Ancestry of
Oliver Cromwell

1st Lord Protector

Oliver Cromwell

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• • 1st Generation
  • Ahnentafel No:
  • 1 
  • Father:
  • Robert Cromwell 
  • Mother:
  • Elizabeth Steward   
  • Birth Date:
  • 25 Apr 1599 
  • Birth Location:
  • Huntingdon, Huntingdonshire, England 
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  • Death Date:
  • 3 Sep 1658 
  • Death Location:
  • Whitehall, London, England 
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  • Notes: 

  • 1st Lord Protector of the Commonwealth of England, Scotland and Ireland

    When the English Civil War resulted in the execution of King Charles I, Oliver Cromwell took over as the ruler of the new republican Commonwealth. He is said to have ruled with an iron fist and is remembered as one of the most controversial figures in British history.

    Oliver Cromwell was buried in Westminster Abbey, but after the Royalists returned to power in 1660 they had his corpse dug up, hung in chains, and beheaded.

• Marriages for Oliver Cromwell

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  • Spouse:
  • Elizabeth Bourchier
  • Marriage Date:
  • 22 Aug 1620
  • Marriage Location:
  • St. Giles, Cripplegate, London, England

• Sources for Oliver Cromwell

  • ¹ New England Historical and Genealogical Register, 1920, Vol. 74, p. 137.
  • ² The American Genealogist, 1941, Vol. 18, p. 201.
  • ³ Clay, John W., ed., Familiae Minorum Gentium, Vol. 2, London: The Harleian Society (1895), 437.
  • ⁴ Evans, Richard K., The Ancestry of Diana, Princess of Wales, Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society (2007), 307.
  • ⁵ Roberts, Gary Boyd, The Royal Descents of 600 Immigrants to the American Colonies or the United States (2 vols.), Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Co. (2008), 49, 57, 270, 283, 292, 353, 464.
  • ⁶ Wikipedia, "Oliver Cromwell", (accessed 04/24/2014).