Ancestry of
Hugh Hefner

Founder of Playboy Magazine

Welthian Loring

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• • 8th Great-grandmother of Hugh Hefner — 11th Generation
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  • from 3 Jul 1679 to 4 Nov 1679 
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  • Thomas Richards
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  • BEF 1620 
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  Mary Richards

  Ann Richards

  Alice Richards (Ahnentafel No:713 )

  James Richards

• Sources for Welthian Loring

  • ¹ Early New England Families, 1641-1700 , Thomas Hinckley (m. 1641, 1660), p. 2, New England Historic Genealogical Society (Online Database).
  • ² NEHGS NEXUS: New England Across the United States , 1995, Vol. 12, p. 66, New England Historic Genealogical Society (Online Database).
  • ³ Anderson, Robert Charles , The Great Migration Begins: Immigrants to New England 1620-1633, Vol . 3, P-W , Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society (1995) , 1577.
  • ⁴ Chamberlain, George Walter , History of Weymouth Massachusetts, in Four Volumes, Vol. 3, Genealogy of Weymouth Families , Weymouth, Massachusetts: Weymouth Historical Society (1923) , 313, Ancestry.com (Online Database).
  • ⁵ Jacobus, Donald Lines , The Waterman Family: Vol. I, Descendants of Robert Waterman of Marshfield, Massachusetts , New Haven, Connecticut: Edgar F. Waterman (1939) , 626, Hathi Trust Digital Library.
  • ⁶ Lainhart, Ann Smith and Robert S. Wakefield , Mayflower Families Through Five Generations: Vol. 22, William Bradford , Plymouth, Massachusetts: General Society of Mayflower Descendants (2004) , 5-8.
  • ⁷ Roberts, Gary Boyd , Notable Ki n, Volume 1 , Santa Clarita, California: Carl Boyer, 3rd (1998) , 222.
  • ⁸ Roberts, Gary Boyd , Notable Ki n, Volume 2 , Santa Clarita, California: Carl Boyer, 3rd (1999) , 43.
  • ⁹ Roberts, Gary Boyd, comp. , Ancestor s of American Presidents , Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society (2009) , 508.
  • ¹⁰ Whittemore, Henry , The Signers of the Mayflower Compact and their Descendants , New York: Mayflower Publishing Co. (1899) , 11, Google Books (Digital Library).

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