Ancestry of
Hugh Hefner

Founder of Playboy Magazine

Joseph Joy

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• • 7th Great-grandfather of Hugh Hefner — 10th Generation
  • Ahnentafel No:
  • 724 
  • Father:
  • Thomas Joy 
  • Mother:
  • Joan Gallop   
  • Birth Date:
  • 1 Apr 1645 
  • Birth Location:
  • Boston, Suffolk, Massachusetts 
  • Christening Date:
  • 13 Apr 1645 
  • Christening Location:
  • First Church of Boston, Boston, Suffolk, Massachusetts 
  • Death Date:
  • 31 May 1697 
  • Death Location:
  • Hingham, Plymouth, Massachusetts 
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  • Spouse Name:
  • Mary Prince
  • Marriage Date:
  • 29 Aug 1667 
  • Marriage Location:
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  • Child:

  Joseph Joy (Ahnentafel No:362 )

• Sources for Joseph Joy

  • ¹ New England Historical and Genealogical Register, 1854, Vol. 8, p. 39.
  • ² Anderson, Robert Charles, The Great Migration Begins: Immigrants to New England 1620-1633, Vol. 2, G-O, Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society (1995), 726.
  • ³ Joy, James Richard, Thomas Joy and His Descendants: In the LInes of His Sons Samuel of Boston, Joseph of Hingham, Ephraim of . . ., New York: Printed for the Family (1900), 66-67.
  • ⁴ Lee, Helen Bourne Joy, The Joy Genealogy, Essex, Connecticut: The Pequot Press, Inc. (1968), 50.

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