Ancestry of
Glenn Close

Movie, Television, and Stage Actress

Abigail Ford

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• • 9th Great-grandmother of Glenn Close — 12th Generation
  • Ahnentafel No:
  • 3553 
  • Father:
  • Thomas Ford 
  • Mother:
  • Elizabeth Charde   
  • Birth Date:
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  • Birth Location:
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  • Christening Date:
  • 8 Oct 1619 
  • Christening Location:
  • Bridport, Dorset, England 
  • Death Date:
  • 6 Jul 1688 
  • Death Location:
  • Northampton, Hampshire, Massachusetts 
  • Burial Date:
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  • Burial Location:
  • Bridge Street Cemetery, Northampton, Hampshire, Massachusetts 
  • Spouse Name:
  • John Strong
  • Marriage Date:
  • ABT 1636 
  • Marriage Location:
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  • Children:
  
  

  Thomas Strong (Ahnentafel No:1776 )

  Jedediah Strong

  Return Strong

  Ebenezer Strong

  Abigail Strong

  Elizabeth Strong

  Experience Strong

  Samuel Strong

  Joseph Strong

  Mary Strong

  Sarah Strong

  Hannah Strong

  Hester Strong

  Thankful Strong

  Jerijah Strong

• Sources for Abigail Ford

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  • ¹⁰ Connecticut Society of Genealogists, The Connecticut Nutmegger, 2000, Vol. 33, p. 187.
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  • ¹² Dwight, Benjamin W., The History of the Descendants of Elder John Strong, of Northampton, Mass., Vol. 2, Albany, New York: Joel Munsell (1871), 1120.
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  • ¹⁶ Roberts, Gary Boyd, "#48 Royal Descents, Notable Kin, and Printed Sources: The Ancestry of Novelist Thomas Pynchon", (accessed 11/28/2018).
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  • ¹⁸ Roberts, Gary Boyd and William Addams Reitwiesner, American Ancestors and Cousins of The Princess of Wales, Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Co., Inc. (1984), 29.
  • ¹⁹ Roberts, Gary Boyd, comp., Ancestors of American Presidents, 2009 Edition, Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society (2009), 479.

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