Ancestry of
Thomas Nelson

Signer of the Declaration of Independence

John Heron

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• • 8th Great-grandfather of Thomas Nelson — 11th Generation
  • Ahnentafel No:
  • 1338 
  • Father:
  • William Heron 
  • Mother:
  • Isabel Scott   
  • Birth Date:
  • ABT 1415/1418 
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  • Death Date:
  • 29 Mar 1461 
  • Death Location:
  • Battle of Towton, Yorkshire, England 
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  • Spouse Name:
  • Elizabeth Heron
  • Marriage Date:
  • 11 Jul 1438 
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  Elizabeth Heron (Ahnentafel No:669 )

• Sources for John Heron

  • ¹ Browning, Charles H., The Magna Charta Barons and their American Descendants, Philadelpha: (1898), 201.
  • ² Creasey, James, Sketches Illustrative of the Topography and History of New and Old Sleaford in the County of Lincoln . . ., Sleaford, England: James Creasey (1825), 274-275.
  • ³ Maddison, ed. Rev. Canon A. R., ed., Lincolnshire Pedigrees, London: (1904), 946.
  • 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), 338.
  • 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), 199.
  • ⁶ Wikipedia, "Battle of Towton", (accessed 02/05/2014).