Ancestry of
Glenn Close

Movie, Television, and Stage Actress

William Lygon

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• • 13th Great-grandfather of Glenn Close — 16th Generation
  • Ahnentafel No:
  • 48688 
  • Father:
  • Richard Lygon 
  • Mother:
  • Margaret Greville   
  • Birth Date:
  • ABT 1512 
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  • Death Date:
  • 29 Sep 1567 
  • Death Location:
  • Madresfield, Worcestershire, England 
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  • Burial Location:
  • Austin Friars, London, England 
  • Spouse Name:
  • Eleanor Dennis
  • Marriage Date:
  • ABT 1529 
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  • Children:
  
  

  Elizabeth Lygon

  Thomas Lygon (Ahnentafel No:24344 )

  Cecily Lygon

  Margaret Lygon

  Katherine Lygon

• Sources for William Lygon

  • ¹ NEHGS NEXUS: New England Across the United States, 1999, Vol. 16, p. 157.
  • ² Richardson, Douglas and Kimball G. Everingham, editor, Magna Carta Ancestry: A Study in Colonial and Medieval Families, 2nd edition, Salt Lake City, Utah: Douglas Richardson (2011), vol. 3, p. 23.
  • ³ Roberts, Gary Boyd, Notable Kin, Volume 2, Santa Clarita, California: Carl Boyer, 3rd (1999), 219.
  • ⁴ Roberts, Gary Boyd, The Royal Descents of 600 Immigrants to the American Colonies or the United States (2 vols.), Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Co. (2008), 259, 314, 859.
  • ⁵ Weis, Frederick Lewis, et. al., Ancestral Roots of Certain American Colonists Who Came to America Before 1700, 8th Edition, Baltimore, Maryland: Genealogical Publishing Company (2004), 91.

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