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Glenn Close

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William Robertson

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• • 4th Great-grandfather of Glenn Close — 7th Generation
  • Ahnentafel No:
  • 94 
  • Father:
  • John Robertson 
  • Mother:
  • Ann Walthall   
  • Birth Date:
  • 12 May 1786 
  • Birth Location:
  • Chesterfield, County, Virginia 
  • Christening Date:
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  • Christening Location:
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  • Death Date:
  • ABT 1859 
  • Death Location:
  • near Cooper River, South Carolina 
  • Burial Date:
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  • Burial Location:
  • Magnolia Cemetery, Augusta, Richmond, Georgia 
  • Spouse Name:
  • Pamela Moseley
  • Marriage Date:
  • 30 Jan 1806 
  • Marriage Location:
  • South Carolina 
  • Child:

  Lucretia Catherine Robertson (Ahnentafel No:47 )

  • Notes: 

  • War of 1812 and Seminole War veteran

• Additional marriages for William Robertson

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  • Spouse:
  • Mary MacBeth

• Sources for William Robertson

  • ¹ Gravestone image at FindAGrave.com, (accessed 04/01/2020).
  • ² South Carolina, U.S., Compiled Marriage Index, 1641-1965, Marriage record for William Robinson [sic] and Pamela Mosely.
  • ³ Burke, Arthur Meredyth, The Prominent Families of the United States of America, Volume 1, London: The Sackville Press Ltd. (1908), 457-458.
  • ⁴ Mackenzie, George Norbury, ed., Colonial Families of the United States of America, Vol. 1, Baltimore, Maryland: Genealogical Publishing Co., Inc. (1995, originally published 1912), 444-446.
  • ⁵ Mays, Samuel Edward, Genealogy of the Mays Family and Related Families to 1929 Inclusive, Plant City, Florida: Plant City Enterprise (1929), 164.

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