Volume 4, New York: Lewis Historical Publishing Company (1913), 2095.
  • ¹¹ Harrison, Mitchell C., New York State's Prominent and Progressive Men: An Encyclopedia of Contemporaneous Biography, Vol. 2, New York: New York Tribune (1900), 176.
  • ¹² Roberts, Gary Boyd, The Mayflower 500: Five Hundred Notable Descendants of the Founding Families on the Mayflower, Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society (2020), 320, incorrectly gives Maria Louise's name as Mary Laverne.

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