Ancestry of
Jennifer Lawrence

Movie Actress

William Brent

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• • 5th Great-grandfather of Jennifer Lawrence — 8th Generation
  • Ahnentafel No:
  • 186 
  • Father:
  • William Brent 
  • Mother:
  • Hannah Neale   
  • Birth Date:
  • Aug 1777 
  • Birth Location:
  • Faquier County, Virginia 
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  • Death Date:
  • ABT 1851 
  • Death Location:
  • Trimble County, Kentucky 
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  • Spouse Name:
  • Elizabeth Simmons
  • Marriage Date:
  • ABT 1799 
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  • Child:

  Nancy Brent (Ahnentafel No:93 )

• Sources for William Brent

  • ¹ Brent, Chester Horton, The Descendants of Hugh Brent: Immigrant to Isle of Wight County, Virginia, 1642, (Rutland, Vermont: The Tuttle Publishing Company, Inc. (1936)), 81, 104-105, there are errors among the children listed for William.
  • ² Hardy, Stella Pickett, Colonial Families of the Southern States of America: A History and Genealogy of Colonial Families Who Settled . . ., New York: Tobias A. Wright (1911), 90, states that William emigrated to Mississippi.

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